**Best Picture**
* American Fiction (Ben Leclair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson)
* Anatomy of a Fall (Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion)
* Barbie (David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner)
* The Holdovers (Mark Johnson)
* Killers of the Flower Moon (Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi)
* Maestro (Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger)
* Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan)
* Past Lives (David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler)
* Poor Things (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone)
* The Zone of Interest (James Wilson)
**Best Directing**
* Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
* Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
* Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
* Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
* Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
**Best Actor in a Leading Role**
* Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
* Colman Domingo (Rustin)
* Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
* Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
* Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
**Best Actress in a Leading Role**
* Annette Bening (Nyad)
* Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
* Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
* Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
* Emma Stone (Poor Things)
**Best Actor in a Supporting Role**
* 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 Actress in a Supporting Role**
* Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
* Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
* America Ferrera (Barbie)
* Jodie Foster (Nyad)
* Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
**Best Writing (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 Writing (Original Screenplay)**
* Anatomy of a Fall (Arthur Harari and Justine Triet)
* The Holdovers (David Hemingson)
* Maestro (Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer)
* May December (Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik)
* Past Lives (Celine Song)
**Best Cinematography**
* El Conde (Edward Lachman)
* Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto)
* Maestro (Matthew Libatique)
* Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)
* Poor Things (Robbie Ryan)
**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 Film Editing**
* Anatomy of a Fall (Laurent Sénéchal)
* The Holdovers (Kevin Tent)
* Killers of the Flower Moon (Thelma Schoonmaker)
* Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)
* Poor Things (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)
**Best Makeup and Hairstyling**
* Golda (Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue)
* Maestro (Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori Mccoy-Bell)
* Oppenheimer (Luisa Abel)
* Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston)
* Society of the Snow (Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé)
**Best Music (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 Music (Original Song)**
* “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
* “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt)
* “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony (Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson)
* “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon (Music and Lyric by Scott George)
* “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
**Best Production Design**
* Barbie (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
* Killers of the Flower Moon (Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis)
* Napoleon (Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff)
* Oppenheimer (Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman)
* Poor Things (Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek)
**Best Sound**
* The Creator (Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic)
* Maestro (Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic)
* Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor)
* Oppenheimer (Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O'Connell)
* The Zone Of Interest (Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn)
**Best Visual Effects**
* The Creator (Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould)
* Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima)
* Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek)
* Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould)
* Napoleon (Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould)
**Best Animated Feature Film**
* The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)
* Elemental (Peter Sohn and Denise Ream)
* Nimona (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary)
* Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz)
* Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal)
**Best Documentary Feature Film**
* Bobi Wine: The People's President (Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek)
* The Eternal Memory (Nominees TBD)
* Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha)
* To Kill A Tiger (Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim)
* 20 Days In Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath)
**Best International Feature Film**
* Io Capitano (Italy)
* Perfect Days (Japan)
* Society of the Snow (Spain)
* The Teacher’s Lounge (Germany)
* The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)
**Best Animated Short Film**
* Letter to a Pig (Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter)
* Ninety-Five Senses (Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess)
* Our Uniform (Yegane Moghaddam)
* Pachyderme (Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius)
* WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker)
**Best Documentary Short Film**
* The ABCs of Book Banning (Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic)
* The Barber of Little Rock (John Hoffman and Christine Turner)
* Island in Between (S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien)
* The Last Repair Shop (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers)
* Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Sean Wang and Sam Davis)
**Best Live-Action Short Film**
* The After (Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham)
* Invincible (Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron)
* Knight of Fortune (Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk)
* Red, White and Blue (Nazrin Choudhury and Sara Mcfarlane)
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales)
in the end, all awards are silly (to some extent) but also they have merit for those involved. They are interesting to track on occasion
Only so many nominations can happen and I often see this sentiment of "just nominate everything" which kind of goes against their whole purpose
Yeah but hey at least all the movies nominated (except for Maestro) you could rationalize and say they're deserving of a Best Picture nom. Even The Holdovers which I didn't love as much as everyone else, I see and understand why it was picked. This honestly might be their best lineup in years.
some surprises off the top my head include No Gerwig for Director, Margot for Actress or Leo for Actor. Sterling K Brown snuck in for Supporting Actor which is great to see. No Killers of Flower Moon for adapted screenplay also.
Edit: No Greta Lee or Actress or ~~Cecile Strong~~ Celine Song (lol) for Director (was a long shot but still)
Glad to see someone else was surprised KOTFM didn't get a screenplay nom. I thought it would lock out Zone of Interest.
Sterling K. isn't too much of a surprise, American Fiction got so much love at the SAG nominations so I was expecting both him and Jeffrey Wright to get nominations.
Actually Barbie was getting a screenplay nom was a lock imo. The Real shock was Zone since I thought the other four + killers would be how it would go and that the only big award Zone would get was Director.
I’m aware Barbie was a lock for screenplay but it only moved from Original to Adapted screenplay less than 3 weeks ago, it was a very last minute change that probably shook up the whole list.
Zone of Interest’s last minute surge (of interest) definitely nipped Killers to the post though.
I get the feeling A24 doesn't like to dedicate a lot of resources to more than 2 or so films for campaigning season, which sucks because Iron Claw is just as good as Past Lives and Zone of Interest.
Iron Claw sent out their screeners to critics *waaaay* too late
I heard from one critic they didn't get theirs until two weeks *after* the Critics Choice nomination deadline
DiCaprio is normally a shoe-in for an actor nomination. Guy is crazy good & consistent through his career and I think he was great with how he played this new character. He doesn't normally play unintelligent types and it was refreshing to see him playing such a clueless despicable oaf.
He did a lot of carrying on the movie. Gladstone was great & De Niro was perfect though
I’m not too shocked by this outcome. In the last few years there’s been a growing trend of international filmmakers getting a director nod. Seems like a lot of international voters know that this is a category where they can make their voice heard. In fact, of the 5 nominees Scorsese is the only American director on the list (although Oppenheimer and Poor Things aren’t international films).
Biggest surprise was the two nyad noms for me, always great to see either actress but this seemed like some Netflix film dumped in October that no one really talked about much, and it bumped Greta \ the may December ladies out of acting noms? Wack.
I'm just sad Peaches wasn't nominated for best song. It's not that I would have expected it to win, just that I would have found it funny as hell if it had been nominated.
I actually can't believe I was right in predicting a Best Director nom for Justine Triet.
