Oscars: All Quiet On The Western Front Leads The Battle For Best International Picture Nominations, A First For Ireland And A String Of Snobs

With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanding its Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature Film to 15 in recent years, it’s inevitable that some deserving titles will miss out on the nominations. However, some of the rumored frontrunners are in the mix after today’s announcement, including Netflix No news from the western frontwhich has a total of nine nominations, including Best Picture, and is another sign of how foreign language films are spilling over into other major categories.

Edward Berger director Netflix retelling of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel, No news from the western front is as expected in the international race, while other non-shocks are those of Lukas Dhont near from Belgium, Jerzy Skolimowskis E.O of Poland and Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 from the country of the same name.

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Perhaps Colm Bairéad is the pinnacle of nouns today The quiet girl, the first Irish film to be nominated in this category. It premiered in Berlin and became the highest-grossing Irish film of all time in its home market.

Critically acclaimed titles such as Marie Kreutzer’s Falling by the Wayside corsage of Austria, Denmark Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi, Pakistan joy land – the country’s first shortlisted film by International Feature – and Park Chan-wooks decided to go (a real surprise) and that of multiple Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu bardo (which achieved a cinematography no.).

The other titles on the 15-strong shortlist that did not make the shortlist come from Cambodia Return to SeoulFrance Holy OmerIn the Last showMorocco The blue caftan and that of Sweden Cairo Conspiracy.