News

Singapore among 93 hopefuls for Oscars' International Feature Film

"A Land Imagined" is Singapore's submission for the 2020 Academy Awards' International Feature Film category.
"A Land Imagined" is Singapore's submission for the 2020 Academy Awards' International
Feature Film category.

8 Oct – Despite some objection to the renaming of the Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film category to the new International Feature Film, this does not deter countries across the globe from submitting their representative films in hope of winning the coveted golden statue.

Among the 93 nations who have submitted their entries for the category is Singapore, with the neo-noir mystery thriller "A Land Imagined".

The film follows a sleepless police investigator who puts himself in the mind of a missing Chinese migrant, who is a worker at a Singapore land reclamation site, in order to find the man.


Singapore will be competing with films from fellow Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia "M for Malaysia"), Indonesia ("Memories of My Body"), Philippines ("Verdict") and Cambodia ("In the Life of Music") for a place on the shortlist.

Other submissions vying for the spots include China ("Ne Zha"), Hong Kong ("The White Storm 2: Drug Lords"), Japan ("Weathering with You"), Australia ("Buoyancy"), and France ("Les Misérables").

Films that are allowed for submission to the category should fit the criteria of being a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes), including documentary and animated films, that is produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.

Only 10 out of the 93 hopefuls will be selected for the shortlist, which will be announced on 16 December 2019.

Full list of nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards will be revealed on 13 January 2020, ahead of the awards ceremony that will be held on 9 February 2020.




Related Movies:
A Land Imagined (Mandarin) (21 Feb 2019)

Dailymotion article page COSG


Related Links:
Showtimes