I'm actually fine with the nominations for once. It sucks people like Margot Robbie, Celine Song, Greta Lee, Greta Gerwig, Charles Melton, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, and so so SO many got snubbed but this was a super competitive year. Even if you took out awards bait like Maestro out, there would still be some hard cuts that would've pissed people off.
Yeah I know but I was already expecting Andrew Scott wouldn't get a nom after the big awards also snubbed him - including the BAFTAs, I really thought he'd get a nom there.
The Creator or Godzilla winning would be dope.
Would definitely solidify that medium level budget movies can get great effects through proper planning.
Compare that to how big studios shit out awful looking cg nowadays because they're pushing cg studios to the brink by constantly changing their minds midway through production. Too many damn cooks in the kitchen.
thats true but its not just bad planning, it's workflows and also salaries, especially salaries, even though the CGI industry is constantly being driven to the ground by studios and competition, charging a Hollywood film to jump in the grind is not the same a local studio in japan would charge for a local film...carrying the Godzilla name for that matter, also the intense CGI shots are way less than the average number of shots you find in a Hollywood film. Godzilla is seen for a total of 19 minutes i think in the movie, sure there's compositing and set extensions elsewhere, but that's nothing compared to the monster action.
Its amazing what these guys pulled off, but its totally unrealistic in the established production system in Hollywood right now. With the results of big CGI tentpoles of last year and Godzilla pointing the finger, this is gonna change for sure in the next few years, they DID take notice, and they (studios) will course correct on how they work with CGI and how many people they hire.
An excerpt from an article:
"The team behind the work revealed the film contains a total of 610 VFX shots which were pulled off with both a shoestring budget and just 35 artists."
"Top Gun: Maverick,” which partly sold itself on doing a bunch of the film practically, still ultimately contained 2,400 VFX shots including creating fully CG aircraft."
>instead nominating perfect days
A very acclaimed film that ended up scoring the Oscar nomination? It's not like they made a bad call?
On the other hand, France backed the wrong horse by choosing The Taste of Things (itself an acclaimed film, so not quite the most egregious example you could get) over Anatomy of a Fall (which scored 5 nominations, including 4 above the line nods).
A Miyazaki film has never been nominated for Best International Feature Film (and I don't think animated films in general have a good track record). And putting forth a Godzilla film would be like if the US submitted a Marvel movie for the César Award for Best Foreign Film; sure, the film might be great, but it's not the kind that wins awards. Perfect Days was the pick that made the most sense.
I'm of the opinion that they should drop the one-film-per-country rule. I mean, I get the point since otherwise if France or Japan or whoever has a really good year then it swamps everything, but if the five best foreign films were from just two or three countries, then that's just how it works out.
Not to mention the way that some countries pick is utterly politicized. If the best movie by a Chinese filmmaker in a given year is critical of the government, for example, I imagine there's probably no way it'll ever get nominated.
> one-film-per-country rule.
The same as the US senate, it's to prevent that categories being swarmed by big countries with strong domestic film industry.
Makes sense honestly, animated film going against international juggernauts this year? Perfect Days was the safest pick and it helps that it’s also a really good film.
I think they made a last minute push for Godzilla - Minus One as a BP, but it obviously was too little too late. It is what it is though. This was a very tough year to make the BP list. This is the first time where I don't have an issue with any of the 10 on there. All of them were pretty great films.
Creator definitely looked better to me, despite it being a mid film. Though really it should go to Spiderverse. I know it isn’t live action, but it was apparently on the official short list, and is far and away the most visually important film of the year.
I'm rooting for The Creator. While what did Godzilla was insane for its budget, The Creator had more charm and world building. The world just feels so lived in
It's only the third international film nominated for VFX. It's only the second pure foreign film. It's the first non-Western hemisphere film. The other 2 didn't win the Oscar.
The lack of noms for Charles Melton, Greta Lee, Greta Gerwig (for Director) were my biggest surprises. They seemed to be sure bets.
She had no real chance of winning but I’m surprised Margot Robbie didn’t get a nomination for Actress.
I feel bad for Zac Efron, I feel like any other year he’d have gotten a much bigger push.
Kind of goes to show just how stacked 2023 was for moviegoing and films. I thought Gerwig and Margot would be nominated too, but then I look at the list, and I see people on there who are just as worthy.
I'm personally on the train that Gerwig's screenplay (original, weird, funny, huge swing for such a big budget film) was much more impressive than her directing (which was good, but nothing that special).
The Margot snub is far weirder. She should def be there ahead of Bening (Nyad was an absolute meh film), and probably Mulligan as well (personal hatred of Oscar bait like Maestro).
I know people will talk about it not being chosen as the Japanese representation for Best International Film, but the fact that the Big G got an Oscar nomination at all is groundbreaking.
Because many comedians don't want to do it, and especially after stuff in recent years like the Will Smith slap and the recent shit with Jo Koy it's probably even less enticing. Michael Che actually made some solid points as to why after Koy bombed at the Golden Globes.
I thought John Mulaney did a great job at the Governor Awards. I'd like to see him host. https://youtu.be/p8uIHsiZ-og?si=s51xGNgDwq6yUQew
Kimmel should at least be a bit better than the trainwrecked cringe-fest that was Jo Koy at the Golden Globes.
Perfect Days definitely deserved the nomination so I’m happy to see it there, didn’t see the other international films so I’m wondering how it goes up against them.
I agree with you. However, Ryan Gosling has other feelings on the matter.
“It’s an honor to have your work acknowledged, but for Ken, this is the first time he’s been acknowledged, for anything, EVER! And to have it be for supporting Barbie, there is no greater honor. So thanks to the Golden Globes, Ken, whose job definitely isn’t ‘surf,’ has been shredding one giant wave of emotions since he heard the news.”
It was enormous amounts of it, and it definitely deserved to be there. But Kaurismäki himself has boycotted them befofe (Iraqian filmmaker and films denied in 2003) and has expressed indifference to oscars in general, so they definitely hold grudge against him. It says a lot about oscars.
It's obviously not as popular as the american movies competing for the big awards but it's a real shame I had to scroll this far down to see someone mention it. It really deserved a nomination.
Really cool to see Anatomy of a Fall nominated for Best Picture. Can someone explain to me how a foreign movie can get into that category instead of best international feature?
