Oscar Nominations 2024

The 2024 Oscar nominees have been announced live this morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid.

 

This year’s ceremony will be hosted once again by Jimmy Kimmel, and will air on ABC Sunday, March 10th, live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood.

Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano is officially the Italian representative at the Oscars! The gripping emigration drama of two Senegalese teenagers going from Dakar to Italy premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and won Garrone the Best Director Silver Lion award, as well as the Best New Actor award for the outstanding performance of 17-year-old Seydou Sarr. Italy has history at the Oscars, with 11 Best International Feature wins to its name, but the last triumph in this category was over a decade ago, in 2014, with Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty. Will Italy rejuvenate its prestige at the 2024 Oscars?

Continuing Oscars’ history, it wouldn’t be the Academy Awards without obvious snubbing. Noticeably, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were snubbed for their work on Barbie, despite being the foundation of the film as its director and star respectively. Barbie was last year’s biggest box office hit (commemorated by its win in the new Golden Globe category “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement”), and half of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon that earned more than $2 billion globally at the box office, a huge number in the wake of flagging theater numbers due to the pandemic. Another snub is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, losing out to Elemental and showcasing once again a bias toward animation giant Disney in the category.

Oppenheimer dominated at the Golden Globes earlier this month, winning 5 awards including Best Drama Motion Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor in a Drama. Other notable winners included Poor Things for Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture with Emma Stone snagging that category’s award for Best Actress, The Holdovers with Best Actor (Paul Giamatti) and Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)  in that same category, and Barbie with two wins in Best Original Song (“What Was I Made For?”) and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. Let’s see if the 96th Academy Awards show follows this trend or provides a few surprises.

 

The nominees are as follows:

BEST PICTURE

American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

BEST DIRECTOR

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things

BEST ACTOR 

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
Samy Burch, May December
Celine Song, Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Io Capitano, Italy
Perfect Days, Japan
Society of the Snow, Spain
The Teacher’s Lounge, Germany
The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
“Four Daughters”
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST EDITING

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 

Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

BEST SOUND

The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Barbie
“I’m Just Ken,” Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
“The Fire Inside,” Diane Warren, Flamin’ Hot
“It Never Went Away,” Jon Batiste, American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People,” Osage Tribal Singers, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nai Nai & Wai Po

 

Sources: Vanity Fair, Variety, CBS