The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced their nominations for the 2023 film year with a live-streaming announcement held on January 23, 2024, The announcement was hosted by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid where they presented the nominations for The 96th Academy Awards, or as they are known these days, the Oscars at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Oscars will air live on Sunday, March 10, 2024, from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and be televised on ABC. The ceremony will be produced by Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan, with Hamish Hamilton serving as director. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host the show for the fourth time, following the 2017, 2018 and 2023 ceremonies. Oppenheimer led the announcement with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Things and Killers of the Flower Moon with 11 and 10 nods.

The cultural phenomenon and fan favorite trend of “Barbenheimer” received a total of twenty-one nominations at the Oscars announcement, it breaks down to eight nods for Barbie and thirteen for Oppenheimer. The two films are competing against each other in six categories, including Best Picture. While Christopher Nolan was nominated for Best Director for his historical film Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig was noticeably absent from the list of nominated directors whose films were also announced to be in the running for Best Picture in 2024, Barbie is. This is not the first time that Gerwig‘s film was nominated for Best Picture while excluding her for Best Director, she received the double nomination for her film Lady Bird, her directorial debut, in 2017, when her film Little Women was nominated for Best Picture in 2019, she was not nominated for directing the film.

This year’s acting nominees featured a record number of LGBTQ+ characters amongst the performances nominated, with a total of seven, from Annette Bening in Nyad, Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction, Bradley Cooper in Maestro, Colman Domingo in Rustin, Jodie Foster in Nyad, Sandra Hüller in Anatomy of a Fall, and Emma Stone in Poor Things. These included portrayals from two openly LGBTQ+ actors (Domingo and Foster), and one additional out actor in a non-queer role (Lily Gladstone).

With Maestro being nominated, one of the film’s producers, Steven Spielberg extended his record for the most Best Picture nominations for an individual to 13. The film’s co-writer/director and star Cooper, who in 2018 became the fifteenth person to direct himself to a nomination (for Best Actor) for A Star Is Born, has now become the fifth person to have done so more than once with his nomination for Maestro.

In other Academy records set by the announcements of the 96th Academy Awards, for her portrayal of Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon, Gladstone became the first indigenous actress of American descent to be nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Actress). At age 81, the film’s director, Martin Scorsese, earned his tenth nomination for Best Director, garnering more Oscar nominations for that category (including one prior win) than anyone alive. Scorsese also became the oldest Best Director nominee, eclipsing John Huston, who was 79. The film’s editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, earned her ninth nomination for Best Film Editing, surpassing the record for most nominations in this category.

When looking at how many times this years nominees have been in the running for an Academy Award in previous years, ten actors received their first Oscar nominations: Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Jeffrey Wright. Two directors received their first nominations (with each earning a second nom for their writing): Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, and Justine Triet, who is only the eighth woman in Academy history to be nominated in the category for Anatomy of a Fall. Triet shared her writing nomination with first-time nominee Arthur Harari; married writers Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik shared their first noms as well for May December. The other first-time writing nominees include David Hemingson for The Holdovers, Cord Jefferson for American Fiction, and Celine Song for Past Lives. Brooks became the second actor nominated playing the role of Sofia from The Color Purple, after Oprah Winfrey‘s Oscar-nominated performance from the 1985 original film. Both were nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category.

John Williams, at the age of 91, and with no plans for retiring soon, has extended his record for the most Oscar nominations for any living person with his 54th nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The Academy also has some new history with the nominations for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Best Visual Effects for Godzilla Minus One marked the first time in history that a film in either the Mission: Impossible film series or Godzilla franchise had been nominated for an Academy Award.

Tune in Oscar Sunday, March 10, 2024 to see which nominees become Academy Award history when the winners are announced during the awards ceremony live on ABC!

You can check out my Complete List for the 96th Academy Awards 2024 nominees below!

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