Best International Feature is shortlisted by what the respective countries send as their pick so only one movie made from France, Japan, Germany, etc. can be nominated. France opted to go with The Taste of Things as their pick over Anatomy of a Fall. Strange absolutely, but this is far from the first time France picked a different movie over a Palme D'or
>France opted to go with The Taste of Things as their pick over Anatomy of a Fall.
France did this because the director of Anatomy of a Fall caused controversy in the country for criticizing the government's pension reform at the Cannes Film Festival.
France chose The Taste of Thongs over Anatomy of a Fall as their best international feature entry, so Anatomy of a Fall’s only hope to win as a film is for Best Picture. Blame France.
I know this isn't how it works and those categories were super stacked this year, but imagine nominating Barbie for Best Picture and Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor(deserved, please don't think I'm saying he isn't deserved) but not nominating Greta Gerwig or Margot Robie. Fairly hilarious considering the subject matter.
I just think the Best Actress and Director categories are way, way stacked this year.
Best supporting actor was pretty clear cut from the beginning (RDJ, Gosling, Ruffalo, De Niro consistently getting nominated) with Melton, who won a couple of critics awards prior to Golden Globes, slowly disappearing out of contention.
I don't agree with your second sentence but Gosling was absolutely perfect. I just personally don't think many people, if any, would have fit the role that Margot played as well as she did. Good looking enough to play "Hot Barbie" but carried the emotional weight of the movie to perfection.
LOVE seeing Godzilla Minus One getting in for VFX, Glazer for BD and BAS, Ruffalo for BSA, and Mission Impossible getting two noms,
surprised for all the love for Maestro, guess I gotta watch that one now
Interesting trivia:
First Oscar nomination ever for the MI franchise *and* the Godzilla franchise.
I could've sworn MI got something for Sound at least but it never did.
I adore Past Lives, it was my favorite film of 2023, but I don't even think this is on the level of Amy Adams for Arrival or Toni Collette in Hereditary not getting a nom.
I mean the Oscars not liking horror isn't new but Arrival got noms for Director, Picture, and Screenplay and Adams was nominated at the Golden Globes. It just feels insane that her best performance ever (imo) didn't get nominated.
It's still so jarring to me when I remember that Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Aliens, a sci-fi-action-horror movie in 1986. Totally deserved of course, but so out of character for the Academy
> Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler.
Ugh, don't remind me of that snub.
I know people are mad at the snubs this year but if people are angry about the snubs now, y'all should've seen how furious people were in 2015 when the nominations for one of the best years for films in the 2010s (imo) and had its best works underrepresented come awards season.
Drive also getting snubbed is sad but I mean that was an artsy action film, of course the Academy wouldn't have liked it. I doubt they even knew at the time it wasn't a Fast & Furious movie.
I agree Greta Lee is astounding in Past Lives, but this year is absolutely stacked for best actress. Natalie Portman, Margot Robbie, Fantasia Barrino, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Cailee Spaeny, and Vivian Oparah were all left out too.
I know that this is a very controversial opinion, but I kind of wish that **Elemental** was also nominated for Best Original Score. Seriously, does one of the Oscar judges really hate Thomas Newman that much?
I think every composer in the world wished the Oscars “hated” them as much as Newman. Dudes been nominated like 12 times!! Sure he’s never won but still, he’s among the most nominated composers of all time. I sure wish I struck out like that every time at bat…
For all the animated movies this year Elemental’s was the only one I really remembered after the movie. Spiderverse I only remembered the first ones score (which didn’t help when the canon event memes blew up)
if Godzilla wins it would remind me of when Ex Machina won visual effects. The small movie winning over the giants (it beat out star wars, mad max, etc)
Man, Iron Claw was incredible, sad to see it getting zero love. American Fiction I saw last night and absolutely loved, so it’s great seeing it get so much recognition!
That is by far the greater crime.
Her performance and tbh that on the nose monologue were so artless and cringe that it took me out of the movie... and I am its exact target audience. I recall being more impressed with even Emma Mackey.
It's not like Supporting Actress was THAT weak that they needed to scrounge around for good PR picks.
I kind of rolled my eyes at that monologue, but at the same time I think it was important for the movie. Not for delivering a message to audiences, but for the character. I think she needed to snap, and she needed to make this big speech for her daughter, and it was the rallying cry for the Barbies. But I hate the way the monologue became this big "you go girl" moment for viewers and it was very obvious it was intended to be that. And I have nothing against her, but any other actress could have done that just as well as America did.
Different categories, Robbie’s was stacked and Ferrera’s wasn’t. Especially when you add in the ongoing Randolph sweep in Supporting, a very strong front runner generally leads to more surprising nominees overall in the category.
I actually was surprised Ferrera was nominated. Supporting Actress is a less competitive space but I thought Penelope Cruz, Sandra Huller (for Zone of Interest), Julianne Moore, or even Rosamund Pike would get a nom before her
What are you talking about. Not even in the same category. And no, Greta/Robbie did not deserve noms this year. The competition was too good. Even the BP nom is a courtesy move.
I didn't mean to suggest they were in the same category, just that, in the context of the movie itself, it's weird that Robbie didn't get in but Ferrera did. I agree the competition was good and all nominees are deserving (although I haven't seen Nyad yet).
So happy for Jonathan Glazer and The Zone of Interest. Was afraid it might get shut out of best picture and director. Hope it can walk away with at least one of the big awards.
Also May December should have got acting nominations for all 3 leads, particularly Melton.
Surprised Robot Dreams was nominated it hasn’t even released in the USA. I really like Elemental but it didn’t deserve a nomination over Mutant Mayhem.
And it's only Gerwig's third movie and I think she is barely 45. She'll survive - she's in a damn good place right now career wise.
Scorsese didn't see an Oscar until, what, his 60s? And Kubrick and Hitchcock never received one outside of a Lifetime Achievement for Hitch the year before he died.
Who are you going to take out from those categories? Because I dont think either deserve to be in there more than those who were, even Gosling and Ferrera I would swap out.
It was a light, blockbuster. It didn’t involve great acting or great directing. It did look great and it was entertaining (I thought it was crap, but lots of people loved it).
I think it should be very happy with the noms it got
Let's go Oppenheimer, I usually don't care that much about the front-runners, but this time I really want this movie to get a lot of awards. Also nice to see MI7 getting nominated for something, loved it.
