US EditionNeon Dominates International Feature Film Oscar Category With Four Nominations
Neon placed four films among the five nominees for Best International Feature Film, marking its best-ever showing with 18 total Oscar nods, the Academy announced.
- On Thursday, Neon swept 4 of the 5 International Feature nominations with It Was Just An Accident, Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, and Sir�t.
- Festival premieres and awards-season campaigning helped lift these titles, including a buzzy festival tour and sweeping craft prizes at the European Film Awards in recent weeks.
- Neon compiled 18 Oscar nominations overall this season, marking its best-ever showing in the International Feature category and following its earlier success with Parasite while Wagner Moura became the first Brazilian nominated for Best Actor on Wednesday.
- Neon faces an internal fight as multiple in-house nominees vie across categories, while Willa, U.S. distributor for The Voice of Hind Rajab, feels vindicated as the sole nominee outside Neon's U.S. roster.
- India's absence from the final nominees continues, stretching back to Lagaan in 2002 amid particularly strong global competition as Homebound failed to advance from the 15-film International Feature shortlist.
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Homebound Misses Oscar Nomination Amid Fierce International Competition
Homebound, directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and produced by Karan Johar, was India’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards. Despite making it to the shortlist of 15 films, Homebound did not advance to the final five nominees. The selected films in this category were The Secret Agent (Brazil), It Was Just an Accident (France), Sentimental Value (Norway), Sirât (Spain), and The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tu…
For months Sirat has been caught up in a wave of triumphs all over the world, which has had as its culmination his two Oscar nominations. The Hollywood Academy has just announced its candidatures (which will be resolved on March 15), and as Oliver Laxe's film was already anticipated it is present in two categories: in Best International Film competes with sentimental value, The Secret Agent, A Simple Accident and Hind's Voice; while Better Sound…
The road has been long, since May 2025, and will not culminate until March 15, 2026, but Oliver Laxe has been worth it. Exultant, he shouted when he learned about the nomination for the best international film. He would follow another, better sound. And although he has not exceeded the record of two nominations per film that already had illustrious surnames of the patrio cinema (Almodóvar, Bayona, Amenábar), they celebrated it the same. Because …
Oliver Laxe, After the Two Oscar Nominations of ‘Sirât’: “We’ve Already Won. Let’s Enjoy the Moment”
Sirât, by Oliver Laxe, has won two nominations for the 98th Oscar Awards this Thursday, which will be presented on March 15. He will compete in international film and sound. The team has seen, together, the reading of nominations from the lobby of the Telefónica building, the oldest skyscraper in Spain (the company is one of the producers of the film), along with friends and the press, even knowing that there could be even bad news. Laia Casanov…
Sirat, by Oliver Laxe, Nominated for Best International Film and Best Sound at the Oscar 2026 Awards
The Franco-Gallego director's film inspired by rave culture had already made history, being the first Spanish film preselected simultaneously in five categories: better international film, better photography, better original music, better sound and better casting Read
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