'The Snow Society' and 'Robot Dreams', closer in the race to the Oscars

J.A. Bayona competirá finalmente por el Óscar por ‘La sociedad de la nieve’ como mejor película internacional y mejor maquillaje y peluquería. Por su parte, otro español, Pablo Berger, optará a mejor largometraje de animación con su film ‘Robot Dreams’.

After a long career, the film produced by Netflix about the Los Andes plane crash will be present at the ceremony on March 10 thanks to two categories. Although last December it managed to make the cut in the Oscar nominations for Best Score and Best Visual Effects, finally, the Academics have included it among the nominees for Best international film y Best makeup and hair, thus recognizing the enormous work of Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé.

The snow society will compete as the best international production against The area of ​​interest, the representative of the United Kingdom, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Festival; the german The teacher's room, the Japanese Perfect Days and the Italian I captain.

Bayona's film, which is competing for the coveted statuette for the first time, is the 21st Spanish film nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film (previously called Non-English Speaking Film, and the third so far this century.

Robot Dreams

For his part, the Bilbao director Pablo Berger He has also achieved an Oscar nomination for the animated feature film Robot Dreams. Despite not competing for other major awards before the Hollywood party, the Spanish film was considered best animated film by the European Academy and at the Annie Animation Awards.

Berger's film will compete against The Boy and the Heron, also Hayao Miyazaki; Elemental, de Peter Sohn; Nimona, by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson.

Finally, it should be noted that both Penelope Cruz as Pedro Almodovar, who aspired to be nominated by Ferrari y strange way of life, respectively, finally fall short of the nomination.

The 2024 Oscars will be presented on March 10 from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (USA) and the gala will be presented by Jimmy Kimmel for the second consecutive year.