2025 Oscars: Eligibility Lists for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 97th Academy Awards.
31 Animated Features will compete this year, down from 33 last year. 169 Documentary Features, up from 167 last year, will compete and 85 International Feature Films made the cut this year, down from 88 last year.
Several films find themselves on multiple lists, including Dahomey (Documentary Feature and International Feature – Senegal), Piece by Piece (Animated Feature and Documentary Feature) and Flow (Animated Feature and International Feature – Latvia).
Preliminary voting for the 97th Academy Awards will begin on Monday, December 9, 2024 and end on Friday, December 13, 2024. Shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.
The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Thirty-one features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
To determine the five nominees, members of the Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category. Academy members outside of the Animation Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture. Animated features that have been submitted in the International Feature Film category as their country’s official selection are also eligible in the category.
“Art College 1994”
“Captain Avispa”
“Chicken for Linda!”
“The Colors Within”
“The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie”
“Despicable Me 4”
“Flow”
“The Garfield Movie”
“Ghost Cat Anzu”
“The Glassworker”
“The Imaginary”
“Inside Out 2”
“Kensuke’s Kingdom”
“Kung Fu Panda 4”
“Living Large”
“Look Back”
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”
“Mars Express”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Moana 2”
“Piece by Piece”
“Rocket Club: Across the Cosmos”
“Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds”
“Spellbound”
“Sultana’s Dream”
“That Christmas”
“Thelma the Unicorn”
“Transformers One”
“Ultraman: Rising”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
One hundred sixty-nine features are eligible for consideration in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
Documentary features that have won a qualifying film festival award or have been submitted in the International Feature Film category as their country’s official selection are also eligible in the category. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
“Adrianne & the Castle”
“After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home”
“Agent of Happiness
“Am I Racist?”
“American Cats: The Good, the Bad & the Cuddly”
“Americans with No Address”
“America’s Burning”
“And So It Begins”
“At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking”
“Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme”
“Bad Faith”
“Bad River”
“Behind the Mist”
“The Bibi Files”
“Black Box Diaries”
“Black Girls”
“Blind Spot”
“Blink”
“Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion”
“The Body Politic”
“Bread & Roses”
“Brief Tender Light”
“Carol Doda Topless at the Condor”
“Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid”
“¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!”
“Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg”
“Celebrating Laughter, The Life and Films of Colin Higgins”
“The Commandant’s Shadow”
“Copa 71”
“The Cowboy and the Queen”
“Dahomey”
“Daughters”
“Death without Mercy”
“Einhundertvier”
“Elton John: Never Too Late”
“Eno”
“Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
“Escape from Extinction Rewilding”
“Every Little Thing”
“The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine”
“Farming the Revolution”
“Favoriten”
“Federer: Twelve Final Days”
“Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey”
“500 Days in the Wild”
“The Flats”
“Flipside”
“Following Harry”
“Food and Country”
“Food, Inc. 2”
“Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing”
“Frank Miller: American Genius”
“Frida”
“From Ground Zero”
“Gaucho Gaucho”
“Girls State”
“God & Country”
“Gonzo for Democracy”
“The Grab”
“The Greatest Night in Pop”
“Happy Campers”
“Happy Clothes: A Film about Patricia Field”
“Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”
“Hollywoodgate”
“Homegrown”
“How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer”
“Hummingbirds”
“I Am: Celine Dion”
“I Can’t Breathe”
“In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema”
“Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All”
“Intercepted”
“Invisible Nation”
“It Happened on Our Ground”
“Jewel of the Desert”
“Jim Henson Idea Man”
“Join or Die”
“Just a Bit Outside: The Story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers”
“King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones”
“Kiss the Future”
“The Landscape and the Fury”
“The Last Journey”
“The Last of the Sea Women”
“The Last Ones”
“Leap of Faith”
“Left Behind”
“Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa”
“Look into My Eyes”
“Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill”
“The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio”
“Lovely Jackson”
“Lover of Men, The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln”
“Luther: Never Too Much”
“Mad about the Boy – The Noel Coward Story”
“Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger”
“Majority Rules”
“Marching in the Dark”
“Martha”
“Maya and the Wave”
“Mediha”
“Merchant Ivory”
“Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory”
“Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery”
“Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”
“Music by John Williams”
“My Sweet Land”
“Natterer’s Treasure”
“Never Look Away”
“A New Kind of Wilderness”
“New Wave”
“No One Asked You”
“No Other Land”
“Nocturnes”
“Nurse Unseen”
“October H8te: The Fight for the Soul of America”
“Of Color and Ink”
“One Person, One Vote?”
