ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY AND INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS ELIGIBLE FOR 94TH OSCARS® ANNOUNCED

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film categories for the 94th Academy Awards®. Eligibility lists by category can be viewed at Oscars.org/94thFeatureEligibility. Complete 94th Academy Awards rules can be found at Oscars.org/rules.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Twenty-six features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 94th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.

To determine the five nominees, members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote in the category. Academy members outside of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

One hundred thirty-eight features are eligible for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 94th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.

Documentary features that have won a qualifying film festival award or have been submitted in the International Feature Film category as their country’s official selection are also eligible in the category. Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Ninety-three countries have submitted films that are eligible for consideration in the International Feature Film category for the 94th Academy Awards. Some of the films have not yet had their required qualifying release and must fulfill that requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (more than 40 minutes) produced outside the United States with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track. Somalia is a first-time entrant.

Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.

The 94th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Animated Feature

The Addams Family 2
The Ape Star
Back to the Outback
Belle
Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Cryptozoo
Encanto
Flee
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
The Laws of the Universe – The Age of Elohim
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
My Sunny Maad
Paw Patrol The Movie
Pompo the Cinephile
Poupelle of Chimney Town
Raya and the Last Dragon
Ron’s Gone Wrong
Sing 2
The Spine of Night
Spirit Untamed
The Summit of the Gods
Vivo
Wish Dragon

Documentary Feature

Ailey
All about My Sisters
All Light, Everywhere
The Alpinist
American 965
Ascension
Attica
Aulcie
Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power
Becoming Cousteau
Beijing Spring
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
Boris Karloff: The Man behind the Monster
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Bring Your Own Brigade
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
The Capote Tapes
Captains of Za’atari
Children of the Enemy
Citizen Ashe
Convergence: Courage in a Crisis
A Cop Movie
Courage
A Crime on the Bayou
Cusp
Dave Chappelle Live in Real Life
The Deadliest Disease in America
Dying to Divorce
Enemies of the State
Ennio
The Faithful: The King, the Pope, the Princess
Far Eastern Golgotha
Fathom
Faya Dayi
Ferguson Rises
Final Account
Finding Kendrick Johnson
Fire Music
The First Wave
Five Years North
Flee
45 Days: The Fight for a Nation
Found
Francesco
Hell or High Seas
Homeroom
In the Same Breath
Introducing, Selma Blair
Iron Temple
Jacinta
The Jesus Music
Julia
The Jump
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Kill the Indian Save the Child
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
LFG
The Last Forest
The Last Shelter
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Lily Topples the World
Little Girl
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52
Los Hermanos/ The Brothers
The Lost Leonardo
Love It Was Not
Magaluf Ghost Town
Man in the Field: The Life and Art of Jim Denevan
Marx Can Wait
Mayor Pete
The Meaning of Hitler
Minnesota! The Modern Day Selma
Misha and the Wolves
Missing in Brooks County
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
Moby Doc
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
My Name Is Pauli Murray
The Neutral Ground
A New Dawn
No Ordinary Man
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Not Going Quietly
Nothing but the Sun
On Broadway
Operation Varsity Blues
Ostrov – Lost Island
Paper & Glue
The Paradigm of Money
The People vs. Agent Orange
The Phantom
Playing with Sharks
Pray Away
President
Procession
Qazaq History of the Golden Man
Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain
The Race to Save the World
Radiograph of a Family
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Rebel Hearts
The Repentants
The Rescue
Revolution of Our Times
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain
Ruth – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words
Sabaya
Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam
Simple as Water
Sisters on Track
So Late So Soon
The Sparks Brothers
Speer Goes to Hollywood
Storm Lake
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Steet
Summer Nights
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tigre Gente
Tina
Torn
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Truth to Power
Try Harder!
2020: The Dumpster Fire
Two Gods
Val
The Velvet Queen
The Velvet Underground
Whirlybird
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Wojnarowicz
Writing with Fire
Wuhan Wuhan

International Featurea

Albania – Two Lions to Venice
Algeria – Heliopolis
Argentina – The Intruder
Armenia – Should the Wind Drop
Australia – When Pomegranates Howl
Austria – Great Freedom
Azerbaijan – The Island Within
Bangladesh – Rehana
Belgium – Playground
Bhutan – Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Bolivia – The Great Movement
Bosnia and Herzegovina – The White Fortress
Brazil – Private Desert
Bulgaria – Fear
Cambodia – White Building
Cameroon – Hidden Dreams
Canada – Drunken Birds
Chad – Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Chile – White on White
China – Cliff Walkers
Colombia – Memoria
Costa Rica – Clara Sola
Croatia – Tereza37
Czech Republic – Zátopek
Denmark – Flee
Dominican Republic – Holy Beasts
Ecuador – Submersible
Egypt – Souad
Estonia – On the Water
Finland – Compartment No. 6
France – Titane
Georgia – Brighton 4th
Germany – I’m Your Man
Greece – Digger
Haiti – Freda
Hong Kong – Zero to Hero
Hungary – Post Mortem
Iceland – Lamb
India – Pebbles
Indonesia – Yuni
Iran – A Hero
Iraq – Europa
Ireland – Shelter
Israel – Let It Be Morning
Italy – The Hand of God
Japan – Drive My Car
Jordan – Amira
Kazakhstan – Yellow Cat
Kenya – Mission to Rescue
Kosovo – Hive
Kyrgyzstan – Shambala
Latvia – The Pit
Lebanon – Costa Brava, Lebanon
Lithuania – Isaac
Luxembourg – Io Sto Bene
Malawi – Fatsani: A Tale of Survival
Malaysia – Hail, Driver!
Malta – Luzzu
Mexico – Prayers for the Stolen
Montenegro – After the Winter
Morocco – Casablanca Beats
Netherlands – Do Not Hesitate
North Macedonia – Sisterhood
Norway – The Worst Person in the World
Palestine – The Stranger
Panama – Plaza Catedral
Paraguay – Nothing but the Sun
Peru – Powerful Chief
Poland – Leave No Traces
Portugal – The Metamorphosis of Birds
Romania – Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Russia – Unclenching the Fists
Saudi Arabia – The Tambour of Retribution
Serbia – Oasis
Singapore – Precious Is the Night
Slovakia – 107 Mothers
Slovenia – Sanremo
Somalia – The Gravedigger’s Wife
South Africa – Barakat
South Korea – Escape from Mogadishu
Spain – The Good Boss
Sweden – Tigers
Switzerland – Olga
Taiwan – The Falls
Thailand – The Medium
Tunisia – Golden Butterfly
Turkey – Commitment Hasan
Ukraine – Bad Roads
United Kingdom – Dying to Divorce
Uruguay – The Broken Glass Theory
Uzbekistan – 2000 Songs of Farida
Venezuela – The Inner Glow
Vietnam – Dad, I’m Sorry