"The Man Who Sold His Skin" Advance to Oscar Shortlist

On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its shortlists for the 2021 Oscars in nine categories, including documentary and international features.

The Academy also released the shortlists for original score, original song, makeup and hairstyling, visual effects, and documentary, live-action, and animated short.

About 238 documentary features and 93 international features were contending for just 15 spots on each of their respective shortlists. Each of these shortlists will produce the category nominees, which will be announced on March 15. The 93rd Academy Awards will be presented on April 25.

Due to the pandemic, which caused many movies to be postponed from 2020 to 2021, this will be the first year since 2009 that the VFX shortlist doesn't contain a Marvel movie.

The shortlists also featured two works by Arab filmmakers.

Palestinian-British director Farah Nabulsi's short film "The Present" has been shortlisted in the Live Action Short category, while Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania's critically acclaimed drama "The Man Who Sold His Skin" has been selected in the Oscars' International Feature Film shortlist.