" Emilia Perez, " the French film starring Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, and Karla Sofía Gascón, is one of the year's most buzzed-about films. France's Oscar committee has decided to support the film in full, selecting it to be the country's submission at this year's Academy Awards, placing it in the running for best international feature film.

France submits Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Perez,' a Jury Prize and Best Actress winner at Cannes 2024, for the Best International Feature Oscar.

If the audacious Jacques Audiard musical does win, it'll be the first international Oscar for France in more than 30 years

France has overhauled its Best Int'l Feature Film Selection Committee In Bid To End 30-year Awards Hiatus In category.

The Academy has also laid down more rigorous rules for who serves on the Oscar selection committees: 50 percent must be filmmakers (including artists and craftspeople). France, for example, beefed up its committee from seven members to 11.

France has officially chosen Jacques Audiard’s innovative queer crime musical, ‘Emilia Perez’, as its entry for the Best International Feature category at the upcoming 2025 Academy Awards. The news has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter.

France’s revamped Oscar committee has selected Jacques Audiard's exhilarating redemption thriller "Emilia Perez” for the international feature film race. The movie won two major awards at the Cannes Film Festival along and earned rave reviews.