Nostalgia by Mario Martone will not be among the nominees for the 2023 Oscars

It was among the films that competed to integrate the iconic five that reward the best international film at the Oscar 2023but unfortunately “Nostalgia” In Mario Martone with Pierfrancesco Favino He did not make it. The category represents those titles produced outside the United States and in which more than half of the dialogue is in a language other than English.

Martone’s film off the short list

There is still a long way to go to define the five films that will compete for the coveted golden statuette, but in the meantime, the film set in Naples and presented at the Cannes Film Festival had been appointed as the title, among the Italians produced last year to be able to aspire to the Oscar of best international film. Unfortunately, Nostalgia didn’t make the short list, which means it didn’t pass the first screening. There are no Italian films, therefore, candidates for the iconic award. News that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of anyone hoping that perhaps this could be the right time to achieve a new success after Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” eight years ago. Italy, however, has conquered, for the time being, a small place with the live action short film🇧🇷 Alice Rohrwacher with studentsproduced by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón and financed by Walt Disney.

Foreign films aim for five

Instead, these are the fifteen foreign titles that passed the first selections in view of the prestigious award: Nothing new on the western front (Germany), Argentina, 1985 (Argentina), Bardo de Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico), Cairo Conspiracy (Sweden), The Blue Caftan (Morocco), Close (Belgium), The Empress Corset – Corsage (Austria), Decision to Leave (South Korea), EO (Poland) with Lorenzo Zurzolo, Holy Spider (Denmark), Joyland ( Pakistan), Last Film Show (India), The Quiet Girl (Ireland), Return to Seoul (Cambodia) and Saint Omer (France).