The Walt Disney Company Leads With 20 Academy Award® Nominations
Searchlight Pictures Earns 13 Nominations, Including 11 for POOR THINGS including for Best Picture
Pixar Animation Studios Gets Best Animated Feature Nod for Elemental
The Walt Disney Company proudly announces 20 nominations for the 96th Academy Awards® across its Walt Disney Studios, content brands and platforms: 20th Century Studios, Disney+, Hulu, Lucasfilm Ltd., Marvel Studios, National Geographic Documentary Films, Pixar Animation Studios, and Searchlight Pictures.
Searchlight Pictures garnered 13 nods, with 11 for Poor Things, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. The studio also garnered nominations for Best Original Song for Flamin’ Hot and Best Documentary Short Film for The Last Repair Shop.
National Geographic Documentary Films captures its fourth nomination in six years in the Feature Documentary category for Bobi Wine: The People’s President.
A complete list of all The Walt Disney Company nominations follows below. (As some of the nominations overlap, these are grand totals for each entity.)
2024 Academy Awards® Nominations:
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) – 11 nominations – Now in theaters
- Best Picture
- Best Director – Yorgos Lanthimos
- Best Actress – Emma Stone
- Best Supporting Actor – Mark Ruffalo
- Best Adapted Screenplay – Tony McNamara
- Best Cinematography – Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC,
- Best Editing – Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE
- Best Production Design – James Price, Shona Heath
- Best Costume Design – Holly Waddington
- Best Makeup & Hairstyling – Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston
- Best Original Score – Jerskin Fendrix
The Creator (20th Century Studios) – 2 nominations – Now streaming on Hulu
- Best Visual Effects – Andrew Roberts, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper, Neil Corbould
- Best Sound – Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic
Bobi Wine: The People’s President (National Geographic Documentary Films) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu
- Documentary Feature Film
Elemental (Pixar Animation Studios) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Disney+
- Best Animated Film – Peter Sohn, Denise Ream
Flamin’ Hot (Searchlight Pictures) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Hulu and Disney+
- Best Original Song – “The Fire Inside” Written by Diane Warren
Guardians of The Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Marvel Studios) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Disney+
- Best Visual Effects – Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, Stephane Ceretti, Theo Bialek
The Last Repair Shop (Searchlight Pictures) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Hulu and Disney+
- Best Documentary Short Film – Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Lucasfilm Ltd.) – 1 nomination – Now streaming on Disney+
- Best Original Score – John Williams
Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Disney+) – 1 nomination
- Best Documentary Short Film – Sean Wang, Sam Davis
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 96th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast in more than 200 outlets worldwide from the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the new time of 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT.
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