On December 17, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the United States published the short list of nominees for the "Oscar" film award in 10 categories, this is stated on the website of the "Oscar" awards ceremony.
15 films are competing for the victory in the "Best Foreign Feature Film" category. among them are "I'm still here" by Brazilian director Walter Sales, "Universal Language" by Canadian director Matthew Rankin, "Emilia Pérez" by French Jacques Audiard, "Girl with a Needle" by Danish director Magnus von Horne. (The Girl with the Needle), Czech director Jiri Madi's "Waves", Icelandic The films "Touch" by Baltasar Kormakur, as well as films from Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, Latvia, Norway, Palestine, Thailand, Senegal. The film nominated in this category from Armenia, "Yashan and Leonid Brezhnev" by Edgar Baghdasaryan, was not included in the list of nominees.
The Best Music category includes such films as Challengers, Conclave, The Wild Robot, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Puzzle 2 (Inside Out 2) films.
The shortlist for the Best Documentary category includes The Bibi Files, Black Box Diaries, Dahomey, Frida, Hollywoodgate. , "Porcelain War" films. In addition, the nominees for the prestigious film award are presented for "Best documentary short", "Best Makeup and Hairstyling", "Best Song", "Best Cartoon Short", "Best Feature Short", "Best Sound", "Best Visual Effects" in the nominations.
The 97th "Oscar" award ceremony will take place in 2025. on March 2. It will be hosted by the American comedian Conan O'Brien. Films that have been at the Los Angeles box office for at least seven consecutive days in the calendar year preceding the award ceremony can be nominated for the Oscar. The Oscar statuette represents a knight standing on a reel and holds a long sword in front.Its height is 34 cm, weight is 3.85 kg. The award is given in 23 nominations.