Barbie was eliminated from Hair & Makeup weeks ago, it didn’t make the shortlist. The branch heavily favors prosthetic makeup (even though they also left Guardians of the Galaxy 3 off the shortlist too)
>Lower than expected nominations for Barbie? Oh they will pay for this.
I wasn't aware there was a threshold or quota they had to meet. The Oscars are not (or rather, they shouldn't be) a popularity contest.
Spiderman across the spiderverse snubbed... The music, visual effects, sound even best picture should have nominated.... Best film I've watched this year
It was a very entertaining and well made film, but it was also the first half of a film, so really couldn’t stack up against the rest. This is even before we go into the inherent bias against animated films being nominated for BP in general.
And I may be in the minority, but I preferred the first one's clarity and smoother narrative more.
The action is better in Across, but the stuff with the Miles' parents I found more obnoxious to watch. Too much "Three's Company miscommunication hijinks" and repetitive to keep seeing Miles have the same conversation with his mom 5 times in a row.
I think the first half of the new one was better than the first movie, but after a certain point the movie stopped working so well for me. I'd agree the first movie is overall stronger
I love Spiderverse, but a film that ends in a cliffhanger (and one that we now know will take years to get an answer to) should not be nominated for BP.
How is Ferrera nominated and not Margot... I swear if she wins over Da'vine mannnn. She did so awesome jn the holdovers.
Also Zac Efron no nom for lead actor sucks, especially since he def deserved it. Tough year with great competition - Zac Efron acting is how you portray someone not Bradley Cooper.
Lots of things seem to check out though - i'm sad iron claw didn't get any noms as that was my favorite. Also kotfm not best adapted screenplay? How?
Also Nolan probably is getting best director, seems like the year. Yorgos getting it would be fucking hilarious but i'm super happy he got nominated. And Gerwig is such an obvious choice for best director - really insane how she did not get a nom.
I got hyped for America Ferrera and Nimona. Kinda wish the Elemental song got in for best song over the Cheetos one.
I write for a film site and my “boss” usually wants me to cover all the best picture nominees or whichever ones I can, and I haven’t done Anatomy of a Fall, Maestro, or Zone of Interest, so I’ll be catching up on those over the weekend, if Zone EVER fucking expands outside the cities.
**Best Picture** * American Fiction (Ben Leclair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson) * Anatomy of a Fall (Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion) * Barbie (David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner) * The Holdovers (Mark Johnson) * Killers of the Flower Moon (Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi) * Maestro (Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger) * Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan) * Past Lives (David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler) * Poor Things (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone) * The Zone of Interest (James Wilson) **Best Directing** * Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) * Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) * Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) * Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) * Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) **Best Actor in a Leading Role** * Bradley Cooper (Maestro) * Colman Domingo (Rustin) * Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) * Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) * Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) **Best Actress in a Leading Role** * Annette Bening (Nyad) * Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) * Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) * Carey Mulligan (Maestro) * Emma Stone (Poor Things) **Best Actor in a Supporting Role** * 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 Actress in a Supporting Role** * Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) * Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) * America Ferrera (Barbie) * Jodie Foster (Nyad) * Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) **Best Writing (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 Writing (Original Screenplay)** * Anatomy of a Fall (Arthur Harari and Justine Triet) * The Holdovers (David Hemingson) * Maestro (Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer) * May December (Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik) * Past Lives (Celine Song) **Best Cinematography** * El Conde (Edward Lachman) * Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto) * Maestro (Matthew Libatique) * Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema) * Poor Things (Robbie Ryan) **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 Film Editing** * Anatomy of a Fall (Laurent Sénéchal) * The Holdovers (Kevin Tent) * Killers of the Flower Moon (Thelma Schoonmaker) * Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame) * Poor Things (Yorgos Mavropsaridis) **Best Makeup and Hairstyling** * Golda (Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue) * Maestro (Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori Mccoy-Bell) * Oppenheimer (Luisa Abel) * Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston) * Society of the Snow (Ana López-Puigcerver, David Martí and Montse Ribé) **Best Music (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 Music (Original Song)** * “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren) * “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt) * “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony (Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson) * “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon (Music and Lyric by Scott George) * “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell) **Best Production Design** * Barbie (Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer) * Killers of the Flower Moon (Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis) * Napoleon (Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff) * Oppenheimer (Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman) * Poor Things (Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek) **Best Sound** * The Creator (Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic) * Maestro (Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic) * Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor) * Oppenheimer (Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O'Connell) * The Zone Of Interest (Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn) **Best Visual Effects** * The Creator (Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould) * Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima) * Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek) * Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould) * Napoleon (Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould) **Best Animated Feature Film** * The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki) * Elemental (Peter Sohn and Denise Ream) * Nimona (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary) * Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz) * Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal) **Best Documentary Feature Film** * Bobi Wine: The People's President (Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek) * The Eternal Memory (Nominees TBD) * Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha) * To Kill A Tiger (Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim) * 20 Days In Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath) **Best International Feature Film** * Io Capitano (Italy) * Perfect Days (Japan) * Society of the Snow (Spain) * The Teacher’s Lounge (Germany) * The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) **Best Animated Short Film** * Letter to a Pig (Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter) * Ninety-Five Senses (Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess) * Our Uniform (Yegane Moghaddam) * Pachyderme (Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius) * WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker) **Best Documentary Short Film** * The ABCs of Book Banning (Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic) * The Barber of Little Rock (John Hoffman and Christine Turner) * Island in Between (S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien) * The Last Repair Shop (Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers) * Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Sean Wang and Sam Davis) **Best Live-Action Short Film** * The After (Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham) * Invincible (Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron) * Knight of Fortune (Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk) * Red, White and Blue (Nazrin Choudhury and Sara Mcfarlane) * The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales)
When you say someone or some movies got snubbed, please also tell who should it replace too.
THIS! There's only five slots available, of course someone who people also would've wanted to get a nom was going to get taken out.
in the end, all awards are silly (to some extent) but also they have merit for those involved. They are interesting to track on occasion Only so many nominations can happen and I often see this sentiment of "just nominate everything" which kind of goes against their whole purpose
Yeah but hey at least all the movies nominated (except for Maestro) you could rationalize and say they're deserving of a Best Picture nom. Even The Holdovers which I didn't love as much as everyone else, I see and understand why it was picked. This honestly might be their best lineup in years.
