Oscars: France and "Titanium" out of the race, Beyoncé and Jay-Z preselected

Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Ariana Grande are in the running for the Oscar for best song but France will not seek a golden statuette next year in Hollywood, its candidate

not having passed the preselection stage, has announced Tuesday the Academy of Oscars.

Beyoncé's ballad

, written for the film

with Will Smith, is one of 15 titles selected by the Academy, which will later reduce them to just five for the awards ceremony on March 27.

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The queen of pop faces her husband Jay-Z who for his part produced the black western

and has teamed up with Kid Cudi for the soundtrack of the film

.

As for Ariana Grande, she appears in the satirical film

in which she performs the song

, begging her audiences to take seriously the imminent threat of a comet rushing towards Earth.

The young Billie Eilish is also in the list with her title

composed especially for the last film dedicated to James Bond.

15 feature films still in the running for the best foreign film award

The Academy of Oscars also unveiled on Tuesday the list of 15 films still in the running for the award for best foreign film, chosen from 92 in total. Each country is only entitled to one candidate. France may hold the record for the most nominations in this prestigious category, but it will remain a spectator this year:

, Julia Ducournau's feature film celebrated in Cannes with the Palme d'Or, has had less luck on Hollywood Boulevard than on the Croisette. This genre film, violent and mixing woman / machine hybridization, sexuality with cars and the quest for fatherhood, was perhaps too daring for Oscar voters.

The shortlist includes the Italian Paolo Sorrentino with

and the Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi for

, adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. Iran shines once again with its filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, already winner of the foreign film Oscar for

and

and which returns this time with

Unexpectedly, the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan could land the first nomination in its history with

, a comedy featuring a young schoolteacher sent to the most remote part of the country.

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Winner last year with

, Denmark is making a strong

this year with

, which traces the perilous journey of a young homosexual Afghan seeking asylum in Europe.

This animated film is also shortlisted for the best documentary award, also published on Tuesday.

, which returns to the race against time to save Thai teenagers trapped in a cave flooded by the ocean, as well as

Questlove's

, on the "Black Woodstock" organized in 1969 in Harlem, were also retained in this last category.