LOS ANGELES, Dec 7 (ZIZ): The prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the lineup of feature films eligible for consideration in three prominent categories – Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film, and International Feature Film, for the upcoming 96th Academy Awards®.
The announcement, made today, encompasses a diverse array of cinematic achievements vying for recognition at one of the most esteemed events in the film industry. As per the rules governing the 96th Academy Awards, comprehensive guidelines and criteria for eligibility can be accessed on Oscars.org/rules.
**Animated Feature Film**
A total of thirty-three films have qualified for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category. Some of these entries are yet to fulfill their mandatory qualifying release prerequisites and must adhere strictly to all criteria to progress further in the voting phase.
The selection of the final five nominees rests with the esteemed members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. Additionally, members outside this branch have the opportunity to opt in and participate in voting, subject to meeting minimum viewing requisites. Notably, films submitted in this category may also contend for Academy Awards in other distinguished categories, including the coveted Best Picture accolade.
The complete list of eligible films for the Animated Feature Film category:
- “The Amazing Maurice”
- “Blue Giant”
- “The Boy and the Heron”
- “Chang’an”
- “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”
- “Deep Sea”
- “Elemental”
- “Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia”
- “The First Slam Dunk”
- “The Inventor”
- “Leo”
- “Lonely Castle in the Mirror”
- “The Magician’s Elephant”
- “Migration”
- “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie”
- “The Monkey King”
- “My Love Affair with Marriage”
- “Nimona”
- “Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie”
- “The Peasants”
- “Perlimps”
- “Robot Dreams”
- “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken”
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
- “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
- “Suzume”
- “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
- “They Shot the Piano Player”
- “Titina”
- “Trolls Band Together”
- “Unicorn Wars”
- “Warrior King”
- “Wish”
**Documentary Feature Film**
A robust lineup of one hundred sixty-seven features qualifies for consideration in the Documentary Feature Film category. Similar to the Animated Feature Film category, some entries are pending their mandatory qualifying release and must comply with all specified regulations to advance in the selection process.
Documentary features that have either secured a qualifying film festival award or have been submitted as their country’s official selection in the International Feature Film category are also eligible for consideration. Moreover, films submitted in this category may contend in other prestigious Academy Award categories, including Best Picture. The final shortlist of 15 films will be unveiled on Thursday, December 21, 2023, determined by members of the Documentary Branch.
The complete list of eligible films for the Documentary Feature Film category:
- “AKA Mr. Chow”
- “After Sherman”
- “Against the Tide”
- “Alexander”
- “American Symphony”
- “American: An Odyssey to 1947”
- “Americonned”
- “And Miles to Go before I Sleep”
- “Anhell69”
- “Anonymous Sister”
- “Another Body”
- “Anselm”
- “Apache Blues: Welcome Home”
- “Apolonia, Apolonia”
- “Bad Press”
- “Batata”
- “Bella”
- “Bella!”
- “Beyond Utopia”
- “Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
- “Bye Bye Tiberias”
- “Canary”
- “Carlos”
- “Carterland”
- “Close to Vermeer”
- “Common Ground”
- “A Compassionate Spy”
- “Cup of Salvation”
- “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
- “Deep Rising”
- “The Deepest Breath”
- “Deserters”
- “Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy”
- “The Disappearance of Shere Hite”
- “Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime”
- “Downwind”
- “Eat Bitter”
- “The Echo”
- “El Juicio”
- “Elis & Tom – It Had to Be You”
- “The Eternal Memory”
- “Every Body”
- “Fantastic Machine”
- “Finding Her Beat”
- “Fioretta”
- “For the Animals”
- “Four Daughters”
- “Full Circle”
- “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”
- “Grandpa Was an Emperor”
- “Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd”
- “Here. Is. Better.”
- “High & Low – John Galliano”
- “The Holly”
- “Holy Frit”
- “I Got a Monster”
- “If You Let Me Go”
- “Imagining the Indian”
- “Immediate Family”
- “In the Company of Rose”
- “In the Rearview”
- “In the Shadow of Beirut”
- “In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis”
- “Incompatible with Life”
- “Into the Spotlight”
- “The Invention of the Other”
- “Invisible Beauty”
- “The Issue with Tissue – A Boreal Love Story”
- “It Ain’t Over”
- “Joan Baez I Am a Noise”
- “Joonam”
- “King Coal”
- “Knights of Santiago”
- “Kokomo City”
- “The Lady Bird Diaries”
- “Lakota Nation vs. United States”
- “Land of My Dreams”
- “The Last Rider”
- “The League”
- “Lift”
- “Little Richard: I Am Everything”
- “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story”
- “The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons”
- “Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros”
- “The Mission”
- “Mission Peace: The Staunch Moderates Documentary”
- “Mr. Jimmy”
- “The Mother of All Lies”
- “Motherland”
- “The Mountains”
- “Mourning in Lod”
- “Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo”
- “My Name Is Happy”
- “Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV”
- “1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture”
- “North Circular”
- “Occupied City”
- “Orlando, My Political Biography”
- “Our Body”
- “Pacific Mother”
- “The Padilla Affair”
- “The Painting”
- “Pay or Die”
- “Periodical”
- “Photophobia”
- “Pianoforte”
- “Pictures of Ghosts”
- “The Pigeon Tunnel”
- “Plan C”
- “Radical Wolfe”
- “Razing Liberty Square”
- “Reality Winner”
- “Refuge”
- “A Revolution on Canvas”
- “Rewind & Play”
- “A Rising Fury”
- “Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling”
- “Rojek”
- “Sam Now”
- “Samuel and the Light”
- “The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler”
- “Shot in the Arm”
- “Show Her the Money”
- “Silver Dollar Road”
- “Sly”
- “The Smell of Money”
- “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
- “A Song Film by Kishi Bashi – ‘Omoiyari’”
- “Songs of Earth”
- “Sound of the Police”
- “Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey”
- “Stamped from the Beginning”
- “State of the Unity”
- “Stephen Curry: Underrated”
- “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
- “A Still Small Voice”
- “A Storm Foretold”
- “Subject”
- “Symphony of the Holocaust”
- “Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music”
- “They Shot the Piano Player”
- “32 Sounds”
- “This Much We Know”
- “Thy Neighbours”
- “Tito, Margot and Me”
- “To Kill a Tiger”
- “Total Trust”
- “20 Days in Mariupol”
- “26.2 to Life”
- “Twice Colonized”
- “Umberto Eco: A Library of the World”
- “Uncharitable”
- “Unconditional”
- “Under the Sky of Damascus”
- “Unfinished Business”
- “Unseen”
- “Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality”
- “Victim/Suspect”
- “We Dare to Dream”
- “What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?”
