Category: Oscars

SINNERS Sees Historic 16 Oscar Nominations – Full List For 98th Academy Awards

Oscar®-nominated actor Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman announced the 98th Oscars® nominations today (Thursday, January 22, 2026), live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills via a global livestream on Oscars.org, Oscar.com and the Academy’s digital platforms, ABC’s Good Morning America and ABC News Live, Disney+, Hulu, broadcast media and an international satellite feed.

With 16 nominations, SINNERS (released in cinemas on April 17) set the record for most nominations for a film. The previous record of 14 was shared by All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016). ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER saw 13 nominations while FRANKENSTEIN, MARTY SUPREME and SENTIMENTAL VALUE each saw 9. HAMNET received 8 nods. Chloé Zhao’s nomination for HAMNET is the 11th Directing nomination for a woman. She is the second woman to receive multiple directing nominations, following Jane Campion. Steven Spielberg received his 14th nomination for Best Picture, a record for an individual producer (since 1951 when producers were first named as nominees).

Warner Bros. saw the most nominations for a studio with 30.

With some nominees still to be determined, a record 74 women are currently nominated this year. The previous record of 71 was set in 2023.

Brooks and Pullman announced the nominees in two groups starting at 5:30 a.m. PT, followed by the remaining categories at 5:41 a.m. PT.

Academy members from each of the 19 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, costume designers nominate costume designers, etc.  In the Animated Feature Film, Animated Short Film, International Feature Film and Live Action Short Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of members from all branches who opt in to participate and have met the eligibility requirements.  All active members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.  Members submitted nomination ballots from 88 countries.

Twenty-four categories will be awarded at the 98th Oscars.  Each category has five nominees, except for Best Picture, which has 10. Active members of the Academy must view all nominated films to be eligible to vote.

Finals voting begins on Thursday, February 26, 2026, and concludes on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Visit https://www.oscars.org/oscars/voting for more information.  

All rounds of Oscars voting are conducted by secret online ballot, tabulated by the independent accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The 98th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and airs live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks host the announcement of the 98th Oscars® nominations, on Tuesday, January 22, 2026.

Actor in a Leading Role

Nominees
Timothée Chalamet
Marty Supreme

Nominees
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle after Another

Nominees
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon

Nominees
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners

Nominees
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent

Actor in a Supporting Role

Nominees
Benicio Del Toro
One Battle after Another

Nominees
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstein

Nominees
Delroy Lindo
Sinners

Nominees
Sean Penn
One Battle after Another

Nominees
Stellan Skarsgård
Sentimental Value

Actress in a Leading Role

Nominees
Jessie Buckley
Hamnet

Nominees
Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Nominees
Kate Hudson
Song Sung Blue

Nominees
Renate Reinsve
Sentimental Value

Nominees
Emma Stone
Bugonia

Actress in a Supporting Role

Nominees
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value

Nominees
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value

Nominees
Amy Madigan
Weapons

Nominees
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners

Nominees
Teyana Taylor
One Battle after Another

Animated Feature Film

Nominees
Arco
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman

Nominees
Elio
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm

Nominees
KPop Demon Hunters
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong

Nominees
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon

Nominees
Zootopia 2
Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino

Animated Short Film

Nominees
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens

Nominees
Forevergreen
Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears

Nominees
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski

Nominees
Retirement Plan
John Kelly and Andrew Freedman

Nominees
The Three Sisters
Konstantin Bronzit

Casting

Nominees
Hamnet
Nina Gold

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Jennifer Venditti

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Cassandra Kulukundis

Nominees
The Secret Agent
Gabriel Domingues

Nominees
Sinners
Francine Maisler

Cinematography

Nominees
Frankenstein
Dan Laustsen

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Darius Khondji

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Michael Bauman

Nominees
Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Nominees
Train Dreams
Adolpho Veloso

Costume Design

Nominees
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Deborah L. Scott

Nominees
Frankenstein
Kate Hawley

Nominees
Hamnet
Malgosia Turzanska

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Miyako Bellizzi

Nominees
Sinners
Ruth E. Carter

Directing

Nominees
Hamnet
Chloé Zhao

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Paul Thomas Anderson

Nominees
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier

Nominees
Sinners
Ryan Coogler

Documentary Feature Film

Nominees
The Alabama Solution
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman

Nominees
Come See Me in the Good Light
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen

Nominees
Cutting through Rocks
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni

Nominees
Mr. Nobody against Putin
Nominees to be determined

Nominees
The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee

Documentary Short Film

Nominees
All the Empty Rooms
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

Nominees
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo

Nominees
Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”
Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins

Nominees
The Devil Is Busy
Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir

Nominees
Perfectly a Strangeness
Alison McAlpine

Film Editing

Nominees
F1
Stephen Mirrione

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Andy Jurgensen

Nominees
Sentimental Value
Olivier Bugge Coutté

Nominees
Sinners
Michael P. Shawver

International Feature Film

Nominees
Brazil
The Secret Agent

Nominees
France
It Was Just an Accident

Nominees
Norway
Sentimental Value

Nominees
Spain
Sirāt

Nominees
Tunisia
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Live Action Short Film

Nominees
Butcher’s Stain
Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi

Nominees
A Friend of Dorothy
Lee Knight and James Dean

Nominees
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
Julia Aks and Steve Pinder

Nominees
The Singers
Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt

Nominees
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata

Makeup and Hairstyling

Nominees
Frankenstein
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey

Nominees
Kokuho
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu

Nominees
Sinners
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry

Nominees
The Smashing Machine
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein

Nominees
The Ugly Stepsister
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

Music (Original Score)

Nominees
Bugonia
Jerskin Fendrix

Nominees
Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat

Nominees
Hamnet
Max Richter

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Jonny Greenwood

Nominees
Sinners
Ludwig Goransson

Music (Original Song)

Nominees
Dear Me
from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Nominees
Golden
from KPop Demon Hunters; Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park

Nominees
I Lied To You
from Sinners; Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson

Nominees
Sweet Dreams Of Joy
from Viva Verdi!; Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike

Nominees
Train Dreams
from Train Dreams; Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave

Best Picture

Nominees
Bugonia
Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers
Nominees

F1
Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

Nominees
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers

Nominees
Hamnet
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers

Nominees
The Secret Agent
Emilie Lesclaux, Producer

Nominees
Sentimental Value
Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers

Nominees
Sinners
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers

Nominees
Train Dreams
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers

Production Design

Nominees
Frankenstein
Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau

Nominees
Hamnet
Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino

Nominees
Sinners
Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne

Sound

Nominees
F1
Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta

Nominees
Frankenstein
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern

Nominees
One Battle after Another
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor

