FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

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The dominance of Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall in the non-English language film categories both before and after France opted to submit The Taste of Things as its official selection has mostly felt like a coronation for the UK’s submission of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest.

When the films went one and two at Cannes last summer (Anatomy winning the Palme, Zone with the Grand Prix) they’ve been on this journey ever since. Anatomy won LAFCA and NYFCC then the Golden Globe and Critics Choice only to be ineligible here while Zone laid in waiting, coming out and winning the BAFTA last week – over Anatomy – pretty much turned the likely into the inevitable. Spain’s Society of the Snow from J.A. Bayona has tried to keep up but will remain a solid 2nd in this lineup.

With both Anatomy and Zone in Best Picture, Director and Screenplay categories it would have made for quite a fun race here (I would have given the edge to Anatomy) but this is Zone‘s to lose and will become the UK’s first ever win here after 20 submissions and two nominations.

Here are my ranked final 2024 Oscar winner predictions for International Feature Film.

1. The Zone of Interest (BAFTA, CCA, GG)
United Kingdom
2. Society of the Snow (BAFTA, CCA, GG)
Spain
3. Perfect Days (CCA)
Japan
4. The Teachers’ Lounge
Germany
5. Io Capitano (GG)
Italy
Erik Anderson

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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