AwardsWatch - International Feature Film

2024 Oscars: Official Submissions for International Feature Film

Erik Anderson August 4, 2023

The race for the next International Feature Film Oscar has begun and Switzerland is first out of the gate. Carmen Jaquier’s film Thunder will represent... Read More

2023 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE and INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (November)

Erik Anderson November 14, 2022

The Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards were handed out this weekend, where Ryan White’s Good Night Oppy was the dominating winner, taking Best Documentary Feature and... Read More

2023 Oscars: Official submissions for International Feature Film

Erik Anderson August 3, 2022

The race for the next International Feature Film Oscar has begun. The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) has been selected as Ireland’s entry for the... Read More

FINAL 2022 Oscar Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Erik Anderson March 17, 2022

With Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, it’s hard to make a case against Japans’s Drive My Car from Ryusuke Hamaguchi racing... Read More

Samuel Goldwyn Films acquires Bhutan’s Oscar-shortlisted ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’

Erik Anderson January 3, 2022

Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today that they are back in the Oscar race for Best International Film after scoring 3 nominations last year for Another... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE and INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (December)

Erik Anderson December 23, 2021

The shortlists for Documentary Feature and International Feature Film came with the usual surprise inclusions and shocking snubs but also more or less solidified what... Read More

Trailer: Kosovo’s Sundance-winning Oscar submission ‘Hive’

Erik Anderson September 8, 2021

Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and Kosovo’s official submission for the International Feature Film Oscar... Read More

2022 Oscars: International Feature Film Official Selections

Erik Anderson August 26, 2021

The race for the International Feature Film Oscar has begun. For the first time ever, Ecuador kicks off the season with the first official Oscar... Read More

Kino Lorber acquires Poland Oscar hopeful ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ for North America

Erik Anderson November 19, 2020

Kino Lorber has acquired the North American rights to Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s Never Gonna Snow Again. Szumowska directed, produced and co-wrote alongside Englert who co-directed, co-wrote,... Read More