Nominees
Sinners
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker

Nominees
Sirāt
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas

Visual Effects

Nominees
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett

Nominees
F1
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson

Nominees
Jurassic World Rebirth
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould

Nominees
The Lost Bus
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin

Nominees
Sinners
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Nominees
Bugonia
Screenplay by Will Tracy

Nominees
Frankenstein
Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro

Nominees
Hamnet
Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell

Nominees
One Battle after Another
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson

Nominees
Train Dreams
Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Nominees
Blue Moon
Written by Robert Kaplow

Nominees
It Was Just an Accident
Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian

Nominees
Marty Supreme
Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie

Nominees
Sentimental Value
Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Nominees
Sinners
Written by Ryan Coogler

The 97th Oscars Red Carpet Fashions

On the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Contributed by Melissa Thompson and Michelle McCue

Oscar fever, which was at its highest in years, has died down, the red carpet and tents from Hollywood and Highland have been rolled up, tourists are back strolling in front of the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and the ratings are in.

According to ABC, “Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony drew an estimated 19.69 million viewers, delivering a five-year high in total viewers and rating among adults ages 18-49. The number of viewers marks a 1% increase over last year’s show, according to Nielsen’s ratings data. Younger people watching on mobile devices and personal computers helped drive viewership. Also, more people 18-34 tuned in this year over last year.”

For those of you who did watch from your couches at home, the 2025 Oscars red carpet delivered a stunning array of fashion moments, with celebrities showcasing a mix of classic elegance and bold, contemporary styles.

Bold reds and classic blacks remained popular choices. Pops of pink, especially baby pink, were prominent. Custom couture gowns from designers like Schiaparelli, Dior, Chanel, and Valentino were prevalent. Givenchy, Armani Privé, and Louis Vuitton also featured heavily.

Overall, the 2025 Oscars red carpet was a showcase of high fashion, with celebrities embracing both timeless elegance and modern trends.

Timothée Chalamet arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Demi Moore arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Zoe Saldaña arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Cynthia Erivo arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Elle Fanning arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Selena Gomez arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Mikey Madison arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Colman Domingo arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Ariana Grande arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Halle Berry arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Jeff Goldbloom arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Lupita Nyong’o arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Felicity Jones arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Fernanda Torres on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Raffey Cassidy arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Michelle Yeoh arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Sebastian Stan arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Adrien Brody arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Monica Barbaro arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Ava DuVernay arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Gal Gadot arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Connie Nielsen arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Queen Latifah arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. arrive on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Penélope Cruz arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Andrew Garfield arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang arrive on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

The red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

97th Oscars Nominations Are Here – Emilia Pérez Leads With 13 Nominations

Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the 97th Oscars nominations today (January 23), live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream.

Emilia Pérez sets the record for most nominations for a non-English language film at 13. Previous record holders, with 10 nominations each, were Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Roma (2018).

The Brutalist and Wicked saw 10 nominations each, while A Complete Unknown and Conclave each received eight nods. Best Picture nominations for Emilia Pérez and Wicked mark the first time two musicals have been nominated in the category since 1968 (Oliver! and Funny Girl were two of the five nominated films that year).

The breakdown of studio nominations is Netflix with 16, A24 with 14, Universal has 13, Focus Features with 12, Searchlight at 10 and Neon with 7.

Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars® on March 2 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and air live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Best Motion Picture of the Year:

Anora (Neon) – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, producers – This is the first Best Picture nomination for all three.

The Brutalist (A24) – Nominees to be determined.

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) – Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, producers – This is the second Best Picture nomination for Fred Berger. He was nominated for La La Land (2016). This is the second Best Picture nomination for James Mangold. He was nominated for Ford v Ferrari (2019). This is the first nomination for Alex Heineman.

Conclave (Focus Features) – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, producers – This is the first Best Picture nomination for all three.

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) – Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, producers – This is the third Best Picture nomination for Mary Parent and the second for Cale Boyter and Denis Villeneuve. Together they were nominated for Dune (2021). Parent was also nominated for The Revenant (2015). This is the first nomination for Tanya Lapointe.

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) – Nominees to be determined.

I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics) – Nominees to be determined.

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) – Nominees to be determined.

The Substance (MUBI) – Nominees to be determined.

Wicked (Universal) – Marc Platt, producer – This is his fourth Best Picture nomination. He was nominated for Bridge of Spies (2015), La La Land (2016) and The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020).

Achievement in Directing:

Anora – Sean Baker – This is his fourth nomination, including his nominations this year for Best Picture, Original Screenplay and Film Editing.

The Brutalist – Brady Corbet – This is his second nomination, including his nomination this year for Original Screenplay.

A Complete Unknown – James Mangold – This is his fifth nomination, including his nominations this year for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay. He was also nominated for his adapted screenplay for Logan (2017) and for Best Picture for Ford v Ferrari (2019).

Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard – This is his third nomination, including his nominations this year for Adapted Screenplay and Original Song.

The Substance – Coralie Fargeat – This is her second nomination, including her nomination this year for Original Screenplay.

Adrien Brody (center) in THE BRUTALIST. Courtesy of A24

Best Actor

Adrien Brody in “The Brutalist” (A24)
Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)
Colman Domingo in “Sing Sing” (A24)
Ralph Fiennes in “Conclave” (Focus Features)
Sebastian Stan in “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo in “Wicked” (Universal)
Karla Sofía Gascón in “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)
Mikey Madison in “Anora” (Neon)
Demi Moore in “The Substance” (MUBI)
Fernanda Torres in “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov in “Anora” (Neon)
Kieran Culkin in “A Real Pain” (Searchlight)
Edward Norton in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)
Guy Pearce in “The Brutalist” (A24)
Jeremy Strong in “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)
Ariana Grande in “Wicked” (Universal)
Felicity Jones in “The Brutalist” (A24)
Isabella Rossellini in “Conclave” (Focus Features)
Zoe Saldaña in “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

(from left) Roz (Lupita N’yongo), and Brightbill (Kit Connor) in DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot, directed by Chris Sanders.

