Oscars 2024 nominations: ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ earn top nods

Hollywood’s biggest night is almost here. Jimmy Kimmel is scheduled to host the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. And the only thing as exciting as seeing which directors, actors, screenwriters, and more take home an Oscar is knowing which ones have earned nominations for film’s top honor in the first place. Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the contenders for this year’s ceremony on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the most nominated film at the 2024 Academy Awards with 13 nods including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., and Best Supporting Actress for Emily Blunt, who is now a first-time Oscar nominee. The blockbuster film is also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Cinematography, among others. 

Yorgos Lanthimos trails Nolan with Poor Things, earning nominations across 11 categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Best Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo. It’s also up for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and more. 

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon followed closely behind with 10 nominations. The film is up for Best Picture, with Lily Gladstone earning a nod for Best Actress and Robert De Niro for Best Supporting Actor. Scorsese has earned his 10th career nomination for Best Director, surpassing Steven Spielberg’s record of nine career nominations as the most-nominated living director of all time. The film also made an unexpected appearance in the Best Original Song category for Scott George’s “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People).” 

While Oppenheimer led nominations, its bright pink summer counterpart Barbie collected eight nods, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. With no nominations for Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, or Best Director for Greta Gerwig, the film did appear in both supporting categories. America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling are nominated for Best Support Actress and Actor, respectively. The film also scored two nominations for Best Original Song, for Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt’s “I’m Just Ken” and Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “What Was I Made For?” 

Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is also up for Best Picture, earning additional nominations for Best Actress with Carey Mulligan and Best Actor with Cooper. The film has also been nominated for Best Original Screenplay, a category that also includes Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, May December, and Past Lives. This marks the only nod for May December and the second for Past Lives, which is up for Best Picture as well. 

The other leading films of 2023 — including Justine Trite’s Anatomy of a Fall, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction — earned five nominations each. All of the films are nominated for Best Picture, while Glazer and Triet both picked up Best Director nominations. This year’s nominations also include nods for The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Color Purple’s Danielle Brooks, Rustin’s Colman Domingo, Nyad’s Annette Bening, American Fiction’s Sterling K Brown, and more.

The 2024 Oscar nominations across all 23 categories comprise qualifying films released between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2023.

Check out the full list of 2024 Oscar nominations:

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

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

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

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

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

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 Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Barbie
The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
May December
Past Lives
Maestro

Best Original Song
“It Never Went Away” by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for American Symphony
“I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for Barbie
“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for Barbie
“The Fire Inside” by Diane Warren for Flamin’ Hot
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for my People)” by Scott George for Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Score
American Fiction
Killers of the Flower Moon
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Costume Design
Barbie
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

Best Live Action Short
The After
Invincible
Night of Fortune
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Red, White and Blue

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

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

Best Documentary Short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Last Repair Shop
Na Nai & Wai Po
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between

Best Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Actress the Spider-Verse
Robot Dreams

Best Production Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Film Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
The Holdovers
Poor Things

Best Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One

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

Best Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best International Feature
Society of the Snow
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest
Perfect Days
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