The Oscar nominations are out, and the NYT lists all the big ones (and more) in the article below, which you can access by clicking. But I’ll list the nominees for eight categories as well:
Part of their summary:
Oscar voters lined up behind a classic studio blockbuster on Tuesday, giving 13 nominations to Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” the most of any movie, and setting up the long-awaited coronation of Nolan as Hollywood’s leading filmmaker.
No film by Nolan has ever been named best picture. He received his second nomination for directing on Tuesday. Here is the full list of nominees.
The recognition for “Oppenheimer” had been expected. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences threw surprises into all of the other major categories.
Most prominently, Greta Gerwig did not receive a nomination as best director for “Barbie.” Instead, the increasingly international academy gave a first nomination to the French filmmaker Justine Triet, who directed “Anatomy of a Fall,” a did-she-or-didn’t-she thriller. “Barbie” also failed to figure into the best actress category, with Margot Robbie overlooked for bringing the doll to zany life. Instead, Annette Bening was honored as a best actress candidate for her obsessive, aging swimmer in the Netflix film “Nyad.”
In the best picture category, “Oppenheimer” will contend against “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Barbie,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Oppenheimer,” “Past Lives,” “Poor Things” and “Zone of Interest.” The entries in this field had been widely expected; no surprises.
Sadly, I’ve seen few of the Oscar-nominated pictures this year: only two— “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and I’d give the nod to the latter. Readers are welcome to weigh in with their favorites in each category
Here. are the NYT lists:
BEST PICTURE
“American Fiction”
Read our review“Anatomy of a Fall”
Read our review“Barbie”
Read our review“The Holdovers”
Read our review“Killers of the Flower Moon”
Read our review“Maestro”
Read our review
“Oppenheimer”
Read our review“Past Lives”
Read our review“Poor Things”
Read our review“The Zone of Interest”
Read our review
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BEST DIRECTOR:
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Read our reviewYorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
Read our profileChristopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
Read our profileMartin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Read our Critic’s NotebookJustine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Read our profile
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BEST ACTOR:
Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
Read our profileColman Domingo, “Rustin”
Read our profilePaul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
Read our profileCillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
Read our profileJeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”
Read our review
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BEST ACTRESS:
Annette Bening, “Nyad”
Read T Magazine’s profileLily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Read our profileSandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Read our reviewCarey Mulligan, “Maestro”
Read our reviewEmma Stone, “Poor Things”
Watch “Anatomy of a Scene”
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”
Read our reviewRobert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Read our reviewRobert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
Read our profileRyan Gosling, “Barbie”
Read our profileMark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”
Read our review
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
Read our profileDanielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”
Read our profileAmerica Ferrera, “Barbie”
Read our profileJodie Foster, “Nyad”
Read our reviewDa’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Read our review
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“The Holdovers”
“May December”
“Maestro”
“Past Lives”
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
“American Fiction”
“Barbie”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
I just realized that the categories of “actor” versus “actress” (terms that are no longer politically correct), the Academy is assuming a sex binary. This will, I suspect, lead to big trouble in the future when we have transgender actors in movies.
I’ve seen Maestro, and for what it’s worth, while it’s an enjoyable film, I simply don’t see it as Best Picture material. Rather, it seems like a showpiece for Bradley Cooper as opposed to a serious portrayal of Leonard Bernstein. I haven’t seen Oppenheimer or Flower Moon, but based on reviews, they seem to stand out from the others.
Thank you.
When I heard is focused on his sex life, I kind of lost interest.
I have the full set of Young People’s Concerts on DVD, which I find much more interesting!
I have never been so uninterested in movies or the Academy Awards. Part of that may just be age; I feel like there isn’t a lot new. I’d seen at least two biopics about Oppenheimer before last year’s movie came out. (Probably why the entertainment industry targets the under 35 crowd.) That plus the feeling that I am going to be preached at. I think I only saw one new movie last year, and that was “Guardians of the Galaxy 3”. I hated it (cardboard villain and too much animal torture). I find there are plenty of existing movies that I haven’t seen that are worth watching.
I think this past year of movies was a pretty good one for thoughtful people. (I’m 74.)
Guess I must not be thoughtful, then.
Don’t be too tough on yourself.
