22/12/2022 - The Austrian, Belgian, Danish, French, German, Irish, Polish and Swedish representatives are vying for a nomination

The US Academy has announced the shortlisted films in several categories of the upcoming Oscars, including International Feature Film. From all of the films submitted (read the full list here), a total of eight coming from European countries have been selected, as well as three more coming from non-European countries, but with European co-production.

Among the first ones, some of the favourites have made the cut, such as Corsage [+see also:
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interview: Marie Kreutzer
interview: Marie Kreutzer
film profile] by Austria's Marie Kreutzer, Close [+see also:
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interview: Eden Dambrine
interview: Lukas Dhont
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile] by Belgium's Lukas Dhont, Holy Spider [+see also:
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interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
film profile] by Denmark's Ali Abbasi, Saint Omer [+see also:
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interview: Alice Diop
interview: Kayije Kagame
film profile] by France's Alice Diop, All Quiet on the Western Front [+see also:
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interview: Edward Berger
film profile] by Germany's Edward Berger, The Quiet Girl [+see also:
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interview: Colm Bairéad
film profile] by Ireland's Colm Bairéad, EO [+see also:
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film profile] by Poland's Jerzy Skolimowski, and lastly, in a more unexpected move, Boy from Heaven [+see also:
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interview: Tarik Saleh
film profile] by Sweden's Tarik Saleh. In a very competitive European selection, filled with festival favourites, the main snubs of the category include the submissions from Spain (Carla Simón's Alcarràs [+see also:
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interview: Carla Simón
interview: Carla Simón
interview: Giovanni Pompili
film profile]) and Ukraine (Maryna Er Gorbach's Klondike [+see also:
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interview: Maryna Er Gorbach
film profile]).

Three European co-productions coming from non-European countries have also made the cut: Cambodia's Return to Seoul [+see also:
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interview: Davy Chou
film profile], by Davy Chou, India's Last Film Show, by Pan Nalin and Morocco's The Blue Caftan [+see also:
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film profile], by Maryam Touzani.

Some European talent is featured in the shortlists for the other categories, such as in the Documentary category, where Simon Lereng Wilmont's A House Made of Splinters [+see also:
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interview: Shaunak Sen
film profile] by Shaunak Sen and The Territory [+see also:
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film profile] by Alex Pritz.

In the other categories announced, All Quiet on the Western Front has outpaced any European film, with presence in four of the five: Original Score, Makeup and Hairstyling, Visual Effects and Sound. Lastly and as usual, the Short Film categories feature some European talent, including Alice Rohrwacher (for her Disney+ short film Le Pupille).

The ceremony will take place on 12 March, 2023.

Here are the Oscar shortlists:

International Feature Film

Argentina: Argentina, 1985, Santiago Mitre (Argentina/USA)
Austria: Corsage [+see also:
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interview: Marie Kreutzer
interview: Marie Kreutzer
film profile], Marie Kreutzer (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany/France)
Belgium: Close [+see also:
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interview: Eden Dambrine
interview: Lukas Dhont
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile], Lukas Dhont (Belgium/France/Netherlands)
Cambodia: Return to Seoul [+see also:
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interview: Davy Chou
film profile], Davy Chou (France/Germany/Belgium/Qatar/Cambodia)
Denmark: Holy Spider [+see also:
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interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
film profile], Ali Abbasi (Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden)
France: Saint Omer [+see also:
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interview: Alice Diop
interview: Kayije Kagame
film profile], Alice Diop (France)
Germany: All Quiet on the Western Front [+see also:
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interview: Edward Berger
film profile], Edward Berger (USA/Germany)
India: Last Film Show, Pan Nalin (India/France/USA)
Ireland: The Quiet Girl [+see also:
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interview: Colm Bairéad
film profile], Colm Bairéad (Ireland)
Mexico: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico/USA)
Morocco: The Blue Caftan [+see also:
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film profile], Maryam Touzani (France/Morocco/Denmark/Belgium)
Pakistan: Joyland, Saim Sadiq (Pakistan)
Poland: EO [+see also:
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film profile], Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland/Italy)
South Korea: Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
Sweden: Boy from Heaven [+see also:
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interview: Tarik Saleh
film profile], Tarik Saleh (Sweden/France/Finland/Denmark/Morocco)

