96TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS OSCAR NOMINATIONS FACT SHEET
Los Angeles (Special to OscarsMovieNews.com) – This is the official facts sheet for the 96th Academy Awards, March 10th, 2024, provided to the press by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best Motion Picture of the Year:
American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) – Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson,
producers – This is the first Best Picture nomination for all four.
Anatomy of a Fall (Neon) – Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, producers – This is the first nomination for both.
Barbie (Warner Bros.) – David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, producers – This is the fourth Best
Picture nomination for David Heyman. He was previously nominated for Gravity (2013), Marriage Story (2019) and Once upon a
Time…in Hollywood (2019).
This is the first Best Picture nomination for Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley.
This is the second Best Picture nomination for Robbie Brenner, who was previously nominated for Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
The Holdovers (Focus Features) – Mark Johnson, producer – This is the third Best Picture nomination for Mark Johnson, who won an
Oscar for Rain Man (1988). He was also nominated for Bugsy (1991).
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films) – Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, producers –
This is the first nomination for both Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas.
This is the fourth Best Picture nomination for Martin Scorsese. He was previously nominated for Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall
Street (2013) and The Irishman (2019).
This is the third Best Picture nomination for Daniel Lupi. He was previously nominated for There Will Be Blood (2007) and
Phantom Thread (2017).
Maestro (Netflix) – Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers – This is
the fifth Best Picture nomination for Bradley Cooper. He was previously nominated for American Sniper (2014), A Star Is Born
(2018), Joker (2019) and Nightmare Alley (2021).
This is the thirteenth Best Picture nomination for Steven Spielberg, who won the award for Schindler’s List (1993). Other
nominations were for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005),
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017), West Side Story
(2021) and The Fabelmans (2022).
This is the first nomination for both Fred Berner and Amy Durning.
This is the fifth Best Picture nomination for Kristie Macosko Krieger. She was nominated for Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post
(2017), West Side Story (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022).
Oppenheimer (Universal) – Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, producers – This is the third Best Picture
nomination for both Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan. Together they were nominated for Inception (2010) and Dunkirk
(2017).
This is the second Best Picture nomination for Charles Roven, who was previously nominated for American Hustle (2013).
Past Lives (A24) – David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, producers – This is the first nomination for all three.
Poor Things (Searchlight) – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, producers – This is the third Best Picture nomination for Ed Guiney. He was previously nominated for Room (2015) and The Favourite (2018).
This is the second Best Picture nomination for Yorgos Lanthimos, who was previously nominated for The Favourite (2018).
This is the first Best Picture nomination for both Andrew Lowe and Emma Stone.
The Zone of Interest (A24) – James Wilson, producer – This is his first nomination.
Achievement in Directing:
Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet – This is her second nomination, including her nomination this year for Original Screenplay.
Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese – This is his tenth nomination in this category and his sixteenth overall, including his
Best Picture nomination this year. He won for Directing for The Departed (2006) and was nominated in the category for Raging
Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Good Fellas (1990), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Hugo
(2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Irishman (2019). He has nominations for the adapted screenplays for Good Fellas
and The Age of Innocence (1993) and Best Picture nominations for Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.
Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan – This is his second nomination in this category and his eighth overall, including his Best Picture
and Adapted Screenplay nominations this year. He was nominated for his original screenplay for Memento (2001), Best Picture
and Original Screenplay for Inception (2010), and Best Picture and Directing for Dunkirk (2017).
Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos – This is his second nomination in this category and his fifth overall, including his Best Picture
nomination this year. He was previously nominated for his original screenplay for The Lobster (2016) and for Directing and Best
Picture for The Favourite (2018).
The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer – This is his second nomination, including his nomination this year for Adapted Screenplay.
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Bradley Cooper (“Leonard Bernstein” in Maestro) – This is his fourth nomination in this category and his twelfth overall, including his Best Picture and Original Screenplay nominations this year. He was nominated for his leading roles in Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Sniper (2014) and A Star Is Born (2018), and for his supporting role in American Hustle (2013). He was nominated for Best Picture for American Sniper, A Star Is Born, Joker (2019) and Nightmare Alley (2021), and for Adapted
Screenplay for A Star Is Born.
Colman Domingo (“Bayard Rustin” in Rustin) – This is his first nomination.
Paul Giamatti (“Paul Hunham” in The Holdovers) – This is his second nomination and first in this category. He was previously nominated for his supporting role in Cinderella Man (2005).
Cillian Murphy (“J. Robert Oppenheimer” in Oppenheimer) – This is his first nomination.
Jeffrey Wright (“Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison” in American Fiction) – This is his first nomination.