“1489”
“One with the Whale”
“Ozogoche”
“Patrice: The Movie”
“A Photographic Memory”
“Piece by Piece”
“Porcelain War”
“Power”
“Queendom”
“Ray of Hope”
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
“Remembering Gene Wilder”
“Resurgo Detroit: The Rise from Within”
“Resynator”
“Sabbath Queen”
“Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood”
“Seeking Mavis Beacon”
“Separated”
“She Rises Up”
“The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru”
“The Sixth”
“64 Days – The Insurrection Playbook”
“Skywalkers: A Love Story”
“Sorry/Not Sorry”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China”
“Stolen Time”
“Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink”
“Studio One Forever”
“Sugarcane”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
“Sweetheart Deal”
“Taking Venice”
“The Taste of Mango”
“The Tuba Thieves”
“2073”
“Uncropped”
“Unfightable”
“Union”
“Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World”
“Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen”
“War Game”
“We Will Dance Again”
“Welcome to Babel”
“Whale Restaurant”
“Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?”
“Will & Harper”
“William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill”
“The World According to Allee Willis”
“The World Is Family”
“Yintah”
“Zurawski v Texas”
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Eighty-five countries or regions have submitted films that are eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track.
Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
Albania, “Waterdrop”Algeria, “Algiers”
Argentina, “Kill the Jockey”
Armenia, “Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev”
Austria, “The Devil’s Bath”
Bangladesh, “The Wrestler”
Belgium, “Julie Keeps Quiet”
Bolivia, “Own Hand”
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “My Late Summer”
Brazil, “I’m Still Here”
Bulgaria, “Triumph”
Cambodia, “Meeting with Pol Pot”
Cameroon, “Kismet”
Canada, “Universal Language”
Chile, “In Her Place”
Colombia, “La Suprema”
Costa Rica, “Memories of a Burning Body”
Croatia, “Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day”
Czech Republic, “Waves”
Denmark, “The Girl with the Needle”
Dominican Republic, “Aire Just Breathe”
Ecuador, “Behind the Mist”
Egypt, “Flight 404”
Estonia, “8 Views of Lake Biwa”
Finland, “Family Time”
France, “Emilia Pérez”
Georgia, “The Antique”
Germany, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Greece, “Murderess”
Guatemala, “Rita”
Hong Kong, “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In”
Hungary, “Semmelweis”
Iceland, “Touch”
India, “Lost Ladies”
Indonesia, “Women from Rote Island”
Iran, “In the Arms of the Tree”
Iraq, “Baghdad Messi”
Ireland, “Kneecap”
Israel, “Come Closer”
Italy, “Vermiglio”
Japan, “Cloud”
Kazakhstan, “Bauryna Salu”
Kenya, “Nawi”
Kyrgyzstan, “Paradise at Mother’s Feet”
Latvia, “Flow”
Lebanon, “Arzé”
Lithuania, “Drowning Dry”
Malaysia, “Abang Adik”
Malta, “Castillo”
Mexico, “Sujo”
Mongolia, “If Only I Could Hibernate”
Montenegro, “Supermarket”
Morocco, “Everybody Loves Touda”
Nepal, “Shambhala”
Netherlands, “Memory Lane”
Nigeria, “Mai Martaba”
Norway, “Armand”
Pakistan, “The Glassworker”
Palestine, “From Ground Zero”
Panama, “Wake Up Mom”
Paraguay, “The Last Ones”
Peru, “Yana-Wara”
Philippines, “And So It Begins”
Poland, “Under the Volcano”
Portugal, “Grand Tour”
Romania, “Three Kilometres to the End of the World”
Senegal, “Dahomey”
Serbia, “Russian Consul”
Singapore, “La Luna”
Slovakia, “The Hungarian Dressmaker”
Slovenia, “Family Therapy”
South Africa, “Old Righteous Blues”
South Korea, “12.12: The Day”
Spain, “Saturn Return”
Sweden, “The Last Journey”
Switzerland, “Queens”
Taiwan, “Old Fox”
Tajikistan, “Melody”
Thailand, “How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies”
Tunisia, “Take My Breath”
Turkey, “Life”
Ukraine, “La Palisiada”
United Kingdom, “Santosh”
Venezuela, “Back to Life”
Vietnam, “Peach Blossom, Pho and Piano”
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