Oscar 2023, Nostalgia for Martone out of the shortlist

The chance for Italy to win the Oscar has vanished at Best International Film 2023, a category that includes titles that are not filmed for at least half of the dialogue in English and that are produced outside the United States.

Mario Martone, Italian candidate, was not included in the shortlist of the category: the director was a candidate for Nostalgiathe drama shot in Naples with Pierfrancesco Favino. The story, presented at Cannes Film Festival, is based on the homonymous novel by Ermanno Rea (Feltrinelli). In short, a great disappointment for those who hoped that he would take over the baton of Paolo Sorrentino, who triumphed with The great beauty in 2014.

Here, however, the rose of 15 foreign projects that have passed the first selections to the prestigious recognition: All quiet on the western front (Germany), Argentina, 1985 (Argentina), Bardo by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico), Cairo conspiracy (Sweden), The blue caftan (Morocco), Close (Belgium), The Empress Corset – Corsage (Austria), Decision to leave (South Korea), EO (Poland) with Lorenzo Zurzolo, Holy spider (Denmark), Joyland (Pakistan), Last film show (India), The quiet girl (Ireland), Return to Seoul ( Cambodia) and Saint Omer (France).

In the short list of live action shorts, however, the tick Alice Rohrwacher with Pupilsproduced by Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón and financed by Walt Disney.

The Academy Awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on March 12, while the five nominations will be announced on January 24.

The short lists at the 2023 Academy Awards:

Best international film

Argentina – Argentina, 1985

Austria – The Corsage of the Empress (Corsage)

Belgium -Close

Cambodia – Return to Seoul

Denmark – Holy Spider

France – Saint Omer

Germany – All Quiet on the Western Front

India – Last Film Show

Ireland – The Quiet Girl

Mexico – Bardo

Morocco – The Blue Caftan

Pakistan – Joyland

Poland – EO

South Korea – Decision to Leave

Best Documentary

All That Breathes

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Bad Axe

Children of the Mist

descendant

Fire of Love

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song

Hidden Letters

A House Made of Splinters

The Janes

Last Flight Home

Moonage Daydream

Navalny

Retrograde

The Territory

Best Short Documentary

American Justice on Trial: People v. newtons

Anastasia

Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison

As far as they can run

The Elephant Whisperers

The Flagmakers

Happiness Is £4 Million

Haulout

Holding Moses

How Do You Measure a Year?

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Nuisance Bear

Shut Up and Paint

Stranger at the Gate

38 at the Garden

Best Makeup and Hairstyles

All Quiet on the Western Front

Amsterdam

Babylon

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Blonde

Crimes of the Future

Elvis

emancipation

The Whale

Best soundtrack

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

Babylon

The Banshees of Inisherin

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

devotion

Don’t Worry Darling

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Nope

She Said

The Woman King

Women Talking

Best Original Song

“Time” – Amsterdam

“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” – Avatar: The Way of Water

“Lift Me Up” – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

“This Is A Life” – Everything Everywhere All at Once

“Hello Pope” – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

“Til You’re Home” – A Man Called Otto

“Naatu Naatu” – RRR

“My Mind & Me” – Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

“Good Afternoon” – Spirited

“Applause” – Tell It like a Woman

“Stand Up” – Till

“Hold My Hand” – Top Gun: Maverick

“Dust & Ash” – The Voice of Dust and Ash

“Carolina” – Where the Crawdads Sing

“New Body Rhumba” – White Noise

Best animated short

Black Slide

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The Debutante

The Flying Sailor

The Garbage Man

Ice Merchants

It’s Nice in Here

More than I want to remember

My Year of Dicks

New Moon

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

passenger

Save Ralph

Sierra

Steakhouse

Best live action short film

All in Favor

Almost Home

An Irish Goodbye

Ivalu

The Pupils

The Lone Wolf

Nakam

Night Ride

Plastic Killer

The Red Suitcase

The Right Words

Sideral

The Treatment

Tula

Warsha

Best sound

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

Babylon

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Moonage Daydream

Top Gun: Maverick

Best special effects

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Jurassic World Dominion

Nope

Thirteen Lives

Top Gun: Maverick

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