Italy has submitted Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano as its candidate for Greatest Worldwide Movie on the 96th Academy Awards.
The well timed drama follows the hardships of two Senegalese youngsters as they attempt to make it to Europe by way of the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean Sea.
The movie world premiered to essential acclaim in Competitors in Venice successful Greatest Director for Garrone, Greatest Younger Star for co-star Seydou Sarr and Greatest Manufacturing Director for Claudia Cravotta.
The Deadline evaluate out of Venice describes the movie as “a blisteringly topical drama” that may very well be Garrone’s “greatest” movie thus far, in a filmography that additionally contains Gomorrah, Story of Tales and Dogman.
The choice was made by a committee overseen by Italian cinema organisation Anica. Its members comprised Alessandro Araimo, Domizia De Rosa, Esmeralda Calabria, Daniela Ciancio, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Giorgio Moroder, Cristiana Paternò, Michele Placido, Paola Randi, Riccardo Tozzi and Gianpiero Tulelli.
The choice committee stated in a joint assertion that they’d chosen Io Capitano — which interprets actually as “Me Captain” — for the best way it “embodied with nice energy and cinematic mastery the common need to hunt freedom and happiness.”
01 Distribution launched the movie theatrically in Italy on September 7 on 200 screens. Italian media reported on Wednesday that the discharge was being expanded to 350 screens this week on the again of its early success and a gross of simply over $1.2 million thus far.
The movie has bought to a number of worldwide territories and gross sales agent Pathe Worldwide is reported to be on the cusp of asserting a U.S. deal.
Deadline additionally reported final week that Garrone and his younger solid accompanied the movie to the Vatican for a particular screening for Pope Francis.
In a robust yr for Italian cinema, 12 options had been shortlisted for consideration with different sizzling favorites together with Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped.
Different titles within the working included Paola Cortellesi’s C’è Ancora Domani, Riccardo Milani’s Grazie Ragazzi, Gabriele Salvatores’s The Return Of Casanova, Andrea Di Stefano’s Final Evening Of Amore, Marisa Vallone’s La Terra Delle Donne, Sydney Sibilia’s Blended By Erry, Tiziano Russo’s Noi Anni Luce and Giuseppe Fiorello’s Stranizza d’Amuri.
Italy has received the Oscar 11 instances, with its final victory being Paolo Sorrentino’s The Nice Magnificence in 2013. Sorrentino was additionally behind the nation’s final nomination – for The Hand Of God – in 2022.
The deadline for submission for the Greatest Worldwide Movie class is October 2.
Right here’s the listing of this yr’s class submissions up to now:
