Director Christopher Nolan’s film regarding the “father of the atomic bomb” has the most nominations for this year’s Academy Awards. Oppenheimer can think of 13 Oscars, including Best Picture. There are nine other candidates in the main category, Barbie, Killers of the Blooming Moon and Poor People are also nominated.
The four listed titles are seen by critics as the main favorites to win the most prestigious award. Nolan’s three-hour opus regarding the physicist Robert Oppenheimer has already had a very successful night at the Golden Globes, where he converted five of eight nominations. The Oscars will be held in Los Angeles on March 10.
According to the AP agency, behind Oppenheimer in the number of nominations is the comedy The Poor, directed by Jorgos Lanthimos, which has 11, and the historical drama Killers of the Blooming Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, with ten. According to the media, he has already earned his tenth nomination for best director. Box office hit Barbie collected eight nominations.
The ten finalists are completed by the films Winter Vacation, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Maestro, Past Lives and American Fiction. According to Variety magazine, for the first time in the history of the Oscars, three films directed by women are nominated in the main category.
Overview of nominations
The best movie:
Oppenheimer – produced by Charles Roven, Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan
Barbie – produced by Tom Ackerley, Robbie Brenner, David Heyman and Margot Robbie
Poor People – Produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Jorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone
Killers of the Blooming Moon – Produced by Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, Martin Scorsese and Bradley Thomas
Winter Break – Producer Mark Johnson
Maestro – Bradley Cooper, Fred Berner, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Amy Durning
American Fiction – produced by Cord Jefferson, Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios and Jermaine Johnson
Past Lives – Produced by David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon
Anatomy of a Fall – producers Marie-Ange Lucianiová and David Thion
Zone of Interest – producer James Wilson
Directed by:
Justine Trietová- Anatomy of a fall
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Blooming Moon
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Jorgos Lanthimos – Chudáčci
Jonathan Glazer – Zone of interest
Actor in the main role:
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – Winter Vacation
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Actress in the main role:
Annette Bening – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Blooming Moon
Sandra Hüllerová – Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulliganová – Maestro
Emma Stone – The Poor
Supporting Actor:
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Blooming Moon
Mark Ruffalo – Poor people
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Supporting Actress:
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – Winter Break
Foreign feature film
The Snow Brotherhood, Spain – directed by JA Bayon
Zone of Interest, Britain – directed by Jonathan Glazer
The Teachers’ Lounge (Sborovna), Germany – directed by Ilker Çatak
Io capitano (I am the captain), Italy – directed by Matteo Garrone
Perfect Days, Japan – directed by Wim Wenders
Best Animated Film
The Boy and the Heron – directed by Hajao Miyazaki
Between the Elements – directed by Peter Sohn
Nimona – directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane
Dog and his friend Robot – directed by Pablo Berger
Spider-Man: Across Parallel Worlds – Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
Music
Laura Karpmanová – American Fiction
John Williams – Indiana Jones and the Tool of Fate
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Blooming Moon
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix – Chudáčci
The best song
The Fire Inside – music and lyrics by Diane Warren; Flamin’ Hot: The Spice of Success
I’m Just Ken – hudba a text Mark Ronson; Barbie
It Never Went Away – music and lyrics by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson; American Symphony
Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) – music and lyrics by Scott George; Killers of the Blooming Moon
What Was I Made For? – hudba a text Billie Eilish a Finneas O’Connell; Barbie