As fall comes to fill the space left behind by the summer film festivals — and the New York Film Festival kicking off this weekend — Oscar contention starts to warm up. While we won’t know which actors and films are nominated until the new year, International Feature Film submissions have been rolling in since mid-summer .

Over a month after the 2025 ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced some new rules and campaign regulations ahead of the 98 th ceremony. One of the most notable is that voters must now watch all the nominated films in each category in order to have eligibility in the final voting round.

Another key change involves all designated nominees having their names on the final ballot. Previously for many categories, rather than the person nomi

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