Best animated feature film of the year

“Flow” (Sideshow/Janus Films) Nominees to be determined – Flow becomes the third animated film to be nominated for International Feature Film (Waltz with Bashir, 2008; Flee, 2021) and the second animated film to be nominated for both Animated Feature Film and International Feature Film (Flee, 2021).
“Inside Out 2” (Walt Disney) Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
“Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films) Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix) Nominees to be determined
“The Wild Robot” (Universal) Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann

Best animated short film

“Beautiful Men” (Miyu Distribution) Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande
“In the Shadow of the Cypress” Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi
“Magic Candies” (Toei Animation) Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio
“Wander to Wonder” (Miyu Distribution) Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper
“Yuck!” (Miyu Distribution) Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet

Achievement in cinematography

“The Brutalist” (A24) Lol Crawley
“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Greig Fraser
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Paul Guilhaume
“Maria” (Netflix) Ed Lachman
“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) Jarin Blaschke

Achievement in costume design

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight) Arianne Phillips
“Conclave” (Focus Features) Lisy Christl
“Gladiator II” (Paramount) Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) Linda Muir
“Wicked” (Universal) Paul Tazewell

L to R: Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba and Ariana Grande is Glinda in WICKED, directed by Jon M. Chu

Best documentary feature film

“Black Box Diaries” (MTV Documentary Films) A Hanashi Films/Cineric Creative/Star Sands Production Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin
“No Other Land” An Antipode Films Production Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham
“Porcelain War” (Picturehouse) A Songbird Studios/Imaginary Lane Production Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber) An Onomatopee Films/Warboys Films Production Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety
“Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films) A Hedgehog Films/Kassie Films/Impact Partners/Fit Via Vi Production Nominees to be determined

Best documentary short film

“Death by Numbers” Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard
“I Am Ready, Warden” (MTV Documentary Films) Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp
“Incident” (The New Yorker) Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven
“Instruments of a Beating Heart” (The New York Times OpDocs/Cineric Creative)
Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra” (Netflix) Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington

Achievement in film editing

“Anora” (Neon) Sean Baker
“The Brutalist” (A24) David Jancso
“Conclave” (Focus Features) Nick Emerson
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Juliette Welfling
“Wicked” (Universal) Myron Kerstein

Best international feature film of the year
“I’m Still Here” A VideoFilmes Produções Artísticas Production – Brazil
“The Girl with the Needle” A Nordisk Film Creative Alliance Production – Denmark
“Emilia Pérez” A Pathé Production – France
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” A Run Way Pictures Production – Germany
“Flow” A Dream Well Studio Production – Latvia

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
“A Different Man” (A24) Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini
“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne StokesMunton
“The Substance” (MUBI) Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli
“Wicked” (Universal) Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“The Brutalist” (A24) Daniel Blumberg
“Conclave” (Focus Features) Volker Bertelmann
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Clément Ducol and Camille
“Wicked” (Universal) John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
“The Wild Robot” (Universal) Kris Bowers

(L to R) Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in director Edward Berger’s CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024 All Rights Reserved.

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Music by Clément Ducol and Camille Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
“The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight” (Netflix) Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Like A Bird” from “Sing Sing” (A24) Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
“Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol
“Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late” (Disney+) Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin

Achievement in production design
“The Brutalist” (A24) Production Design: Judy Becker, Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia
“Conclave” (Focus Features) Production Design: Suzie Davies, Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter
“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Production Design: Patrice Vermette, Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) Production Design: Craig Lathrop, Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová
“Wicked” (Universal) Production Design: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Best live action short film
“A Lien” Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz
“Anuja” Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai
“I’m Not a Robot” (The New Yorker) Victoria Warmerdam and Trent
“The Last Ranger” Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” (Manifest) Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek

Achievement in sound
“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight) Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco
“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta
“Wicked” (Universal) Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis
“The Wild Robot” (Universal) Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Leffert

Achievement in visual effects
“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century) Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan
“Better Man” (Paramount) Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs
“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century) Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke
“Wicked” (Universal) Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould

Xenomorph in 20th Century Studios’ ALIEN: ROMULUS. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Adapted screenplay
“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight) Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
“Conclave” (Focus Features) Screenplay by Peter Straughan
“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Screenplay by Jacques Audiard In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
“Sing Sing” (A24) Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield

Original screenplay
“Anora” (Neon) Written by Sean Baker
“The Brutalist” (A24) Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
“A Real Pain” (Searchlight) Written by Jesse Eisenberg
“September 5” (Paramount) Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum Co-Written by Alex David
“The Substance” (MUBI) Written by Coralie Fargeat

Contributed by Melissa Thompson and Michelle McCue

L to R: Director Jon M. Chu with Cynthia Erivo (as Elphaba) and Ariana Grande (as Glinda) on the set of WICKED

ALIEN: ROMULUS, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES On Oscars Shortlist For 97th Academy Awards

(L-R): Noa (played by Owen Teague), Soona (played by Lydia Peckham), and Anaya (played by Travis Jeffery) in 20th Century Studios’ KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-nine films were eligible in the category.  Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“The Bibi Files”
“Black Box Diaries”
“Dahomey”
“Daughters”
“Eno”
“Frida”
“Hollywoodgate”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Queendom”
“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugarcane”
“Union”
“Will & Harper”

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred four films qualified in the category.  Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“Chasing Roo”
“Death by Numbers”
“Eternal Father”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“Keeper”
“Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World”
“Once upon a Time in Ukraine”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
“Planetwalker”
“The Quilters”
“Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr”
“A Swim Lesson”
“Until He’s Back”

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Fifteen films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.  Films from 85 countries and regions were eligible in the category.

Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.

In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

Brazil, “I’m Still Here”
Canada, “Universal Language”
Czech Republic, “Waves”
Denmark, “The Girl with the Needle”
France, “Emilia Pérez”
Germany, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Iceland, “Touch”
Ireland, “Kneecap”
Italy, “Vermiglio”
Latvia, “Flow”
Norway, “Armand”
Palestine, “From Ground Zero”
Senegal, “Dahomey”
Thailand, “How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies”
United Kingdom, “Santosh”

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Ten films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 97th Academy Awards.  All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar® consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“The Apprentice”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“A Different Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Waltzing with Brando”
“Wicked”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Twenty scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 97th Academy Awards.  One hundred forty-five scores were eligible in the category.  Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The scores, listed in alphabetical order by film title, are:

“Alien: Romulus”
“Babygirl”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“Blink Twice”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“Challengers”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Fire Inside”
“Gladiator II”
“Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1”
“Inside Out 2”
“Nosferatu”
“The Room Next Door”
“Sing Sing”
“The Six Triple Eight”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
“Young Woman and the Sea”

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 97th Academy Awards.  Eighty-nine songs were eligible in the category.  Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:

“Forbidden Road” from “Better Man”
“Winter Coat” from “Blitz”
“Compress/Repress” from “Challengers”
“Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”
“Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”
“Sick In The Head” from “Kneecap”
“Beyond” from “Moana 2”
“Tell Me It’s You” from “Mufasa: The Lion King”
“Piece By Piece” from “Piece by Piece”
“Like A Bird” from “Sing Sing”
“The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”
“Out Of Oklahoma” from “Twisters”
“Kiss The Sky” from “The Wild Robot”
“Harper And Will Go West” from “Will & Harper”

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.  Eighty-eight films qualified in the category.  Academy members from the Animation Branch and Short Films Branch were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.

