{"id":80150,"date":"2026-09-03T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/80150\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:21:15","slug":"oscars-2027-spain-best-international-feature-film-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/80150\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2027: Spain Best International Feature Film Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpain is widely seen as having one of the strongest and most competitive fields to choose from when it comes to determining its best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international_1\" data-tag=\"international\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">international<\/a> feature film submission for the 2027 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars_1\" data-tag=\"oscars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn Thursday, the country unveiled a shortlist of three movies remaining in contention before a final pick is unveiled on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd the candidates are\u2026 The Beloved\u00a0by\u00a0Rodrigo Sorogoyen,\u00a0La bola negra\u00a0(The Black Ball) by\u00a0Javier Calvo\u00a0and\u00a0Javier Ambrossi, aka Los Javis, or the two Javiers, and\u00a0Sundays\u00a0by\u00a0Alauda Ruiz de Az\u00faa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first two films were Cannes breakouts earlier this year. However, the third Spanish movie in the Cannes 2026 competition program, Bitter Christmas, and its big-name director, Pedro Almod\u00f3var, didn\u2019t make the Thursday shortlist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Black Ball, an epic about gay men in war-torn Spain, is a big Netflix hope for the Oscars. Its director duo won the best director award at Cannes. \u201cIt is high time we had a gay war epic of this scope and soulfulness and invention,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-black-ball-review-bola-negra-los-javis-glenn-close-1236603356\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR\u2018s review<\/a> highlighted, calling the movie \u201ca dazzling mix of contemporary pop sensibility and classical filmmaking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMeanwhile,\u00a0The Beloved\u00a0features the star power of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/javier-bardem\/\" id=\"auto-tag_javier-bardem_1\" data-tag=\"javier-bardem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javier Bardem<\/a>. \u201cBardem is terrific in the role of a hardened filmmaker with a shady past and shitty reputation who still has talent to burn,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-beloved-review-javier-bardem-1236578952\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR\u2019s review<\/a> emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The third contender shortlisted by the Spanish academy,\u00a0the Basque family drama Sundays, was the big winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/family-drama-sundays-beats-sirat-at-goya-awards-spain-1236518567\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest Goya awards<\/a> in Spain and also won the Golden Shell at last year\u2019s San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/academy-motion-picture-arts-sciences\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a>will unveil the 15 films on the best international feature film shortlist on Dec. 15. The five nominees will be announced Jan. 21, 2027. The 99th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 14, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain is widely seen as having one of the strongest and most competitive fields to choose from when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30084,1150,10704,30085,30086,17],"class_list":["post-80150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences","tag-international","tag-javier-bardem","tag-oscars","tag-oscars-2027","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}