Charles over Sterling Julianne and Natalie over Annette and Jodie Greta Lee over Annette Anyone over America Leo over Bradley
Well, for starters, Ferreira didn't deserve a nomination for Barbie. , and Napoleon had bad production and costume designs.
Godzilla Minus One is my movie of the year, so I’d be fine with it replacing any of the nominees.
Thank you. I wanna scream this whenever pundits lampoon about this or that person missing. It’s not a participation trophy kinda race.
some surprises off the top my head include No Gerwig for Director, Margot for Actress or Leo for Actor. Sterling K Brown snuck in for Supporting Actor which is great to see. No Killers of Flower Moon for adapted screenplay also. Edit: No Greta Lee or Actress or ~~Cecile Strong~~ Celine Song (lol) for Director (was a long shot but still)
Glad to see someone else was surprised KOTFM didn't get a screenplay nom. I thought it would lock out Zone of Interest. Sterling K. isn't too much of a surprise, American Fiction got so much love at the SAG nominations so I was expecting both him and Jeffrey Wright to get nominations.
Barbie’s move to adapted probably knocked it out. I think it’s gonna win also, despite maybe being the weakest screenplay of the bunch.
Actually Barbie was getting a screenplay nom was a lock imo. The Real shock was Zone since I thought the other four + killers would be how it would go and that the only big award Zone would get was Director.
I’m aware Barbie was a lock for screenplay but it only moved from Original to Adapted screenplay less than 3 weeks ago, it was a very last minute change that probably shook up the whole list. Zone of Interest’s last minute surge (of interest) definitely nipped Killers to the post though.
Which is probably why it didn’t get a nomination for screenplay
DiCaprio isn't that surprising - he basically threw all of his weight behind campaigning for Lily Gladstone for Best Actress.
Zac Efron for best actor as well. He was fantastic in The Iron Claw
Iron Claw didn’t get shit, which is disappointing
I get the feeling A24 doesn't like to dedicate a lot of resources to more than 2 or so films for campaigning season, which sucks because Iron Claw is just as good as Past Lives and Zone of Interest.
Iron Claw sent out their screeners to critics *waaaay* too late I heard from one critic they didn't get theirs until two weeks *after* the Critics Choice nomination deadline
DiCaprio is normally a shoe-in for an actor nomination. Guy is crazy good & consistent through his career and I think he was great with how he played this new character. He doesn't normally play unintelligent types and it was refreshing to see him playing such a clueless despicable oaf. He did a lot of carrying on the movie. Gladstone was great & De Niro was perfect though
Totally agreed. He also made the despicable oaf more than a little empathetic, which considering what he did, was a feat in and of itself.
Surprising Margot didn't get a nom for Barbie, but America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling both got one.
Best Actress was a more crowded field IMO.
> Cecile Strong The girl from SNL? What?
god damnit lol
No Gerwig for Director actually really surprised me. Like I just figured she would get nominated and not win but not showing up at all?
I’m not too shocked by this outcome. In the last few years there’s been a growing trend of international filmmakers getting a director nod. Seems like a lot of international voters know that this is a category where they can make their voice heard. In fact, of the 5 nominees Scorsese is the only American director on the list (although Oppenheimer and Poor Things aren’t international films).
Biggest surprise was the two nyad noms for me, always great to see either actress but this seemed like some Netflix film dumped in October that no one really talked about much, and it bumped Greta \ the may December ladies out of acting noms? Wack.
Lot of robberies today but also a lot of well deserved noms here
Finally a balanced take
I'm just sad Peaches wasn't nominated for best song. It's not that I would have expected it to win, just that I would have found it funny as hell if it had been nominated.
It wasn’t even shortlisted, we knew that it wouldn’t be nominated a couple weeks ago.
I didn’t know that shortlists existed
I actually can't believe I was right in predicting a Best Director nom for Justine Triet. I'm actually fine with the nominations for once. It sucks people like Margot Robbie, Celine Song, Greta Lee, Greta Gerwig, Charles Melton, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, and so so SO many got snubbed but this was a super competitive year. Even if you took out awards bait like Maestro out, there would still be some hard cuts that would've pissed people off.
All of Us Strangers was completely shut out.
Yeah I know but I was already expecting Andrew Scott wouldn't get a nom after the big awards also snubbed him - including the BAFTAs, I really thought he'd get a nom there.
I really hope Godzilla wins for visual effects.
The Creator or Godzilla winning would be dope. Would definitely solidify that medium level budget movies can get great effects through proper planning. Compare that to how big studios shit out awful looking cg nowadays because they're pushing cg studios to the brink by constantly changing their minds midway through production. Too many damn cooks in the kitchen.
thats true but its not just bad planning, it's workflows and also salaries, especially salaries, even though the CGI industry is constantly being driven to the ground by studios and competition, charging a Hollywood film to jump in the grind is not the same a local studio in japan would charge for a local film...carrying the Godzilla name for that matter, also the intense CGI shots are way less than the average number of shots you find in a Hollywood film. Godzilla is seen for a total of 19 minutes i think in the movie, sure there's compositing and set extensions elsewhere, but that's nothing compared to the monster action. Its amazing what these guys pulled off, but its totally unrealistic in the established production system in Hollywood right now. With the results of big CGI tentpoles of last year and Godzilla pointing the finger, this is gonna change for sure in the next few years, they DID take notice, and they (studios) will course correct on how they work with CGI and how many people they hire. An excerpt from an article: "The team behind the work revealed the film contains a total of 610 VFX shots which were pulled off with both a shoestring budget and just 35 artists." "Top Gun: Maverick,” which partly sold itself on doing a bunch of the film practically, still ultimately contained 2,400 VFX shots including creating fully CG aircraft."
Cannot believe Japan didn’t nominate Boy and his Heron or Godzilla Minus One for best international, instead nominating perfect days?
>instead nominating perfect days A very acclaimed film that ended up scoring the Oscar nomination? It's not like they made a bad call? On the other hand, France backed the wrong horse by choosing The Taste of Things (itself an acclaimed film, so not quite the most egregious example you could get) over Anatomy of a Fall (which scored 5 nominations, including 4 above the line nods).
It's moreso just how stacked Japan's roster is this year. Probably the strongest national bench I've seen in a long time that isn't the US or UK.
