Nominations for the 96th Academy Awards

Best motion picture of the year
American Fiction Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers
Anatomy of a Fall Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers
Barbie David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers
The Holdovers Mark Johnson, Producer
Killers of the Flower Moon Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers
Maestro Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
* Oppenheimer Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers
Past Lives David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers
Poor Things Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers
The Zone of Interest James Wilson, Producer

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bradley Cooper in Maestro
Colman Domingo in Rustin
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
* Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Annette Bening in Nyad
Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller in Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan in Maestro
* Emma Stone in Poor Things

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Sterling K. Brown in American Fiction
Robert De Niro in Killers of the Flower Moon
* Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling in Barbie
Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple
America Ferrera in Barbie
Jodie Foster in Nyad
* Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers

Achievement in directing
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
* Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer

Adapted screenplay
* American Fiction Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson
Barbie Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
Oppenheimer Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan
Poor Things Screenplay by Tony McNamara
The Zone of Interest Written by Jonathan Glazer

Original screenplay
* Anatomy of a Fall Screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
The Holdovers Written by David Hemingson
Maestro Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer
May December Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik
Past Lives Written by Celine Song

Achievement in cinematography
El Conde Edward Lachman
Killers of the Flower Moon Rodrigo Prieto
Maestro Matthew Libatique
* Oppenheimer Hoyte van Hoytema
Poor Things Robbie Ryan

Achievement in production design
Barbie Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Killers of the Flower Moon Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
Napoleon Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Elli Griff
Oppenheimer Production Design: Ruth De Jong; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman
* Poor Things Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek

Achievement in sound
The Creator Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic
Maestro Steven A. Morrow, Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Chris Munro, James H. Mather, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
Oppenheimer Willie Burton, Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo and Kevin O’Connell
* The Zone of Interest Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
American Fiction Laura Karpman
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny John Williams
Killers of the Flower Moon Robbie Robertson
* Oppenheimer Ludwig Goransson
Poor Things Jerskin Fendrix

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
I’m Just Ken from Barbie
Music and Lyric by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
It Never Went Away from American Symphony
Music and Lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson
Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon
Music and Lyric by Scott George
* What Was I Made For? from Barbie
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

Achievement in film editing
Anatomy of a Fall Laurent Senechal
The Holdovers Kevin Tent
Killers of the Flower Moon Thelma Schoonmaker
* Oppenheimer Jennifer Lame
Poor Things Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Achievement in costume design
Barbie Jacqueline Durran
Killers of the Flower Moon Jacqueline West
Napoleon Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
Oppenheimer Ellen Mirojnick
* Poor Things Holly Waddington

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Golda Karen Hartley Thomas, Suzi Battersby and Ashra Kelly-Blue
Maestro Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell
Oppenheimer Luisa Abel
* Poor Things Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston
Society of the Snow Ana Lopez-Puigcerver, David Marti and Montse Ribe

Achievement in visual effects
The Creator Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould
* Godzilla Minus One Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland and Neil Corbould
Napoleon Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco and Neil Corbould

Best animated short film
Letter to a Pig Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter
Ninety-Five Senses Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess
Our Uniform Yegane Moghaddam
Pachyderme Stephanie Clement and Marc Rius
* WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko Dave Mullins and Brad Booker

Best live action short film
The After Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham
Invincible Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron
Knight of Fortune Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk
Red, White and Blue Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane
* The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Wes Anderson and Steven Rales

Best documentary short film
The ABCs of Book Banning Sheila Nevins and Trish Adlesic
The Barber of Little Rock John Hoffman and Christine Turner
Island in Between S. Leo Chiang and Jean Tsien
* The Last Repair Shop Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó Sean Wang and Sam Davis

Best documentary feature film
Bobi Wine: The People’s President Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek
The Eternal Memory Nominees to be determined
Four Daughters Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha
To Kill a Tiger Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim
* 20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath

Best international feature film of the year
Io Capitano Italy
Perfect Days Japan
Society of the Snow Spain
The Teachers’ Lounge Germany
* The Zone of Interest United Kingdom

Best animated feature film of the year
* The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
Elemental Peter Sohn and Denise Ream
Nimona Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estape and Sandra Tapia Díaz
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal

Honorary Awards
Angela Bassett
Carol Littleton
Mel Brooks

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Michelle Satter

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (ACADEMY CERTIFICATES)
To Bill Beck for his pioneering utilization of semiconductor lasers for theatrical laser projection systems.
To Gregory T. Niven for his pioneering work in using laser diodes for theatrical laser projection systems.
To Yoshitaka Nakatsu, Yoji Nagao, Tsuyoshi Hirao, Tomonori Morizumi and Kazuma Kozuru for their development of laser diodes for theatrical laser projection systems.
To Arnold Peterson and Elia P. Popov for their ongoing design and engineering, and to John Frazier for the initial concept of the Blind Driver Roof Pod.
To Jon G. Belyeu for the design and engineering of Movie Works Cable Cutter devices.
To James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd for the design, implementation and integration of the High-Density Encoding (HDE) lossless compression algorithm within the Codex recording toolset.
To Jeff Lait, Dan Bailey and Nick Avramoussis for the continued evolution and expansion of the feature set of OpenVDB.
To Oliver Castle and Marcus Schoo for the design and engineering of Atlas, and to Keith Lackey for the prototype creation and early development of Atlas.
To Lucas Miller, Christopher Jon Horvath, Steve LaVietes and Joe Ardent for the creation of the Alembic Caching and Interchange system.

SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES)
To Charles Q. Robinson, Nicolas Tsingos, Christophe Chabanne, Mark Vinton and the team of software, hardware and implementation engineers of the Cinema Audio Group at Dolby Laboratories for the creation of the Dolby Atmos Cinema Sound System.
To Steve Read and Barry Silverstein for their contributions to the design and development of the IMAX Prismless Laser Projector.
To Peter Janssens, Goran Stojmenovik and Wouter D’Oosterlinck for the design and development of the Barco RGB Laser Projector.
To Michael Perkins, Gerwin Damberg, Trevor Davies and Martin J. Richards for the design and development of the Christie E3LH Dolby Vision Cinema Projection System, implemented in collaboration between Dolby Cinema and Christie Digital engineering teams.
To Ken Museth, Peter Cucka and Mihai Alden for the creation of OpenVDB and its ongoing impact within the motion picture industry.
To Jaden Oh for the concept and development of the Marvelous Designer clothing creation system.
To F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin and Jeremy Cowles for the design and engineering of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD).