Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano will represent Italy at the Oscars

Io Capitano, Matteo Garrone ’s film that has already won the Leoncino d’Oro award, established by AGISCUOLA and promoted by A.G.I.S, A.N.E.C. and David di Donatello - Accademia del Cinema Italiano, and which won the director the Silver Lion at the 80th Venice Film Festival, and the young Seydou Sarr the Marcello Mastroianni Award, will representItaly at the 96th edition of the Oscars in the selection for the International Feature Film Award category.

In fact, the Selection Committee for the Italian film to be nominated for the Oscars, established by ANICA on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voted Io Capitano for “having embodied with great power and cinematic mastery the universal desire for the search for freedom and happiness. Creating a dream epic that showcases the courage and pain that have always marked migration, in a dimension of profound humanity.”

The film will then compete for the shortlist that will include the fifteen best international films selected by the Academy® and will be announced on December 21, 2023. The announcement of the nominations (the five films nominated to compete for the award) will have to wait until January 23, 2024, while the Oscar ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on March 10, 2024.

"We are very proud to be able to represent Italy at the Academy Awards with Io Capitano, and we hope that Seydou’s journey will touch the hearts of American audiences as well," Matteo Garrone said after Italy’s nomination in the Oscar race for Best International Film.

Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano will represent Italy at the Oscars

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