Os Óscares 2021, a 93.ª edição, estão marcados para dia 25 de Abril e a Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas, organização profissional honorária dedicada ao desenvolvimento da arte e ciência do cinema nos EUA, divulgou a lista os filmes elegíveis para as categorias de animação, longa metragem documental e filme internacional.
Ao todo são 27 longas-metragens de animação, 238 longas-metragens documentais e 93 filmes elegiveis na corrida ao Óscar de melhor filme internacional. Alguns destes filmes ainda não estrearam mas têm de cumprir este requisito antes de de saberem os pré-nomeados, a 9 de fevereiro de 2021.
No meio de todos estes candidatos há um filme português e é da autoria do realizador Pedro Costa. “Vitalina Varela” (ler crítica) tem reunido elogios e prémios ao longo de 2020 e de 2021 e, recentemente, a publicação Indiewire considerou “Vitalina Varela” como um dos poucos filmes “que combina uma abordagem comprometida com a ambição cinematográfica”. O filme de Pedro Costa tem sido bem aceite em Hollywood, o próprio actor Willem Dafoe e Eric Kohn, um dos principais críticos da revista norte-americana, elogiaram o filme: “Os intérpretes e a câmara são tão pacientes e têm uma presença tão assombrosa que é impossível não sentir empatia. Por mais que a história e a cinematografia sejam pesadas, o efeito é humanizador graças à simplicidade, nobreza e elegância da realização”, disse Dafoe. Já Kohn disse também que “Vitalina Varela” podia ser “o candidato mais comovente neste ano tão especial, pois capta a luta de uma mulher ao enfrentar a vida que deixou para trás” e que “a delicada mise-en-scène de Pedro Costa o coloca ao lado de Andrei Tarkovski, com cada plano a entregar-nos uma composição digna de museu”, afirmou o crítico.
É de relembrar ainda que a A Sociedade Nacional de Críticos de Cinema dos Estados Unidos (NSFC) também escolheu o filme português como o quarto melhor de língua estrangeira do ano de 2020. “Vitalina Varela” (com 32 pontos) ficou atrás do filme romeno “Collective” (38 pontos), de Alexander Nanau, o filme brasileiro “Bacurau” (36 pontos), de Kléber Mendonça Filho e Juliano Dornelles, e o filme russo “Beanpole” (36 pontos), de Kantemir Balagov.
Animação
“Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus”
“Bombay Rose”
“Calamity”
“The Croods: A New Age”
“Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train”
“Dreambuilders”
“Earwig and the Witch”
“Kill It and Leave This Town”
“Lupin III: The First”
“Mosley”
“My Favorite War”
“Nos Ili Zagovor Ne Takikh”
“No.7 Cherry Lane”
“On-Gaku: Our Sound”
“Onward”
“Over the Moon”
“Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs”
“Ride Your Wave”
“Scoob!”
“A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon”
“Soul”
“The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run”
“Terra Willy”
“Trolls World Tour”
“A Whisker Away”
“The Willoughbys”
“Wolfwalkers”
Documentário
“Acasa, My Home”
“Addicted to Ralphie”
“Aggie”
“All I Can Say”
“All In: The Fight for Democracy”
“The American Sector”
“American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself”
“America’s Forgotten”
“The Antidote”
“Apocalypse ’45”
“The Art of Living in Danger”
“The Art of Political Murder”
“Assassins”
“Aswang”
“Athlete A”
“Babenco – Tell Me When I Die”
“Be Water”
“Beastie Boys Story”
“Beautiful Something Left Behind”
“Becoming”
“Bedlam”
“Belly of the Beast”
“Belushi”
“Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint”
“The Big Scary “S” Word”
“Billie”
“Black Boys”
“Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets”
“The Booksellers”
“Born to Be”
“Boys State”
“Bulletproof”
“Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn”
“Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
“Chicago: America’s Hidden War”
“Childhood 2.0”
“Chuck Berry”
“Circus of Books”
“City Dream”
“City Hall”
“Coded Bias”
“Collective”
“Colombia in My Arms”
“Coming Clean”
“Coronation”
“Coup 53”
“Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words”
“Creem: America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine”
“Crip Camp”
“Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan”
“The Curve”
“Dads”
“Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time”
“David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet”
“Days of Cannibalism”
“Dear Santa”
“Death Protocol”
“Descent”
“Desert One”
“Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy”
“Dick Johnson Is Dead”
“Disclosure”
“The Dissident”
