2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (December)

The official Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film was released yesterday and with it came some huge snubs and even bigger surprise inclusions. Although four of my top 5 from last month made the cut, Sweden’s And Then We Danced did not. In fact, no film with and LGBTQ key subject did. Also missing? Latin America, completely. No Colombia (Monos), no Mexico (The Chambermaid), no Brazil (Invisible Life).

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What we got in their place were Estonia (Truth and Justice), Hungary (Those Who Remained) and Czech Republic’s The Painted Bird. Never, ever discount the impact of a Holocaust-related film in this category, as the latter two reveal.

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Here are my 2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions in International Feature Film for December 17, 2019.

Green – moves up Red – moves down Blue – new/re-entry

1. South Korea – Parasite (Bong Joon-ho) – Neon
2. Spain – Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) – Sony Classics
3. France – Les Misérables (Ladj Ly) – Amazon
4. Russia – Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov) – Kino Lorber
5. Senegal – Atlantics (Mati Diop) – Netflix

6. Estonia – Truth and Justice (Tanel Toom)
7. Poland – Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa) – Film Movement
8. Hungary – Those Who Remained (Barnabás Tóth)
9. North Macedonia – Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov) – Neon
10. Czech Republic – The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul) – IFC Films

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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