{"id":2043557,"date":"2025-09-23T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2043557"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:12:20","slug":"italy-chooses-francesco-costabiles-dark-melodrama-familia-as-its-oscar-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/italy-chooses-francesco-costabiles-dark-melodrama-familia-as-its-oscar-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Chooses Francesco Costabile\u2019s Dark Melodrama \u2018Familia\u2019 as Its Oscar Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Francesco Costabile<\/a>\u2019s dark melodrama \u201cFamilia<\/a>\u201d has been designated as Italy\u2019s candidate for the best international feature film category of the 2026 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamilia<\/a>,\u201d which weaves together elements of psychological thriller and social commentary and launched from the 2024 from the Venice Film Festival, was a somewhat surprising choice. Several other candidates among the 24 titles in the running to be designated made their debut in competition at Venice this year, including Gianfranco Rosi<\/a>\u2019s doc \u201cBelow the Clouds<\/a>,\u201d which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice. Other submissions in the running that recently launched in competition from the lido and were considered frontrunners included Pietro Marcello<\/a>\u2019s \u201cDuse<\/a>,\u201d starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi<\/a> as legendary actress Eleonora Duse<\/a>, and Leonardo Di Costanzo<\/a>\u2019s psychological drama \u201cElisa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paolo Sorrentino<\/a>\u2019s Venice opener \u201cLa Grazia<\/a>\u201d was not on the list due to its scheduled early 2026 release date.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamilia<\/a>\u201d follows the harrowing journey of Luigi,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Francesco Costabile\u2019s dark melodrama \u201cFamilia\u201d has been designated as Italy\u2019s candidate for the best international feature film category of the 2026 Academy Awards. \u201cFamilia,\u201d which weaves together elements of psychological thriller and social commentary and launched from the 2024 from the Venice Film Festival, was a somewhat surprising choice. Several other candidates among the 24 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2043558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2043557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Italy-Chooses-Francesco-Costabiles-Dark-Melodrama-\u2018Familia-as-Its-Oscar.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}