TYB Sundance Film Festival Dates: Oscar Consideration?

My question is how will this qualify for Oscar consideration?


2017 Sundance Film Festival will start on
Thursday, January 19
and will end on
Sunday, January 29

The Yellow Birds

Director: Alexandre Moors

Adapted from a novel by Kevin Powers, this is a searing antiwar drama about “kids who go to war too young and get destroyed,” Mr. Cooper said. The cast is filled with fast-rising young stars, including Tye Sheridan (“Mud,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”) and Alden Ehrenreich, who was recently cast as the young Han Solo in a coming “Star Wars” movie. Also appearing in a supporting role is Jennifer Aniston, reuniting with Mark Canton, a producer of “Cake,” which brought her awards attention in 2014.