'Sirat', shortlisted in five Oscar categories

After achieving two Golden Globe nominations (Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Score), Oliver Laxe's 'Sirat' aims to sneak into the Hollywood Film Academy Awards, the Oscars, having been shortlisted in five categories.

Sirat had its world premiere in the Official Section of the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, in which she was awarded the Jury Prize at the same time, el Premio Cannes Soundtrack to Kangding Ray, and the wink of Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize. In her journey through festivals, she has already been recognized as Best Film in it Chicago International Film Festival, in it Denver Festival (Krzysztof Kieslowskiy Prize) and the Monclair Film Festival, and has won the award for Best Music awarded by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).

The movie of Oliver Laxe Since its presentation, it has been among critics' favorites for the film industry's main awards. On January 22, it will be announced whether the feature film finally achieves any of the 5 nominations to which it aspires at the Oscars: Best International Film, Best Cinematography (Mauro Herce), Best Original Music (Kangding Ray), Best Sound (Laia Casanovas, Amanda Villavieja and Yasmina Praderas) and Best Casting (Nadia Acimi and Luis Bértolo).

Currently, Sirat is a candidate for other awards as relevant as the Golden Globes (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Soundtrack), the European Film Awards (EFA) (Best film, Best direction, Best actor, Best script, Best photography, Best editing, Best production design, Best sound and Best casting direction), the Independent Spirit Awards (Best International Independent Film), Critics Choice Awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Sound) and the Gaudi Awards (Best film in a non-Catalan language, Best direction, Best Actor, Best production direction, Best artistic direction, Best editing, Best original music, Best photography, Best costumes, Best sound, Best visual effects and Best makeup and hairdressing.

Besides, The film has been recognized among the best films of the year by prestigious entities such as the National Board of Reviews (top 5 best international films), the magazine Sight and Sound from the British Film Institute (top 4 of the best of the year), the specialized magazine The Hollywood Reporter (Top 3 of the 10 best in 2026), Indie Wire (top 8 of the best films and top 6 of the best directors) or the best film of the year for the influential magazine The New Yorker.

The film is an original Movistar Plus+ produced in collaboration with Ermida Films, The Desire, Uri Films y 4a4 Productions, distributed in Spain by Bteam Pictures. International sales are handled by The Match Factory.

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