This year, the Oscars will feature a best picture contender about a drummer with hearing loss, a nominated documentary exploring a hippie camp for disabled youths, and a nod for the first film ever to star a deaf-blind actor.

'Tipping point': Oscars filmmakers hail disability progress

African nation Senegal has shortlisted its Oscar 2021 International feature entry and it’s Mamadou Dia’s ‘Nafi’s Father’. The submission had previously not been reported and it’s only the third ever time that the country has sent its entry for the Academy Awards competition.

Oscars 2021: Senegal submits 'Nafi's Father' for International Feature category

Ireland has chosen its pick for Oscars 2021 Best International Feature Film category and it is ‘Arracht’. Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature ‘Arracht’ is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine.

Ireland picks ‘Arracht’ for Oscars' International Feature Film category

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'Tipping point': Oscars filmmakers hail disability progress

Oscars 2021: Senegal submits 'Nafi's Father' for International Feature category

Ireland picks ‘Arracht’ for Oscars' International Feature Film category