“The Dog Doc”
“The Donut King”
“Dope Is Death”
“Down a Dark Stairwell”
“Downstream to Kinshasa”
“The Earth Is Blue as an Orange”
“Elementa”
“Ending Disease”
“Epicentro”
“Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible”
“Escape from Extinction”
“Everybody Flies”
“F11 and Be There”
“Fandango at the Wall”
“Father Soldier Son”
“Feels Good Man”
“The Fight”
“Find Your Groove”
“Finding Yingying”
“Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds”
“First Vote”
“First We Eat”
“Flannery”
“For They Know Not What They Do”
“The Forbidden Reel”
“40 Years a Prisoner”
“Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb”
“Freedia Got a Gun”
“The Ghost of Peter Sellers”
“Giving Voice”
“A Glitch in the Matrix”
“The Go-Go’s”
“Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind”
“Gunda”
“Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something”
“He Dreams of Giants”
“House of Cardin”
“The Human Factor”
“Human Nature”
“I Am Greta”
“I Am Not Alone”
“I Owe You a Letter about Brazil”
“iHuman”
“In My Skin”
“Indian Space Dreams”
“The Infiltrators”
“Influence”
“(In)Visible Portraits”
“Irmi”
“Irradiés (Irradiated)”
“Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President”
“John Lewis: Good Trouble”
“Journey to Royal: A World War II Rescue Mission”
“Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl”
“A Kid from Coney Island”
“Kingdom of Silence”
“Kings of Capitol Hill”
“Kiss the Ground”
“La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla”
“Lance”
“Landfall”
“The Last Blockbuster”
“Last Call for Tomorrow”
“Lennox: The Untold Story”
“Lessons of Love”
“The Letter”
“Libelu – Down with the Dictatorship”
“Life Is Deadly”
“Lift Like a Girl”
“Lost Course”
“Lost in Face”
“Love Child”
“MLK/FBI”
“Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art”
“Man in the Arena”
“Martin Margiela: In His Own Words”
“Mayor”
“Mighty Ira”
“Miss Americana”
“Mr. Soul!”
“The Mole Agent”
“The Monster inside Me”
“A Most Beautiful Thing”
“Mother to Earth: The Untold Story of Earth Bound”
“Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado”
“My Darling Supermarket”
“My Darling Vivian”
“My Octopus Teacher”
“My People: The Jews of Greece”
“My Psychedelic Love Story”
“My Rembrandt”
“Napoli Eden”
“Narciso Em Férias”
“Nasrin”
“The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel”
“9/11 Kids”
“915”
“9to5: The Story of a Movement”
“Notturno”
“Oliver Sacks: His Own Life”
“Olympia”
“On the Record”
“Once upon a Time in Venezuela”
“Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band”
“Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles”
“Our Time Machine”
“Pahokee”
“The Painter and the Thief”
“A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland”
“The Phenomenon”
“Planet of the Humans”
“The Plot against the President”
“The Pollinators”
“The Power of Movement”
“Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton”
“Public Trust”
“Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack”
“The Reason I Jump”
“Rebuilding Paradise”
“Red Penguins”
“Reunited”
“Rewind”
“The Right Girls”
“Ringside”
“Rising Phoenix”
“River City Drumbeat”
“River Tales”
“Runner”
“Searching for Mr. Rugoff”
“Self Portrait”
“17 Blocks The Final Cut”
“76 Days”
“Sky Blossom”
“Slay the Dragon”
“The Social Dilemma”
“Softie”
“Some Kind of Heaven”
“Songs of Repression”
“Soros”
“Spaceship Earth”
“Stars and Strife”
“The State of Texas vs. Melissa”
“Stray”
“Strip Down, Rise Up”
“System K”
“They Call Me Babu”
“This Is Not a Movie”
“This Is Paris”
“A Thousand Cuts”
“Through the Night”
“Time”
“The Times of Bill Cunningham”
“Totally under Control”
“Transhood”
“The Truffle Hunters”
“Trust Me”
“Uncle Tom”
“#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump”
“Us Kids”
“WBCN and the American Revolution”
“The Walrus and the Whistleblower”
“The Way I See It”
“We Are the Radical Monarchs”
“We Don’t Deserve Dogs”
“Welcome to Chechnya”
“White Noise”
“Who Is Gatsby Randolph”
“Wild Daze”
“Wim Wenders: Desperado”
“With Drawn Arms”
“A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem”
“Women in Blue”
“You Cannot Kill David Arquette”
“Yusuf Hawkins: Storm over Brooklyn”
“Zappa”
Filme Internacional
África do Sul, “Toorbos”
Albânia, “Open Door”
Alemanha, “And Tomorrow the Entire World”
Arábia Saudita, “Scales”
Argentina, “The Sleepwalkers”
Arménia, “Songs of Solomon”
Áustria, “What We Wanted”
Bangladesh, “Sincerely Yours, Dhaka”
Bélgica, “Working Girls”
Bolivia, “Chaco”
Bósnia e Herzegovina, “Quo Vadis, Aida?”
