Oscars 2024 Shortlist Revealed for 10 Categories: Barbie Leads With Five Mentions

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer earned three mentions, but none for visual effects.

Oscars 2024 Shortlist Revealed for 10 Categories: Barbie Leads With Five Mentions

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Margot Robbie in and as Barbie

Highlights
  • Ten shortlisted categories were revealed by the Academy
  • Final nominees will be revealed on January 23, 2024
  • The Oscars are scheduled to take place March 10, 2024
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled shortlists in 10 categories for the upcoming Oscars 2024 ceremony. Among those, Greta Gerwig's candy-coated romp Barbie leads with five mentions, largely dominating in the Best Original Song section with three entries alone. Dua Lipa's party song ‘Dance the Night,' Billie Eilish's ‘What Was I Made For?,' and the super-catchy and sentimental ‘I'm Just Ken' from star Ryan Gosling and writer-composer Mark Ronson made it to the list. Surprisingly, the film failed to secure placements in the makeup and hairstyling department, with absurd choices like Beau Is Afraid, Ferrari, and Oppenheimer making the cut.

Oddly, the Christopher Nolan film, which emulated an atomic bomb explosion through practical means, didn't earn a place amongst the Best Visual Effects consideration for the year. It has instead secured nods in the audio department for Best Original Score — composed by Ludwig Göransson — and for the best use of sound design, for which it competes against David Fincher's The Killer, Michael Mann's Ferrari, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, and more. The last of them has nabbed four spots in the Oscars 2024 shortlist, with ‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)', performed by the Osage tribe, contesting to be named among the final nominees for Best Original Song, come March 10, 2024.

Unlike last year, no entries from India were considered for the Oscars 2024 shortlist — the Jude Anthany Joseph-directed Malayalam-language disaster feature, 2018: Everyone is a Hero, was India's submission for consideration this year, but it failed to make the cut for Best International Feature Film. Movies from 88 countries and regions were eligible for the foreign language shortlist, after meeting a “minimum viewing requirement” to be eligible to vote. When the nominees are finalised, Academy members will be required to watch all 15 shortlisted films, before deciding what to send forward to the grand Oscars event. The nominations will be officially announced on January 23.

With that, here's the full list of Oscars 2024 shortlists:

2024 Oscars Music (Original Score) Shortlist

  1. American Fiction
  2. American Symphony
  3. Barbie
  4. The Boy and the Heron
  5. The Color Purple
  6. Elemental
  7. The Holdovers
  8. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  9. Killers of the Flower Moon
  10. Oppenheimer
  11. Poor Things
  12. Saltburn
  13. Society of the Snow
  14. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  15. The Zone of Interest

2024 Oscars Music (Original Song) Shortlist

  1. ‘It Never Went Away' from American Symphony
  2. ‘Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)' from Asteroid City
  3. ‘Dance The Night' from Barbie
  4. ‘I'm Just Ken' from Barbie
  5. ‘What Was I Made For?' from Barbie
  6. ‘Keep It Movin' from The Color Purple
  7. ‘(Superpower) I' from The Color Purple
  8. ‘The Fire Inside' from Flamin' Hot
  9. ‘High Life' from Flora and Son
  10. ‘Meet In The Middle' from Flora and Son
  11. ‘Can't Catch Me Now' from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
  12. ‘Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)' from Killers of the Flower Moon
  13. ‘Quiet Eyes' from Past Lives
  14. ‘Road To Freedom' from Rustin
  15. ‘Am I Dreaming' from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2024 Oscars Documentary Feature Film Shortlist

  1. American Symphony
  2. Apolonia, Apolonia
  3. Beyond Utopia
  4. Bobi Wine: The People's President
  5. Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
  6. The Eternal Memory
  7. Four Daughters
  8. Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
  9. In the Rearview
  10. Stamped from the Beginning
  11. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
  12. A Still Small Voice
  13. 32 Sounds
  14. To Kill a Tiger
  15. 20 Days in Mariupol

