For our third Rundown article, the International Feature category gets our attention. After the jump, you’ll find our winner and runner-up predictions for Best International Feature as well as general commentary about the race. Tomorrow, we’ll cover one of the short film categories.

Best International Feature

Winner Predictions

• Drive My Car (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
• Flee
• The Hand of God
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
• The Worst Person in the World

Runner-Up Predictions

• Flee (PP R) [New] (TL O)
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (TB R) [New]
• Worst Person in the World (WL O)

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Wesley Lovell: I have little doubt that the lone Best Picture nominee on this list will win. It’s Drive My Car‘s to lose because it’s the only award it’s likely to get all night.
Peter J. Patrick: Drive My Car is the most critically awarded foreign language film this year that it’s difficult to think that anything else has a chance. If there is an upset, Flee, having been nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Documentary as well, has as good a chance of any of the nominees.
Tripp Burton: This is a solid line-up, and in most years this could (and probably should) be a tight race. Drive My Car is a Best Picture/Director/Screenplay nominee, however, and I don’t see how it loses here. If an upset occurs, it might be the charming Lunana over the more traditional contenders.
Thomas La Tourrette: Japan’s Drive My Car has been the critical darling of the year and should easily win. It has by far won most of the precursors and I just do not see anything keeping it from winning here. Picking up three other nominations, especially one for best picture, should cement it as the one to beat. I found it interesting but did not feel that it justified its three-hour running time. Flee, an animated documentary about a young Afghan fleeing his home country and ending up in Denmark, was much more riveting to me. The Worst Person in the World was an intriguing film about a woman trying to find herself in modern day Oslo. Either would be a better choice in my mind, but I thoroughly expect Drive My Car to win.

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