Oscars Nominations 2024: Thoughts & Predictions

Its the most wonderful time of the year... Awards Season! Its that time of year again that everyone counts down the days until the Oscars (only me... I'm crazy). The Oscar nominations were released this morning and of course I have some thoughts. Below are each category with who I predict to win or who I just want to win and of course the snubs of the year. The Oscars ceremony will take place on March 10th and I can't wait because it is (weirdly enough) one of my favourite nights of the year. 

List of nominations found at: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
I love this list of nominees. I really hope its either Cillian Murphy, Paul Giamatti or Jeffrey Wright. I think Cillian has the best chance. 

BRADLEY COOPER
Maestro

COLMAN DOMINGO
Rustin

PAUL GIAMATTI
The Holdovers

CILLIAN MURPHY
Oppenheimer

JEFFREY WRIGHT
American Fiction

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

This is such a great list of actors. I would like to see either Mark Ruffalo or Robert Downey Jr. win this one. I'd be contempt with anyone on this list winning though. 

STERLING K. BROWN
American Fiction

ROBERT DE NIRO
Killers of the Flower Moon

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Oppenheimer

RYAN GOSLING
Barbie

MARK RUFFALO
Poor Things

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

To be honest I didn't watch any of these movies yet, but I love Emma Stone and she is amazing in any clip I have seen of Poor Things and she jut won for the role at the Golden Globes. 

ANNETTE BENING
Nyad

LILY GLADSTONE
Killers of the Flower Moon

SANDRA HÜLLER
Anatomy of a Fall

CAREY MULLIGAN
Maestro

EMMA STONE
Poor Things

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
If America Ferrera doesn't win I might cry. This scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqlDWHkdHk

I rest my case. 

EMILY BLUNT
Oppenheimer

DANIELLE BROOKS
The Color Purple

AMERICA FERRERA
Barbie

JODIE FOSTER
Nyad

DA'VINE JOY RANDOLPH
The Holdovers

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The animation and story or Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse is somehow even better than the first one. However, the first film did win Best Animated Feature and the Oscars don't love sequels. 

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

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Pretty. 

EL CONDE
Edward Lachman

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Rodrigo Prieto

MAESTRO
Matthew Libatique

OPPENHEIMER
Hoyte van Hoytema

POOR THINGS
Robbie Ryan

COSTUME DESIGN
Pretty too. 

BARBIE
Jacqueline Durran

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Jacqueline West

NAPOLEON
Janty Yates and Dave Crossman

OPPENHEIMER
Ellen Mirojnick

POOR THINGS
Holly Waddington

DIRECTING

This is the only category I am mad about. Outraged by the fact that Greta Gerwig is not nominated.  I am so happy for Justine Triet and I hope she wins, but the fact that she is only the 8th woman in history to be nominated for Best Director is very telling. 

ANATOMY OF A FALL
Justine Triet

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Martin Scorsese

OPPENHEIMER
Christopher Nolan

POOR THINGS
Yorgos Lanthimos

THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Jonathan Glazer

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Didn't watch any of these so this is solely based on Rotten Tomatoes reviews. They seem to think this one is good. 

BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT
Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

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

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Again did not watch any of these but this one sounded the most interesting so I might give these a watch. 

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

FILM EDITING
This category will be interesting to see on Oscars night but I'd love to see The Holdovers win for editing and Oppenheimer I'd be contempt with as that was also really well done. 

ANATOMY OF A FALL
Laurent Sénéchal

THE HOLDOVERS
Kevin Tent

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Thelma Schoonmaker

OPPENHEIMER
Jennifer Lame

POOR THINGS
Yorgos Mavropsaridis

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

IO CAPITANO
Italy

PERFECT DAYS
Japan

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Spain

THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
Germany

THE ZONE OF INTEREST
United Kingdom

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

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

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
What was I made for is every girl's crying in the car song and it better win an Oscar. 

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 PICTURE

The big one. 

AMERICAN FICTION
Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers

ANATOMY OF A FALL
Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers

BARBIE
David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers

THE HOLDOVERS
Mark Johnson, Producer

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers

MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

OPPENHEIMER
Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers

PAST LIVES
David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers

POOR THINGS
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers

THE ZONE OF INTEREST
James Wilson, Producer

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Barbie built an entire Barbie neighbourhood. They caused a pink paint shortage in the entire world. If that doesn't win I don't know what does. This production looks like the inside of my childhood imagination. 

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

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

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

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

VISUAL EFFECTS

The academy hates Marvel and sequels so this makes the most sense to me. 

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

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

AMERICAN FICTION
Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson

BARBIE
Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach

OPPENHEIMER
Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan

POOR THINGS
Screenplay by Tony McNamara

THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Written by Jonathan Glazer

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
I can't pick just one okay. 

ANATOMY OF A FALL
Screenplay - Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

THE HOLDOVERS
Written by David Hemingson

MAESTRO
Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer

MAY DECEMBER
Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik

PAST LIVES
Written by Celine Song