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Oscars: Oppenheimer tops nominees, while Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things also get multiple nominations

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Oscars: Oppenheimer tops nominees, while Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things also get multiple nominations


After a tumultuous film year marred by strikes and work stoppages, the Academy Awards showered nominations on Tuesday on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, Oppenheimer, which came away with a leading 13 nominations.

Nolan’s three-hour opus, viewed as the best picture front runner, received nods for best picture; Nolan’s direction; acting nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jnr and Emily Blunt; and multiple honours for the craft of Nolan’s J. Robert Oppenheimer drama.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie wasn’t far behind with eight nominations, including nods for best picture; Ryan Gosling for best supporting actor; and two best-song candidates in What Was I Made For and I’m Just Ken. But Gerwig was surprisingly left out of the best director field.

Both Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers of the Flower Moon and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff Poor Things were also widely celebrated. Poor Things landed 11 nods, while Killers of the Moon was nominated for 10 Oscars.

Cillian Murphy starring in Oppenheimer. Photo: Universal Pictures Handout

Lily Gladstone, star of Killers of the Flower Moon, became the first Native American nominated for best actress. For the 10th time, Scorsese was nominated for best director. Leonardo DiCaprio, though, was left out of best actor.

Those four contenders made for a maximalist quartet of Oscar heavyweights. Nolan’s sprawling biopic. Gerwig’s near-musical. Scorsese’s pitch-black Western. Lanthimos’ sumptuously designed fantasy.

Each utilised a wide spectrum of cinematic tools to tell big, often disturbing big-screen stories. And each – even Apple’s biggest-budgeted movie yet, Killers of the Flower Moon – had robust theatrical releases that saved streaming for months later.

Selected categories

Best picture

Barbie, the highest grossing film over the past year, has been nominated for best picture at the Oscars. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures via AP

Best director

  • 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

  • Bradley Cooper, Maestro

  • Colman Domingo, Rustin

  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

  • Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

  • Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Jeffrey Wright is seen in a still from American Fiction. Photo: Amazon MGM Studios

Best actress

  • Annette Bening, Nyad

  • Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall

  • Carey Mulligan, Maestro

  • Emma Stone, Poor Things

Lily Gladstone was nominated for best actress for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, but co-star Leonardo DiCaprio (also pictured) failed to make the cut for best actor. Photo: Apple Studios

Best supporting actor

  • Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction

  • Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Robert Downey Jnr, Oppenheimer

  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie

  • Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best supporting actress

  • Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer

  • Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

  • America Ferrera, Barbie

  • Jodie Foster, Nyad

  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster was nominated for best supporting actress for Nyad. Photo: Netflix via AP

Best international film

  • Society of the Snow, Spain

  • The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom

  • The Teachers’ Lounge, Germany

  • Io Capitano, Italy

  • Perfect Days, Japan

Best animated film

The Associated Press notched its first Oscar nomination in the news organisation’s 178-year history with 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and of the last international journalists left there after the Russia invasion. It was nominated for best documentary. It is a joint production between Associated Press and PBS’ Frontline.

Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, from left, “Frontline” producer/editor Michelle Mizner, director Mstyslav Chernov, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko are nominated for best documentary at the Oscars for “20 Days in Mariupol”. Photo: Invision via AP

Best documentary

Oscar season has reunited Oppenheimer with its summer box-office partner, Barbie. Greta Gerwig’s feminist blockbuster, easily the biggest hit of the year with more than US$1.4 billion in ticket sales, shouldn’t be far behind Oppenheimer.

Historically, blockbusters have helped fuel Oscar ratings. Though the pile-up of award shows (an after-effect of last year’s strikes) could be detrimental to the Academy Awards, the Barbenheimer presence could help lift the March 10 telecast on ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host, with the ceremony moved up an hour, to 7pm Eastern Time.



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