Brasil, “Babenco – Tell Me When I Die”
Bulgária, “The Father”
Cambodia, “Fathers”
Camarões, “The Fisherman’s Diary”
Canadá, “14 Days, 12 Nights”
Cazaquistão, “The Crying Steppe”
Chile, “The Mole Agent”
China, “Leap”
Colômbia, “El Olvido Que Seremos (Memories of My Father)”
Coreia do Sul, “The Man Standing Next”
Costa Rica, “Land of Ashes”
Croácia, “Extracurricular”
Cuba, “Buscando a Casal”
Dinamarca, “Another Round”
Equador, “Emptiness”
Egipto, “When We’re Born”
Singapura, “Wet Season”
Eslováquia, “The Auschwitz Report”
Eslovénia, “Stories from the Chestnut Woods”
Espanha, “The Endless Trench”
Estónia, “The Last Ones”
Finlândia, “Tove”
França, “Two of Us”
Geórgia, “Beginning”
Grécia, “Apples”
Guatemala, “La Llorona”
Honduras, “Days of Light”
Hong Kong, “Better Days”
Hungria, “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time”
Islândia, “Agnes Joy”
Índia, “Jallikattu”
Indonésia, “Impetigore”
Irão, “Sun Children”
Irlanda, “Arracht”
Israel, “Asia”
Itália, “Notturno”
Costa do Marfim, “Night of the Kings”
Japão, “True Mothers”
Jordânia, “200 Meters”
Quénia, “The Letter”
Kosovo, “Exile”
Quirguistão, “Running to the Sky”
Letónia, “Blizzard of Souls”
Líbano, “Broken Keys”
Lesoto, “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection”
Lituânia, “Nova Lituania”
Luxemburgo, “River Tales”
Malásia, “Roh”
México, “I’m No Longer Here”
Mongólia, “Veins of the World”
Montenegro, “Breasts”
Marrocos, “The Unknown Saint”
Holanda, “Buladó”
Nigéria, “The Milkmaid”
Macedónia do Norte, “Willow”
Noruega, “Hope”
Paquistão, “Circus of Life”
Palestina, “Gaza Mon Amour”
Panamá, “Operation Just Cause”
Paraguai, “Killing the Dead”
Peru, “Song without a Name”
Filipinas, “Mindanao”
Polónia, “Never Gonna Snow Again”
Portugal, “Vitalina Varela”
República Checa, “Charlatan”
Republica Dominicana, “A State of Madness”
Roménia, “Collective”
Rússia, “Dear Comrades!”
Senegal, “Nafi’s Father”
Sérvia, “Dara of Jasenovac”
Sudão, “You Will Die at Twenty”
Suriname, “Wiren”
Suécia, “Charter”
Suiça, “My Little Sister”
Taiwan, “A Sun”
Tailândia, “Happy Old Year”
Tunísia, “The Man Who Sold His Skin”
Turquia, “Miracle in Cell No. 7”
Ucrânia, “Atlantis”
Uruguai, “Aleli”
Venezuela, “Once upon a Time in Venezuela”
Vietname, “Dreamy Eyes
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