Am Sonntag, den 27. März ist es wieder soweit. Die 94. Academy Awards werden in Los Angeles verliehen. Nun hat die Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science in zehn Kategorien ihre Shortlists veröffentlicht, die auf jeden Fall die jeweiligen Gewinner beinhalten. Aufgrund der vielen zur Verfügung stehenden Filme für die verschiedenen Kategorien, werden schon vor Beginn der Abstimmung durch die Mitglieder der Academy in Frage kommende Filme für die Oscars vorausgewählt.
In den Kategorien Bester Dokumentarfilm, Bester Dokumentar-Kurzfilm, Bester fremdsprachiger Film, Bestes Make-up und Frisuren, Beste Filmmusik, Bester Filmsong, Bester Animierter Kurzfilm, Bester Kurzfilm, Bester Ton und Beste visuelle Effekte wurde nun diese Vorauswahl getroffen.
In der Kategorie des besten fremdsprachigen Films waren 92 Filme teilnahmeberechtigt. Der deutsche Film Ich bin dein Mensch ist weiterhin im Rennen.
Genannt sind die internationalen Filmtitel in alphabetischer Reihenfolge
Bester Dokumentarfilm
- "Ascension"
- "Attica"
- "Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry"
- "Faya Dayi"
- "The First Wave"
- "Flee"
- "In the Same Breath"
- "Julia"
- "President"
- "Procession"
- "The Rescue"
- "Simple as Water"
- "Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)"
- "The Velvet Underground"
- "Writing with Fire"
Bester Dokumentar-Kurzfilm
- "Águilas"
- "Audible"
- "A Broken House"
- "Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis"
- "Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker"
- "Day of Rage"
- "The Facility"
- "Lead Me Home"
- "Lynching Postcards: "Token of a Great Day""
- "The Queen of Basketball"
- "Sophie & the Baron"
- "Takeover"
- "Terror Contagion"
- "Three Songs for Benazir"
- "When We Were Bullies"
Bester fremdsprachiger Film
- Austria, "Great Freedom"
- Belgium, "Playground"
- Bhutan, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"
- Denmark, "Flee"
- Finland, "Compartment No. 6"
- Germany, "I’m Your Man"
- Iceland, "Lamb"
- Iran, "A Hero"
- Italy, "The Hand of God"
- Japan, "Drive My Car"
- Kosovo, "Hive"
- Mexico, "Prayers for the Stolen"
- Norway, "The Worst Person in the World"
- Panama, "Plaza Catedral"
- Spain, "The Good Boss"
Bestes Make-Up und beste Frisuren
- "Coming 2 America"
- "Cruella"
- "Cyrano"
- "Dune"
- "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
- "House of Gucci"
- "Nightmare Alley"
- "No Time to Die"
- "The Suicide Squad"
- "West Side Story"
Beste Filmmusik
- "Being the Ricardos"
- "Candyman"
- "Don’t Look Up"
- "Dune"
- "Encanto"
- "The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun"
- "The Green Knight"
- "The Harder They Fall"
- "King Richard"
- "The Last Duel"
- "No Time to Die"
- "Parallel Mothers"
- "The Power of the Dog"
- "Spencer"
- "The Tragedy of Macbeth"
Bester Filmsong
- "So May We Start?" from "Annette"
- "Down To Joy" from "Belfast"
- "Right Where I Belong" from "Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road"
- "Automatic Woman" from "Bruised"
- "Dream Girl" from "Cinderella"
- "Beyond The Shore" from "CODA"
- "The Anonymous Ones" from "Dear Evan Hansen"
- "Just Look Up" from "Don’t Look Up"
- "Dos Oruguitas" from "Encanto"
- "Somehow You Do" from "Four Good Days"
- "Guns Go Bang" from "The Harder They Fall"
- "Be Alive" from "King Richard"
- "No Time To Die" from "No Time to Die"
- "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" from "Respect"
- "Your Song Saved My Life" from "Sing 2"
Bester animierter Kurzfilm
- "Affairs of the Art"
- "Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice"
- "Bad Seeds"
- "Bestia"
- "Boxballet"
- "Flowing Home"
- "Mum Is Pouring Rain"
- "The Musician"
- "Namoo"
- "Only a Child"
- "Robin Robin"
- "Souvenir Souvenir"
- "Step into the River"
- "Us Again"
- "The Windshield Wiper"
Bester Kurzfilm
- "Ala Kachuu - Take and Run"
- "Censor of Dreams"
- "The Criminals"
- "Distances"
- "The Dress"
- "Frimas"
- "Les Grandes Claques"
- "The Long Goodbye"
- "On My Mind"
- "Please Hold"
- "Stenofonen"
- "Tala’vision"
- "Under the Heavens"
- "When the Sun Sets"
- "You’re Dead Helen"
Bester Ton
- "Belfast"
- "Dune"
- "Last Night in Soho"
- "The Matrix Resurrections"
- "No Time to Die"
- "The Power of the Dog"
- "A Quiet Place Part II"
- "Spider-Man: No Way Home"
- "tick, tick...BOOM!"
- "West Side Story"
Beste visuelle Effekte
- "Black Widow"
- "Dune"
- "Eternals"
- "Free Guy"
- "Ghostbusters: Afterlife"
- "Godzilla vs. Kong"
- "The Matrix Resurrections"
- "No Time to Die"
- "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"
- "Spider-Man: No Way Home"