The Academy has announced the films eligible in the Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, and International Feature categories. Below is their press release.
ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY AND INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS ELIGIBLE FOR 96TH OSCARS® ANNOUNCED
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 96th Academy Awards®. Complete 96th Academy Awards rules can be found at Oscars.org/rules.
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Thirty-three features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
To determine the five nominees, members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category. Academy members outside of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
One hundred sixty-seven features are eligible for consideration in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.
Documentary features that have won a qualifying film festival award or have been submitted in the International Feature Film category as their country’s official selection are also eligible in the category. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Eighty-eight countries or regions have submitted films that are eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track. Namibia is a first-time entrant.
Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.
The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Full Lists
Animated Feature
The Amazing Maurice
Blue Giant
The Boy and the Heron
Chang’an
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Deep Sea
Elemental
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
The First Slam Dunk
The Inventor
Leo
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The Magician’s Elephant
Migration
Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
The Monkey King
My Love Affair with Marriage
Nimona
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Peasants
Perlimps
Robot Dreams
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
They Shot the Piano Player
Titina
Trolls Band Together
Unicorn Wars
Warrior King
Wish
Documentary Feature
AKA Mr. Chow
After Sherman
Against the Tide
Alexander
American Symphony
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Americonned
And Miles to Go before I Sleep
Anhell69
Anonymous Sister
Another Body
Anselm
Apache Blues: Welcome Home
Apolonia, Apolonia
Bad Press
Batata
Bella
Bella!
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Bye Bye Tiberias
Canary
Carlos
Carterland
Close to Vermeer
Common Ground
A Compassionate Spy
Cup of Salvation
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Deep Rising
The Deepest Breath
Deserters
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime
Downwind
Eat Bitter
The Echo
El Juicio
Elis & Tom – It Had to Be You
The Eternal Memory
Every Body
Fantastic Machine
Finding Her Beat
Fioretta
For the Animals
Four Daughters
Full Circle
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Grandpa Was an Emperor
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
Here. Is. Better.
High & Low – John Galliano
The Holly
Holy Frit
I Got a Monster
If You Let Me Go
Imagining the Indian
Immediate Family
In the Company of Rose
In the Rearview
In the Shadow of Beirut
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Incompatible with Life
Into the Spotlight
The Invention of the Other
Invisible Beauty
The Issue with Tissue – A Boreal Love Story
It Ain’t Over
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Joonam
King Coal
Knights of Santiago
Kokomo City
The Lady Bird Diaries
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Land of My Dreams
The Last Rider
The League
Lift
Little Richard: I Am Everything
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
The Mission
Mission Peace: The Staunch Moderates Documentary
Mr. Jimmy
The Mother of All Lies
Motherland
The Mountains
Mourning in Lod
Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
My Name Is Happy
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
North Circular
Occupied City
Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Body
Pacific Mother
The Padilla Affair
The Painting
Pay or Die
Periodical
Photophobia
Pianoforte
Pictures of Ghosts
The Pigeon Tunnel
Plan C
Radical Wolfe
Razing Liberty Square
Reality Winner
Refuge
A Revolution on Canvas
Rewind & Play
A Rising Fury
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Rojek
Sam Now
Samuel and the Light
The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler
Shot in the Arm
Show Her the Money
Silver Dollar Road
Sly
The Smell of Money
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
A Song Film by Kishi Bashi – ‘Omoiyari’
Songs of Earth
Sound of the Police
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
Stamped from the Beginning
State of the Unity
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
A Still Small Voice
A Storm Foretold
Subject
Symphony of the Holocaust
Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
They Shot the Piano Player
32 Sounds
This Much We Know
Thy Neighbours
Tito, Margot and Me
To Kill a Tiger
Total Trust
20 Days in Mariupol
26.2 to Life
Twice Colonized
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Uncharitable
Unconditional
Under the Sky of Damascus
Unfinished Business
Unseen
Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality
Victim/Suspect
We Dare to Dream
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
While the Green Grass Grows
While We Watched
Who I Am Not
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
Yoshiki under the Sky
You Were My First Boyfriend
Your Fat Friend
International Feature
Albania – Alexander
Argentina – The Delinquents
Armenia – Amerikatsi
Australia – Shayda
Austria – Vera
Bangladesh – No Ground beneath the Feet
Belgium – Omen
Bhutan – The Monk and the Gun
Bolivia – The Visitor
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Excursion
Brazil – Pictures of Ghosts
Bulgaria – Blaga’s Lessons
Burkina Faso – Sira
Cameroon – Half Heaven
Canada – Rojek
Chile – The Settlers
China – The Wandering Earth II
Colombia – Un Varón
Costa Rica – I Have Electric Dreams
Croatia – Traces
Czech Republic – Brothers
Denmark – The Promised Land
Dominican Republic – Cuarencena
Egypt – Voy! Voy! Voy!
Estonia – Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Finland – Fallen Leaves
France – The Taste of Things
Georgia – Citizen Saint
Germany – The Teachers’ Lounge
Greece – Behind the Haystacks
Hungary – Four Souls of Coyote
Iceland – Godland
India – 2018 – Everyone Is a Hero
Indonesia – Autobiography
Iran – The Night Guardian
Iraq – Hanging Gardens
Ireland – In the Shadow of Beirut
Israel – Seven Blessings
Italy – Io Capitano
Japan – Perfect Days
Jordan – Inshallah A Boy
Kenya – Mvera
Latvia – My Freedom
Lithuania – Slow
Luxembourg – The Last Ashes
Malaysia – Tiger Stripes
Mexico – Totem
Moldova – Thunders
Mongolia – City of Wind
Montenegro – Sirin
Morocco – The Mother of All Lies
Namibia – Under the Hanging Tree
Nepal – Halkara
Netherlands – Sweet Dreams
Nigeria – Mami Wata
North Macedonia – Housekeeping for Beginners
Norway – Songs of Earth
Pakistan – In Flames
Palestine – Bye Bye Tiberias
Panama – Tito, Margot and Me
Paraguay – The Last Runway 2, Comando Yaguarete
Peru – The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Philippines – The Missing
Poland – The Peasants
Portugal – Bad Living
Romania – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Saudi Arabia – Alhamour H.A.
Senegal – Banel & Adama
Serbia – The Duke and the Poet
Singapore – The Breaking Ice
Slovakia – Photophobia
Slovenia – Riders
South Africa – Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
South Korea – Concrete Utopia
Spain – Society of the Snow
Sudan – Goodbye Julia
Sweden – Opponent
Switzerland – Thunder
Taiwan – Marry My Dead Body
Thailand – Not Friends
Tunisia – Four Daughters
Turkey – About Dry Grasses
Ukraine – 20 Days in Mariupol
United Kingdom – The Zone of Interest
Uruguay – Family Album
Venezuela – The Shadow of the Sun
Vietnam – Glorious Ashes
Yemen – The Burdened
