For the forthcoming Oscar 2024 presentation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlists for ten different categories. Barbie, the candy-coated romp by Greta Gerwig, is the most mentioned of them all, with five mentions; with three entries in the Best Original Song category alone, it dominates the field. The list included “Dance the Night” by Dua Lipa, “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish, and the incredibly catchy and heartfelt “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling and writer-composer Mark Ronson. Unexpectedly, the movie was unable to land makeup and hairstyling roles, despite ridiculous selections like Oppenheimer, Beau Is Afraid, and Ferrari making the cut.
Strangely, the Christopher Nolan movie, which used real-world techniques to simulate an atomic bomb explosion, was not nominated for Best Visual Effects this year. Rather, it has received nominations in the audio category for Best Original Score (written by Ludwig Göransson) and Best Use of Sound Design (against Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, David Fincher’s The Killer, and more). The final one, “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People),” sung by the Osage tribe, has secured four positions on the Oscars 2024 shortlist and is vying to be one of the final finalists for Best Original Song on March 10, 2024.
This year, unlike last year, there were no nominations from India for the Oscars 2024 shortlist. The country’s submission, 2018: Everyone is a Hero, a Malayalam-language disaster film directed by Jude Anthany Joseph, was not selected for Best International Feature Film. After fulfilling a “minimum viewing requirement” to be eligible for voting, films from 88 different nations and regions were allowed to make the foreign language shortlist. After the final nominations are announced, Academy members must see each of the 15 nominated films to make their selections for the big Oscar ceremony. On January 23, the nominees will be formally announced.
With that, here’s the full list of Oscars 2024 shortlists
2024 Oscars Music (Original Score) Shortlist
- American Fiction
- American Symphony
- Barbie
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Color Purple
- Elemental
- The Holdovers
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Saltburn
- Society of the Snow
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Zone of Interest
2024 Oscars Music (Original Song) Shortlist
- ‘It Never Went Away’ from American Symphony
- ‘Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)’ from Asteroid City
- ‘Dance The Night’ from Barbie
- ‘I’m Just Ken’ from Barbie
- ‘What Was I Made For?’ from Barbie
- ‘Keep It Movin’ from The Color Purple
- ‘(Superpower) I’ from The Color Purple
- ‘The Fire Inside’ from Flamin’ Hot
- ‘High Life’ from Flora and Son
- ‘Meet In The Middle’ from Flora and Son
- ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’ from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
- ‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)’ from Killers of the Flower Moon
- ‘Quiet Eyes’ from Past Lives
- ‘Road To Freedom’ from Rustin
- ‘Am I Dreaming’ from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2024 Oscars Documentary Feature Film Shortlist
- American Symphony
- Apolonia, Apolonia
- Beyond Utopia
- Bobi Wine: The People’s President
- Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
- The Eternal Memory
- Four Daughters
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
- In the Rearview
- Stamped from the Beginning
- Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
- A Still Small Voice
- 32 Sounds
- To Kill a Tiger
- 20 Days in Mariupol
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2024 Oscars Documentary Short Film Shortlist
- The ABCs of Book Banning
- The Barber of Little Rock
- Bear
- Between Earth & Sky
- Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
- Camp Courage
- Deciding Vote
- How We Get Free
- If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
- Island in Between
- The Last Repair Shop
- Last Song from Kabul
- Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
- Oasis
- Wings of Dust
2024 Oscars International Feature Film Shortlist
- Armenia, Amerikatsi
- Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun
- Denmark, The Promised Land
- Finland, Fallen Leaves
- France, The Taste of Things
- Germany, The Teachers’ Lounge
- Iceland, Godland
- Italy, Io Capitano
- Japan, Perfect Days
- Mexico, Totem
- Morocco, The Mother of All Lies
- Spain, Society of the Snow
- Tunisia, Four Daughters
- Ukraine, 20 Days in Mariupol
- UK, The Zone of Interest
2024 Oscars Makeup and Hairstyling Shortlist
- Beau Is Afraid
- Ferrari
- Golda
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter
- Maestro
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Society of the Snow
2024 Oscars Animated Short Film Shortlist
- Boom
- Eeva
- Humo (Smoke)
- I’m Hip
- A Kind of Testament
- Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
- Letter to a Pig
- Ninety-Five Senses
- Once upon a Studio
- Our Uniform
- Pachyderme
- Pete
- 27
- War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
- Wild Summon
2024 Oscars Live Action Short Film Shortlist
- The After
- The Anne Frank Gift Shop
- An Avocado Pit
- Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
- Dead Cat
- Good Boy
- Invincible
- Invisible Border
- Knight of Fortune
- The One Note Man
- Red, White and Blue
- The Shepherd
- Strange Way of Life
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
- Yellow
2024 Oscars Sound Shortlist
- Barbie
- The Creator
- Ferrari
- The Killer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- The Zone of Interest
2024 Oscars Visual Effects Shortlist
- The Creator
- Godzilla Minus One
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
- Napoleon
- Poor Things
- Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
- Society of the Snow
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