Documentary Feature

All That Breathes [+see also:
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interview: Shaunak Sen
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Laura Poitras 
Bad Axe - David Siev
Children of the Mist - Ha Le Diem (Vietnam)
Descendant - Margaret Brown
Fire of Love - Sara Dosa
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song - Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Hidden Letters - Violet Du Feng, Qing Zhao (China)
A House Made of Splinters [+see also:
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The Janes - Tia Lessin
Last Flight Home - Ondi Timoner
Moonage Daydream - Brett Morgen
Navalny - Daniel Roher
Retrograde - Matthew Heineman
The Territory [+see also:
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film profile] - Alex Pritz (Brazil/Denmark/USA)

Live-Action Short Film

All in Favor
Almost Home - Nils Keller (Germany)
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley, Ross White (Ireland/UK)
Ivalu - Anders Walter (Denmark)
Le Pupille - Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/USA)
The Lone Wolf - Filipe Melo (Portugal)
Nakam - Andreas Kessler (Germany)
Night Ride - Michael Kruger
Plastic Killer - Jose Pozo (Spain/Andorra)
The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad (Luxembourg)
The Right Words - Adrian Moyse Dullin (France)
Sideral - Carlos Segundo (Brazil/France)
The Treatment
Tula - Beatriz Silva (Spain)
Warsha - Dania Bdeir (Lebanon)

Animated Short Film

Black Slide - Uri Lotan (UK/Israel)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Peter Baynton
The Debutante - Elizabeth Hobbs (UK)
The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby (Canada)
The Garbage Man - Mansour Bani (Canada)
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez (Portugal/UK/France)
It’s Nice in Here - Robert-Jonathan Koeyers (Netherlands)
More than I Want to Remember - Amy Bench
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir (USA/Iceland)
New Moon - Jérémie Balais, Raul Domingo, Jeffig Le Bars (France)
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon (Australia)
Passenger - Sean Baran
Save Ralph - Spencer Susser
Sierra - Sander Joon (Estonia)
Steakhouse - Spela Cadez (Slovenia/Germany/France)

Documentary Short Subject

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton - Andrew Abrahams, Herb Ferrette
Anastasia - Sarah McCarthy (UK)
Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison - Cinque Northern
As Far as They Can Run - Tanaz Eshaghian
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves (India)
The Flagmakers - Sharon Liese, Cynthia Wade
Happiness Is £4 Million - Weixi Chen, Kai Wei (China)
Haulout - Maxim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva (UK/Russia)
Holding Moses - Rivkah Beth Medow, Jen Rainin
How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy
Nuisance Bear - Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman (Canada/USA)
Shut Up and Paint - Titus Kaphar, Alex Mallis
Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel
38 at the Garden - Frank Chi

Original Song

“Time”, Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)”, Avatar: The Way of Water
Lift Me Up”, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
This Is A Life”, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ciao Papa”, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Til You’re Home”, A Man Called Otto
Naatu Naatu”, RRR
“My Mind & Me”, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon”, Spirited
“Applause”, Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up”, Till
Hold My Hand”, Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash”, The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina”, Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba”, White Noise

Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin [+see also:
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Devotion
Don’t Worry Darling
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Nope
She Said
The Woman King
Women Talking

Makeup and Hairstyling

All Quiet on the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Blonde
Crimes of the Future [+see also:
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film profile] (Canada/Greece/France)
Elvis
Emancipation
The Whale

Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Jurassic World Dominion
Nope
Thirteen Lives
Top Gun: Maverick

Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Moonage Daydream
Top Gun: Maverick