Hollywood Week: Glam, Glitz, Glitter - It’s the Oscars

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Published on Saturday, 09 March 2024 10:47

Written by Janet Walker

Hollywood's biggest night is one day away, and throughout the week teams of carpenters, builders, painters, and others have worked to create a magical and memorable moment for the year's biggest stars and audiences around the world.

Oscars Roll out the Red Carpet

Without the movies, there wouldn't be this dreamlike moment, a mixture of enchantment and reality, a celebration of what began with an idea, somewhere, in a creative mind and developed, and through chance, fate, kismet, or happenstance, the many pieces involved making a movie, like the beautiful red-carpet experience celebrated on Oscar night, are completed behind the scenes.

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Suddenly, the small idea is a global phenomenon, or a performance stands out, or a collaboration simply resonates with audiences, again and again. Audiences arrive in a season of box office instability, to celebrate and embrace your project, and then with all the magic of being a working artist, which is the real prize, suddenly colleagues are lauding your work. It is the best dream for fans, movie lovers, and artists, everywhere.

Pick The Winner - The Year's Favorite Films – Best Picture Nominees

If audiences were to choose the winners of the Academy Award, this year's celebration would be pink, beginning with 100 shades of pink and choosing ten, which is the amount of pink Director Greta Gerwig used for her global phenomenon, box office exploding, film, Barbie, which is up for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and scored a first time producer nomination for actress Margot Robbie.

Oppenheimer earned 13 nominations, which makes it the front runner in the awards category. If the award season recognition holds throughout the night, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer will score big wins.

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Killers of the Flower Moon, from director Martin Scorsese's received 10 nominations. With the nomination for Best Director, Martin Scorsese becomes the oldest Directing nominee at 81 years old. This is his tenth Directing nomination which puts him two behind record-holder William Wyler with 12 nominations. This is Scorsese's fourth Best Picture nomination.

Four of the Best Pictures are first time nominees including American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Past Lives, and The Zone of Interest.

Maestro, also nominated for Best Picture, a Netflix original film, from producers Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger. This is the fifth Best Picture nomination for Bradley Cooper. 

This is the thirteenth Best Picture nomination for Steven Spielberg, who won the award for Schindler's List (1993). Other nominations were for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017), West Side Story (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022). This is the first nomination for both Fred Berner and Amy Durning. This is the fifth Best Picture nomination for Kristie Macosko Krieger. She was nominated for Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017), West Side Story (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022).

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Poor Things, from Searchlight and produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone. This is the third Best Picture nomination for Ed Guiney. He was previously nominated for Room (2015) and The Favourite (2018). This is the second-Best Picture nomination for Yorgos Lanthimos, who was previously nominated for The Favourite (2018). This is the first Best Picture nomination for both Andrew Lowe and Emma Stone.

The Holdovers, from Focus Features, produced by Mark Johnson. This is the third Best Picture nomination for Mark Johnson, who won an Oscar for Rain Man (1988). He was also nominated for Bugsy (1991).

Oscar Trivia

At the 96 Academy Awards, in the acting categories, ten individuals are first-time nominees Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Cillian Murphy, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Jeffrey Wright.

For the fifth consecutive year, at least one film nominated for Best Picture has been directed by a woman, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet. Her nomination is the ninth Directing nomination for a woman.

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For the sixth consecutive year, at least one non-English language film has been nominated in a writing category and for Best Picture.

The Zone of Interest is the ninth non-English language film to be nominated for both International Feature Film and Best Picture in the same year. Each of the previous films (Z, 1969; Life Is Beautiful, 1998; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000; Amour, 2012; Roma, 2018; Parasite, 2019; Drive My Car, 2021; All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022) won for International Feature Film. To date, Parasite is the only film to also win Best Picture.

With his nomination for Live Action Short Film, Wes Anderson becomes one of only three people with nominations in five or more award categories: Anderson for writing, animated feature, directing, best picture and live action short film; Kenneth Branagh for acting, directing, live action short film, writing and best picture; and the record holder in six categories, Alfonso Cuarón for writing, film editing, directing, best picture, cinematography and live action short film.

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Thelma Schoonmaker's ninth nomination is a record in the Film Editing category.

John Williams continues to add to his record number of music scoring nominations with his 49th. His overall total of 54 nominations (including five for Original Song) is the most for any living person, and second only to Walt Disney at 59. He is also, to the best of our knowledge, the oldest nominee in the competitive award category at 91 years of age.

Simone Coco (with two nominations this year) and Kiyoko Shibura become the fifth and sixth women to be nominated in the Visual Effects category. Hayao Miyazaki ties the record for most nominations for Animated Feature Film with his fourth nomination in the category. Pete Docter also has four nominations.

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Oscar Home Viewing Parties

The live telecast of the 2024 Academy Awards begins one hour earlier, at 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST. Actor and entrepreneur Vanessa Hudgens and multi-hyphenate Julianne Hough will host "The Oscars® Red Carpet Show," the official lead-in to the 96th Oscars on Sunday, March 10, airing at 6:30 p.m. EDT/3:30 p.m. PDT on ABC.

**Sidebar and facts supplied by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.