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France’s Oscars Committee Reveals International Feature Shortlist Including ‘Emilia Perez,’ ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’
France's Oscars committee has shortlisted four movies, including Jacques Audiard’s redemption thriller 'Emilia Perez' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
France’s Oscars committee has shortlisted four movies, including Jacques Audiard’s redemption thriller “ Emilia Perez ” and “ The Count of Monte Cristo,” an epic adventure film adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ classic, as well as Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” and Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericorde.” The country’s revamped and expanded Oscar committee, presided over by Charles Tesson, the former artistic director of Cannes’ Critics Week, includes “Emmanuelle” director Audrey Diwan who won Venice’s Golden Lion with “Happening” in 2021; critically acclaimed French playwright, director and producer Florian Zeller (“The Father”); former Lionsgate boss Patrick Wachsberger; international sales veterans Carole Baraton from Charades, and Gregoire Melin from Kinology; powerful French distributor Michèle Halberstadt from ARP Selection; producers Rosalie Varda (“Faces Places”) from Ciné-Tamaris, Nadim Cheikhroua (“Olfa’s Daughters”) and David Thion (“Anatomy of a Fall”) at Les Films Pelléas; and actor Clemence Poesy. The final vote for the French Oscar submission will take place on Sept. 11 after auditions with each of the four shortlisted films’s producers, international sales agents and U.S. distributors.
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