Oscar nominations: How did your favorite films fare?

Marcus James Dixon
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Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced before the sun came up in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, January 23 by Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid. Heading into the morning, Gold Derby’s 2024 Oscar predictions had “Oppenheimer” reaping an atomic 13 bids, which turned out to be true. Meanwhile, the other half of this summer’s “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, “Barbie,” was expected to garner 10 citations, but it had to settle with just eight. So how did your favorite films fare? Read on for our Oscar nominations report, broken down by film.

“Oppenheimer” – 13 nominations
Universal Pictures’ “Oppenheimer” stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, aka the father of the atomic bomb. It made a whopping $952 million worldwide, cementing its status as one of the most lucrative biopics in box office history. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has long been considered “overdue” for an Oscar win after previously earning bids for writing “Memento” (2001), writing and producing “Inception” (2010), and directing and producing “Dunkirk” (2017). Will he finally claim victory this year for “Oppenheimer”? Its 13 nominations are for picture, director (Nolan), adapted screenplay, actor (Murphy), supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), supporting actress (Emily Blunt), cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup & hairstyling, production design, score and sound.

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“Poor Things” – 11 nominations
“Poor Things” is another film that Gold Derby’s experts, editors and users collectively thought would score big on Tuesday morning. The Searchlight Pictures comedy, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, is a coming-of-age story with an eye-popping twist, as Emma Stone inhabits the role of Bella Baxter, a woman with the mind of a child. Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe also star as her manipulative new beau and her caring father figure, respectively. Its 11 nominations are for picture, director (Lanthimos), adapted screenplay, actress (Stone), supporting actor (Ruffalo), cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup & hairstyling, score and production design.

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“Killers of the Flower Moon” – 10 nominations
Despite the Martin Scorsese film about the Osage Nation murders being snubbed for lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio and for its screenplay, it still wound up with double-digit citations. DiCaprio takes on the role of real-life baddie Ernest Burkhart, who marries Osage woman Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone) at the behest of influential crime boss William King Hale (Robert De Niro). Its 10 nominations are for picture, director (Scorsese), actress (Gladstone), supporting actor (De Niro), cinematography, costume design, film editing, score, song (“Wahzhazhe – A Song For My People”) and production design.

“Barbie” – 8 nominations
With $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office, Warner Bros’ “Barbie” is the most successful film ever to be directed by a woman, Greta Gerwig. Shockingly, Gerwig was snubbed for Best Director in one of the morning’s biggest head-scratchers. Her fantasy comedy tells the story of Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie, also weirdly snubbed) and Beach Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they travel to the real world to try to discover the truth about humanity. Its eight nominations are for picture, adapted screenplay, supporting actor (Gosling), supporting actress (America Ferrera), costume design, song (“I’m Just Ken”), song (“What Was I Made For”) and production design.

“Maestro” – 7 nominations
The Netflix biopic about American composer Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan) conducted itself to seven total bids, including Cooper himself as a producer, actor and co-writer (along with Josh Singer). Cooper is now a 12-time nominee without an Oscar — will that change this year? Its seven nominations are for picture, original screenplay, actor (Cooper), actress (Mulligan), cinematography, makeup & hairstyling and sound.

“American Fiction” – 5 nominations
Cord Jefferson‘s first-ever feature film was a hit on the festival circuit, and now it has been noticed five times by Oscar voters. Jeffrey Wright stars as an author who finds wild success after he starts writing more “Black,” and Sterling K. Brown plays his estranged brother. Its five nominations are for picture, actor (Wright), supporting actor (Brown), adapted screenplay and score.

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“Anatomy of a Fall” – 5 nominations
Actress Sandra Hüller and filmmaker Justine Triet may not have been household names to American audiences before this awards season, but now they are both Oscar nominees. The French movie about the investigation into a mysterious death was not submitted by the country for inclusion in the Best International Feature Film category, or else “Anatomy of a Fall” would likely find itself with six bids this year. Its five nominations are for picture, director (Triet), actress (Huller), original screenplay and film editing.

“The Holdovers” – 5 nominations
Alexander Payne‘s latest movie takes place in the 1970s when a lonely teacher, played by Paul Giamatti, has to watch after several schoolboys over the holidays. Scene-stealer Da’Vine Joy Randolph, as the bereaved lunch lady, has won countless awards already for her breakout role. Its five nominations are for picture, actor (Giamatti), supporting actress (Randolph), original screenplay and film editing.

“The Zone of Interest” – 5 nominations
English auteur Jonathan Glazer wrote and directed this emotional film about a Nazi commander (Rudolf Höss) who is living the dream with his wife (Hüller) next door to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Its five nominations are for picture, director (Glazer), adapted screenplay, international feature film and sound.

“Past Lives” – 2 nominations
Celine Song‘s semi-autobiographical movie stars Greta Lee as Nora Moon and Teo Yoo as Hae Sung, a pair of childhood friends who begin to reevaluate their relationship now that they’re adults. Its two nominations are for picture and original screenplay.

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