Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer received the most 13 nominations for this year's Oscars. There is another Hungarian candidate in the visual design category: Zsuzsa Mihalek is also a candidate for the award for the film Poor Couples.
The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced the Oscar nominations on Tuesday at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, MTI informs.
The nominees of the more than 20 film categories were read by Zazie Beetz, known from Joker, and Jack Quaid, the star of The Hunger Games, the event was streamed live by the film academy on its website and was also broadcast on ABC television's morning show.
The nominations were decided by a vote of the nearly 11,000 members of the American Film Academy. This year, voting members sent in their votes from a record number of 93 countries. The nominees for the best film category were voted on by the entire membership, while the other categories were voted on by the members of the respective sectors, Janet Yang, president of the film academy, said in her introduction.
Christopher Nolan's film about the father of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer, was nominated for an Oscar in 13 categories, including best film, direction, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and original soundtrack. Nolan has yet to win an Oscar, and none of his previous films have won the Oscar for Best Picture, but with Oppenheimer he has a great chance this year.
Jorgosz Lanthimosz's film Szegény párák received 11 nominations, including the best visual design category. Set designer Zsuzsa Mihalek, together with production designer James Price and Shona Heath, can win the Oscar as the film's decorator. The film's competitors in this category are Barbie, Strangled Flowers, Napoleon and Oppenheimer.
Martin Scorsese's epic Drowned Flowers is a contender for 10 Oscars. Scorsese was nominated for best director for the 10th time. The female protagonist of the film, Lily Gladstone, is the first actress of indigenous origin to be nominated for the best actress award by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Greta Gerwig's film Barbie, which grossed more than 1.4 billion dollars (HUF 496 billion) worldwide, collected 8 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
In addition to Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Couples and Drowned Flowers, Winter Break, Maestro, American Fiction, Previous Lives, Anatomy of a Fall and Protected Area were among the 10 nominees for the best film award.
• In addition to the only female director, Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), Jorgosz Lanthimosz (Poor Couples), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Martin Scorsese (Strangled Flowers) and Jonathan Glazer (Interest Protection Area) are competing for the best director award.
• The best actress Oscar could go to Annette Bening, Lily Gladstone (Strangled Flowers), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Carey Mulligan (Maestro) or Emma Stone, who plays the lead role in Poor Couples.
• The best actor field includes Bradley Cooper (Maestro), Colman Domingo (Rustin), Paul Giamatti (Winter Break), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction).
• Among the supporting actresses, Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Jodie Foster (Nyad), Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Winter Break), Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) and America Ferrera (Barbie) became Oscar nominees.
• In the supporting actor category, Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction), Robert De Niro (Strangled Flowers), Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer), Ryan Gosling (Barbie) and Mark Ruffalo (Poor Couples) are competing for recognition.
• American Fiction, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Poor Couples and Interests are competing for the adapted screenplay Oscar, and the best original screenplay Oscar can go to Anatomy of a Fall, Winter Break, May December, Past Lives or Maestro .
• Bobi Wine: The People's President, The Eternal Memory, Four Daughters, To Kill a Tiger and 20 Days in Mariupol, about the war in Ukraine, were nominated in the best documentary category.
• In the best cinematography category, Edward Lachman (The Count), Rodrigo Prieto (Strangled Flowers), Matthew Libatique (Maestro), Hoyte Van Hoytema (Oppenheimer) and Robbie Ryan (Poor Couples) were nominated for Oscars.
• In the field of original soundtracks, the music of American Fiction, Indiana Jones and the Wheel of Fate, Oppenheimer, Poor Couples or Drowned Flowers can receive an Oscar. Robbie Robertson, who composed the score for Scorsese's film, who died in August, was the first indigenous person to be nominated for an Oscar in this category.
• In the best original film song category, two songs from Barbie, I'm Just Ken and What Was I Made For? In addition, the song "Wahzhazhe" from "Strangled Flowers" was also nominated for an Oscar.
• The Best Sound Oscar goes to The Creator, The Maestro, Mission: Impossible: Fallout - Part One, Oppenheimer, and The Interest Area.
• In the field of international films, Spain's The Snow Society, Britain's Interest Protection Area, Germany's The Teacher's Room, Italy's Io capitano and Japan's Perfect Days directed by Wim Wenders can compete for the Oscar.
• The fate of the best animated film award will be decided between Hajao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Gray Heron, Elemi, Nimona, Robotálmok and Spider-Man: Through the Spider-Verse.
The 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
