The film ‘Edge of Space’ by Basel director Jean de Meuron is in the pre-selection for the Oscar for best short film, announced Tuesday evening in Los Angeles. It was selected alongside 14 others by the Academy of Oscars, from a list of 180 films.
This Swiss-American production takes place in 1961, at the height of the fight for the conquest of space between the United States and the Soviet Union. It’s about an ambitious US Air Force test pilot, recruited by NASA for a daring suborbital mission aboard an X-15 hypersonic rocket.
Back seven years later
De Meuron was already nominated in the same category in 2017 as producer for ‘The Woman and the TGV’ (2016) by Timo von Gunten.
From this first short list of 15 films, the list of five finalists for the Oscar for best short film will be released on January 17. This category is one of ten awards that will be awarded during the prestigious statuette ceremony on March 2 in Los Angeles.
On Tuesday, fans learned, however, that the film ‘Reinas’ by Lugan native Klaudia Reynicke, a Swiss-Peruvian-Spanish co-production, had not been selected for the Oscar for best foreign film.
Satellite Award
However, Swiss Films told Keystrone-ATS, ‘Reinas’ was nominated Monday in the best international film category for the Satellite Award, an American prize awarded since 1997 by journalists from the International Press Academy.
The film ‘Thelma’, co-produced by Zurich producer Karl Spoerri, is also nominated for the Satellite Award in two categories: ‘best film, comedy or musical’ and ‘best actress in a film, comedy or musical’ for the American June Squibb, 95, in the first leading role of her career.
The names of the winners in the different categories will be announced on January 26.
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