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The Oscars 2024 nominations have just been announced, with some surprises and lots of snubs.
On Tuesday (23 January), the latest round of nominations were revealed during a live stream hosted by Zazie Beetz (Atlanta, Joker) and Jack Quaid (The Boys, Oppenheimer) in Los Angeles.
The movies, actors, directors and writers competing to get their hands on the prized Oscar statuette were announced one week after the Bafta nominations were unveiled in the UK.
The films in contention for awards include Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which swept the board at both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards earlier this month, as well as its blockbuster rival Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things, starring Emma Stone.
Some of the shock omissions include Gerwig, who did not earn a Best Director nod, Barry Keoghan for his performance in Saltburn, and May December star Charles Melton.
This year’s Oscars ceremony will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and will take place on 10 March.
Find all the live updates from the run-up to the announcement below
Paul Mescal has revealed who he’s backing to win at this year’s Oscars.
The Irish actor, 27, who was nominated for best actor last year, revealed who he thinks will take some of the top awards as he spoke to reporters on the red carpet at the All of Us Strangers London gala screening earlier today.
Whether you’re a film buff or curious to learn more about the real events at the centre of the film, Killers of the Flower Moon is a great choice for a Saturday night spent on the sofa. Here’s everything you need to know about the film, including how to watch it for free.
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Barbie actor America Ferrera has revealed she’s “incredibly disappointed” that the film’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie were both overlooked in their individual categories in today’s Oscars nominations.
The smash hit blockbuster has been nominated for a total of eight Oscars, including Ferrera for Best Supporting Actress, Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor and the night’s biggest award, Best Picture.
However, Gerwig and Robbie missed out on nominations for Best Director and Best Actress respectively.
Read what Ferrera had to say about that here:
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It may have been Barbie’s world last summer, but oh how the tables have turned, as it now appears the 2024 awards circuit is Oppenehimer’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
Christopher Nolan’s war drama, starring Oscar-nominated actor Cillian Murphy, has outperformed Greta Gerwig’s Barbie in both the 2024 Oscars and Baftas nominations lists. And fans are already predicting an Oppenheimer sweep.
It might be obvious to say, but a film getting nominated for an Oscar doesn’t automatically make it good.
In fact, there have been many deserving movies over the years that were somehow overlooked by the Academy.
It’s easy to assume that certain releases don’t get nominated because they’re not what Oscar voters would usually go for, but there have been some surprises in the past.
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Just some of the films that have been scandalously overlooked in years past
While there were a serious number of snubs, there were a lot of incredible successes and first-time nominees, including – but not limited to: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon, America Ferrera – Barbie, Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple, Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers, Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall, Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction and Sterling K Brown – American Fiction.
Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences attempts to award Oscars to the “best” film or artist in each category that year, and each year it fails at least a few times.
There is always room for disagreement on what constitutes “best”: how can we possibly compare Toy Story 3, Inception and The King’s Speech? And yet voters did just that in 2010.
It is similarly impossible to nail down all the egregious choices in academy history, but here are a few of the most glaring errors, with just days to go until the 2023 ceremony. Starting with the granddaddy of them all…
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