In the nominations round, Academy members from the Animation Branch and Short Films Branch are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“Au Revoir Mon Monde”
“A Bear Named Wojtek”
“Beautiful Men”
“Bottle George”
“A Crab in the Pool”
“In the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Maybe Elephants”
“Me”
“Origami”
“Percebes”
“The 21”
“Wander to Wonder”
“The Wild-Tempered Clavier”
“Yuck!”

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.  One hundred eighty films qualified in the category.  Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.

In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“Anuja”
“Clodagh”
“The Compatriot”
“Crust”
“Dovecote”
“Edge of Space”
“The Ice Cream Man”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“A Lien”
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
“The Masterpiece”
“An Orange from Jaffa”
“Paris 70”
“Room Taken”

SOUND
Ten films will advance in the Sound category for the 97th Academy Awards.  All eligible members of the Sound Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.  Academy members will be invited to view excerpts from each of the shortlisted films beginning Thursday, January 9, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay area, followed by London, Los Angeles and New York on Saturday, January 11, 2025.  Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“Alien: Romulus”
“Blitz”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Joker: Folie à Deux”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 97th Academy Awards.  The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist.  All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 11, 2025.  Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Civil War”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Gladiator II”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Mufasa: The Lion King”
“Twisters”
“Wicked”

Nominations voting begins on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and concludes on Sunday, January 12, 2025.

Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.

The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and airs live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Xenomorph in 20th Century Studios’ ALIEN: ROMULUS. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Recipients Of Academy’s 15th Governors Awards Announced – Presented On November 17, 2024

Michael G. Wilson & Barbara Broccoli (Credit Greg Williams)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that its Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Quincy Jones and Juliet Taylor, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Richard Curtis and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.  The Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s Governors Awards event on Sunday, November 17, 2024, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood.

“The recipients of this year’s Governors Awards have set the bar incredibly high across their remarkable careers, and the Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to recognize them with Oscars,” said Academy President Janet Yang.  “The selection of Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli is a testament to their success as producers of the fan-favorite Bond series and their contribution to the industry’s theatrical landscape.  Richard Curtis is a brilliant comedic storyteller whose tremendous charitable efforts embody the meaning of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.  Quincy Jones’s artistic genius and relentless creativity have made him one of the most influential musical figures of all time.  Juliet Taylor has cast iconic and beloved films and paved a new path for the field.  Their profound love of cinema and indelible contribution to our art form make these five individuals truly deserving of these honors.”

Richard Curtis (Credit Rich Hardcastle-Comic Relief)

Curtis’s film credits include “Notting Hill,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Love Actually” and “About Time.”  He earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”  Curtis is the co-founder of Comic Relief UK and USA, and his fundraising work over 40 years has helped raise more than $2 billion and supported over 170 million people.  In 2005, he co-created Make Poverty History and helped produce the Live 8 concerts.  Most recently, he co-founded the group Project Everyone, giving practical support to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and established the ethical investment campaign Make My Money Matter, which has helped transfer £1.3 trillion into sustainable pensions.

Quincy Jones (Credit Greg Gorman)

A prominent figure with an illustrious musical career spanning seven decades, Jones has produced and composed an expansive body of work.  His film credits include “In the Heat of the Night” and he has earned a total of seven Oscar nominations for his work on such films as “In Cold Blood,” “The Wiz” and “The Color Purple,” receiving a Best Picture nomination for the latter.  In 1967, Jones was the first Black composer to be nominated in the Original Song category.  Throughout his career, he has collaborated with Lesley Gore, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, among others.  Jones was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1994.

Taylor is a prolific casting director who is behind some of the most acclaimed casts in film history.  Some notable credits from her 50-year career include “Taxi Driver,” “Annie Hall,” “Big,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Schindler’s List,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “Angela’s Ashes,” “Midnight in Paris” and “Blue Jasmine.”  She has worked with directors including James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, to name a few.

Casting Director Juliet Taylor prior to “Perfect Choice: the Art of the Casting Director” presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, on Wednesday, April 13, 2016.

Wilson and Broccoli of EON Productions are producers of the James Bond film series.  They have produced some of the most successful 007 films ever including “Casino Royale,” “Quantum of Solace,” “Skyfall,” “Spectre” and “No Time to Die.”  Wilson and Broccoli have produced and executive produced independent film projects such as “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” “Nancy,” “The Rhythm Section,” “Till” and “The Accidental Getaway Driver.”  They are directors of the Broccoli Foundation, founded by Dana and Albert R. (Cubby) Broccoli to support the arts, medicine and education.  Cubby Broccoli received the Thalberg Award in 1981.  Barbara Broccoli is the second woman to receive the Thalberg Award.  

The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences of any discipline, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an Oscar statuette, is given “to an individual in the motion picture arts and sciences whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry by promoting human welfare and contributing to rectifying inequities.”

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, now an Oscar statuette, is presented to creative producers “whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”

The 15th Governors Awards is proudly supported by Rolex, the Exclusive Watch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Robert Downey, Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Emma Stone And Cillian Murphy Take Home Gold At 96th Oscars

Robert Downey, Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Emma Stone, and Cillian Murphy pose backstage with the Oscar® for Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role and the Oscar® for Actor/Actress in a Leading Role during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

The Oscars and awards season has officially ended for another year.

Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER was, as expected, the night’s big winner at the 96th Oscars ceremony. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, the film was produced by Emma Thomas p.g.a. (Dunkirk, Inception), for Atlas Entertainment by Charles Roven p.g.a. (The Dark Knight trilogy, American Hustle), and Christopher Nolan p.g.a.

OPPENHEIMER was the year’s most-nominated film, with 13 total nominations, taking home 7 wins for Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography – Hoyte van Hoytema, Best Score – composer Ludwig Göransson and Best Film Editing – Jennifer Lame.

POOR THINGS won 4 Oscars.

The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and aired live on ABC.

Robert Downey, Jr. poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actor in a Supporting Role during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

The classiest part of the evening was the return of the “Fab Five” format which features five former winners presenting each of the acting categories.

Last year’s winners – Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan – were joined by the likes of Nicolas Cage, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Rita Moreno, Lupita Nyong’o, Mahershala Ali, and Christoph Waltz. Three of this year’s four acting winners were first-time Oscar winners: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, while Emma Stone became a two-time Oscar winner.

