# Oscars 2024: every nominee and winner, category by category

> The full list of 2024 Oscar nominees from the 96th Academy Awards, with Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Barbie and every winner marked.

Source: https://rankiew.app/blog/oscars-2024-all-nominees
Published: 2026-10-19
Author: Rankiew
Tags: oscars, oscars 2024, academy awards, oscar nominees, oppenheimer

The 96th Academy Awards took place on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Oppenheimer swept the night with seven Oscars, Poor Things took four, and Barbie gave the show its biggest musical moment.

# The ten Best Picture nominees of 2024

## 1. Oppenheimer (2023) · Winner

::film[Oppenheimer|2023]

J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the project that creates the atomic bomb and faces the consequences.

- **Director:** Christopher Nolan
- **Genre:** Biography, History

**Worth it if:** you want a dense, gripping historical epic.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing · Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design

## 2. American Fiction (2023)

::film[American Fiction|2023]

A frustrated Black novelist writes a book full of stereotypes as a joke, and it becomes a hit.

- **Director:** Cord Jefferson
- **Genre:** Comedy, Drama

**Worth it if:** you like sharp satire about the publishing world.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score

## 3. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

::film[Anatomy of a Fall|2023]

A writer stands trial for the death of her husband in the French Alps, with their blind son as a witness.

- **Director:** Justine Triet
- **Genre:** Thriller, Drama

**Worth it if:** you love courtroom dramas that leave doubts.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Original Screenplay · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Film Editing

## 4. Barbie (2023)

::film[Barbie|2023]

Barbie leaves her perfect world and discovers what real life is like.

- **Director:** Greta Gerwig
- **Genre:** Comedy, Fantasy

**Worth it if:** you want a colorful comedy with something to say.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Original Song · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design

## 5. The Holdovers (2023)

::film[The Holdovers|2023]

A grumpy teacher is stuck at a boarding school over Christmas 1970 with a student and the cook.

- **Director:** Alexander Payne
- **Genre:** Comedy, Drama

**Worth it if:** you want a warm, bittersweet Christmas story.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Supporting Actress · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing

## 6. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

::film[Killers of the Flower Moon|2023]

The murders of Osage people in 1920s Oklahoma, committed for their oil money.

- **Director:** Martin Scorsese
- **Genre:** Crime, History

**Worth it if:** you have time for a long, heavy true crime epic.

**Oscars:** Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing

## 7. Maestro (2023)

::film[Maestro|2023]

The life of conductor Leonard Bernstein and his marriage to Felicia Montealegre.

- **Director:** Bradley Cooper
- **Genre:** Biography, Music

**Worth it if:** you enjoy portraits of artists and complex marriages.

**Oscars:** Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling

## 8. Past Lives (2023)

::film[Past Lives|2023]

Two childhood friends from Seoul meet again in New York decades later.

- **Director:** Celine Song
- **Genre:** Drama

**Worth it if:** you want a delicate story about the paths not taken.

**Oscars:** Nominated: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay

## 9. Poor Things (2023)

::film[Poor Things|2023]

Bella Baxter, brought back to life by a scientist, sets out to discover the world.

- **Director:** Yorgos Lanthimos
- **Genre:** Comedy, Fantasy

**Worth it if:** you like strange, bold and very adult fantasies.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best Actress, Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing

## 10. The Zone of Interest (2023)

::film[The Zone of Interest|2023]

The family of the Auschwitz commandant lives an ordinary life right next to the camp walls.

