This undated photo shows a still image of a scene in Chinese-language film Better Days. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

LOS ANGELES - Chinese mainland's youth drama film Better Days has made the list of nominations for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, according to the list of Academy Award nominees released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on Monday.

Selected as the entry of Hong Kong, China, the film will compete for the top prize in the category with Another Round (Denmark), Collective (Romania), The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Selected as the entry of Hong Kong, China, the youth drama film Better Days will compete for Best International Feature Film with Another Round (Denmark), Collective (Romania), The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Starring actress Zhou Dongyu and the boy band TFBoys' member Jackson Yee, the film by director Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region puts the spotlight on school bullying. In the film, the mainland's girl Chen Nian, who is single-mindedly preparing for the national college entrance exam, becomes a target of relentless bullying and then forms a strong friendship with small-time criminal Xiao Bei. The two are dragged into a murder case of a teenage girl where they are The film released in 2019 on the mainland had been a box-office hit in the season, grossing more than 1.58 billion yuan (US$243 million), according to the mainland's film database Maoyan. The film boasts 9.4 out of 10 user rating on the Maoyan platform, averaged from 1.76 million viewers.

American biographical drama film Mank, directed by David Fincher, led the pack of nominees for the 93rd Oscars with 10 nominations, including best picture.

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The pandemic-delayed 93rd Oscar awards ceremony will be held on April 25.