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Sterling K. Brown (“Clifford Ellison” in American Fiction) – This is his first nomination.
Robert De Niro (“William Hale” in Killers of the Flower Moon) – This is his ninth nomination and third in this category. He won Oscars for his supporting role in The Godfather Part II (1974) and his leading role in Raging Bull (1980). Other nominations were for leading roles in Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990) and Cape Fear (1991), for his supporting role in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and for Best Picture for The Irishman (2019).
Robert Downey Jr. (“Lewis Strauss” in Oppenheimer) – This is his third nomination and second in this category. He was previously nominated for his leading role in Chaplin (1992) and his supporting role in Tropic Thunder (2008).
Ryan Gosling (“Ken” in Barbie) – This is his third nomination and first in this category. He was previously nominated for his leading roles in Half Nelson (2006) and La La Land (2016).
Mark Ruffalo (“Duncan Wedderburn” in Poor Things) – This is his fourth nomination in this category. He was previously nominated for his supporting roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010), Foxcatcher (2014) and Spotlight (2015).
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Annette Bening (“Diana Nyad” in Nyad) – This is her fifth nomination and fourth in this category. She was nominated for her supporting role in The Grifters (1990) and her leading roles in American Beauty (1999), Being Julia (2004) and The Kids Are All
Right (2010).
Lily Gladstone (“Mollie Burkhart” in Killers of the Flower Moon) – This is her first nomination.
Sandra Hüller (“Sandra” in Anatomy of a Fall) – This is her first nomination.
Carey Mulligan (“Felicia Montealegre” in Maestro) – This is her third nomination in this category. She was nominated for her leading roles in An Education (2009) and Promising Young Woman (2020).
Emma Stone (“Bella Baxter” in Poor Things) – This is her second nomination in this category and her fifth overall, including her nomination this year for Best Picture. She won an Oscar for her leading role in La La Land (2016) and was nominated for her supporting roles in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Favourite (2018).
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Emily Blunt (“Kitty Oppenheimer” in Oppenheimer) – This is her first nomination.
Danielle Brooks (“Sofia” in The Color Purple) – This is her first nomination.
America Ferrera (“Gloria” in Barbie) – This is her first nomination.
Jodie Foster (“Bonnie Stoll” in Nyad) – This is her fifth nomination and second in this category. She won Oscars for her leading roles in The Accused (1988) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Her other nominations were for her supporting role in Taxi Driver (1976) and for her leading role in Nell (1994).
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“Mary Lamb” in The Holdovers) – This is her first nomination.
Adapted Screenplay:
American Fiction – Written for the Screen by Cord Jefferson (based upon the novel Erasure by Percival Everett) – This is his second nomination, including his nomination this year for Best Picture.
Barbie – Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (based on Barbie by Mattel) – This is the fourth nomination and third in a writing category for Greta Gerwig. She was nominated for Directing and Original Screenplay for Lady Bird (2017), and for Adapted Screenplay for Little Women (2019).
This is the fourth nomination and third in a writing category for Noah Baumbach. He was nominated for his original screenplay for The Squid and the Whale (2005) and for Best Picture and Original Screenplay for Marriage Story (2019).
Oppenheimer – Written for the Screen by Christopher Nolan (based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin) – This is his third nomination in a writing category and his eighth overall, including his Best Picture and Directing nominations this year. He was nominated for his original screenplay for Memento (2001), Best Picture and Original Screenplay for Inception (2010), and Best Picture and Directing for Dunkirk (2017).
Poor Things – Screenplay by Tony McNamara (based upon the novel by Alasdair Gray) – This is his second nomination. He was nominated for his original screenplay for The Favourite (2018).
The Zone of Interest – Written by Jonathan Glazer (based on the novel by Martin Amis) – This is his second nomination, including his nomination this year for Directing.
Original Screenplay:
Anatomy of a Fall – Screenplay – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – This is the second nomination for Justine Triet, including her nomination this year for Directing.
This is the first nomination for Arthur Harari.
The Holdovers – Written by David Hemingson – This is his first nomination.
Maestro – Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer – This is Bradley Cooper’s second nomination in a writing category and his twelfth overall, including his Best Picture and Lead Actor nominations this year. He was nominated for his leading roles in Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Sniper (2014) and A Star Is Born (2018), and for his supporting role in American Hustle
(2013). He was nominated for Best Picture for American Sniper, A Star Is Born, Joker (2019) and Nightmare Alley (2021), and for Adapted Screenplay for A Star Is Born.
This is the second nomination for Josh Singer, who won an Oscar for Original Screenplay for Spotlight (2015).
May December – Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik – This is the first nomination for both.
