The United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces this Thursday the list of candidates for the Oscar nominations, which will feature Portuguese names in the categories of Best International Film, Best Short Film and Best Original Score.
There are two national productions and one participation that have been awarded at festivals around the world, which now hope to be included in a very short list of possible nominees for the 96th edition of the most coveted film awards.
The Portuguese Film Academy nominated “Mal Viver” by João Canijo for the Best International Film category, a film that has been generating enormous consensus at film festivals around the world.
Produced and distributed by Midas Filmes, “Mal Viver” and “Viver Mal” are two interconnected fictions, set in a hotel run by a family. In Portuguese cinemas, this film had 16,457 spectators.
This Thursday, the final list of 15 candidates for candidacy will be announced, chosen from among 88 candidates from various countries. But potential candidates don’t stop there. Filmmaker Ary Zara’s short film “Um Caroço de Abacate” is another possible candidate for Best Fiction Short Film.
The film, which was already awarded at a festival in France as best queer film, tells the story of Larissa and Cláudio, “two people with different realities who, until dawn, exchange worlds in a captivating dance that challenges them.”
As a candidate for the final list of nominees for the Oscar for Best Original Score is the film “Poor Creatures”, by Yorgos Lanthimos, in which Carminho sings the fado “The Room”, while Emma Stone takes the lead role.
At the Oscars, Portugal has never had a film nominated in the category of Best International Film, formerly known as Best Foreign Film, in a language other than English.
This year, the film “Ice Merchants”, by Portuguese director João González, was nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category.
The nominees for the 96th edition of the Oscars, the United States film awards, will be announced on January 23, 2024 and the ceremony is scheduled for March 10 in Los Angeles, California.
Source: TSF
