The Academy of Hollywood today announced the pre-candidate films for nine categories of the Oscars, whose final nominations will be announced on January 22 and will be delivered on February 24.
In the category for the best non-English speaking film, the Mexican “Roma”, by Alfonso Cuarón, and the Colombian “Pájaros de verano”, by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, will compete for the nominations with “The Guilty” (Denmark) and “Never Look Away” (Germany).
Also with the Japanese “Shoplifters”, the Kazakh “Ayka”, the Lebanese “Capernaum”, the Polish “Cold War” and the South Korean “Burning”.
A better documentary, “El Silencio de los Otros”, by Spanish artist Almudena Carracedo and American Robert Bahar, is shortlisted next to “Charm City”, “Communion”, “Crime + Punishment”, “Dark Money”, “The Distant Barking of Dogs “,” Free Solo “and” Hale County This Morning, This Evening “.
Also included in this category are “Minding the Gap,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “On Her Shoulders,” “RBG,” “Shirkers,” “Three Identical Strangers,” and “Will not You Be My Neighbor?”
The shortlisted documentary short films are “Black Sheep”, “End Game”, “Lifeboat”, “The Commands”, “My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes”, “A Night at the Garden”, “End of Sentence Period”. , “’63 Boycott”, “Women of the Gulag” and “Zion”.
In the category of best soundtrack the pre-nominated ones are “Annihilation”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”, “Black Panther”, “BlacKkKlansman”, “Crazy Rich Asians”, “The Death of Stalin” , “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” and “First Man”.
Also “If Beale Street Could Talk”, “Isle of Dogs”, “Mary Poppins Returns”, “A Quiet Place”, “Ready Player One” and “Vice”.
For best original song “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” from the film “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”, “Treasure” (“Beautiful Boy”), “All The Stars” (“Black Panther”), “Revelation” (“Boy Erased”), “Girl In The Movies” (“Dumplin ‘”), “We Will not Move” (“The Hate U Give”) and “The Place Where Lost Things Go” (“Mary Poppins Returns” ).
They will compete with “Trip A Little Light Fantastic” (“Mary Poppins Returns”), “Keep Reachin ‘” (“Quincy”), “I’ll Fight” (“RBG”), “A Place Called Slaughter Race” (“Ralph Breaks the Internet “),” OYAHYTT “(” Sorry to Bother You “),” Shallow “(” A Star Is Born “),” Suspirium “(” Suspiria “) and” The Big Unknown “(” Widows “).
The Spanish film “Madre”, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, shares pre-nomination for best short film with “Caroline”, “Chuchotage”, “Detainment”, “Fauve”, “Icare”, “Marguerite”, “May Day”, “Skin” and “Wale.”
The shortlisted ones of the Academy in the category of best animated short film are “Age of Sail”, “Animal Behavior”, “Bao”, “Bilby”, “Bird Karma”, “Late Afternoon”, “Lost & Found”, ” One Small Step “,” Pépé le Morse “and” Weekends “.
In the category of best special effects, the pre-nominated ones are “Ant-Man and the Wasp”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, “Black Panther”, “Christopher Robin”, “First Man”, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, ” Mary Poppins Returns “,” Ready Player One “,” Solo: A Star Wars Story “and” Welcome to Marwen “.
Finally, the ones pre-selected by the Academy in the best makeup category are “Black Panther”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Border”, “Mary Queen of Scots”, “Stan & Ollie”, “Suspiria” and “Vice”.
The Academy of Hollywood will present the Oscars in its 91st edition on February 24 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (USA).
