The race for the Oscars is picking up again in the United States, and France will have a small chance of being represented in the category of Best International Film. The Academy of Oscars has just unveiled its shortlist of nominees, a preselection which will be final with the final votes announced on January 24, 2023. This time, the ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on March 12, 2023 and will be presented by host and humorist Jimmy Kimmel, responsible for making people forget the case of the slap last year. As a teaser for its 95th wedding, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the first names that will possibly compete next spring in no less than nine categories. international film thanks to Saint Omer by Alice Diop, selected in the fifteen best international feature films according to the Academy. The French legal drama, which looks back on the infanticide case of Fabienne Kabou and her trial in 2016, has already been doubly rewarded at the Venice Film Festival. Facing Saint Omer, we will find serious candidates, most of whom caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, such as Decision to Leave by Park Chan-wook, Joyland by Saim Sadiq, the first Pakistani film preselected in the history of this category, as well as Jerzy Skolimowski’s UFO Eo, the Polish-Italian film that won the jury prize. The Academy of Oscars had originally drawn up a list of 92 films. Today, they are only fifteen, and by the end of January, they will be five nominated to compete for the Oscar for Best International Film. Incidentally, the academy also unveiled several short-lists for other categories, including those for Best Makeup and Hairstyle, Best Film Score, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects and Best Documentary Film. .See also on KonbiniThe list of 15 films shortlisted for the 2023 Oscars in the Best International Film category In the West, Nothing New, by Edward Berger (Germany) Argentina, 1985, by Santiago Miter (Argentina) Corsage, by Marie Kreutzer (Austria) Close, by Lukas Dhont (Belgium) Retour à Seoul, by Davy Chou (Cambodia) Decision to Leave, by Park Chan-wook (South Korea) Les Nuits de Mashhad, by Ali Abbasi (Denmark) Saint Omer, by Alice Diop (France) Last Film Show, by Pan Nalin (India) The Quiet Girl, by Colm Bairéad (Ireland) Bardo, false chronicle of a few truths, by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico) Le Bleu du caftan, by Maryam Touzani (Morocco) Joyland, by Saim Sadiq (Pakistan) Eo, by Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland) The Cairo Conspiracy, by Tarik Saleh (Sweden)
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