Academy Award nominations 2024: Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon tipped to dominate Oscars list

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By Maya Cantina

The Oscar nominations for 2024 have been announced from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on Tuesday morning.

Sterling K. Brown, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling and Mark Ruffalo received the first set of nominations for best actor in a supporting role

Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon are expected to be the most dominant forces, with each poised to collect double-digit nominations.

Poor Things starring Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo is also anticipated to rack up ten or more nods.

International films such as Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest could make the best picture field.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the favorite for best picture, best director and a host of other awards. Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt are expected to land acting nods, while the films crafts should be richly rewarded in the technical categories. 

The Oscar nominations for 2024 will be announced from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California on Tuesday morning

Greta Gerwig's Barbie stands to win nominations for best picture, best director, acting nods for Ryan Gosling and potentially Margot Robbie

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie stands to win nominations for best picture, best director, acting nods for Ryan Gosling and potentially Margot Robbie

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is the favorite for best picture, best director and a host of other awards

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the favorite for best picture, best director and a host of other awards

Lily Gladstone is widely expected to be the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Lily Gladstone is widely expected to be the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

Though Nolan is regarded as the big-budget auteur of his era, he’s never won an Academy Award, nor have any of his films won best picture.

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie stands to win nominations for best picture, best director, acting nods for Ryan Gosling and potentially Margot Robbie and likely two best-song candidates in What Was I Made For and I’m Just Ken. 

Films such as Oppenheimer, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Holdovers, Maestro, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest are predicted to land best picture nominations

In the competitive best actor field, several deserving candidates are bound to be snubbed. Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers, Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction and Bradley Cooper in Maestro are narrowly favorites, but that leaves one spot for Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon, Colman Domingo in Rustin and Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers.

Lily Gladstone is widely expected to be the first Native American nominated for best actress, for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10 at 7 p.m. live on ABC. 

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