There wasn’t a dry eye at the Dolby Theatre when Paul Giamatti escorted his co-star to the stage.

When asked how important is it to constantly pay it forward, Randolph told reporters backstage:

“It’s imperative because the people who’ve done it before me allowed me to be in this position now. And so the type of work I do, my strive for authenticity, for quality allows there to be a new standard set where we can tell universal stories in black and brown bodies, and it can be accepted and enjoyed amongst the masses. It’s not just black TV or black movies or black people, but instead a universal performance that can be enjoyed by all.”

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actress in a Supporting Role during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Listen to the rest of the backstage interviews from Stone and Murphy. RDJ did not go to the pressroom after his win.

This was Stone’s second nomination and win in this category and her fifth overall, including her
nomination for Best Picture. She won an Oscar for her leading role in La La Land (2016) and was nominated for her supporting roles in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Favourite (2018).

To embody the father of the atomic bomb, Christopher Nolan cast an actor who has appeared in five of his films (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Dunkirk), but until now, never in a lead role: Cillian Murphy. This was his first nomination and Oscar win.

WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? from Barbie; Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell was awarded Best Original Song. Eilish became the youngest person to win more than one Academy Award.

But the happiest highlight of the night was “I’m Just Ken” performed by Ryan Gosling, Mark Ronson, Slash & The Kens from the movie BARBIE.

As expected, Christopher Nolan was awarded Best Director for bringing to the screen his most ambitious work to date, OPPENHEIMER.

Nolan’s films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy, have earned more than $5 billion at the global box office and have been awarded 11 Oscars and 36 nominations, including two Best Picture nominations.

As usual the final Oscar of the night was Best Picture. Announced by Oscar winner Al Pacino, the gold went to the remarkable OPPENHEIMER.

Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven pose backstage with the Oscar® for Best Picture and Robert De Niro during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

As to the most memorable moment in making the film, the producers told the press backstage:

Christopher Nolan: You first.

Emma Thomas: I’m going first? All right.
A.​(Emma Thomas) Gosh, there were so many. One of the things I love about my job is that, you know, and our jobs is that we get to live with a film from the very, very beginning to the very end, and there were so many memorable moments along the way, whether it be, you know, those sort of moments in prep where Cillian agrees to play Oppenheimer, or where you start shooting, and you get to see Los Alamos as built and imagined by our incredible production designer, Ruth De Jong. I think probably for me, I will never forget the moment where I first saw the film, the first cut of the film, and I think it was the moment where I truly understood that this really worked, and I felt very good about, you know, the fact that it told a story that I felt was going to move audiences. You never quite know until you get to that point, and I think for me that was the moment where — that I’ll always remember the sort of the feeling at the end of that screening of sort of relief and excitement.

A.​(Charles Roven) There’s a couple of moments in particular for me. The first time I drove over to Chris and Emma’s house to read the first draft that Chris wrote, and what he had done when he — with the character of Oppenheimer wrote him in the first person, which I had never read a screenplay before that had the character talking in the first person. But it was actually the thing that, I think, makes the movie so special is how you relate to Oppenheimer through all of his journey from, you know, trying to figure out how to deal with the bomb to all of his character journey as well. So that was a very, very important and meaningful and memorable experience. The second was, you know, seeing the first cut of the movie. It was really profound.

A.​(Christopher Nolan) I think for me it was really the — actually, the first hair and makeup tests. There was something about seeing Cillian put that hat on and Robert Downey Jr. with his head shaved back and Emily Blunt in old-age makeup. We did all that on the first test. We shot it on the very first black-and-white IMAX film that had ever been made, and we projected it on an IMAX screen over at the Citywalk at Universal, and that was a very special moment, special to realize what the actors were going to do, and that the thing was going to work, and to see that technical side of things that Hoyte was bringing to the table with photography. It was remarkable and that will always stay with me.

Masaki Takahashi, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya and Tatsuji Nojima pose backstage with the Oscar® for Visual Effects during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024.

Along with director Wes Anderson winning his first Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” one of the greatest victories of the night was the GODZILLA MINUS ONE Oscar win for Best Visual Effects.

Listen as WAMG contributor Gary Salem asked the winners a question about a streaming date, how the filmmakers wouldn’t be able to capitalize on the success and the award, and does it involve Legendary and Warner Bros:

“I understand there is a strategy or a plan for home video release in Japan right now. So
hopefully the rest of the world is not too long after to follow. With regards to Legendary and Warner Bros. as I understand it, that’s a Toho. But despite that, they did their best to extend our theatrical run as long as physically possible. So we’re very grateful for that. Having said that, of course, if Godzilla Minus One was still in theaters right now that would be amazing for all the viewers out there. But I don’t want to hope for too much. I’m already holding an Oscar right now.”

“If I could have been there, I (along with Steven Rales) would have said “Thank you” to: the family of Roald Dahl, the team at Netflix, Benedict and Ralph and Ben Kingsley and Dev and Richard and Bob and Adam and Jeremy and John and Jim and Rich and Jim and Polly and more.

And also I would have said: if i had not met Owen Wilson in a corridor at the University of Texas between classes when I was 18 years old, I would certainly not be receiving this award tonight — but unfortunately Steven and I are in Germany and we start shooting our new movie early tomorrow morning, so I did not actually receive the award or get a chance to say any of that.”

— Wes Anderson on winning his first Oscar for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Picture

American Fiction
Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers

Anatomy of a Fall
Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers

Barbie
David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers

The Holdovers
Mark Johnson, Producer

Killers of the Flower Moon
Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Maestro
Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

WINNER: Oppenheimer
Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers

Past Lives
David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers

Poor Things
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers

The Zone of Interest
James Wilson, Producer

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper in Maestro

Colman Domingo in Rustin

Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

WINNER: Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening in Nyad

Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan in Maestro

WINNER: Emma Stone in Poor Things

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction

Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon

WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling in Barbie

Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple

America Ferrera in Barbie

Jodie Foster in Nyad

WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers

Best Animated Feature Film

WINNER: The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Elemental
Peter Sohn and Denise Ream

Nimona
Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary

Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal

Best Cinematography

El Conde
Edward Lachman

Killers of the Flower Moon
Rodrigo Prieto

Maestro
Matthew Libatique

WINNER: Oppenheimer
Hoyte van Hoytema

Poor Things
Robbie Ryan

Best Costume Design

Barbie
Jacqueline Durran

Killers of the Flower Moon
Jacqueline West

Napoleon
Janty Yates and Dave Crossman

Oppenheimer
Ellen Mirojnick

WINNER: Poor Things
Holly Waddington

Best Directing

Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet

Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese

WINNER: Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan

Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos

The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer

Best Documentary Feature Film

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek

The Eternal Memory
Maite Alberdi

Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha

To Kill a Tiger
Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim

WINNER: 20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath

Best Documentary Short Film

The ABCs of Book Banning
Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic

The Barber of Little Rock
John Hoffman and Christine Turner

Island in Between
S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien

WINNER: The Last Repair Shop
Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Sean Wang and Sam Davis

