Oscars 2024 Shortlist
The 97th Oscars shortlist has been revealed for ten categories, including Best International Feature and Best Documentary.
Netflix was the big winner with 15 shortlist placements, including six for Emilia Pérez. Props to Mubi for scoring four shortlist placements for The Substance, The Girl With the Needle and Dahomey. Universal Pictures nabbed 7 placements (with Wicked taking 4).
International Feature
Armand (IFC Films) - Norway
Premiere: Un Certain Regards, Cannes
Won: Camera d’Or
Cast: Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)
Dahomey (Mubi) - Senegal
Won: Golden Bear - Berlin Film Festival (Top Prize)
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) - France
Premiere: Cannes Official Selection
Won: Jury Prize, Best Actress
Cast: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Karla Sofía Gascón
Flow (Janus Films and Sideshow) - Latvia
Premiere: Cannes
The Girl With the Needle (Mubi) - Denmark
Premiere: Cannes Official Selection
I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics) - Brazil
Dir: Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, On the Road)
Kneecap (Sony Pictures Classics) – Ireland
Premiere: Sundance Film Festival
Won: NEXT Audience Award
Santosh (Metrograph Pictures) – United Kingdom
Premiere: Un Certain Regards, Cannes
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Neon) – Germany
Premiere: Cannes Official Selection
Won: Special Award
Waves (No U.S. Distribution) – Czech Republic
Premiere: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Vermiglio (Janus Films) – Italy
Premiere: Venice Film Festival
Won: Grand Jury Prize
Touch (Focus Features) – Iceland
Universal Language (Oscilloscope Laboratories) – Canada
Premiere: Cannes, Directors' Fortnight
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Well Go USA Entertainment) - Thailand
Highest Grossing Thai film of 2024
From Ground Zero (Watermelon Pictures) - Palestine
Premiere: TIFF
Documentary Feature
The Bibi Files (Jolt)
Premiere: TIFF work in progress
Black Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films)
Premiere: Sundance
Dahomey (Mubi)
Daughters (Netflix)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Audience Award
Eno (Film First Co.)
Premiere: Sundance
Frida (Amazon MGM)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Editing Award
Hollywoodgate (Fourth Act Film)
Premiere: Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition), Telluride
No Other Land (ImmerGuteFilme)
Premiere: Berlin Film Festival, Panorama
Won: Panorama Audience Award, Best Documentary
Porcelain War (Picturehouse)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Grand Jury Prize
Queendom (Dogwoof)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix)
Winner: Sundance Audience Award, Directing Awards
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation
Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Grand Jury award for Directing
Union (Level Ground)
Premiere: Sundance
Won: Jury Award
Will & Harper (Netflix)
Sundance official selection
Original Score
Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios) — Benjamin Wallfisch
Babygirl (A24) — Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros.)— Danny Elfman
Blink Twice (Amazon MGM Studios)— Chanda Dancy
Blitz (Apple Original Films) — Hans Zimmer
The Brutalist (A24) — Daniel Blumberg
Challengers (Amazon MGM) — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Conclave (Focus Features) — Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) — Clément Ducol, Camille
The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios) — Tamar-kali
Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures) — Harry Gregson-Williams
Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 (Warner Bros.) — John Debney
Inside Out 2 (Pixar) — Andrea Datzman
Nosferatu (Focus Features) — Robin Carolan
The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics) — Alberto Iglesias
Sing Sing (A24)— Bryce Dessner
The Six Triple Eight — Aaron Zigman
Wicked (Universal Pictures) — Stephen Schwartz and John Powell
The Wild Robot (DreamWorks Animation) — Kris Bowers
Young Woman and the Sea — Amelia Warner
Original Song
Better Man (Paramount Pictures)
Forbidden Road by Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler & Sacha Skarbek
Blitz (Apple Original Films)
Winter Coat by Nicholas Britell, Steve McQueen and Taura Stinson.
Challengers (Amazon MGM)
Compress/Regress by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Luca Guadagnino
Elton John: Never Too Late (Walt Disney Pictures)
Never Too Late by Elton John & Brandi Carlile
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Kneecap (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sick In The Head by Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Adrian Louis Richard Mcleod, and Toddla T
Moana 2 (Walt Disney Pictures)
Beyond by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear
Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures)
I Always Wanted a Brother by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Piece by Piece (Focus Features)
Piece by Piece by Pharrell Williams
Sing Sing (A24)
Like A Bird by Adrian Quesada and Abraham Alexander
The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)
The Journey by Diane Warren
Twisters (Universal Pictures)
Out of Oklahoma by Lainey Wilson, Luke Dick & Shane McAnally
The Wild Robot (DreamWorks Animation)
Kiss the Sky by Delacey, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack & Ali Tamposi
Will & Harper (Netflix)
Harper and Will Go West by Sean Douglas, Kristen Wiig & Josh Greenbaum
Makeup and Hairstyling
The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros.)
A Different Man (A24)
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Maria (Netflix)
Nosferatu (Focus Features)
The Substance (Mubi)
Waltzing with Brando
Wicked (Universal Pictures)
Sound
Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
Blitz (Apple Original Films)
A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
Deadpool & Wolverine (Disney)
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros.)
Wicked (Universal Pictures)
The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures)
Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
Better Man (Paramount Pictures)
Civil War (A24)
Deadpool and Wolverine (Marvel Studios)
Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures)
Twisters (Universal Pictures)
Wicked (Universal Pictures)
Full short Oscars 2024 shortlist here.
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