New success for Oppenheimer, semi-disappointment for Barbie and coup for Anatomy of a Fall: The nominations for the Oscars on Tuesday highlight the most eagerly awaited films, but also have a few surprises in store.
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Oppenheimer, the portrait of the father of the atomic bomb directed by Christopher Nolan, has already won five Golden Globes and confirmed its strong position with 13 nominations at the Oscars, which will take place on March 10 in Hollywood.
The summer blockbuster hits hard in the acting categories: Cillian Murphy, who plays Robert Oppenheimer, torn apart by the devastating consequences of his creation, is, as expected, nominated in the Best Actor category.
Actor Robert Downey Jr., who stars as a conservative bureaucrat more concerned with deposing a communist-minded Oppenheimer than the intricacies of quantum physics, and Emily Blunt, who plays the inventor's wife, are both nominated in the best categories Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Barbie, another counterpart to the famous Barbenheimer duo, has eight Oscar nominations. But Greta Gerwig is clearly missing from the Best Director category, as is Margot Robbie, who plays a perfect doll plagued by pathological thoughts, from the Best Actress category.
His pal Ryan Gosling, notable as Ken seduced by the sirens of the patriarchy, is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category, as is America Ferrera for the Best Supporting Actress category.
Anatomy of'a success
As for the surprise, the French film Anatomy of a Fall, Palme d'Or at Cannes, won five nominations, an all the more decisive success since the film was not selected by France for the Oscar for Best International Film.
Justine Triet's feature film is nominated in the prestigious Best Film and Best Director categories, but also for the Oscar for Best Actress, with Sandra Hülser – also starring in another serious film, “The Zone of Interest” – winning Best Original Screenplay and received best cut.
The film was rejected in favor of “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” to represent France, a choice that caused controversy and now sounds like a failure since it was not selected by the Oscar Academy.
“It is absolutely obvious that we did not send the right film to the Oscars,” Charles Gillibert, one of the commission members responsible for the decision, told AFP before the nominations were announced.
Other acclaimed films: Yorgos Lanthimos' crazy Poor Creatures, which has already won awards at the Venice Film Festival, and Martin Scorsese's historical fresco about the murder of indigenous peoples in Oklahoma at the beginning of the 20th century, Killers of the Flower Moon, together 11 each and 10 nominations.
Emma Stone, her female Frankenstein character in “Poor Creatures,” is nominated in the Best Actress category alongside Lily Gladstone, an oil-enriched native who faces a series of murders within her tribe in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
The 96th Academy Awards will take place on March 10, after a year marked by the historic strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters.
The nominations
Here are the nominees in the major categories for the 96th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 10 in Los Angeles.
Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's film about the father of the atomic bomb, leads the statuette race with 13 nominations, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Creatures (11) and Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon (10).
The big box office success of 2023, Greta Gerwig's Barbie, received 8 nominations.
Best movie
American fiction
Anatomy of a fall
Barbie
Winter break
Flower Moon Killer
maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives – Our Lives Before
Poor creatures
The area of interest
Best Director
Jonathan Glazer, The Area of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, poor creatures
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Unsinkable
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hülser, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, maestro
Emma Stone, poor creatures
Best actor
Bradley Cooper, maestro
Colin Domingo, Bayard Rustin
Paul Giamatti, winter break
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
The best supporting actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Unsinkable
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, winter break
Best supporting actor
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, poor creatures
Best International Film
I captain (Italy)
Perfect Days (Japan)
The Snow Circle (Spain)
The teacher's room (Germany)
The area of interest (UK)
Best Animated Film
The Boy and the Heron
Primary school
Nimona
My robot friend
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The eternal memory
Olfa's daughters
Kill a tiger
20 days in Mariupol
Films with six nominations and more
Oppenheimer (13)
Poor creatures (11)
Flower Moon Killer (10)
Barbie (8)
Master (7)