Already considered the best film of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s opus won 13 nominations. “Barbie” only gets 8.
After a tumultuous film year marked by strikes and work stoppages, the Oscar nominations ceremony has already resulted in Christopher Nolan’s successful biopic “Oppenheimer” garnering 13 nominations.
The three-hour opus received a Best Picture nomination; Best Director for Nolan and several other nominations for Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt.
But the biggest commercial success of the year, “Barbie”for his part left with a number of nominations significantly lower than that of his partner in the Barbenheimer mania. Greta Gerwig’s feminist comedy, with more than $1.4 billion in ticket sales, was nominated for eight awards, including best picture; Ryan Gosling for Best Supporting Actor; and two nominees for best song in “What Was I Made For” and “I’m Just Ken.”
But Greta Gerwig was surprisingly left out of the field of best directors. She was nominated for best director in 2018 for her first solo film, “Lady Bird”. At the time, she was only the fifth woman nominated for the award. Since then, Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”) won the Best Director award. Before these victories, Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”in 2010) was the only woman to win the Academy Award for cinema’s highest honor.
The epic of Martin Scorsese “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff “Poor Things” were also widely celebrated. “Poor Things” landed 11 nominations, while “Killers of the Moon” was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
Lily Gladstone, star of “Killers of the Flower Moon”, became the first Native American woman nominated for best actress. For the 10th time, Scorsese was nominated for Best Director. Leonardo DiCaprio, however, was not voted best actor.
The 10 films nominated for Best Picture were: “Oppenheimer”, “Barbie”, “Poor Things”, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, “The Holdovers”, “Maestro”, “American Fiction”, “Past Lives”, “Anatomy of a fall” And “The area of interest”.
The nominees for Best International Film have also been revealed. It is : “The Snow Society” (Spain); “The area of interest” (United Kingdom) ; “The teachers’ lounge” (Germany) ; “Io Capitano” (Italy) and “Perfect Days” (Japan).
The nominees for best animated film are: “The Boy and the Heron”; “Elementary”; “Nimona” ; “Robot Dreams” ; “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”
The Oscars ceremony will take place on March 10 and will be presented by Jimmy Kimmel.
