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The 95th Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on March 12, 2023. The highly anticipated annual event has received a lot of criticism in the past decade for its lack of diversity in its nominations and awards. Needless to say, the iconic statuette of the Oscars has a long history of recognizing white men only.

In 95 years, only three women have won the Academy Award for best director: Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker in 2010, Chloé Zhao for Nomadland in 2021, and Jane Campion for The Power Of The Dog in 2022, and only three have won Best International Feature Film, however, many more have been nominated, and their pieces are worthy of praise.

Astrid Henning-Jensen: Nominated For Paw In 1959

Astrid Henning-Jensen was the first woman to be nominated for Best International Feature Film in 1959. Her movie, Paw, also known as The Boy of Two Worlds, follows the story of a biracial...

The film picked up the critics prize at Venice and the audience award at San Sebastian.

Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 as its entry for the best international feature category for the 2023 Academy Awards (March 12).

‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review

The Amazon Original title is based on the real events of Argentina’s 1980s ‘Dirty War’ and follows a group of lawyers who risk everything to take on the heads of the country’s military dictatorship. Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani lead the cast.

Argentina, 1985 was selected out 60 other titles by a committee of 250 members.

The film is a...

Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s political drama Argentina, 1985 to the Best International Film Oscar race.

The drama, which debuted in Competition in Venice, winning the Fipresci prize, is inspired by real-life Argentinian lawyers Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners

The David and Goliath tale follows how the pair and their young legal team daringly prosecuted members of the former military junta to bring justice to the victims of their deadly regime. Under their rule from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared.

Award-winning actor Ricardo Darin plays Strassera alongside Peter Lanzani as Ocampo with other cast members including

Mitre wrote the screenplay with Mariano Llinás. Producers are Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Darín, Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín and Victoria Alonso.

Argentina has garnered seven nominations to date for Sergio Renán’s The Truce (1974), Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (1984), Luis Puenzo’s The Official...

Former head of programming at the National Film Theatre who brought a wider audience to the London film festival

Sheila Whitaker, who has died aged 77 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was an influential film scholar and festival programmer whose eclecticism and political awareness earned her respect and admiration at an international level. Sheila's 45-year career in cinema culture took her from London and Tyneside to the Middle East, where, in 2004, she helped found the Dubai international film festival, becoming its director of international programming.

As well as celebrating Arab film-making, Sheila endeavoured to bring the best of world cinema to Dubai, imprinting on the festival her particular interest in Hollywood and Latin American films. The artistic director of the festival, Masoud Amralla Al Ali, described her as "meticulous, clear, opinionated, professional and passionate … She dedicated her life to understanding the emerging cinema." She also had unyielding feminist convictions, championed female film-makers,...

Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best Actress Oscar in early 2004, will be directing Thor 2. Officially, Perkins is the first woman director at the helm of a big-budget, Hollywood superhero movie. Below you'll find ten movies directed by female filmmakers that are among the 63 contenders for nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film category. Seven of those hail from Europe; one is from the Americas, one from East Asia, and one from West Asia (or the Middle East). They are: the Dominican Republic's Leticia Tonos for Love Child, France's Valérie Donzelli for the semi-autobiographical Declaration of War, Greece's Athina Rachel Tsangari for Attenberg, Hong Kong's Ann Hui for A Simple Life, and Ireland's Juanita Wilson for As If I Am Not There. Also: Lebanon's Nadine Labaki for Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winner Where Do We Go Now?...