Oscars: 93 Countries for Best International Feature Film

11 October, 2019


The Academy Award for best international feature film — known until this season as the best foreign-language film Oscar — will go to one of 93 countries that have submitted entries this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday.
Also notable: the United Kingdom's entry, Chichewa-language The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, was directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, a best actor Oscar nominee for 2013's 12 Years a Slave.

High-profile contenders include Senegal's 'Atlantics,' France's 'Les Miserables,' Spain's 'Pain and Glory' and South Korea's 'Parasite.'

The list includes productions from every continent except Antarctica, and features contenders from Ghana, Nigeria and Uzbekistan for the first time. The highest-profile entries among them, as of this date, are South Korea's Parasite (Bong Joon Ho's dramedy was awarded Cannes' Palme d'Or), which is being released by Neon; Spain's Pain and Glory (from director Pedro Almodovar, a past winner for 1999's All About My Mother), a Sony Classics title; France's Les Miserables (from helmer Ladj Ly), via Amazon; and Senegal's Atlantics (for which Mati Diop became the first black female director ever to have a film in competition at Cannes, where it was awarded the Grand Prix), from Netflix.



The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines an international feature film as "a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track."

A shortlist of 10 films — one more than in years past — will be announced Dec. 16. Nominations in all categories will be announced Jan. 13, 2020, and the 92nd Oscars are set to be held Feb. 9.

 

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