Best Film Editing

Anatomy of a Fall
Laurent Sénéchal

The Holdovers
Kevin Tent

Killers of the Flower Moon
Thelma Schoonmaker

WINNER: Oppenheimer
Jennifer Lame

Poor Things
Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Best International Feature Film

Io Capitano
Italy

Perfect Days
Japan

Society of the Snow
Spain

The Teachers’ Lounge
Germany

WINNER: The Zone of Interest
United Kingdom

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Golda
Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue

Maestro
Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell

Oppenheimer
Luisa Abel

WINNER: Poor Things
Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston

Society of the Snow
Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé

Best Music (Original Score)

American Fiction
Laura Karpman

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
John Williams

Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Robertson

WINNER: Oppenheimer
Ludwig Göransson

Poor Things
Jerskin Fendrix

Best Music (Original Song)

“The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt

“It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson

“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon
Music and Lyric by Scott George

WINNER: “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

Best Production Design

Barbie
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Killers of the Flower Moon
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis

Napoleon
Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff

Oppenheimer
Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman

WINNER: Poor Things
Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek

Best Animated Short Film

Letter to a Pig
Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter

Ninety-Five Senses
Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess

Our Uniform
Yegane Moghaddam

Pachyderme
Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius

WINNER: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Dave Mullins and Brad Booker

Best Live Action Short Film

The After
Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham

Invincible
Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron

Knight of Fortune
Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk

Red, White and Blue
Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane

WINNER: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Wes Anderson and Steven Rales

Best Sound

The Creator
Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

Maestro
Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

Oppenheimer
Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell

WINNER: The Zone of Interest
Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

Best Visual Effects

The Creator
Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould

WINNER: Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould

Napoleon
Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

WINNER: American Fiction
Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson

Barbie
Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach

Oppenheimer
Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan

Poor Things
Screenplay by Tony McNamara

The Zone of Interest
Written by Jonathan Glazer

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

WINNER: Anatomy of a Fall
Screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

The Holdovers
Written by David Hemingson

Maestro
Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer

May December
Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik

Past Lives
Written by Celine Song

Contributed by Gary Salem and Michelle McCue

Oscars Are One Month From Today! Read The Latest On The March 10 Ceremony

By Gary Salem and Michelle McCue

“This Is Oscar Night!”

On Sunday, March 10 the 96th Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC.

WAMG will be in the press room once again and will be bringing you all the behind the scenes coverage and the backstage interviews.

Hollywood’s biggest night is a month away and we’ve got your latest Oscar news.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has announced “Oscars Season at the Academy Museum,” running now through March 31, which invites the public to celebrate the 96th Oscars® and immerse themselves in Academy Awards® history through rich and expansive one-of-a-kind Oscar®-centered events and activities.

“Oscars Season” will see the Academy Museum campus activated for visitors to experience Oscar-winning film screenings, family workshops, in-gallery tours, Oscars Nominee Programs, exclusive store merchandise, and special pricing for the Oscars Experience and Oscars Night at the Museum–an evening to celebrate this year’s nominees and iconic Oscars moments.

March will include Oscar Sundays Screenings, Drop-in Family Workshops, and Oscars Gallery Tours. The month kicks off with Breaking the Oscars Ceiling, a conversation program celebrating the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community at the Academy Awards, on March 1. The week of March 1-9, leading up to the Oscars broadcast on March 10, guests can enjoy screenings of all Oscar-nominated live action and animated short films and attend Nominee Programs with this year’s nominated filmmakers in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Visual Effects, and Best Picture categories.

On the days of the Animated Feature Film, Visual Effects, Makeup and Hairstyling, and Production Design nominee programs—as well as the Animated Short Film nominees screening program—visitors can view a showcase of items from the nominated films in the Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby.

On Sunday, March 10, from 3pm to 8pm, the third annual Oscars Night at the Museum celebrates the nominees and winners of the 96th Oscars. At this spectacular viewing party, guests will have access to special photo opportunities, access to the museum galleries, food by Wolfgang Puck, wine from Clarendelle & Domaine Clarence Dillon, and access to the David Geffen Theater and Fanny’s to watch the Oscars broadcast live on ABC. Guests must be 21 years and older with a valid ID, and black tie, cocktail, or formal attire is encouraged. Ticket and event information can be found here.

After the 96th Oscars, screenings of some of this year’s award-winning films will be held March 14-17 at the David Geffen Theater.

And the Museum’s restaurant and cafe, Fanny’s, joins the Oscars festivities with a special cocktail menu inspired by this year’s Best Picture nominees. Whether enjoying a drink at the bar or a meal in the dining room, guests can sip through each of the 10 films’ corresponding libations, conceived by bar director Marisa Mercado, from February 1 until March 31.

Visit here for the full Oscars Season program schedule.

The 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday, Feb. 8th the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award® for Achievement in Casting, beginning with the 98th Academy Awards® for films released in 2025.

“Casting directors play an essential role in filmmaking, and as the Academy evolves, we are proud to add casting to the disciplines that we recognize and celebrate,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang. “We congratulate our Casting Directors Branch members on this exciting milestone and for their commitment and diligence throughout this process.”

“On behalf of the members of the Casting Directors Branch, we’d like to thank the Board of Governors, the Awards Committee and Academy leadership for their support. This award is a deserved acknowledgment of our casting directors’ exceptional talents and a testament to the dedicated efforts of our branch,” said Academy Casting Directors Branch governors Richard Hicks, Kim Taylor-Coleman and Debra Zane.

The 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Category rules for eligibility and voting for the inaugural award will be announced in April 2025 with the complete 98th Academy Awards Rules. The specifics of the award’s presentation will be determined by the Academy’s Board of Governors and its administrative leadership at a future date.

The Casting Directors Branch was created in July 2013. There are currently nearly 160 members of the branch.

The last new award category created was Best Animated Feature Film, established in 2001.

Nominees for the 95th Oscars® were celebrated at a luncheon held at the Beverly Hilton, Monday, February 13, 2023.

The Oscars® Nominees Luncheon will be held on Monday, February 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA. 

Fans can watch it on the Academy’s official YouTube page and see the annual nominees “Class Photo”. It’s the must-see event where all the stars attend.

Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the 96th Oscars and this will be his fourth turn hosting the broadcast. He hosted the 95th Oscars, which earned him an Emmy nomination and hosted back-to-back broadcasts in 2017 (89th Awards) and 2018 (90th Awards).

Host Jimmy Kimmel during the live ABC Telecast of the 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

While you’re deciding who will win Best Actress or Best Picture, you can keep score at home with WAMG’s ballot and to help you in your quest to win the Oscar pool, check out the list of nominees here: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024.

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96th Oscar Nominations Are Here And OPPENHEIMER Leads With 13

Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 96th Oscars® nominations today (January 23), live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms, an international satellite feed and broadcast media. 

Beetz and Quaid announced the nominees in 8 categories at 5:30 a.m. PT, followed by the remaining 15 categories at 5:41 a.m. PT, at the live event attended by international media and industry guests. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com. 

Academy members from each of the 18 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film and Live Action Short Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. This year, voter participation was at an all-time high, with members submitting ballots from a record 93 countries. 

In the acting categories, ten individuals are first-time nominees (Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Jeffrey Wright). Three are previous acting winners (Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Emma Stone). Bradley Cooper becomes the fourth person to direct himself to an acting nomination on more than one film.

Steven Spielberg receives his thirteenth nomination for Best Picture (MAESTRO), a record for an individual producer (since 1951 when producers were first named as nominees). Martin Scorsese becomes the oldest Directing nominee at 81 years old (previous record was John Huston at 79 years for Prizzi’s Honor, 1985). His tenth Directing nomination puts him two behind record-holder William Wyler with 12 nominations. Justine Triet’s nomination is the ninth Directing nomination for a woman.

Director Alexander Payne and actors Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph on the set of their film THE HOLDOVERS, a Focus Features release. Credit: Seacia Pavao / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

THE HOLDOVERS saw 5 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), Film Editing (Kevin Tent) and Original Screenplay (Written by David Hemingson). This is Paul Giamatti’s second nomination and first in this category. He was previously nominated for his supporting role in Cinderella Man (2005). “I’m genuinely flabbergasted by this morning’s news. It’s such an incredible honor to be acknowledged by the Academy like this. And such an amazing thrill to be a part of such a wonderful Hollywood tradition. I’m so happy for this beautiful film, for the entire cast and incredible crew, for the great folks at Focus, for our producer Mark Johnson, writer David Hemingson, and my Holdovers family, Da’Vine and Dominic. Alexander Payne has been an incredible friend and collaborator, and I will be forever grateful to him for giving me the kind of role every actor hopes to play. My love and thanks to everyone!” – Paul Giamatti, Oscar Nominee – Actor in a Leading Role

OPPENHEIMER, written and directed by Christopher Nolan

This is Christopher Nolan’s second nomination in this category and his eighth overall, including his Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay nominations this year. He was nominated for his original screenplay for Memento (2001), Best Picture and Original Screenplay for Inception (2010), and Best Picture and Directing for Dunkirk (2017).

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 23 categories beginning Thursday, February 22, through Tuesday, February 27. 

The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards

Performance by an actor in a leading role

  • Bradley Cooper in “Maestro”
  • Colman Domingo in “Rustin”
  • Paul Giamatti in “The Holdovers”
  • Cillian Murphy in “Oppenheimer”
  • Jeffrey Wright in “American Fiction”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

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

Performance by an actress in a leading role

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

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

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

Best animated feature film of the year

  • “The Boy and the Heron” Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
  • “Elemental” Peter Sohn and Denise Ream
  • “Nimona” Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary
  • “Robot Dreams” Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz
  • “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal

Achievement in cinematography

  • “El Conde” Edward Lachman
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Rodrigo Prieto
  • “Maestro” Matthew Libatique
  • “Oppenheimer” Hoyte van Hoytema
  • “Poor Things” Robbie Ryan

Achievement in costume design

  • “Barbie” Jacqueline Durran
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Jacqueline West
  • “Napoleon” Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
  • “Oppenheimer” Ellen Mirojnick
  • “Poor Things” Holly Waddington

Achievement in directing

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

Best documentary feature film

  • “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek
  • “The Eternal Memory” Nominees to be determined
  • “Four Daughters” Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha
  • “To Kill a Tiger” Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim
  • “20 Days in Mariupol” Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath

Best documentary short film

  • “The ABCs of Book Banning” Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic
  • “The Barber of Little Rock” John Hoffman and Christine Turner
  • “Island in Between” S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien
  • “The Last Repair Shop” Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
  • “Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó” Sean Wang and Sam Davis

Achievement in film editing

  • “Anatomy of a Fall” Laurent Sénéchal
  • “The Holdovers” Kevin Tent
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Thelma Schoonmaker
  • “Oppenheimer” Jennifer Lame
  • “Poor Things” Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Best international feature film of the year

  • “Io Capitano” Italy
  • “Perfect Days” Japan
  • “Society of the Snow” Spain
  • “The Teachers’ Lounge” Germany
  • “The Zone of Interest” United Kingdom

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

  • “Golda” Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue
  • “Maestro” Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell
  • “Oppenheimer” Luisa Abel
  • “Poor Things” Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston
  • “Society of the Snow” Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • “American Fiction” Laura Karpman
  • “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” John Williams
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Robbie Robertson
  • “Oppenheimer” Ludwig Göransson
  • “Poor Things” Jerskin Fendrix

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

  • “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot”
    Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
  • “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie”
    Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
  • “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony”
    Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
  • “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon”
    Music and Lyric by Scott George
  • “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie”
    Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

Best motion picture of the year

  • “American Fiction” Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers
  • “Anatomy of a Fall” Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers
  • “Barbie” David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers
  • “The Holdovers” Mark Johnson, Producer
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers
  • “Maestro” Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
  • “Oppenheimer” Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers
  • “Past Lives” David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers
  • “Poor Things” Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers
  • “The Zone of Interest” James Wilson, Producer

Achievement in production design

  • “Barbie” Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
  • “Killers of the Flower Moon” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
  • “Napoleon” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff
  • “Oppenheimer” Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman
  • “Poor Things” Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek

Best animated short film

  • “Letter to a Pig” Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter
  • “Ninety-Five Senses” Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess
  • “Our Uniform” Yegane Moghaddam
  • “Pachyderme” Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius
  • “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” Dave Mullins and Brad Booker

Best live action short film

  • “The After” Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham
  • “Invincible” Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron
  • “Knight of Fortune” Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk
  • “Red, White and Blue” Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane
  • “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” Wes Anderson and Steven Rales