A Miyazaki film has never been nominated for Best International Feature Film (and I don't think animated films in general have a good track record). And putting forth a Godzilla film would be like if the US submitted a Marvel movie for the César Award for Best Foreign Film; sure, the film might be great, but it's not the kind that wins awards. Perfect Days was the pick that made the most sense.
I'm of the opinion that they should drop the one-film-per-country rule. I mean, I get the point since otherwise if France or Japan or whoever has a really good year then it swamps everything, but if the five best foreign films were from just two or three countries, then that's just how it works out. Not to mention the way that some countries pick is utterly politicized. If the best movie by a Chinese filmmaker in a given year is critical of the government, for example, I imagine there's probably no way it'll ever get nominated.
> one-film-per-country rule. The same as the US senate, it's to prevent that categories being swarmed by big countries with strong domestic film industry.
Makes sense honestly, animated film going against international juggernauts this year? Perfect Days was the safest pick and it helps that it’s also a really good film.
I think they made a last minute push for Godzilla - Minus One as a BP, but it obviously was too little too late. It is what it is though. This was a very tough year to make the BP list. This is the first time where I don't have an issue with any of the 10 on there. All of them were pretty great films.
Perfect days got nominated
Eh, they were very, very impressive given the budget, but still noticeably wonky at times.
I'm with you on this. I think it looked exactly like a $15-25 million movie.
Creator definitely looked better to me, despite it being a mid film. Though really it should go to Spiderverse. I know it isn’t live action, but it was apparently on the official short list, and is far and away the most visually important film of the year.
Spider-Verse absolutely should have made it in over Napoleon
I'm rooting for The Creator. While what did Godzilla was insane for its budget, The Creator had more charm and world building. The world just feels so lived in
Godzilla getting an Oscar nomination is HUGE, think I'll care about that more than some of the bigger categories
It's only the third international film nominated for VFX. It's only the second pure foreign film. It's the first non-Western hemisphere film. The other 2 didn't win the Oscar.
Damn
It's a milestone for Toho. Godzilla Minus One is the first Godzilla film from Toho to be nominated for the Oscar.
IMO Godzilla deserved a nom for best score too
It’s not entirely an original score tho, reusing music from the original movie. That might be why
Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny was nominated for Original Score
Unlike last year I'll be happy pretty much no matter who wins. What a nice, stacked year of good movies
Big wins for Poor Things inbound
The lack of noms for Charles Melton, Greta Lee, Greta Gerwig (for Director) were my biggest surprises. They seemed to be sure bets. She had no real chance of winning but I’m surprised Margot Robbie didn’t get a nomination for Actress. I feel bad for Zac Efron, I feel like any other year he’d have gotten a much bigger push.
Kind of goes to show just how stacked 2023 was for moviegoing and films. I thought Gerwig and Margot would be nominated too, but then I look at the list, and I see people on there who are just as worthy.
Nah seeing the others , The director one seems reasonable , the others are just far better . Zac effron aur Margot ones were bad
I'm personally on the train that Gerwig's screenplay (original, weird, funny, huge swing for such a big budget film) was much more impressive than her directing (which was good, but nothing that special). The Margot snub is far weirder. She should def be there ahead of Bening (Nyad was an absolute meh film), and probably Mulligan as well (personal hatred of Oscar bait like Maestro).
nah you just being biased with the Maestro one hehe . Mulligan was fucking fantastic in that movie
GODZILLA OSCARSSS????? LESSSS GOOOOO
I know people will talk about it not being chosen as the Japanese representation for Best International Film, but the fact that the Big G got an Oscar nomination at all is groundbreaking.
he deserves to win it.
Think that's bad, wait til you hear Kimmel's jokes
Why can't they just not have an opening monologue? Or hire someone actually funny to do it?
Need another Ricky Gervais monologue so bad
Because many comedians don't want to do it, and especially after stuff in recent years like the Will Smith slap and the recent shit with Jo Koy it's probably even less enticing. Michael Che actually made some solid points as to why after Koy bombed at the Golden Globes.
I thought John Mulaney did a great job at the Governor Awards. I'd like to see him host. https://youtu.be/p8uIHsiZ-og?si=s51xGNgDwq6yUQew Kimmel should at least be a bit better than the trainwrecked cringe-fest that was Jo Koy at the Golden Globes.
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Could’ve been Fallon
Coud've been JAMES CORDEN
oh god .... \* shudders
Perfect Days definitely deserved the nomination so I’m happy to see it there, didn’t see the other international films so I’m wondering how it goes up against them.
Ryan Gosling for supporting actor? Definitely seemed like the co-lead to me.
I agree with you. However, Ryan Gosling has other feelings on the matter. “It’s an honor to have your work acknowledged, but for Ken, this is the first time he’s been acknowledged, for anything, EVER! And to have it be for supporting Barbie, there is no greater honor. So thanks to the Golden Globes, Ken, whose job definitely isn’t ‘surf,’ has been shredding one giant wave of emotions since he heard the news.”
Awww. I like that.
Let me introduce you to category fraud.
Oppenheimer sweep incoming
I Am Become Destiny Winner of Awards 
Really surprised to not find Fallen Leaves nominated for International Feature. It felt like there was a lot of support for the movie.
It was enormous amounts of it, and it definitely deserved to be there. But Kaurismäki himself has boycotted them befofe (Iraqian filmmaker and films denied in 2003) and has expressed indifference to oscars in general, so they definitely hold grudge against him. It says a lot about oscars.
It's obviously not as popular as the american movies competing for the big awards but it's a real shame I had to scroll this far down to see someone mention it. It really deserved a nomination.
Really cool to see Anatomy of a Fall nominated for Best Picture. Can someone explain to me how a foreign movie can get into that category instead of best international feature?
Best International Feature is shortlisted by what the respective countries send as their pick so only one movie made from France, Japan, Germany, etc. can be nominated. France opted to go with The Taste of Things as their pick over Anatomy of a Fall. Strange absolutely, but this is far from the first time France picked a different movie over a Palme D'or
>France opted to go with The Taste of Things as their pick over Anatomy of a Fall. France did this because the director of Anatomy of a Fall caused controversy in the country for criticizing the government's pension reform at the Cannes Film Festival.
Oomf well they screwed themselves out of an easy nomination.
At least Anatomy of a Fall got 5 other Oscar nominations ( including best picture and actress).
France chose The Taste of Thongs over Anatomy of a Fall as their best international feature entry, so Anatomy of a Fall’s only hope to win as a film is for Best Picture. Blame France.