2024 Oscars Documentary Short Film Shortlist

  1. The ABCs of Book Banning
  2. The Barber of Little Rock
  3. Bear
  4. Between Earth & Sky
  5. Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
  6. Camp Courage
  7. Deciding Vote
  8. How We Get Free
  9. If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
  10. Island in Between
  11. The Last Repair Shop
  12. Last Song from Kabul
  13. Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
  14. Oasis
  15. Wings of Dust

2024 Oscars International Feature Film Shortlist

  1. Armenia, Amerikatsi
  2. Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun
  3. Denmark, The Promised Land
  4. Finland, Fallen Leaves
  5. France, The Taste of Things
  6. Germany, The Teachers' Lounge
  7. Iceland, Godland
  8. Italy, Io Capitano
  9. Japan, Perfect Days
  10. Mexico, Totem
  11. Morocco, The Mother of All Lies
  12. Spain, Society of the Snow
  13. Tunisia, Four Daughters
  14. Ukraine, 20 Days in Mariupol
  15. UK, The Zone of Interest

2024 Oscars Makeup and Hairstyling Shortlist

  1. Beau Is Afraid
  2. Ferrari
  3. Golda
  4. Killers of the Flower Moon
  5. The Last Voyage of the Demeter
  6. Maestro
  7. Napoleon
  8. Oppenheimer
  9. Poor Things
  10. Society of the Snow

2024 Oscars Animated Short Film Shortlist

  1. Boom
  2. Eeva
  3. Humo (Smoke)
  4. I'm Hip
  5. A Kind of Testament
  6. Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
  7. Letter to a Pig
  8. Ninety-Five Senses
  9. Once upon a Studio
  10. Our Uniform
  11. Pachyderme
  12. Pete
  13. 27
  14. War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
  15. Wild Summon

2024 Oscars Live Action Short Film Shortlist

  1. The After
  2. The Anne Frank Gift Shop
  3. An Avocado Pit
  4. Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
  5. Dead Cat
  6. Good Boy
  7. Invincible
  8. Invisible Border
  9. Knight of Fortune
  10. The One Note Man
  11. Red, White and Blue
  12. The Shepherd
  13. Strange Way of Life
  14. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  15. Yellow

2024 Oscars Sound Shortlist

  1. Barbie
  2. The Creator
  3. Ferrari
  4. The Killer
  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
  6. Maestro
  7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  8. Napoleon
  9. Oppenheimer
  10. The Zone of Interest

2024 Oscars Visual Effects Shortlist

  1. The Creator
  2. Godzilla Minus One
  3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  4. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  5. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  6. Napoleon
  7. Poor Things
  8. Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
  9. Society of the Snow
  10. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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Barbie

  • Release Date 21 July 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Romance
  • Cast
    Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Ariana Greenblatt, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Hari Nef, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Ncuti Gatwa, Emerald Fennell, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Ana Cruz Kayne, Connor Swindells, Ritu Arya, Jamie Demetriou
  • Director
    Greta Gerwig
  • Producer
    Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Robbie Brenner, David Heyman

American Fiction

  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Drama
  • Cast
    Jeffrey Wright, Skyler Wright, John Ales, Patrick Fischler, Carmen Cusack, John Ortiz, Joseph Marrella, Stephen Burrell, Issa Rae, Nicole Kempskie
  • Director
    Cord Jefferson
  • Producer
    Nikos Karamigios, Ben LeClair

The Boy and the Heron

  • Release Date 10 May 2024
  • Language Japanese
  • Genre Adventure, Animation, Drama
  • Cast
    Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Shōhei Hino, Ko Shibasaki, Takuya Kimura
  • Director
    Hayao Miyazaki
  • Producer
    Toshio Suzuki

The Color Purple

  • Release Date 8 March 2024
  • Language English
  • Genre Drama, Musical
  • Cast
    Fantasia, Phylicia Mpasi, Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins, Danielle Brooks, H.E.R, Ciara, Halle Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr, David Alan Grier, Aunjanue Ellis, Tamela J. Mann, Deon Cole, Stephen Hill, Elizabeth Marvel, Jon Batiste
  • Director
    Blitz Bazawule
  • Producer
    Quincy Jones, Scott Sanders, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey

Elemental

  • Release Date 23 June 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
  • Cast
    Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie
  • Director
    Peter Sohn
  • Producer
    Denise Ream, Pete Docter

