"E 'è stato la mano di Dio" by Paolo Sorrentino, the candidate for Italy, has entered the short list of the 15 best international films in the running for the 2022 Oscars. The nominations will be announced on February 8 and March 27. it will be known if the Neapolitan director will have won his second statuette eight years after "La Grande Bellezza" in 2014.
To enter the shortlist, "E 'Stata la Mano di Dio' had to compete with a pool of national nominations from 92 countries. 'Iranian A Hero by Asghar Farhadi, the Danish animated film Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen and the Japanese "Drive My Car" by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, the Finnish Compartment No. 6, the Spanish The Good Boss and The Norwegian The worst person in the world but not the French "Titane" who had won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. "Flee", already awarded at the Efa, also entered in the shortlist of the best documentary, best cartoon and could making history as the first documentary nominated for best film.
A hundred works were in the running between documentaries and the shortlist announced today includes in addition to "Flee", also "Summer of Soul", "Billie Eilish", "The Rescue" and "The Velvet Underground".
Excluding, however, the Italians competing between the documentaries "Ennio" by Giuseppe Tornatore "and" Marx puo 'Attendere "by Marco Bellocchio.