Barbie Leads the Charge In a Quiet Oscar Nominations for Genre

It was perhaps inevitable after last year saw Everything, Everywhere, All at Once take pretty much everything, everywhere at the 2023 Oscars, but 2024’s nominations are here, and for the most part sci-fi, fantasy, other genre movies’ representations are solidified around a few notable hits—and even then, mostly Barbie.

Barbie scored 8 nominations in total, with nods for Ryan Gosling in Best Supporting Actor, Best Picture, Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Adapted Screenplay, and more, although was notably absent in nods for Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie in Best Director and Best Leading Actress, respectively. Elsewhere for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things dominated with 13 nods, while Godzilla Minus One made notable history for its nomination in Best Visual Effects—Takashi Yamazaki’s nomination makes him the first director to get a nod in the category  since Stanley Kubrick did so in 1968 for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Here’s the full list.

Best Supporting Actor

• 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 Supporting Actress

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

Best Animated Feature Film

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

Best Animated Short Film

• “Letter to a Pig”
• “Ninety-Five Senses”
• “Our Uniform”
• “Pachyderm”
• “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko”

Best Costume Design

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

Best Live-Action Short

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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

Best 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)

Best Sound

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Screenplay

• Anatomy of a Fall (Arthur Harari & Justine Triet)
• The Holdovers (David Hemingson)
• Maestro (Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer)
• May December (Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik)
• Past Lives (Celine Song)

Best Cinematography

• Count
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best Documentary Feature Film

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

Best Documentary Short Film

• The ABCs of Book Banning
• The Barber of Little Rock
• Island in Between
• The Last Repair Shop
• Nai Nai & Wai Po

Best Film Editing

• Anatomy of a Fall
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best International Feature Film

• I am Captain
• Perfect Days
• Society of the Snow
• The Teacher’s Lounge
• The Zone of Interest

Best Original Song

• 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 Production Design

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Lead Actor

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

Best Lead Actress

• Annette Bening (Nyad)
• Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
• Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall)
• Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
• Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Director

• Justine Triet (Anatomy
• Martin Scorcese (Killers
• Christopher Nolan (Open
• Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
• Johanathan (Zone of Interest)

Best Picture

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

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