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Austria selects Sandra Hüller drama Rose for 2027 Oscars
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Austria has selected Markus Schleinzer’s black-and-white period drama Rose as its official submission for the 2027 Academy Awards’ Best International Feature category. The decision puts the Sandra Hüller-led film into the Oscar race, reinforcing the actor’s prominent international awards profile after recent acclaimed performances.
Set in 17th-century rural Germany, Rose follows a woman who poses as a male farmer to gain freedoms denied to women, with its central character informed by hundreds of comparable historical cases. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where Hüller won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance; Mubi will release it in North America, the UK, Italy, Australia and Latin America. The international-feature shortlist is due on 15 December, with nominees announced on 21 January 2027 and the ceremony held on 14 March.
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In short
- Austria selects Rose for the 2027 Oscar race.
- Sandra Hüller plays a woman posing as a male farmer.
- Oscar nominees will be announced in January 2027.
How this story developed
- 3 months ago New scheduling details confirmed that the international-feature shortlist will be revealed on 15 December, before nominations on 21 January 2027 and the awards ceremony on 14 March 2027.
- 3 months ago Austria named Markus Schleinzer’s Rose, starring Sandra Hüller, as its entry for the 2027 Best International Feature Oscar, following the film’s Berlin premiere and Hüller’s Silver Bear win.
Explained simply
The Oscars are annual film awards run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States. In the Best International Feature category, each country may put forward one film, with a shortlist and then five nominated films chosen by Academy voters.
Sandra Hüller is a German actor whose recent work has brought her wider international attention, including an Oscar nomination for Anatomy of a Fall. Markus Schleinzer is an Austrian director, and Rose is set in rural Germany during the 1600s, when women had far fewer legal and social freedoms than men.
The film’s central idea draws on historical records of women who lived as men in order to work, inherit property or move more freely. Its selection matters because it makes the film Austria’s official contender in an international awards process that can increase a film’s visibility, distribution and audience.
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Originally published by The Hollywood Reporter as “Oscars: Austria Picks Sandra Hüller Drama ‘Rose’ as Best International Feature Submission”.