FilmColumbia24 Films Receive 21 Oscar Nominations

Congratulations, FilmColumbia fans! Your Audience Choice Award-winning film, Emilia Pérez, received 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. You know how to pick them! A total of seven films shown at this year’s festival also received nominations, including Flow, Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat, No Other Land, Memoir of a Snail, A Real Pain and the Brazilian film I’m Still Here. The performance of that film’s Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated star, Fernanda Torres (top left, above), helped secure the film’s additional nominations for Best International Feature AND for Best Picture. Said Laurance Kardish, FilmColumbia Co-Executive and Co-Artistic Director, “As soon as the Oscar nominations were announced, the Cannes Film Festival sent out an email crowing that eight of the films it premiered in May got thirty-five nominations. FilmColumbia featured seven films at the Crandell in October…

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