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The nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were yesterday announced in Los Angeles. The announcement was hosted by actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid.
“Oppenheimer” — Christopher Nolan’s portrait of the father of the atomic bomb — topped the list with 13 nods, including for best picture.
A biopic of Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist behind the atomic bomb, the film is short-listed in 13 categories, including best film, director and adapted screenplay. Stars Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt are also in contention for awards.
This tally means it has the most nominations garnered by a single film since 2018’s “The Shape of Water”, which went on to win four, including best picture and director.
Nolan, who has previously been nominated for five Oscars, is also frontrunner at next month’s Bafta awards — where he has likewise always come away empty-handed.
It was followed by “Poor Things”, a female-focused take on the Frankenstein myth, with 11, and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” on 10”.
Following their snubs at the Bafta nominations last week, stars Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro were revealed to be in the running for Oscars — although Leonardo DiCaprio has been shut out.
Gladstone’s inclusion makes her the first Native American actor to ever be up for the award and reignites the race between her and “Poor Things” star Emma Stone, who also won a best actress Golden Globe earlier this month.
“Poor Things” performed better than expected at yesterday’s nominations, securing surprise nods for Mark Ruffalo as best supporting actor and Yorgos Lanthimos for best director.
Lanthimos will now compete against Nolan, Scorsese, “The Zone of Interest’s” Jonathan Glazer and Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”. Triet, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year for her courtroom thriller, is therefore the only female director in the category, with “Barbie’s” Greta Gerwig and “Past Lives’s” Celine Song both shut out.
“Barbie” instead had to make do with eight nominations, including adapted screenplay, supporting actor for Ryan Gosling, two separate entries for best song and a surprise supporting actress nod for America Ferrera.
Yet “Barbie” and “Past Lives” are nominated alongside “Anatomy of a Fall” in the 10-strong best picture shortlist, as well as “Oppenheimer”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, “Past Lives”, and alongside “American Fiction, “The Holdovers”, “Maestro” and “The Zone of Interest”.
“Maestro”, Bradley Cooper’s take on the personal and professional dramas of Leonard Bernstein, scored recognition in seven categories, including sound and makeup and hair, while Cooper himself is up for original screenplay and best actor.
Colman Domingo (for Rustin) and Jeffrey Wright (for American Fiction) were popular surprise inclusions in that race, although it is widely predicted to be a straight fight between Murphy and Paul Giamatti, who plays a curmudgeonly teacher in “The Holdovers.”
Winners of the industry’s highest honours will be unveiled at a 10 March ceremony at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who returns as host for a second consecutive year and aired live on Walt Disney Co’s ABC network. The Oscars will air on M-Net. — News24-theguradian.com
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