- “While the Green Grass Grows”
- “While We Watched”
- “Who I Am Not”
- “Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West”
- “Yoshiki under the Sky”
- “You Were My First Boyfriend”
- “Your Fat Friend”
**International Feature Film**
A total of eighty-eight countries or regions have submitted films eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category. This category specifically embraces feature-length motion pictures (running more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States and predominantly featuring non-English dialogue (more than 50%).
Notably, Namibia marks its inaugural entry into this category, adding further diversity to the global cinematic landscape. Academy members from all branches are encouraged to partake in the preliminary round of voting, contingent upon meeting the requisite viewing standards. The shortlist of 15 films for this category will be disclosed on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
The complete list of eligible films for the International Feature Film category:
- Albania, “Alexander”
- Argentina, “The Delinquents”
- Armenia, “Amerikatsi”
- Australia, “Shayda”
- Austria, “Vera”
- Bangladesh, “No Ground beneath the Feet”
- Belgium, “Omen”
- Bhutan, “The Monk and the Gun”
- Bolivia, “The Visitor”
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Excursion”
- Brazil, “Pictures of Ghosts”
- Bulgaria, “Blaga’s Lessons”
- Burkina Faso, “Sira”
- Cameroon, “Half Heaven”
- Canada, “Rojek”
- Chile, “The Settlers”
- China, “The Wandering Earth II”
- Colombia, “Un Varón”
- Costa Rica, “I Have Electric Dreams”
- Croatia, “Traces”
- Czech Republic, “Brothers”
- Denmark, “The Promised Land”
- Dominican Republic, “Cuarencena”
- Egypt, “Voy! Voy! Voy!”
- Estonia, “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood”
- Finland, “Fallen Leaves”
- France, “The Taste of Things”
- Georgia, “Citizen Saint”
- Germany, “The Teachers’ Lounge”
- Greece, “Behind the Haystacks”
- Hungary, “Four Souls of Coyote”
- Iceland, “Godland”
- India, “2018 – Everyone Is a Hero”
- Indonesia, “Autobiography”
- Iran, “The Night Guardian”
- Iraq, “Hanging Gardens”
- Ireland, “In the Shadow of Beirut”
- Israel, “Seven Blessings”
- Italy, “Io Capitano”
- Japan, “Perfect Days”
- Jordan, “Inshallah A Boy”
- Kenya, “Mvera”
- Latvia, “My Freedom”
- Lithuania, “Slow”
- Luxembourg, “The Last Ashes”
- Malaysia, “Tiger Stripes”
- Mexico, “Totem”
- Moldova, “Thunders”
- Mongolia, “City of Wind”
- Montenegro, “Sirin”
- Morocco, “The Mother of All Lies”
- Namibia, “Under the Hanging Tree”
- Nepal, “Halkara”
- Netherlands, “Sweet Dreams”
- Nigeria, “Mami Wata”
- North Macedonia, “Housekeeping for Beginners”
- Norway, “Songs of Earth”
- Pakistan, “In Flames”
- Palestine, “Bye Bye Tiberias”
- Panama, “Tito, Margot and Me”
- Paraguay, “The Last Runway 2, Comando Yaguarete”
- Peru, “The Erection of Toribio Bardelli”
- Philippines, “The Missing”
- Poland, “The Peasants”
- Portugal, “Bad Living”
- Romania, “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
- Saudi Arabia, “Alhamour H.A.”
- Senegal, “Banel & Adama”
- Serbia, “The Duke and the Poet”
- Singapore, “The Breaking Ice”
- Slovakia, “Photophobia”
- Slovenia, “Riders”
- South Africa, “Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo”
- South Korea, “Concrete Utopia”
- Spain, “Society of the Snow”
- Sudan, “Goodbye Julia”
- Sweden, “Opponent”
- Switzerland, “Thunder”
- Taiwan, “Marry My Dead Body”
- Thailand, “Not Friends”
- Tunisia, “Four Daughters”
- Turkey, “About Dry Grasses”
- Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol”
- United Kingdom, “The Zone of Interest”
- Uruguay, “Family Album”
- Venezuela, “The Shadow of the Sun”
- Vietnam, “Glorious Ashes”
- Yemen, “The Burdened”
**Looking Ahead: 96th Academy Awards**
The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards are scheduled for announcement on Tuesday, January 23, 2024. The much-anticipated event is set to take place on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the illustrious Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Audiences worldwide can catch the live broadcast of this momentous occasion on ABC, reaching over 200 territories globally.
