Folks, you all know what time it is once again! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll […] More
The Best Foreign Language Film was changed after Alfonso Cuarón won Mexico’s first trophy in 2018 for Roma and used the opportunity to point out the hypocrisy of the categories name. The following year, South Korea and Parasite won the inaugural Best International Feature and also made history as the first film entirely in a […] More
With a scarcity of local productions and the pedigree of an award-winning debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Luzzu was an obvious selection as the Maltese submission for the Best International Feature of Oscar. For writer-director Alex Camilleri, however, the film – about a fisherman struggling to provide for his family – has exceeded his […] More
As submissions for the Best International Feature Film Oscar continue to stream in ahead of the November 1 deadline, this ever competitive awards race is beginning to heat up. Indeed, the growing list includes formerly nominated directors and some of the most lauded festival titles. Below is a rundown of some of the notable submissions […] More
Julia Ducournau‘s Titane, which won the Cannes Palme d’Or award earlier this year, has officially been selected as France’s submission to the Best International Feature category at the 2022 Oscars. Haven previously won the prestigious award, which was selected by a jury including Spike Lee, the film has since been showing at festivals across the […] More
And we’re off. Just before the major film festivals officially kick off the award season, Ecuador has already submitted their title for Best International Feature for the upcoming 94th Academy Awards. What is the film in question, you might ask? Well. it’s Sumergible, a Spanish-language drama from director Alfredo León León, written by León and […] More
You all know what time it is once again! Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will appear. Other times, they’ll be […] More
This year’s Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature includes Hope, which looks to become the sixth nominated film from Norway and the first since Kon-Tiki in 2012. Andrea Bræin Hovig stars as Anja, a woman grappling with a terminal cancer diagnosis and struggling with how to share the news with the three children and three […] More
The new French drama, Two of Us, often feels like a story of young love with a couple of teenagers hiding their forbidden relationship from their parents. That may seem like an odd way to describe a film about a mature lesbian couple’s secret relationship, but it is actually kind of fitting. The film is […] More
Today the Academy has announced their lists of films eligible to compete for the Best Animated Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature Film, and International Feature Film categories. On February 9th, 2021, the Academy will release the shortlists for the documentary and international film categories, narrowing down the competitors to a list of 15, of which […] More
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a lot of organizations to change the ways that they conduct business, and the Academy is no different. While we’ve already seen the pandemic result in a massive push back of the award ceremony, an even more specific, highly detailed, shift has just been announced regarding the way that the […] More
A well-drawn family drama about growing up and getting old, Agnes Joy was selected as Iceland’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards next spring after sweeping the Edda awards earlier in the year. A sophomore feature by director Silja Hauksdóttir, the film follows the turbulent relationship between Rannveig (Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdóttir), a small-town […] More
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