For the next Oscar race, Italy has chosen “Vermiglio” by Maura Delpero, the director born in Bolzano in 1975, who won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the last Venice Film Festival.a. According to last-minute predictions, the two favorite titles were Delpero’s and Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope,” whose candidacy was almost taken for granted by many. It didn’t go that way.
The Selection Committee for the Italian film to be nominated for the Oscars, established by Anica on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, meeting before a notary and composed of Pedro Armocida, Maria Rita Barbera, Cristina Battocletti, Giorgia Farina, Francesca Manieri, Guglielmo Marchetti, Paola Mencuccini, Giacomo Scarpelli, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt, Alessandro Usai, Cecilia Zanuso, hhe chose the work set at the end of the Second World War and dedicated to the chain reactions that that war, but also all the others, caused in people’s lives: “It is a story of wars without bombs, nor great battles,” the author explained at the Exhibition. “A landscape of the soul, a “family lexicon” that lives inside me, an act of love for my father, his family and their small town… a tribute to a collective memory.” The jurors who entrusted the work with the task of representing Italy in the international competition that precedes the 97th edition of the Night of the Stars, explained that they had chosen “Vermiglio”: “For its ability to tell the story of rural Italy from the past, whose feelings and themes are made universal and current.”
Now the first obstacle to overcome is the short-list in which the Academy selects the fifteen best international films.. The appointment is for December 17, 2024. The announcement of the nominations (the five films nominated to compete for the award) is scheduled for January 17, 2025, while the Oscars ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on March 2, 2025.
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