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92nd Oscars. Oscar Contenders of 2019 (for the 2020 Ceremony) - For prediction, discussion, entertainment purposes
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Part One: Albania through Greece
Current predictions | Germany through Norway | Pakistan through Yemen
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Albania THE DELEGATION No US Distribution Yet A drama about Albania's communist government and a political prisoner. With this third submission, Alimani (Chromium, Amnesty) is now Albania's most frequently submitted director. |
Algeria PAPICHA no US distribution yet An 18 year old woman tries to live a normal life in the 1990s despite the civil war. She wants to stage a fashion show in spite of conservative bans.The film premiered at Cannes in Un Certain Regard. |
Argentina HEROIC LOSERS No US Distribution Yet A ragtag community of law-abiding citizens decides to steal their money back from the banking executive that stole theirs in the economic collapse. Father & son stars Ricardo and Chino Darín play father & son! |
Armenia LENGTHY NIGHT No US Distribution Yet A drama following heroes from different eras and a spherical stone (?) |
Australia BUOYANCY No US Distribution Yet A teenager is sold for slave labour and experiences cruel treatment on a fishing vessel |
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Austria JOY NOW DISQUALIFIED SINCE MORE THAN 50% OF THE FILM IS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Now Streaming on Netflix |
Bangladesh ALPHA No US Distribution Yet A film about an artist who lives on a bamboo house on stilts. |
Belarus DEBUT No US Distribution Yet A documentary about the ramifications of long term prison sentences for women and children |
Belgium OUR MOTHERS No US Distribution Yet In a change of pace Belgium is submitting a film that takes place in Guatemala. It involves an anthropologist trying to find clues as to what happened to his father who went missing during the civil war. It won the Camera d'Or at Cannes. Not Selected: The Young Ahmed, which took Best Director at Cannes |
Bolivia I MISS YOU No US Distribution Yet This is an adaptation of a hit stage play about a man visiting the boyfriend of his dead son. The film stars Oscar Martinez, Fernando Barbosa, and Rossy de Palma. |
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Bosnia & Herzegovina THE SON No US Distribution Yet Family drama about a troubled adopted son and his younger brother. This is Ines Tanovic's second feature and the second to be submitted for the Oscar. She is the cousin of Oscar winner Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land, 2001) |
Brazil INVISIBLE LIFE Amazon will release the film in the US. 2020 TBA This period melodrama won Un Certain Regard at Cannes and stars Fernanda Montenegro (among others) who led Brazil's most recent nomination (Central Station, way back in 1988). More on Brazil & Oscar here. Not Selected: |
Bulgaria ÁGA Currently Playing in Los Angeles Only This is a drama about an old couple in the snowy North whose traditional ways of life are dying. They decide to seek out their long estranged daughter. Bulgarian has had one finalist but is still waiting on a nomination. |
Cambodia IN THE LIFE OF MUSIC No US Distribution Yet This one's a triptych narrative taking place in three different decades all involving a famous song "Champa Battambang" Cambodia's sole nomination is from the brilliant Rithy Panth documentary The Missing Picturel. |
Canada ANTIGONE No US Distribution Yet A contemporary adaptation of the ancient Greek play with the action transposed to an immigrant family in Montreal. This is Deraspe's fourth narrative feature. Antigone won Best Canadian Feature at this year's TIFF. |
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Chile SPIDER No US Distribution Yet Three friends separated by a political crime in the early 1970s in Chile. Not selected: There were four other finalists including Pablo Larraín's adoption drama Ema with Gael Garcia Bernal |
China NE ZHA NOW PLAYING Oscar is terribly averse to Asian cinema which is a real shame. China has had success twice with Zhang Yimou, though. Sadly they can't submit him this year though since Shadow was a finalist they didn't select last year. |
Colombia MONOS NOW PLAYING Julianne Nicholson stars as a doctor taken hostage by eight kids on a mountain in this drama that made the festival rounds this past winter/spring |
Costa Rica THE AWAKENING OF THE ANTS No US Distribution Yet Drama about a young seamstress rebelling against the expectations of her to be only a mother raising children. |
Croatia MALI No US Distribution Yet An ex-con, who served time for drug dealing wants to keep custody of his son in this drama. * Two Croatian language films were nominated back when Croatia was a part of Yugoslavia |
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Cuba A TRANSLATOR Film Movement has US rights. 2020 TBA A drama about a Russian literature professor working with child victims off Chernobyl who have been sent to Cuba Strawberry and Chocolate a gay arthouse hit in the 1990s remains their sole nominee. They only submit about once every two or three years though. |
Czech Republic THE PAINTED BIRD IFC Films in US. 2020 TBA A young Jewish boy's experience during World War II * If you include the days of Czechoslovakia before it became two separate countries, the number is 8/2 |
Denmark QUEEN OF HEARTS A drama about a woman who seduces her stepson. Starring the great Trine Dyrholm. Not Selected: there were three finalists so Before the Frost, and Do You See the Moon, Daniel? fell to the Queen Trine Dyrholm. Though the press outside of TFE hasn't caught on to this, Denmark is actually Oscar's fav country (of the right now) with 2 finalists, 5 nods, and a winner all in the last 10 years! |
Dominican Republic THE PROJECTIONIST No US Distribution Yet This is about a projectionist who falls in love with a woman he sees on a film reel and seeks to find her in the real world. |
Ecuador THE LONGEST NIGHT No US Distribution Yet This film, which played at SXSW this year is also known as La Mala Noche. It's a sex-trafficking thriller. |
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Egypt POISONOUS ROSES No US Distribution Yet Egypt has had a documentary nomination (The Square in 2013) but no luck yet in foreign film. They hold the frustrating distinction of having the second most submissions without a nominee to date. |
Estonia TRUTH OR JUSTICE No US Distribution Yet A nearly three hour drama about a farmer in 1872. This is the feature debut of 36 year old Tanel Toom who has previously directed shorts, one of them an Oscar nominee !!! |
Ethiopia RUNNING AGAINST THE WIND No US Distribution Yet A drama about two runners. This is a directorial debut which just opened in Ethiopia. |
Finland STUPID YOUNG HEART No US Distribution Yet A drama about an unexpected teen pregnancy and the extreme right views which start affecting suburban teenagers. |
France LES MISERABLES Spirit Nom (Foreign), EFA Nominee Coming January 10th from Amazon A contemporary drama about tensions between police/citizens/ and gang members. Not Selected: The other two finalists were the Cannes Queer Palm / Screenplay winner Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and the astronaut drama Proxima (reviewed). |
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Georgia SHINDISI No US Distribution Yet A true story about 17 Georgians who died in the village of Shindisi during the Russo-Georgia war of 2008. More here |
Germany SYSTEM CRASHER 118 minutes No US Distribution Yet A drama about a 9 year old wild child that Child Protective Services can't figure out what to do with. This is the first narrative feature from a 36 year old female director (who previously made docs and shorts). This film won the Silver Bear at Berlinale. |
Ghana AZALI No US Distribution Yet A young girl flees an arranged marriage with a 70 year old man to live in the big city of Accra |
Greece WHEN TOMATOES MET WAGNER 72 minutes No US Distribution Yet A documentary about a tiny farming community that experiences tumultous changes when one farmer decides on the organic cultivation of tomatoes and business takes off. |
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