2024 Oscar Nominations Revealed – Full List

The Friendly Film Fan Recaps the Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards.

​Well, the day is here, and the Oscar nominations have officially been announced! There weren’t many genuine surprises and a few major snubs occurred, but overall, the field is rich with fantastic choices and a world of great cinema to explore. Personally I was happy to see Killers of the Flower Moon get some love in unexpected places like Original Song (though that Best Adapted Screenplay miss does hurt) and films like Anatomy of a Fall score some key nods that put it higher than many pundits had it in terms of how likely it would be to win categories. I’ll also proudly boast that I went 5 for 5 on four categories – including Best Supporting Actor, betting on Sterling K. Brown over Willem Dafoe – as well as 10 for 10 in Best Picture, and most other categories’ perfect scores were missed due to at least one of my three wildcards making it in over a predicted nominee. All that said, some of the snubs did hurt (though not the ones you might think). 

​Personally, I’m not that surprised that Greta Gerwig was not nominated for Best Director; if she wasn’t nominated for Little Women, being nominated for something inherently more commercial – even if Todd Phillips was able to do it with a far lesser quality film – would still have been a stretch for the Academy. (Plus, it seemed Justine Triet would be closer to their taste in terms of the film that was made.) What did bum me out me was the absence of Margot Robbie in Best Actress, not because of her absence from the category as a whole – though it is weird that the other two actors from Barbie were included and not her – but because of the nominee that replaced her. Almost everyone in this category was relatively safe, give or take a “Gladstone missed BAFTA” surprise, but the final spot was between Robbie, Greta Lee, Fantasia Barrino, Annette Benning, and (though it would’ve been a little out of nowhere) Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Unfortunately, the Academy went with the weakest choice out of all five in Annette Benning, whose performance in Nyad isn’t the worst I’ve ever seen for a nominee here, but I would argue is a bad performance. The frustration is in how there were at least 4 better choices that all got passed up. But, the actors branch nominated actors, and Benning made the SAG lineup, so I’m not surprised, per se…I’m just disappointed.

​The other puzzling snubs category is, as it turned out, was Best Original Score, in which American Fiction edged out leading candidates such as The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and The Zone of Interest. I say that American Fiction edged them out because John Williams being nominated for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is not as surprising when once considers that this is the same Academy who nominated the 91-year-old composing legend for The Rise of Skywalker, which was not one of the ten best scores of that year either. It's just upsetting to see American Fiction and Indiana Jones take not one but two shots at the category away from both The Boy and the Heron and Across the Spider-Verse, a sign that even this new Academy has yet to truly treat animated films as seriously as they deserve to be treated. I personally barely remember the score for American Fiction, but Williams’ score for Indiana Jones is good – it just will never stick in my memory the way Spider-Verse does.

​Other surprises included America Ferrera landing the plane for Barbie to take the 5th spot in Best Supporting Actress in a toss up between other five possibles, Killers of the Flower Moon being passed on in Adapted Screenplay in favor of The Zone of Interest, both American Symphony and Beyond Utopia missing Documentary Feature (though that category always snubs a leader anyway), Robot Dreams squeezing into Animated Feature with just enough room to spare, May December managing to stay in the game just enough to nab an Original Screenplay nod, and Mission: Impossible’s Oscar curse finally coming to an end with the franchise’s first two nominations in Visual Effects and Sound. There’s a lot to celebrate this year – especially with one of the best Best Picture lineups in recent memory – so let’s go over them all again. Here is the full list of nominees for the 96th Annual Academy Awards!

BEST PICTURE
The Nominees:

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

 
BEST DIRECTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ACTRESS
The Nominees:

• Annette Benning, Nyad
• Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
• Carey Mulligan, Maestro
• Emma Stone, Poor Things

 
BEST ACTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Nominees:

• The Boy and the Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

 
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Nominees:

• Bobi Wine: The People’s President
• The Eternal Memory
• Four Daughters
• To Kill a Tiger
• 20 Days in Mariupol

 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST FILM EDITING
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Nominees:

• Sarah Greenwood, Barbie
• Jack Fisk, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Arthur Max, Napoleon
• Ruth de Jong, Oppenheimer
• Shona Heath and James Price, Poor Things

 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
The Nominees:

• Golda
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Society of the Snow

 
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
The Nominees:

• “The Fire Inside,” Flamin’ Hot
• “I’m Just Ken,” Barbie
• “It Never Went Away,” American Symphony
• “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People),” Killers of the Flower Moon
• “What Was I Made For?,” Barbie

 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Nominees:

• Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
• Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
• Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
• Tony McNamara, Poor Things
• Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

 
BEST ORIGNAL SCREENPLAY
The Nominees:

• Arthur Harari and Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
• David Hemingson, The Holdovers
• Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
• Samy Burch, May December
• Celine Song, Past Lives

 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Nominees:

• The Creator
• Godzilla Minus One
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Napoleon

 
BEST SOUND
The Nominees:

• The Creator
• Maestro
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone of Interest

 
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Nominees:

• The After
• Invincible
• Knight of Fortune
• Red, White and Blue
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

 
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Nominees:

• Letter to a Pig
• Ninety-Five Senses
• Our Uniform
• Pachyderme
• War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Nominees:

• The ABCs of Book Banning
• The Barber of Little Rock
• Island in Between
• The Last Repair Shop
• Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó 

What do you think of these nominees? Were there any major snubs on your ballot? Any pleasant surprises? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
 
- The Friendly Film Fan