Matteo Garrone movie within the operating for an Oscar.
The migration-themed Italian film Io Capitano directed by Matteo Garrone is up for an Oscar for Finest Worldwide Movie, organisers introduced on Tuesday.
Based mostly on the real-life story of the perilous journey of two younger Senagalese males from Dakar to Italy, Garrone’s movie is up towards 4 different Oscar hopefuls: Excellent Days (Japan), Society of the Snow (Spain), The Instructor’s Lounge (Germany) and The Zone of Curiosity (UK).
Garrone’s critically-acclaimed film, which stars Moustapha Fall and Seydou Sarr, was just lately nominated for a Golden Globe within the Finest Movie – non-English language class however misplaced out to Anatomy of a Fall.
The Rome director, 55, is widely known for numerous movies together with Gomorrah (2008), Story of Tales (2015), Dogman (2018) and Pinocchio (2019).
Over the many years, Italian films have gained 11 Oscars, the latest being Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (The Nice Magnificence) in 2013.
The 2024 Oscars ceremony is scheduled to happen in Los Angeles on 10 March.
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