4 occasions within the lengthy historical past of the Oscars, the trophy for the most productive global movie went to Germany. Will the 98th Academy Awards upload a 5th? Berlin-based director Masha Shilinski has now triumph over the primary hurdle: her drama “Looking at the Sun” has been shortlisted from 15 applicants for the distinguished award within the pre-selection for the Oscars.
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The contest was once fierce – in the end, 86 nations implemented for the World Characteristic Movie Festival 2026. Issues will stay thrilling till January 22: when 5 movies from 15 applicants shall be nominated for the overall spherical.
The Oscars shall be awarded on March 15 in 24 classes – twelve classes have now been shortlisted, together with spaces equivalent to soundtrack, sound, particular results and brief movies.
German composers on their strategy to the Oscars
German composer Hans Zimmer went one step additional within the Oscar race with the song for the racing movie “F1”. He was once shortlisted from 20 applicants within the movie song class – in addition to the British composer of German beginning Max Richter together with his accompaniment within the drama “Hamnet” directed via Chloe Zhao. Some of the applicants is composer Volker Bertelman from Dusseldorf together with his soundtrack for the mystery “House of Dynamite” directed via Kathryn Bigelow.
Bertelman received an Oscar in 2023 for the soundtrack to the conflict movie All Quiet within the West. Frankfurt-born Hans Zimmer received two Oscars for his song for The Lion King and The Dune.
“A Look at the Sun” received an award at Cannes
The drama “A Look at the Sun” tells the tale of 4 younger girls who continue to exist a farm in Altmark in numerous eras. It offers with subjects equivalent to home violence, suppressed wants and inherited traumas. The seriously acclaimed movie received the Jury Prize on the Cannes Movie Pageant in Would possibly. German Motion pictures, a overseas illustration of German movies, then decided on the drama as Germany’s access for the 98th Academy Awards in August.
World pageant
Along with Germany, the shortlist contains movies from South Korea (“No Other Choice”), Tunisia (“The Voice of Hind Rajab”) and Argentina (“Belen”). France was once shortlisted with “A Simple Accident” via Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Norway with the circle of relatives drama “Sentimental Value”, Spain with the street film “Sirat” and Brazil with the mystery “Secret Agent”.
Switzerland is at the shortlist with the health center drama “Heroine” with German lead actress Leonie Benes. She performs an overworked nurse beneath the control of Petra Volpa.
Ultimate December, Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof’s political mystery “The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree” was once shortlisted as Germany’s consultant after which the Oscar finalist. In spite of everything, the trophy for the most productive global movie went to the Brazilian drama “Here Forever” via Walter Gross sales.
Alternatives for cinematographers in German manufacturing
“View of the Sun” additionally made it to the checklist of 16 applicants within the “Best Camera” class because of the cinematography of Swiss Fabian Gamper. On this class is the movie “The Ballad of the Little Player” directed via Edward Berger – for the digicam of James Buddy. The British cinematographer received the 2023 Oscar for his paintings on Berger’s conflict movie All Quiet within the West.
Will there be a 5th overseas Oscar?
In Hollywood, issues were going quite smartly for German movies lately. In 2023, Wolfsburg-born Berger’s literary adaptation of Not anything New within the West received no longer most effective the Oscar for Absolute best World Movie, but additionally 3 different awards for cinematography, manufacturing design and soundtrack.
A complete of 4 German productions within the historical past of the Oscars won the award for the most productive global movie. Earlier than Not anything New within the West, Florian Henkel von Donnersmark ultimate completed this in 2007 with the Stasi drama The Lives of Others. “Nowhere in Africa” via Caroline Hyperlink won this award in 2003, and the movie adaptation of the radical “The Tin Drum” via Volker Schlondorff in 1980.
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