Oscar nominations studio scorecard: Universal and Searchlight lead top categories with 13 each

Thanks to “Oppenheimer,” Universal Pictures is one of the two studios tied for the most nominations at the 2024 Academy Awards in the top categories with a lucky 13 citations, all for the Christopher Nolan film. Searchlight Pictures also scored 13, earning a whopping 11 for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” one for “Flamin’ Hot” for Oscar-favorite songwriter Diane Warren and one for Documentary Short Film for “The Last Repair Shop.” See a list of nominations by studio in the top categories below.

Other studios that broke double digits include Netflix and Apple Original Films. Netflix’s tally includes nominations for “Maestro” with seven, “Nyad” with two, and one each for “American Symphony,” “El Conde,” “May December,” “Nimona,” “Rustin,” and “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” Note that these figures do not include all the contenders for the three short film categories. Apple Original Films earned all 10 of its nominations for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The three nominations that “Napoleon” earned are credited to its United States theatrical distributor Columbia Pictures.

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Warner Bros. Pictures had a strong showing for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” with eight and one for “The Color Purple.” Had those films performed better — our odds were predicting Gerwig in Director and Margot Robbie in Actress, for example — the studio could have easily broken double-digits. A24 netted seven bids for “The Zone of Interest” and “Past Lives,” while three studios tie at five nominations each: Amazon MGM Studios for “American Fiction,” Neon for “Anatomy of a Fall” and Focus Features for “The Holdovers.”

Here is a list of 2024 Oscar nominations by studio in the top categories as well as the number of nominations by film.

Nominations By Studio

Netflix — 16
Universal Pictures — 13
Searchlight Pictures — 13
Apple Original Films — 10
Warner Bros. Pictures — 9
A24 — 7
Amazon MGM Studios — 5
Neon — 5
Focus Features — 5
Columbia Pictures — 3
Walt Disney Studios — 3
20th Century Studios — 2
Miyu Distribution — 2
MTV Documentary Films — 2
Paramount Pictures — 2
01 Distribution — 1
Bleecker Street — 1
Bteam Pictures & Wild Bunch — 1
DCM & Bitters End — 1
Disney+ — 1
Gkids — 1
Jalabert Production — 1
Jour2Fête — 1
National Geographic — 1
PBS Distribution — 1
The New York Times — 1
Toho — 1

Nominations By Film

Oppenheimer — Universal Pictures (13)
Poor Things — Searchlight Pictures (11)
Killers of the Flower Moon — Apple Original Films (10)
Barbie — Warner Bros. (8)
Maestro — Netflix (7)
American Fiction — Amazon MGM Studios (5)
Anatomy of a Fall — Neon (5)
The Holdovers — Focus Features (5)
The Zone of Interest — A24 (5)
Napoleon — Columbia Pictures  (3)
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One — Paramount Pictures (2)
Nyad — Netflix (2)
Past Lives — A24 (2)
The Creator — 20th Century Studios (2)
20 Days in Mariupol — PBS Distribution (1)
American Symphony — Netflix (1)
Bobi Wine: The Peoples’ President — National Geographic (1)
El Conde — Netflix (1)
Elemental — Walt Disney Studios (1)
Flamin’ Hot — Searchlight Pictures (1)
Four Daughters — Jour2Fête (1)
Godzilla Minus One — Toho (1)
Golda — Bleecker Street (1)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3— Walt Disney Studios (1)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny— walt Disney Studios (1)
Io Capitano — 01 Distribution (1)
Island in Between — The New York Times (1)
Knight of Fortune — Jalabert Production (1)
Letter to a Pig — Miyu Distribution (1)
May December — Netflix (1)
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó — Disney+ (1)
Nimona — Netflix (1)
Pachyderme — Miyu Distribution (1)
Perfect Days — DCM & Bitters End (1)
Robot Dreams — Bteam Pictures & Wild Bunch (1)
Rustin — Netflix (1)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Sony Pictures (1)
The ABCs of Book Banning — MTV Documentary Films (1)
The After — Netflix (1)
The Boy and the Heron — Gkids (1)
The Color Purple — Warner Bros. Pictures (1)
The Eternal Memory — MTV Documentary Films (1)
The Last Repair Shop — Searchlight Pictures (1)
The Teacher’s Lounge — Alamode Film (1)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar — Netflix (1)
To Kill a Tiger — National Film Board of Canada (1)

This article has been updated as information about the studios that distributed the short films has become available.

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