The Holdovers

  • Release Date 16 February 2024
  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Drama
  • Cast
    Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Tate Donovan, Carrie Preston, Gillian Vigman, Michael Provost, Brady Hepner
  • Director
    Alexander Payne
  • Producer
    David Hemingson, Mark Johnson, Bill Block

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

  • Release Date 29 June 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure
  • Cast
    Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas, Olivier Richters
  • Director
    James Mangold
  • Producer
    Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Simon Emanuel

Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Release Date 27 October 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Crime, Drama, Western
  • Cast
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Jillian Dion, William Belleau, Louis Cancelmi, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Tatanka Means, Michael Abbott Jr., Pat Healy, Scott Shepherd, Gary Basaraba, Steve Eastin, Barry Corbin, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow
  • Director
    Martin Scorsese
  • Producer
    Martin Scorsese, Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Leonardo DiCaprio

Oppenheimer

  • Release Date 21 July 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Biography, Drama
  • Cast
    Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, Olli Haaskivi, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano, Kenneth Branagh
  • Director
    Christopher Nolan
  • Producer
    Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Charles Roven

Poor Things

  • Language English
  • Genre Romance, Sci-Fi
  • Cast
    Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Kathryn Hunter, Suzy Bemba, Wayne Brett
  • Director
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Producer
    Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe

Saltburn

  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Drama, Thriller
  • Cast
    Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan, Paul Rhys, Lolly Adefope, Ewan Mitchell, Reece Shearsmith
  • Director
    Emerald Fennell
  • Producer
    Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie

Society of the Snow

  • Release Date 4 January 2024
  • Language Spanish
  • Genre Adventure, Biography, Drama
  • Cast
    Enzo Vogrincic Roldán, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero, Rafael Federman, Felipe González Otaño, Agustín Della Corte, Valentino Alonso, Simón Hempe, Fernando Contigiani García, Benjamín Segura, Luciano Chatton, Agustín Berruti, Juan Caruso, Rocco Posca, Andy Pruss, Esteban Bigliardi, Paula Baldini, Blas Polidori, Felipe Ramusio, Santiago Vaca Narvaja, Emanuel Parga
  • Director
    J. A. Bayona
  • Producer
    Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • Release Date 1 June 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi, Superhero
  • Cast
    Oscar Isaac, Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Daniel Kaluuya, Issa Rae, Luna Lauren Vélez, Brian Tyree Henry
  • Director
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
  • Producer
    Avi Arad, Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Christina Steinberg

Asteroid City

  • Release Date 25 August 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Romance
  • Cast
    Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Steve Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon
  • Director
    Wes Anderson
  • Producer
    Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson

Flamin' Hot

  • Release Date 10 June 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Biography, Comedy
  • Cast
    Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, Tony Shalhoub, Emilio Rivera, Matt Walsh, Pepe Serna, Bobby Soto, Jimmy Gonzales, Brice Gonzalez
  • Director
    Eva Longoria
  • Producer
    DeVon Franklin

Flora and Son

  • Release Date 29 September 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Drama, Musical
  • Cast
    Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Jack Reynor, Sophie Vavasseur, Kelly Thornton
  • Director
    John Carney
  • Producer
    David Carney, Anthony Bregman, Peter Cron, Rebecca O'Flanagan, Rob Walpole

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

  • Release Date 17 November 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Sci-Fi
  • Cast
    Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Laurel Marsden, Dakota Shapiro, Vaughan Reilly, George Somner
  • Director
    Francis Lawrence
  • Producer
    Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Joe Drake

Rustin

  • Release Date 17 November 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Biography, Documentary
  • Cast
    Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Audra McDonald, Aml Ameen, CCH Pounder, Michael Potts, Bill Irwin, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Thomas W Wolf, Gus Halper, Johnny Ramey, Carra Patterson, Adrienne Warren, Jeffrey Wright, Grantham Coleman, Lilli Kay, Jordan-Amanda Hall, Jakeem Dante Powell, Ayana Workman
  • Director
    George C. Wolfe
  • Producer
    Bruce Cohen, George Scarles, Priya Swaminathan, Tonia Davis