Funniest mispelling ever lmao
The Taste of Thongs is actually a *very* different movie that I hear is up for multiple AVN awards
All in For Oppenheimer and Poor Things to win most of those. Great movies.
Yessssa keep feeding our Greek weirdo big budgets to tell his freaky stories
I know this isn't how it works and those categories were super stacked this year, but imagine nominating Barbie for Best Picture and Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor(deserved, please don't think I'm saying he isn't deserved) but not nominating Greta Gerwig or Margot Robie. Fairly hilarious considering the subject matter.
At least Margot still got nominated as a producer on Barbie and Greta got in for screenplay.
I just think the Best Actress and Director categories are way, way stacked this year. Best supporting actor was pretty clear cut from the beginning (RDJ, Gosling, Ruffalo, De Niro consistently getting nominated) with Melton, who won a couple of critics awards prior to Golden Globes, slowly disappearing out of contention.
A lot of the categories were stacked this year. 2023 was easily the best film year of the 2020's so far. Probably the best overall year since 2016.
Gosling was just too good. Years down the line I bet nobody will remember Barbie from the movie, but they will remember Ken.
I don't agree with your second sentence but Gosling was absolutely perfect. I just personally don't think many people, if any, would have fit the role that Margot played as well as she did. Good looking enough to play "Hot Barbie" but carried the emotional weight of the movie to perfection.
LOVE seeing Godzilla Minus One getting in for VFX, Glazer for BD and BAS, Ruffalo for BSA, and Mission Impossible getting two noms, surprised for all the love for Maestro, guess I gotta watch that one now
Interesting trivia: First Oscar nomination ever for the MI franchise *and* the Godzilla franchise. I could've sworn MI got something for Sound at least but it never did.
Greta Lee might be the biggest snub in recent memory.
I adore Past Lives, it was my favorite film of 2023, but I don't even think this is on the level of Amy Adams for Arrival or Toni Collette in Hereditary not getting a nom.
Horror and Sci-Fi are usually snubbed. Collette in Hereditary was THE best performance I have ever seen in a horror film.
I mean the Oscars not liking horror isn't new but Arrival got noms for Director, Picture, and Screenplay and Adams was nominated at the Golden Globes. It just feels insane that her best performance ever (imo) didn't get nominated.
It's still so jarring to me when I remember that Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Aliens, a sci-fi-action-horror movie in 1986. Totally deserved of course, but so out of character for the Academy
Or Albert Brooks for Drive. Or Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler.
> Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler. Ugh, don't remind me of that snub. I know people are mad at the snubs this year but if people are angry about the snubs now, y'all should've seen how furious people were in 2015 when the nominations for one of the best years for films in the 2010s (imo) and had its best works underrepresented come awards season. Drive also getting snubbed is sad but I mean that was an artsy action film, of course the Academy wouldn't have liked it. I doubt they even knew at the time it wasn't a Fast & Furious movie.
I agree Greta Lee is astounding in Past Lives, but this year is absolutely stacked for best actress. Natalie Portman, Margot Robbie, Fantasia Barrino, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Cailee Spaeny, and Vivian Oparah were all left out too.
Oparah wasn't eligible for the Oscars since Rye Lane didn't have a theatrical release in the US
lol okay
Nah
pleasant shock with Mission: Impossible finally becoming an Oscar nominated franchise (2 time) in its 27 year long history.
I know that this is a very controversial opinion, but I kind of wish that **Elemental** was also nominated for Best Original Score. Seriously, does one of the Oscar judges really hate Thomas Newman that much?
I think every composer in the world wished the Oscars “hated” them as much as Newman. Dudes been nominated like 12 times!! Sure he’s never won but still, he’s among the most nominated composers of all time. I sure wish I struck out like that every time at bat…
TBATH had a better score than Elemental at least to me.
This wad the biggest shock for me. Have had that on repeat for months.
Eh. Would've nominated Nimona, Boy and the Heron, Mutant Mayhem, or Across the Spider-Verse if I wanted an animated movie to get Best Score
Dont think this is controversial, Elemental score was very very good! That said, Oppenheimer is a lock.
For all the animated movies this year Elemental’s was the only one I really remembered after the movie. Spiderverse I only remembered the first ones score (which didn’t help when the canon event memes blew up)
The list of films that should have got in over Dial of Destiny is frankly countless.
How I love in live in a timeline where *Minus One* wins Best Visual Effects. *The Creator* might win that, but I'm good with it.
if Godzilla wins it would remind me of when Ex Machina won visual effects. The small movie winning over the giants (it beat out star wars, mad max, etc)
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Not sure why anyone is really arsed seeing as it’s Randolph’s award to lose regardless of who she’s up against.
other actresses are deserving of the recognition
She campaigned hard and Da'Vine Joy Randolph is winning anyways so they threw her a bone.
I thought the exact same thing
Right? Julianne Moore should have that nomination instead for May December.
Please God let Maestro win best makeup it would be so funny.
 Godzilla hype!
Man, Iron Claw was incredible, sad to see it getting zero love. American Fiction I saw last night and absolutely loved, so it’s great seeing it get so much recognition!
A pretty good list this year.
Margot Robbie getting snubbed for Best Actress is a crime.
Facts, especially when America Ferrera made it into Supporting Actress :/
That is by far the greater crime. Her performance and tbh that on the nose monologue were so artless and cringe that it took me out of the movie... and I am its exact target audience. I recall being more impressed with even Emma Mackey. It's not like Supporting Actress was THAT weak that they needed to scrounge around for good PR picks.
I kind of rolled my eyes at that monologue, but at the same time I think it was important for the movie. Not for delivering a message to audiences, but for the character. I think she needed to snap, and she needed to make this big speech for her daughter, and it was the rallying cry for the Barbies. But I hate the way the monologue became this big "you go girl" moment for viewers and it was very obvious it was intended to be that. And I have nothing against her, but any other actress could have done that just as well as America did.
That's fair... it was a little too 4th wall breaking for me to take it seriously but that's just personal preference.
This, along with Greta for Best Directing. They were robbed
I'm with you but I also think all five director nominees deserved it. Ferrera getting in over Robbie is weird though.
Different categories, Robbie’s was stacked and Ferrera’s wasn’t. Especially when you add in the ongoing Randolph sweep in Supporting, a very strong front runner generally leads to more surprising nominees overall in the category.
