Greta Gerwig’s comedy central film Barbie takes the lead in the Oscar nomination shortlist with more than five nominations.
The Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Sciences have announced their shortest for up to 10 categories.
Gerwig’s film Barbie was nominated for three of its submissions Billie Eilish for “What Was I Made For”, Dua Lipa for “Dance the Night”, and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken”. A huge miss for the film came in the makeup and costume category which caused a surprise.
Films like “the colour Purple” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol, 3” failed to make the cut instead films like “Beau is Afraid” by A24 and Universal Pictures’ summer horror film “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” were shortlisted.
The music Category comprised musical compositions from Daniel Pemberton for “Spiderman Across the Spiderverse”, Ludwig Göransson for “Oppenheimer”, and the late Robbie Robertson for “Killers of the Flower Moon”, Thomas Newman “Elemental” as well as John Williams for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”.
The nominations also represented notable diversity within the nominations amongst the music composers with black composers like Jon Batiste for “American Symphony” and Kris Bowers for “The Colour Purple”, female legendary icon Laura Karpman for “American Fiction” and nonbinary Mica Levi for “The Zone of Interest”.
The original soundtrack included two tracks from Warner Bros’ “The Colour Purple”- “Keep It Movin” and “Superpower” sung by Halle Bailey and Fantasia Barrino and Apple Original Films’ “Flora and Son- “High Life” and “Meet me in the Middle”. Olivia Rodrigo’s hit single “Can’t Catch Me Now” for the motion picture “The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is also a step away from receiving a nomination along with Lenny Kravitz song called “Road to Freedom” for “Rustin”. And in a shocking turn of events Wes Anderson’s “Dear Alien” from “Asteroid City” co-written by him. Wes Anderson short film “the wonderful story of Henry Sugar” made it up to the live-action shortlist alongside Pedro Altodovar’s “Strange way of Life” starring Pedro Pascal.
Other films like Martin Scorsese’s “Killer of the Flower Moon” received four nominations which included the original song and J.A. Bayonne’s “Society of Snow” which could almost emulate last year “All Quite on the Western Front”, which won four Oscars.
Documentary features front runners included Apple Original Films “Still a Michael J Fox Movie” and Netflix “American Symphony” as well as MTV Documentary Films “The Eternal Memory”. “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” also got shortlisted. Some really surprising revelations were films like National Geographic’s “The Mission”, Magnolia’s “Kokomo City” and “Little Richard: I am Everything” and Janus and Slideshows “Anslem” lacked enough votes to make the shortlist.
The nomination period will run from January 11 – 16, with the results officially being declared and the nominees on January 23.
A list of Films for the Sound category includes:
- “Barbie”
- “The Creator”
- “Ferrari”
- “The Killer”
- “Killers of the Flower Moon”
- “Maestro”
- “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”
- “Napoleon”
- “Oppenheimer”
- “The Zone of Interest”
