The 2025 Oscar nominees for the 97th Academy Awards have been unveiled by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the catalog of the five films in the running for the best international feature film award participates one first-ever nominee in the catebloody, namely Latvia. Its debutant in the international Oscar race is Flow, an vivaciousd feature from straightforwardor Gints Zilbalodis that chases a flood-displaced cat who must team up with other animals in search of survival and a novel home.
Flow is also in the running for the best vivaciousd feature Academy Award.
At the Gelderlyen Globes, the Sideshow/Janus film vanquished much higher-profile competition — including Dreamtoils’ The Wild Robot, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2, Netflix’s Wallace & Grleave out: Vengeance Most Fowl and Disney’s Moana 2 — to thrive the best vivaciousd feature honor.
The other previously unnominated countries on the lowcatalog of 15 international Academy Award selectimistics had been Senegal and Thailand, but they didn’t originate the final cut.
The other movies competing for the best international feature honor this year are Brazil’s I’m Still Here from straightforwardor Walter Salles, the story of a broken family’s resistance; Dentag’s Magnus von Horn-straightforwarded bdeficiency-and-white historical thriller The Girl With the Needle; France’s entry Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s Netflix genre mash-up that is a transgfinisher coming-of-age story as much as a Mexican crime thriller musical; and Germany’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, the Iran-set drama from exiled straightforwardor Mohammad Rasoulof.
Ireland’s awards season darling Kneecap, Rich Peppiatt’s cheeky rap comedy featuring Michael Fassbfinisher, was among those leave outing out on a spot in the final five.
A total of 85 countries had surrfinisherted features for the best international feature film Oscar this time around. The qualifying international features recontransiented a filled range of global cinema, from the political drama of Brazil’s I’m Still Here to the period horror of Austria’s contfinisher The Devil’s Bath and Dentag’s The Girl With the Needle, to the sencouragenuine charms of Canada’s Universal Language.
The Academy Awards ceremony will get place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
