Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. (courtesy: oppenheimermovie)
Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards have been unveiled on Tuesday, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer main the way in which on 13 nods. Here are six key takeaways from the Oscars announcement:
Unstoppable Oppenheimer?
It has, by the account of many pundits, been a remarkably sturdy yr for movie, with 2023 simply providing probably the most packed lineup of business and significant hits since earlier than the pandemic. That power makes the seemingly unstoppable awards success of Nolan’s Oppenheimer all of the extra spectacular. The movie earned rave opinions on its launch final summer season, and ranked third on the world field workplace with $950 million – behind solely Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
The three-hour historic drama has since swept each main finest image award going, together with on the Golden Globes (finest drama) and the Critics Choice Awards. And its haul of 13 Oscar nominations is just one shy of the all-time file for a movie, held collectively by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. Can something now cease the Oppenheimer juggernaut on March 10?
Barbie surprises
Barbie, final yr’s highest grossing movie, had been broadly anticipated to safe an Oscar nomination for its feminine star. But it was America Ferrera, not Margot Robbie, whose identify was learn out on Tuesday morning. America Ferrera, a Latina actress of Honduran ancestry, was beforehand finest identified for tv comedy Ugly Betty. But her emotional flip as an everyday mother in Barbie, which included a strong monologue on the unimaginable double requirements of being a girl, clearly caught Academy voters’ consideration.
Female administrators
Another “snub” for the movie got here as Greta Gerwig missed out on a finest director nomination, 4 years after she was controversially ignored for her adaptation of Little Women. But there was solace for Gerwig because the film landed a finest image nomination, making her certainly one of three feminine administrators with a movie in the important thing class for the primary time in Oscars historical past.
And Gerwig’s presumed slot was taken by one other girl – France’s Justine Triet, who turns into solely the eighth feminine ever to be nominated for finest director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Hollywood classic
Hollywood veterans Martin Scorsese and John Williams added to their spectacular Oscar nominations hauls on Tuesday – and broke a few data within the course of. Scorsese, 81, turned the oldest particular person ever nominated for finest director. The nod for his critically adored epic drama nominee Killers of the Flower Moon is his tenth within the class.
That places him simply two behind record-holder William Wyler – and Scorsese is already engaged on his subsequent challenge. Meanwhile, composer Williams racked up an astonishing 54th nomination, for his rating to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. He has probably the most nominations for any dwelling particular person, and is just second total to Walt Disney. “He is also, to the best of our knowledge, the oldest nominee in a competitive award category at 91 years of age,” mentioned the Academy.
Domingo pips DiCaprio
It had been the topic of intense dialogue in Hollywood for weeks. Could Leonardo DiCaprio, arguably the world’s largest film star, already an Oscar winner for The Revenant, actually miss out on a finest actor nod? After all, he’s on display for almost two hours in Killers… round an hour longer than his nominated co-stars Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro. But in a crowded class, the spot that had been anticipated to fall to DiCaprio went as a substitute to veteran actor Colman Domingo, for Rustin.
Domingo, 54, has had a protracted profession on stage and display, with supporting roles in motion pictures like Lincoln, Selma, If Beale Street Could Talk and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. His portrayal of homosexual civil rights activist Bayard Rustin now locations him entrance and heart.
Documentary surprises
Perhaps no class produced extra surprises this yr than finest documentary. The area included a number of big-hitting and starry productions that have been presumed by many pundits to be shoo-ins. These included Apple’s Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, charting the actor’s battle with Parkinson’s illness, and Netflix’s American Symphony, which portrays the artistic strategy of Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste as he helps his spouse by most cancers.
Neither have been picked, though the latter earned a finest unique track nod. Instead, the spots went to movies on topics from Ugandan politics (Bobi Wine: The People’s President) and the warfare in Ukraine (20 Days in Mariupol) to Alzheimer’s illness (The Eternal Memory) and girls’s rights (Four Daughters and To Kill A Tiger).
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