Director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the pack of this year’s films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards with nods in 13 out of the 23 awards categories. The look at the man who developed the atomic bomb was named as a finalist for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr, Best Adapted Screenplay and eight other categories.
The nominees were announced this morning in Los Angeles.
Poor Things, from director Yorgos Lanthimos, secured eleven nominations, including Picture, Director, Lead Actress for Emma Stone, Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo and Adapted Screenplay while Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon received ten nominations including Director, Picture, Supporting Actor for Robert DeNiro and Lead Actress for Lily Gladstone.
With her nomination, Gladstone becomes first ever Native woman of American descent to be nominated in the Lead Actress category
Marin Scorsese’s nomination for directing Killers Of The Flower Moon is his tenth nomination in the Best Director, passing the record nine nominations he and Steven Spielberg had been previously tied at. His only win out of those previous nominations was for 2006’s The Departed.
Barbie, the summer blockbuster based on the popular toy line, earned eight nominations including Best Picture, Supporting Actor and Actress for America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling, and Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated twice in the Best Song category for “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?”
The other films nominated in the Best Picture category including American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall and The Holdovers, all with with five nominations in total each, Maestro with seven nominations total and The Zone of Interest with four.
The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10.
The complete list of nominees is as follows –
Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Actor in a Supporting Role
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Actress in a Supporting Role
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
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
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
International Feature Film
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
Animated Feature Film
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Documentary Feature Film
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
Live Action Short Film
The Actor
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
The Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Animated Short Film
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over!
Film Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Production Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Costume Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Music (Original Score)
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Music (Original Song)
The Fire Inside
I’m Just Ken
It Never Went Away
Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)
What Was I Made For?
Makeup and Hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Visual Effects
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
