The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California.
The ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will take place on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be broadcast live on ABC.
The historical drama Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb, is the most-nominated film of the year, with 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film explores the life and work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Following close behind are Poor Things, a dark comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone as a resurrected woman with the brain of an infant, with 11 nominations, and Killers of the Flower Moon, a crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro as members of the Osage Nation who are targeted by a conspiracy in the 1920s, with 10 nominations.
Other films that received multiple nominations include Barbie, a live-action adaptation of the iconic doll franchise, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, with eight nominations; Maestro, a biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein, directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, with seven nominations; and American Fiction, a satire of the publishing industry, starring Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown, with six nominations.
Some of the notable snubs and surprises of this year’s nominations include:
- Annette Bening, who received her fifth Oscar nomination for her performance as long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in Nyad, a film that was otherwise ignored by the Academy.
- Colman Domingo, who earned his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in Rustin, a film that also received a nod for Best Original Song.
- Sandra Hüller, who became the first German actress to be nominated for Best Actress for her role as a politician who suffers a nervous breakdown in Anatomy of a Fall, a film that also received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Paul Giamatti, who received his second Oscar nomination for his performance as a disgruntled teacher who bonds with a student over a shared love of literature in The Holdovers, a film that also received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
- Emily Blunt, who received her first Oscar nomination for her performance as Kitty Oppenheimer, the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Oppenheimer, a film that dominated the nominations.
- Robert Downey Jr., who received his third Oscar nomination for his performance as Enrico Fermi, a colleague of J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Oppenheimer, a film that also earned nominations for Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in the same category.
- America Ferrera, who received her first Oscar nomination for her performance as Barbie’s best friend Teresa in Barbie, a film that also received nominations for Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig for their screenplay.
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who received her first Oscar nomination for her performance as a sassy receptionist who helps a struggling writer in The Holdovers, a film that also received nominations for Paul Giamatti and David Hemingson for their screenplay.
The full list of nominations can be found on the official website of the Oscars.