Still: A Michael J Fox Movie

  • Language English
  • Genre Biography, Documentary
  • Cast
    Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, Andrew Barber, Susan Bressman, David Diamond, Annabelle Fox, Aquinnah Fox, Sam Fox, Schuyler Fox
  • Director
    Davis Guggenheim
  • Producer
    Will Cohen, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan King, Annetta Marion

32 Sounds

  • Language English
  • Genre Documentary, Musical
  • Cast
    Reid Thomas Bard, Sam Green, Annea Lockwood
  • Director
    Sam Green
  • Producer
    Thomas O. Kriegsmann, Josh Penn

Beau Is Afraid

  • Release Date 26 May 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery
  • Cast
    Joaquin Phoenix, Armen Nahapetian, Patti LuPone, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Denis Ménochet, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Richard Kind
  • Director
    Ari Aster
  • Producer
    Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen

Golda

  • Release Date 1 September 2023
  • Language English, Hebrew, Arabic
  • Genre Biography, Drama, History
  • Cast
    Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams, Henry Goodman, Olivia Brody, Emma Davies, Rotem Keinan, Camille Cottin, Jonathan Tafler, Ellie Piercy, Rami Heuberger, Dvir Benedek, Lior Ashkenazi, Ed Stoppard
  • Director
    Guy Nattiv
  • Producer
    Jane Hooks, Michael Kuhn, Nicholas Martin

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

  • Language English
  • Genre Horror
  • Cast
    Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Javier Botet, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapičić, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Woody Norman, Martin Furulund, Chris Walley, Nicolo Pasetti
  • Director
    André Øvredal
  • Producer
    Bradley J. Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messner

Maestro

  • Release Date 20 December 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Biography, Drama, Musical
  • Cast
    Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Jeremy Strong, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman
  • Director
    Bradley Cooper
  • Producer
    Fred Berner, Bradley Cooper, Amy Durning, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg

Napoleon

  • Release Date 22 November 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Biography, Drama, History
  • Cast
    Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Needham, Youssef Kerkour, Phil Cornwell, Edouard Philipponnat, Ian McNeice, Paul Rhys, John Hollingworth, Gavin Spokes, Mark Bonnar
  • Director
    Ridley Scott
  • Producer
    Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Kevin J. Walsh

Strange Way of Life

  • Language English
  • Genre Drama
  • Cast
    Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, José Condessa, Jason Fernándezes, Sara Sálamo, Erenice Lohan, Pedro Casablanc, George Steane, Manu Ríos, Ohiana Cueto, Daniela Medina
  • Director
    Pedro Almodóvar
  • Producer
    Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

  • Release Date 27 September 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
  • Cast
    Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Rupert Friend, Richard Ayoade
  • Director
    Wes Anderson
  • Producer
    Wes Anderson

The Creator

  • Release Date 29 September 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Cast
    John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Allison Janney, Ralph Ineson, Marc Menchaca
  • Director
    Gareth Edwards
  • Producer
    Gareth Edwards, Kiri Hart, Jim Spencer, Arnon Milchan

The Killer

  • Release Date 10 November 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
  • Cast
    Michael Fassbender, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Sophie Charlotte, Tilda Swinton
  • Director
    David Fincher
  • Producer
    Ceán Chaffin, Dede Gardner, Brad Pitt

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

  • Release Date 12 July 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
  • Cast
    Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Frederick Schmidt, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Shea Whigham, Esai Morales
  • Director
    Christopher McQuarrie
  • Producer
    Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Jake Myers

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  • Release Date 5 May 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
  • Cast
    Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Elizabeth Debicki, Will Poulter
  • Director
    James Gunn
  • Producer
    Kevin Feige

Rebel Moon

  • Release Date 22 December 2023
  • Language English
  • Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
  • Cast
    Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Bae Doona, Ray Fisher, Staz Nair, Charlie Hunnam, Anthony Hopkins, Jena Malone, Stuart Martin, Corey Stoll, Cary Elwes, Alfonso Herrera, Cleopatra Coleman, Fra Fee, Rhian Rees
  • Director
    Zack Snyder
  • Producer
    Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Zack Snyder, Eric Newman
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