Past Lives – Written by Celine Song – This is her first nomination.
Best International Feature Film:
Io Capitano (Italy) [Directed by Matteo Garrone.] – This is the 30th nomination for Italy. It has won the award eleven times: for La Strada (1956), The Nights of Cabiria (1957), Federico Fellini’s 8½ (1963), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964), Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion (1970), The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1971), Amarcord (1974), Cinema Paradiso (1989), Mediterraneo (1991), Life Is Beautiful (1998) and The Great Beauty (2013).
Prior to the establishment of a regular award category in 1956, Italy also received three Special/Honorary Awards, for Shoe-Shine (1947), The Bicycle Thief (1949) and The Walls of Malapaga (1950) [shared with France]. Other nominations were for The Usual Unidentified Thieves (1958), The Great War (1959), Kapo (1960), The Four Days of Naples (1962), Marriage Italian Style (1965), The Battle of Algiers (1966), The Girl with the Pistol (1968), Scent of a Woman (1975), Seven Beauties (1976), A Special Day (1977), Viva Italia! (1978), To Forget Venice (1979), Three Brothers (1981), The Family (1987), Open Doors (1990), The Star Maker (1995), Don’t Tell (2005) and The Hand of God (2021).
Perfect Days (Japan) [Directed by Wim Wenders.] – This is the fifteenth nomination for Japan. It has won the award twice: for Departures (2008) and Drive My Car (2021). Prior to the establishment of a regular award category in 1956, Japan received three Honorary Foreign Language Film Awards for Rashomon (1951), Gate of Hell (1954) and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi (1955). Other nominations were for Harp of Burma (1956), Immortal Love (1961), Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963), Woman in the
Dunes (1964), Kwaidan (1965), Portrait of Chieko (1967), Dodes’ka-Den (1971), Sandakan No. 8 (1975), Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980), Muddy River (1981), The Twilight Samurai (2003) and Shoplifters (2018).
Society of the Snow (Spain) [Directed by J.A. Bayona.] – This is the twenty-first nomination for Spain. It has won the award four times: for Volver a Empezar (1982), Belle Epoque (1993), All about My Mother (1999) and The Sea Inside (2004).
Other nominations were for La Venganza (1958), Placido (1961), Los Tarantos (1963), El Amor Brujo (1967), Tristana (1970), My Dearest Señorita (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Mama Turns a Hundred (1979), The Nest (1980), Carmen (1983), Double Feature (1984), Course Completed (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Secrets of the Heart (1997), The Grandfather (1998) and Pain and Glory (2019). The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany) [Directed by İlker Çatak.] – This is the thirteenth nomination for Germany. It has won three Oscars: for Nowhere in Africa (2002), The Lives of Others (2006) and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022).
Other nominations were for The Nasty Girl (1990), Schtonk! (1992), Beyond Silence (1997), Downfall (2004), Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005), The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), The White Ribbon (2009), Toni Erdmann (2016) and Never Look Away (2018). Prior to reunification in 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany received a total of eight nominations. They were for The Captain of Kopenick (1956), The Devil Came at Night (1957), Arms and the Man (1958), The Bridge (1959), The Pedestrian (1973), The Glass Cell (1978), The Tin Drum (1979), which won the award, and Angry Harvest (1985). Also prior to reunification, the
German Democratic Republic received one nomination, for Jacob, the Liar (1976).
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) [Directed by Jonathan Glazer.] – This is the third nomination for the United Kingdom. Previous nominations were for Hedd Wyn (1993) and Solomon and Gaenor (1999).
Best Animated Feature Film:
The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS) – Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki – This is the fourth nomination in this category for Hayao
Miyazaki. He won an Oscar for Spirited Away (2002), and was nominated for Howl’s Moving Castle (2005) and The Wind Rises
(2013). He received an Honorary Award in 2014.
This is the third nomination in this category for Toshio Suzuki. He was previously nominated for The Wind Rises (2013) and The Red Turtle (2016).
Elemental (Walt Disney) – Peter Sohn and Denise Ream – This is the first nomination for both.
Nimona (Netflix) – Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary – This is the first nomination for all four.
Robot Dreams (Neon) – Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz – This is the first nomination for all four.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures Releasing) – Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal – This is the second nomination and first in this category for Kemp Powers. He was nominated for his adapted screenplay for One Night in Miami… (2020).
This is the first nomination for Justin K. Thompson.
This is the third nomination for both Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Together, they won Oscars for Animated Feature Film for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and were nominated in the same category for The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021).
This is the third nomination and first in this category for Amy Pascal. She was previously nominated for Best Picture for The Post (2017) and Little Women (2019).