The first phase of suspense surrounding the Oscar 2024 has been surpassed. This is because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood has released the list of pre-nominees in some of the main categories of the award.
Among them is Best International Film, and the news is not good for Brazil.
Once again, the country was left out and will not compete for a statuette. Expectations were high regarding the possible nomination of the film ‘Retratos Fantasmas’, by the filmmaker from Pernambuco. Kleber Mendonca Son.
The film’s absence from the pre-nominations marks yet another absence for Brazil at the Oscars. The last time the country received a nomination was in 1999.
Since 1999, Brazil has been fighting to get back on the Oscar shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film – Photo: Reproduction
‘Retratos Fantasmas’ had been chosen by the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to represent the country. As it is a documentarythe film could also be eligible in other categories, but even that didn’t help.
The last Brazilian nominee in the Best International Film category was ‘Central do Brasil’, starring Fernanda Montenegro.
Since then, the country has only made it onto the shortlist in 2008, with the film ‘The Year My Parents Went on Vacation’, which did not make it onto the Oscar shortlist.
In total, the Academy announced the pre-selected winners in 10 categories. One of the highlights is ‘Barbie’ movieowner of the biggest box office hit of the year. To give you an idea, three of the songs competing for a nomination in Best Original Song are part of the production.
The Oscars will take place on March 10 in Los Angeles, United States. Are you curious to see which films are in the running for a nomination? Check out the full list below:
Oscar 2024: list of pre-nominees
Documentary
- ‘American Symphony’
- ‘Apollonia, Apollonia’
- ‘Beyond Utopia’
- ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’
- ‘Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’
- ‘The Eternal Memory’
- ‘Four Daughters’
- ‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’
- ‘In the Rearview’
- ‘Stamped from the Beginning’
- ‘Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie’
- ‘A Still Small Voice’
- ’32 Sounds’
- ‘To Kill a Tiger’
- ’20 Days in Mariupol’
International film
- ‘Armenia: Amerikatsi’
- ‘Bhutan: The Monk and the Gun’
- ‘Denmark: The Promised Land’
- ‘Finland: Fallen Leaves’
- ‘France: The Taste of Things’
- ‘Germany: The Teachers’ Lounge’
- ‘Iceland: Godland’
- ‘Italy: Io Capitano’
- ‘Japan: Perfect Days’
- ‘Mexico: Totem’
- ‘Morocco: The Mother of All Lies’
- ‘Spain: Society of the Snow’
- ‘Tunisia: Four Daughters’
- ‘Ukraine: 20 Days in Mariupol’
- ‘United Kingdom: The Zone of Interest’
Short documentary film
- ‘The ABCs of Book Banning’
- ‘The Barber of Little Rock’
- ‘Bear’
- ‘Between Earth & Sky“Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games’
- ‘Camp Courage’
- ‘Deciding Vote’
- ‘How We Get Free’
- ‘If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis’
- ‘Island in Between’
- ‘The Last Repair Shop’
- ‘Last Song from Kabul’
- ‘Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó’
- ‘Oasis’
- ‘Wings of Dust’
Makeup
- ‘Beau is Afraid’
- ‘Ferrari’
- ‘Golda’
- ‘Killers of the Flower Moon‘
- ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’
- ‘Conductor’
- ‘Napoleon’
- ‘Oppenheimer’
- ‘Poor Things’
- ‘Society of the Snow’
Original Soundtrack
- ‘American Fiction’
- ‘American Symphony’
- ‘Barbie’
- ‘The Boy and the Heron’
- ‘The Color Purple’
- ‘Elemental’
- ‘The Holdovers’
- ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
- ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
- ‘Oppenheimer’
- ‘Poor Things’
- ‘Saltburn’
- ociety of the Snow’
- ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
- ‘The Zone of Interest’
Original music
- ‘It Never Went Away’ from ‘American Symphony’
- ‘Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)’ from ‘Asteroid City’
- ‘Dance The Night’ from ‘Barbie’
- ‘I’m Just Ken’ from ‘Barbie’
- ‘What Was I Made For?’ from ‘Barbie’
- ‘Keep It Movin’ from ‘The Color Purple’
- ‘Superpower (I)’ from ‘The Color Purple’
- ‘The Fire Inside’ from ‘Flamin’ Hot’
- ‘High Life’ by ‘Flora and Son’
- ‘Meet In The Middle’ by ‘Flora and Son’
- ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’ from ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’
- ‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)’ from ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
- ‘Quiet Eyes’ from ‘Past Lives’
- ‘Road To Freedom’ by ‘Rustin’
- ‘Am I Dreaming’ from ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
Short film animation
- ‘Boom’
- ‘Eeva’
- ‘Smoke’
- ‘I’m Hip’
- ‘A Kind of Testament’
- ‘Dog Apartment’
- ‘Letter to a Pig’
- ‘Ninety-Five Senses’
- ‘Once upon a Studio’
- ‘Our Uniform’
- ‘Pachyderm’
- ‘Pete’
- ’27’
- ‘War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’
- ‘Wild Summon’
Live-action short film
- ‘The After’
- ‘The Anne Frank Gift Shop’
- ‘An Avocado Pit’
- ‘Welcome to Los Angeles’
- ‘Dead Cat’
- ‘Good boy’
- ‘Invincible’
- ‘Invisible Border’
- ‘Knight of Fortune’
- ‘The One Note Man’
- ‘Red, White and Blue’
- ‘The Shepherd’
- ‘Strange Way of Life’
- ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’
- ‘Yellow’
Sound
- ‘Barbie’
- ‘The Creator’
- ‘Ferrari’
- ‘The Killer’
- ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
- ‘Conductor’
- ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’
- ‘Napoleon’
- ‘Oppenheimer’
- ‘The Zone of Interest’
Visual effects
- ‘The Creator’
- ‘Godzilla Minus One’
- ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’
- ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
- ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’
- ‘Napoleon’
- ‘Poor Things’
- ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire’
- ‘Society of the Snow’
- ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
