OSCAR SEASON
For the 98th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must
have first been released theatrically in their respective countries
between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025.
The 15-title shortlist will be announced on December 16, 2025.
Official Oscar nominations will be announced on January 22, 2026.
Visit our co-sponsor ELMA’s website for more information on European submissions:
https://www.elma.org/oscars
And visit here for additional information on submissions from all countries.
SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.