Academy Awards 2024: ‘Oppenheimer’ Blows Up The Competition With 13 Nominations (Complete List)

Perhaps not that surprisingly, Oppenheimer dominated the Academy Award nominations with 13 nods including Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role for Cillian Murphy, Actor in a Supporting Role for Robert Downey Jr., and Directing for Christopher Nolan.

Following Oppenheimer, Poor Things garnered 11 nominations, with Killers of the Flower Moon earning 10, and 2023’s box office champion Barbie scoring 8, however, neither director Greta Gerwig nor star Margot Robbie landed nods in their respective categories. Barbie did get into the Best Picture category so Robbie does get a nomination as a producer for that. But without Gerwig being nominated for Best Director, it’s highly unlikely that Barbie could take the top prize.

For Best Picture, Oppenheimer and Barbie are up against American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Past Lives, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest.

Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy will be competing for Lead Actor against The Holdovers‘s Paul Giamatti and the prize will likely come down to these two. Also nominated are Bradley Cooper for Maestro, Colman Domingo for Rustin, and Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction. One surprising omission is Leonardo DiCaprio for Killers of the Flower Moon, which was viewed as a lock.

Among Oppenheimer‘s other honors is Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., who is up against Sterling K. Brown for American Fiction, Robert De Niro for Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling for Barbie, and Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things. Speaking of Poor Things, Willem Dafoe did not get a nod, which some view as a snub.

There really is no Lead Actress in Oppenheimer, but Emily Blunt did score a Supporting Actress nomination, placing her against Danielle Brooks for The Color Purple, America Ferrera for Barbie, Jodie Foster for Nyad, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers. Randolph has been sweeping the other awards this season, so she is eyed as the frontrunner.

The race for Lead Actress is between Annette Benning for Nyad, Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Carey Mulligan for Maestro, and Emma Stone for Poor Things. This time, it looks like this will come down to either Gladstone or Stone.  After winning the Golden Globe, Gladstone was expected to be the frontrunner, but then she got snubbed by the BAFTAs.  That may give Stone an edge, but we’ll see.

Best Director is between Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall, Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon, Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer, Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things, and Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest.

Barbie got two nominations in the Best Song category. “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling and “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish are both recognized, with Eilish’s song most likely to win. However, “I’m Just Ken” just scored the Critics Choice Award, so that improves its chances, although it may be seen as more of a novelty song. These two are competing against “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot, “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, and “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon.

Just an observation, not a single song nominated was from an actual musical movie. Wonka, The Color Purple, and Wish were completely ignored.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning received two nominations for Sound and Visual Effects, marking the first time this long-running franchise has ever been nominated at the Oscars.

You can view all the nominations below.  The Academy Awards will be broadcast on March 10.

Best Picture

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

Actor in a Leading Role

Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Actress in a Leading Role

Annette Bening – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Emma Stone – Poor Things

Actor in a Supporting Role

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 Supporting Role

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Directing

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

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)

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

International Feature Film

Io Capitano (Italy)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
The Zone of Interest (UK)

Animated Feature Film

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

Documentary Feature Film

Bobi Wine: The People’s President – Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek
The Eternal Memory – Nominees to be determined
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

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

Documentary Short Film

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

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

Film Editing

Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal
The Holdovers – Kevin Tent
Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker
Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame
Poor Things – Yorgos Mavropsaridis