- **Director:** Jonathan Glazer
- **Genre:** Drama, History

**Worth it if:** you are ready for a cold, disturbing film about the Holocaust.

**Oscars:** Winner: Best International Feature Film, Best Sound · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay

# Best Director

- **Christopher Nolan**, Oppenheimer · Winner
- **Justine Triet**, Anatomy of a Fall
- **Martin Scorsese**, Killers of the Flower Moon
- **Yorgos Lanthimos**, Poor Things
- **Jonathan Glazer**, The Zone of Interest

# Best Actor

- **Cillian Murphy**, Oppenheimer · Winner
- **Bradley Cooper**, Maestro
- **Colman Domingo**, Rustin
- **Paul Giamatti**, The Holdovers
- **Jeffrey Wright**, American Fiction

# Best Actress

- **Emma Stone**, Poor Things · Winner
- **Annette Bening**, Nyad
- **Lily Gladstone**, Killers of the Flower Moon
- **Sandra Hüller**, Anatomy of a Fall
- **Carey Mulligan**, Maestro

# Best Supporting Actor

- **Robert Downey Jr.**, Oppenheimer · Winner
- **Sterling K. Brown**, American Fiction
- **Robert De Niro**, Killers of the Flower Moon
- **Ryan Gosling**, Barbie
- **Mark Ruffalo**, Poor Things

# Best Supporting Actress

- **Da'Vine Joy Randolph**, The Holdovers · Winner
- **Emily Blunt**, Oppenheimer
- **Danielle Brooks**, The Color Purple
- **America Ferrera**, Barbie
- **Jodie Foster**, Nyad

# Best Original Screenplay

- **Anatomy of a Fall** · Winner
- **The Holdovers**
- **Maestro**
- **May December**
- **Past Lives**

# Best Adapted Screenplay

- **American Fiction** · Winner
- **Barbie**
- **Oppenheimer**
- **Poor Things**
- **The Zone of Interest**

# Best Animated Feature

- **The Boy and the Heron** · Winner
- **Elemental**
- **Nimona**
- **Robot Dreams**
- **Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse**

# Best International Feature Film

- **The Zone of Interest** (United Kingdom) · Winner
- **Io capitano** (Italy)
- **Perfect Days** (Japan)
- **Society of the Snow** (Spain)
- **The Teachers' Lounge** (Germany)

# Best Documentary Feature

- **20 Days in Mariupol** · Winner
- **Bobi Wine: The People's President**
- **The Eternal Memory**
- **Four Daughters**
- **To Kill a Tiger**

# Best Documentary Short

- **The Last Repair Shop** · Winner
- **The ABCs of Book Banning**
- **The Barber of Little Rock**
- **Island in Between**
- **Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó**

# Best Live Action Short

- **The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar** · Winner
- **The After**
- **Invincible**
- **Knight of Fortune**
- **Red, White and Blue**

# Best Animated Short

- **War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko** · Winner
- **Letter to a Pig**
- **Ninety-Five Senses**
- **Our Uniform**
- **Pachyderme**

# Best Original Score

- **Oppenheimer** · Winner
- **American Fiction**
- **Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny**
- **Killers of the Flower Moon**
- **Poor Things**

# Best Original Song

- **"What Was I Made For?"**, Barbie · Winner
- **"The Fire Inside"**, Flamin' Hot
- **"I'm Just Ken"**, Barbie
- **"It Never Went Away"**, American Symphony
- **"Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)"**, Killers of the Flower Moon

# Best Sound

- **The Zone of Interest** · Winner
- **The Creator**
- **Maestro**
- **Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One**
- **Oppenheimer**

# Best Production Design

- **Poor Things** · Winner
- **Barbie**
- **Killers of the Flower Moon**
- **Napoleon**
- **Oppenheimer**

# Best Cinematography

- **Oppenheimer** · Winner
- **El Conde**
- **Killers of the Flower Moon**
- **Maestro**
- **Poor Things**

# Best Makeup and Hairstyling

- **Poor Things** · Winner
- **Golda**
- **Maestro**
- **Oppenheimer**
- **Society of the Snow**

# Best Costume Design

- **Poor Things** · Winner
- **Barbie**
- **Killers of the Flower Moon**
- **Napoleon**
- **Oppenheimer**

# Best Film Editing

- **Oppenheimer** · Winner
- **Anatomy of a Fall**
- **The Holdovers**
- **Killers of the Flower Moon**
- **Poor Things**

# Best Visual Effects

- **Godzilla Minus One** · Winner
- **The Creator**
- **Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3**
- **Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One**
- **Napoleon**

# What won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?

Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards, among its seven Oscars.

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