I agree with you that there plenty of old movies (I mean, anything older than 10 years) that are at least as good as the best movies released now. So I see no need to hurry to see the recent releases, though I will try to see most of the 10 films nominated for best picture. I’m just not in a hurry.
Why jump to snark, DrBrydon? I wasn’t commenting about you. I was commenting about the movies, many of which I’ve actually seen this year, unlike previous years. But I also like old movies, which I like to watch on the Criterion Channel.
“This will, I suspect, lead to big trouble in the future when we have transgender actors in movies”.
We have already. One of the Barbies was played by a man who claims to be a woman. So a woman lost out on a part. That’s why I didn’t go and see it. Wonder if he was given a man’s fee or a woman’s one?
It’s hypocrisy, considering the hate spewed at Eddie Redmayne for his stellar role as Elbe in ‘The Danish Girl’. It’s based on a real man who had sex reassignment surgery in the 1930s. Militant trans activists objected to a man playing a man, but they are ok with a man playing a woman in Barbie 🤦♀️ Please make it make sense!!
Emma Stone should win Best Actress for Poor Things. No matter what you think of the film itself she was incredible. It was definitely a bizarre and dark film, but with a sense of humour. Mark Ruffalo was very good, his accent wasn’t bad, but I couldn’t decide if Willem Dafoe was supposed to be Irish, Scottish or something else.
Agreed that Emma Stone deserves the win, though I haven’t seen many of the other movies, but also Annette Bening as Nyad does not.
Poor Things was very good. Mark Ruffalo was good but not best-worthy.
Ruffalo and Dafoe were like caricatures. I think it was appropriate for the context of the film, but not Oscar material.
Barbie
I see what they did there.
“ACTOR”/”ACTRESS”
That is encouraging, I suppose. I mean, it could be :
ACTZIR
ACTX
ACTZIM
….
I haven’t seen that many movies last year, but I thought Killers of the Flower Moon was fantastic.
I’ve seen four of the Best Picture nominees.
I wouldn’t say “The Holdovers” is a great film, but it’s a very likeable one—genuinely heartwarming. Paul Giamatti is excellent.
I thought “Killers of the Flower Moon” was overpraised. Overlong, low on energy, lack of story focus, hammy performances.
“Poor Things” has a terrific first hour and then becomes more predictable and obvious. Emma Stone’s performance is definitely Oscar-worthy.
“The Zone of Interest” could just as easily have been a half-hour short. It’s a one-trick film that never develops beyond its premise.
Like some others here I thought Poor Things was really good, and Emma Stone’s performance was stellar.
I thought American Fiction was pretty amusing and poked fun in directions that need to be poked. Good performance by Jeffrey Wright.
Holdovers good but not great – would concur with the previous comment, but again Paul Giametti gave a good performance.
I liked Oppenheimer it was a good performance by Cillian Murphy – although I kept waiting for a Peaky Blinder to put in an appearance.
I slept through most of Barbie – “watching” at home with the family at Christmas – nobody who sat through it in that room thought that watching was a better option than sleeping.
Killer Moon still on the list to see.
We didn’t see many movies last year (child off to university, building a new house, we live in a remote location). But we did see Oppenheimer and I thought it was excellent.
We also recently saw The Boys in the Boat and we really liked it.
I didn’t like Oppenheimer very much but was impressed by Robert Downey Jr.’s performance. I have not seen the performances of those competing with him.
“This will, I suspect, lead to big trouble in the future when we have transgender actors in movies.”
Not if you assume that either male or female actors have some advantage over the other, as is the assumption in many sports. And don’t forget that we have had transgender actors in films for 100 years. Katherine Hepburn, for example, won 4 academy awards.
For Hepburn, Wikipedia lists one marriage, and two affairs with married men, one of them, Spencer Tracy. About Tracy, she said they “passed twenty-seven years together in what was to me absolute bliss.”
So perhaps she was just a strong independent woman, and that was enough.
Thanks for your note, and apologies for commenting simply that none of that is relevant. Hepburn adopted so many features of masculine gender that there was never any question about her gender identity – the expression of which can be highly variable historically. I have no doubt that Hepburn was “independent,” but how one chooses to display that independence depends upon other factors. The larger point I was alluding to is that the issue was phrased as one of transgender actors, while the more interesting question would be transsexual actors. In sports, for example, no one cares what features of gender identity you display, but if you adopt a transsexual identity you could be banned from participating.