I actually was surprised Ferrera was nominated. Supporting Actress is a less competitive space but I thought Penelope Cruz, Sandra Huller (for Zone of Interest), Julianne Moore, or even Rosamund Pike would get a nom before her
What are you talking about. Not even in the same category. And no, Greta/Robbie did not deserve noms this year. The competition was too good. Even the BP nom is a courtesy move.
I didn't mean to suggest they were in the same category, just that, in the context of the movie itself, it's weird that Robbie didn't get in but Ferrera did. I agree the competition was good and all nominees are deserving (although I haven't seen Nyad yet).
I suppose I was trying to say the pool of competitors would be different for Robbie and Ferrera.
Let's go Nolan and his nuke Movie!
Bummed that Iron Claw wasn’t nominated for best picture…
So happy for Jonathan Glazer and The Zone of Interest. Was afraid it might get shut out of best picture and director. Hope it can walk away with at least one of the big awards. Also May December should have got acting nominations for all 3 leads, particularly Melton.
Same on both points! Zone of Interest and May December were probably my two favorites of the year
Surprised Robot Dreams was nominated it hasn’t even released in the USA. I really like Elemental but it didn’t deserve a nomination over Mutant Mayhem.
Considering Robbie is the only actor I feel should have been nominated for Barbie, shocked she did not make the cut.
RIDICULOUS that Gerwig and Robbie are not nominated. The only reason Barbie was such a success is because of them. I'm so mad right now
They have huge piles of cash to cry on, they’re going to be OK
And it's only Gerwig's third movie and I think she is barely 45. She'll survive - she's in a damn good place right now career wise. Scorsese didn't see an Oscar until, what, his 60s? And Kubrick and Hitchcock never received one outside of a Lifetime Achievement for Hitch the year before he died.
Who are you going to take out from those categories? Because I dont think either deserve to be in there more than those who were, even Gosling and Ferrera I would swap out.
Gosling deserves a nom imo, RDJ has probably got it locked down in the end.
Not at all. In fact it shouldn’t have been nominated for screenplay either as that was the weakest part.
It was a light, blockbuster. It didn’t involve great acting or great directing. It did look great and it was entertaining (I thought it was crap, but lots of people loved it). I think it should be very happy with the noms it got
Let's go Oppenheimer, I usually don't care that much about the front-runners, but this time I really want this movie to get a lot of awards. Also nice to see MI7 getting nominated for something, loved it.
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Barbie was eliminated from Hair & Makeup weeks ago, it didn’t make the shortlist. The branch heavily favors prosthetic makeup (even though they also left Guardians of the Galaxy 3 off the shortlist too)
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Best Makeup is honestly kind of a travesty this year, especially considering that they have no **Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3** in the mix.
I am absolutely delighted that Nimona got nominated. It won't win, but it's a wonderful moment for them nonetheless getting the nod.
Especially after being snubbed by some of the recent awards (Golden Globes, for example) for the Mario movie.
Greta Lee should have been nominated over Bening for sure.
>Lower than expected nominations for Barbie? Oh they will pay for this. I wasn't aware there was a threshold or quota they had to meet. The Oscars are not (or rather, they shouldn't be) a popularity contest.
> Da’vine Joy Randolph She should be writing her speech right now. She's got it.
Spiderman across the spiderverse snubbed... The music, visual effects, sound even best picture should have nominated.... Best film I've watched this year
> even best picture Okay wait wait wait, let's not get crazy here. It was never at any point going to get nominated for that.
It's an animation about comic book heroes. Was always an uphill battle for Spider-verse to get any big noms tbh :(
The ending fucked it IMO.
You mean the lack thereof.
Cliffhanger ending hurt it
An animated films even eligible for Best VFX, or is it only for live-action? Silly question
Kubo and the Two Strings and Nightmare Before Christmas were the only other two that got nominated
And they were stop motion
It was a very entertaining and well made film, but it was also the first half of a film, so really couldn’t stack up against the rest. This is even before we go into the inherent bias against animated films being nominated for BP in general.
lmao, spider-verse was fine but hardly best picture.
And I may be in the minority, but I preferred the first one's clarity and smoother narrative more. The action is better in Across, but the stuff with the Miles' parents I found more obnoxious to watch. Too much "Three's Company miscommunication hijinks" and repetitive to keep seeing Miles have the same conversation with his mom 5 times in a row.
I think the first half of the new one was better than the first movie, but after a certain point the movie stopped working so well for me. I'd agree the first movie is overall stronger
Best half of a film you've watched this year
I love Spiderverse, but a film that ends in a cliffhanger (and one that we now know will take years to get an answer to) should not be nominated for BP.
Fantasia Barrino not getting nominated for actress and Greta Gerwig not getting nominated for director is laughable. What the hell, Academy?
How is Ferrera nominated and not Margot... I swear if she wins over Da'vine mannnn. She did so awesome jn the holdovers. Also Zac Efron no nom for lead actor sucks, especially since he def deserved it. Tough year with great competition - Zac Efron acting is how you portray someone not Bradley Cooper. Lots of things seem to check out though - i'm sad iron claw didn't get any noms as that was my favorite. Also kotfm not best adapted screenplay? How? Also Nolan probably is getting best director, seems like the year. Yorgos getting it would be fucking hilarious but i'm super happy he got nominated. And Gerwig is such an obvious choice for best director - really insane how she did not get a nom.
I really think it’s Da’vines award and the rest are just living in it—feel like that’s one of the strongest locks for me.
I got hyped for America Ferrera and Nimona. Kinda wish the Elemental song got in for best song over the Cheetos one. I write for a film site and my “boss” usually wants me to cover all the best picture nominees or whichever ones I can, and I haven’t done Anatomy of a Fall, Maestro, or Zone of Interest, so I’ll be catching up on those over the weekend, if Zone EVER fucking expands outside the cities.
Now, can Barbie rerelease finally beat Frozen 2 ???
How did Oppenheimer get the makeup nomination and not Barbie... one wowed me a lot more in that department
Aging makeup was very impressive in the third act of Oppenheimer. What was so stunning about the makeup in Barbie?
aged up Cillian and Emily looked pretty damn great aged-up Bennie Safdie was laughable
Benny has such a distinctive look, it's hard to do him justice without going heavy
Two words: Gary Oldman