Achievement in sound

  • “The Creator” Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic
  • “Maestro” Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic
  • “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
  • “Oppenheimer” Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell
  • “The Zone of Interest” Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

Achievement in visual effects

  • “The Creator” Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould
  • “Godzilla Minus One” Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
  • “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek
  • “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould
  • “Napoleon” Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould

Adapted screenplay

  • “American Fiction” Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson
  • “Barbie” Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
  • “Oppenheimer” Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan
  • “Poor Things” Screenplay by Tony McNamara
  • “The Zone of Interest” Written by Jonathan Glazer

Original screenplay

  • “Anatomy of a Fall”Screenplay – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
  • “The Holdovers”Written by David Hemingson
  • “Maestro”Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer
  • “May December”Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik
  • “Past Lives”Written by Celine Song

“Oppenheimer” Universal – 13 nominations
“Poor Things” Searchlight – 11 nominations
“Killers of the Flower Moon” Apple Original Films – 10 nominations
“Barbie” Warner Bros. – 8 nominations
“Maestro” Netflix – 7 nominations
“American Fiction” Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios – 5 nominations
“Anatomy of a Fall” Neon – 5 nominations
“The Holdovers” Focus Features – 5 nominations
“The Zone of Interest” A24 – 5 nominations

The Academy Announces 321 Films In Contention For 96th Oscars

Three hundred twenty-one feature films are eligible for the 2023 Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.  There are 265 feature films eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category, which has additional eligibility requirements beyond those for general entry.

To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, under rules implemented for the 96th Academy Awards year, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.  Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.

The “Reminder List of Productions Eligible for the 96th Academy Awards” in the general entry categories is available at https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility.  The Reminder List also includes the performers eligible for consideration in the Acting categories.

To be eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category for the 96th Academy Awards, films must be eligible for general entry and have submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards (RAISE) entry form.  They must have met two of the four standards required in addition to the theatrical eligibility requirement.  A film’s distributor or producer had the option to opt out of Best Picture consideration.  A list of productions eligible in the Best Picture category is available at https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility.

Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 11, 2024, and concludes on Tuesday, January 16, 2024.

Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

The 96th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the 96th Oscars – his fourth turn hosting the broadcast.

Hattie McDaniel, First Black Person to Be Nominated For And Win An Academy Award, Replacement Oscar Ceremony At Howard University October 1

(Original Caption) 3/2/1940- Los Angeles, CA: Actress Hattie Mc Daniel is shown with the statuette she received for her portrayal in “Gone With The Wind.” The award was for Best Supporting Role by an Actress, and was made at the 12th annual Academy Awards ceremony.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced today the Academy will gift to the Howard University Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts a replacement of actor Hattie McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress Academy Award® . Howard University will host a ceremony titled “Hattie’s Come Home” at its Ira Aldridge Theater in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2023.

The ceremony will celebrate the life and legacy of McDaniel, her historic Academy Award win, and reunite her Academy Award with Howard University as she originally intended. The event will include opening remarks by Phylicia Rashad, Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University, the performance of a medley of songs from current students and faculty of the College, and an excerpt of “Boulevard of Bold Dreams,” a play by LaDarrion Williams.  Representatives of the Academy and the Academy Museum will be at the ceremony, including Jacqueline Stewart, Ph.D., Director and President of the Academy Museum, and Executive Vice President of Oscars Strategy Teni Melidonian, who will present the plaque to the university. Stewart will host a moderated conversation about McDaniel’s career with Greg Carr, Ph.D., Howard University Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies; Rhea Combs, Ph.D., Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Kevin John Goff, filmmaker, actor and Hattie McDaniel’s great-grandnephew; Khalid Long, Ph.D., Howard University Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, author, director and dramaturg; and Rashad. The plaque’s new home will be in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.

Reproduction of the Award Presented to Hattie McDaniel in Recognition of her Performance in Gone With The Wind of Merit for Outstanding Achievement, Presented to Howard University by The Academy, Photographed on Tuesday September 19, 2023 at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, California

“Hattie McDaniel was a groundbreaking artist who changed the course of cinema and impacted generations of performers who followed her. We are thrilled to present a replacement of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to Howard University,” said Stewart and Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “This momentous occasion will celebrate Hattie McDaniel’s remarkable craft and historic win.”

“When I was a student in the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, in what was then called the Department of Drama, I would often sit and gaze in wonder at the Academy Award that had been presented to Ms. Hattie McDaniel, which she had gifted to the College of Fine Arts,” said Rashad. “I am overjoyed that this Academy Award is returning to what is now the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University. This immense piece of history will be back in the College of Fine Arts for our students to draw inspiration from. Ms. Hattie is coming home!”

The Academy Museum has honored and contextualized McDaniel’s legacy in both the Academy Awards History Gallery and its temporary exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971. A performer on stage, radio and screen, McDaniel appeared in some 300 films throughout her career. In 1940, McDaniel made history as the first Black person to be nominated for and to win a competitive Academy Award for her supporting performance as “Mammy” in Gone with the Wind (1939). At the 12th Academy Awards c eremony at the segregated Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, McDaniel and her guest were seated separately from the film’s other nominees.

McDaniel received not a statuette but a plaque, as was customary for supporting performance winners from 1936 to 1942. Though its whereabouts today are unknown, McDaniel’s award stands out in Academy history; it would be 51 years before another Black woman would win an acting Oscar®. McDaniel bequeathed her Academy Award to Howard University upon her death in 1952. The award was displayed at the university’s drama department until the late 1960s.

Reproduction of the Award Presented to Hattie McDaniel in Recognition of her Performance in Gone With The Wind of Merit for Outstanding Achievement, Presented to Howard University by The Academy, Photographed on Tuesday September 19, 2023 at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, California



McDaniel’s acceptance speech can currently be viewed in full in the museum’s Academy Awards History Gallery, and, notably, her win is recognized in the Oscars Gallery of statuettes, but through a vitrine that stands empty. Her acceptance speech, as recorded for newsreel cameras at the time, is noted below:

“Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science[s], fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of the awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel. And may I say thank you and God bless you.”

Image Credits: Actor Hattie McDaniel c. 1940 with her original Academy Award plaque for Actress in a Supporting Role for Gone with the Wind (1939). Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images; Reproduction of the original plaque of Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award for Actress in a Supporting Role for Gone with the Wind (1939). Gift from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Howard University. Photo by Owen Kolasinski/© Academy Museum Foundation.

Reproduction of the Award Presented to Hattie McDaniel in Recognition of her Performance in Gone With The Wind of Merit for Outstanding Achievement, Presented to Howard University by The Academy, Photographed on Tuesday September 19, 2023 at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, California