The nominees have been announced for the 2024 Academy Awards – with the Barbenheimer phenomenon continuing (despite major snubs).
This morning Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid unveiled the films and individuals vying for awards honours at this year’s Oscars. Reflecting their dominance of 2023, the pair of films colloquially known as Barbenheimer has a total of 21 nominations—with the split favouring Christopher Nolan’s biopic over Greta Gerwig’s modern fairy tale.
Oppenheimer’s 13 nominations span most major categories (Best Picture, Director, Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay etc) with the unsurprising exception of Best Actress—Emily Blunt nominated for Best Supporting Actress, however.
Barbie, on the other hand, has suffered this year’s most overt and egregious snub. Despite counting Best Picture among its eight nominations, which include Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Barbie has been excluded from both the Director and Leading Actress categories. Apparently it just made itself…
Despite this, it’s still great to see three films directed by women among the Best Picture nominees, with Anatomy of a Fall and Past Lives joining Barbie in the category, the first time three female-directed films have been nominated.
Poor Things has made a strong showing in this year’s noms, second only to Oppenheimer after securing nods in 11 categories. Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is third with 10 noms (with a couple of surprising omissions in the Leading Actor and Adapted Screenplay categories), then Barbie’s 8 and Maestro’s 7 noms round out the five most-nominated films.
We’ll dedicate more time to analysing this year’s Oscar nominations and predicting the winners in coming weeks as we count down to the big day on March 10 (US time). Read on for the full list of nominations—and where you can watch them (click the titles below for viewing info).
Killers of the Flower Moon
Best picture
American Fiction
The great Jeffrey Wright (Westworld) leads this TIFF award winner as a frustrated Black novelist who, as a form of protest, writes a joke novel full of tired and offensive Black tropes—only for it to garner popularity and acclaim.
Anatomy of a Fall
Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann) leads this Palme d’Or courtroom drama as a woman suspected of her husband’s death. The sole witness? Their blind son.
Barbie
One half of the Barbenheimer phenomenon.
The Holdovers
Reuniting 20 years after Oscar winner Sideways, actor Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne combine for this dramedy that feels like it came straight out of the ’70s, telling the story of a grumpy teacher forced to take care of a teenage trouble-maker during the Christmas holiday season.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s crime saga stars two current Oscar nominees, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, the story is based on a brutal string of crimes that befell the Osage Nation after they struck oil.
Maestro
Bradley Cooper’s second shot at directing tells the life story of famed American composer Leonard Bernstein. Cooper embodies the titular role with Oscar-nominated makeup work for Bernstein’s later years, starring alongside Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre.
Oppenheimer
The other half of the Barbenheimer phenomenon.
Past Lives
A married woman living in America is suddenly reunited with her childhood sweetheart from South Korea in writer-director Celine Song’s tender tale about love, destiny, and identity.
Poor Things
The combo of Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos prove strong once again, following 2018’s The Favourite with another mighty Oscars contender about a woman brought back from the dead to experience life all over again.
The Zone of Interest
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, hell of a year for her) leads this WWII drama from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), who’s up for an Oscar for his direction. Hüller plays a mother trying to build a dream life for her family. She’s also married to the commandant of the Auschwitz camp located next to their garden.
Emma Stone in Poor Things
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
Ryan Gosling in Barbie
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 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
International feature film
Io Capitano (Italy)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
The Zone of Interest (UK)
Animated feature film
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Adapted screenplay
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Original screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Visual effects
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Original score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Original song
“It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
“The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon
Bobi Wine for President
Documentary feature film
20 Days in Mariupol
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
Costume design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Film editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
El Conde
Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Makeup and hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Napoleon
Production design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Animated short film
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Live action short film
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Documentary short film
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
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