Deadline’s Contenders Film: International Kicks Off Today Spotlighting 12 Movies In The Oscar Picture
deadline.comDeadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event launches Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. PT, the latest in our series of showcases that this time turns the focus toward global cinema via discussions with the casts and creatives of 12 movies submitted by their countries for the 2024 Academy Awards’ International Feature race.
The 2023 Oscar ceremony was a triumph for international film. Going into the ceremony, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front was a winner already, having earned a spectacular seven nominations.
If that wasn’t enough, it came away with four statuettes: one for International Feature, and three for Cinematography, Music and Production Design.
Clearly this can’t happen every year, but, like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite before it, Berger’s World War I epic proved that boundaries are being broken down, and international film, once synonymous with arthouse, is making commercial headway.
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