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 Deadline | 5 articles |
Italy has selected Paolo Strippoli’s The Spiral (L’Estranea) as its candidate for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards. The drama, which world premiered in Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, starsJasmine Trinca as a woman who arrives at her daughter’s apartment during a storm to confess a lie that will […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow5h ago
Paolo Strippoli’s “The Spiral” has been designated as Italy’s candidate in the best international feature film category of the 2027 Academy Awards. The high-concept thriller stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as a demonic character called The Stranger, who entices a young mother played by Jasmine Trinca into forging a Faustian pact. The film, which premiered in […]
Variety•Nvivarelli6h ago
The chronic flouting of the time limit for speeches highlights a fundamental feature of the United Nations: It is made up of sovereign states that it cannot force to do anything.
The New York Times•Karla Adam6h ago
The fest will also screen two films in which Lange stars: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night,' a new adaptation of the classic play, and 1994's 'Blue Sky,' for which Lange won the second of her two Oscars.
The Hollywood Reporter•Scott Feinberg21h ago
Netflix will officially submit “Too Much To Ask” from the animated feature “Ray Gunn” for consideration in the original song category at the Oscars, Variety has learned exclusively. Directed by Brad Bird, “Ray Gunn” is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, where private eye Raymond Gunn is […]
Variety•Jazztangcay21h ago
Abu Bakr Shawky’s drama “The Stories” — which is inspired by how the director’s Egyptian father and Austrian mother began their love affair as pen pals — has been selected as Egypt’s entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film. When Shawky’s father Ahmed was an aspiring pianist in Cairo in 1967, he […]
Variety•Nvivarelli22 Sept
Egypt has selected Abu Bakr Shawky drama The Stories as its entry to the Best International Feature Film category of the 99th Academy Awards. Unfolding against the backdrop of Egypt’s turbulent years from the late 1960s until the 1980s, British-Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry (Giant, MobLand) stars as an aspiring Egyptian concert pianist opposite Valerie Pachner […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow21 Sept
Jordan has chosen Zain Duraie’s Sink as its entry for the International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. Clara Khoury (The Voice of Hind Rajab) stars as a mother in denial about her son’s mental health struggles, preferring instead to interpret his emotional withdrawal and disruptive behavior at school as adolescent rebellion. She […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow21 Sept
Indian feature “Angh,” the feature directorial debut of Theja Rio, has taken the top prize in the Toronto Film Festival’s Platform section, an award that comes with automatic entry into the Oscars’ international feature film race for 2027. “Angh” was the only Indian film selected for the section this year, and the win comes with […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran21 Sept
Poland has selected “Fatherland,” Paweł Pawlikowski’s post-WWII drama starring Sandra Hüller, as its entry for the Oscars international feature race. The black-and-white film — which follows German novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller) on a road trip across Germany in 1949 — world premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival in […]
Variety•Ellise Shafer18 SeptThe aviation rating company Skytrax announced the winners of its 2026 World Airline Awards, known as "the Oscars of the aviation industry."
A marital drama set against the war in Ukraine, produced by French companies, will compete for the best international film Oscar in March 2027. A "subtle and judicious" choice, according to film expert Jean-Philippe Domecq.
Euronews17 Sept
France has selected exiled Russia director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s French-produced political thriller Minotaur as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category of the 99th Academy Awards. The submission was chosen from a shortlist also featuring Antonin Baudry’s historical biopic De Gaulle: Tilting Iron, Louis Clichy’s animated feature Iron Boy, Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva and […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow16 Sept
France has selected Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prize winner “Minotaur” to represent the country in the international feature film race at the Oscars. The choice was made Wednesday by France’s Oscar committee following auditions with the producers, international sales agents and U.S. distributors behind the five shortlisted films, including Mubi, Neon and Sony Pictures Classics. […]
Variety•Elskes16 Sept
Ukrainian filmmakers Alisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk’s documentary “Traces,” a portrayal of Ukrainian women who refused to remain silent after surviving sexual assault during the war with Russia, is Ukraine’s submission in the international feature category at the 2027 Academy Awards. In a statement, the Ukrainian Academy Awards Committee called “Traces” an “honest and profound […]
Variety•Nvivarelli16 Sept
Italy has unveiled the 21 films under consideration to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. A selection committee, overseen by the film body Anica, will decide which film will go forward as Italy’s submission at a meeting on September 23. The films, all of which were […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow16 Sept
James Ransone’s widow Jamie McPhee is calling out the Television Academy for excluding the late actor during the Emmys In Memoriam tribute, which marked the second time this year Ransone was snubbed by a major awards ceremony. The Oscars also excluded the actor from its own In Memoriam segment in March. Ransone broke out on […]
Variety•Zack Sharf16 Sept
The Spanish-language epic, from the fondly nicknamed "Los Javis," was the breakout winner from Cannes and launched a competitive bidding war, which Netflix won.
The Hollywood Reporter•Lily Ford16 Sept
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s breakout Cannes title La Bola Negra has been selected as Spain’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards. The Spanish Film Academy confirmed the selection this morning during a press conference. The film explores LGBT heritage and pays tribute to murdered Spanish poet and […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim16 Sept
“La Bola Negra,” Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes Festival sensation, is Spain’s submission for the 2027 international feature film Academy Award. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved, ”starring Javier Bardem, and Alauda Ruix de Azua’s Goya and San Sebastián winner “Sundays” also figured in Spain’s international feature shortlist, arguably the strongest in Spanish history. Any other […]
Variety•Emiliano de Pablos16 Sept