{"id":2043623,"date":"2025-09-23T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2043623"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:50:21","slug":"oscars-italy-picks-familia-as-best-international-feature-race-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscars-italy-picks-familia-as-best-international-feature-race-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars: Italy Picks \u2018Familia\u2019 as Best International Feature Race Contender"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italy has picked Francesco Costabile<\/a>\u2019s dark melodrama Familia<\/a> as its Oscar contender for the 2026 Academy Awards in the best international feature film category.<\/p>\n

Familia<\/a> is based on Luigi Celeste<\/a>\u2019s biographical memoir about his youth as a far-right militant and about the legacy of his toxic, violent upbringing at the hands of his criminal father. The film premiered in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice Film Festival last year, winning the best actor prize for star Francesco Gheghi<\/a>, who plays Luigi.<\/p>\n

Barbara Ronchi<\/a> and Francesco Di Leva<\/a> co-star. Di Leva won Italy\u2019s David di Donatello award, the local version of the Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Attilio de Razza<\/a> and Nicola Picone<\/a> produced Familia<\/a> for Rome-based Tramp Limited, with coproducers Nicola Giuliano<\/a> at Indigo Film<\/a> and Pierpaolo Verga<\/a> at O\u2019Groove<\/a>, and in association with Medusa Film<\/a>. True Colours<\/a> is handling international sales.<\/p>\n

Familia<\/a> was picked…<\/p>\n

See full article at The Hollywood Reporter – Movie News<\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy has picked Francesco Costabile\u2019s dark melodrama Familia as its Oscar contender for the 2026 Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. Familia is based on Luigi Celeste\u2019s biographical memoir about his youth as a far-right militant and about the legacy of his toxic, violent upbringing at the hands of his criminal father. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2043624,"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-2043623","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\/Oscars-Italy-Picks-\u2018Familia-as-Best-International-Feature-Race-Contender.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043623","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=2043623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}