Oscars 2024 nominations: Contenders as Hollywood prepares for movie awards announcement

There’s another two-horse race in this year’s Best Actor category, with Cillian Murpy (Oppenheimer) and Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) both the most likely stars to receive a trophy this year.

The other nominees will just be showing up for the afterparty – but it would be brilliant to see Colman Domingo (Rustin), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) and Teo Yoo (Past Lives) in particular receive their first nods.

These are the possible contenders to be nominated in this category:

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Barry Keoghan – Saltburn

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

OK, let’s take a look at the contenders for the Best Actress category.

Until the Bafta nominations, this was a two-horse race between Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Emma stone (Poor Things). But Stone has proved the favourite after beating Gladstone at the Critics Choice Awards – not to mention Gladstone’s Baftas snub. It would be Stone’s second win after taking home Best Actress for La La Land in 2017.

If I had my way, Sandra Hüller would beat them both and win for Anatomy of a Fall.

These are the nominee contenders:

Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Natalie Portman – May December

Emma Stone – Poor Things

Time for the Best Supporting Actor contenders, which will probably be won by Robert Downey Jr for Oppenheimer (will be his third nomination after Chaplin in 1993 and Tropic Thunder in 2009).

We’re also hoping Robert De Niro gets a look in for Killers of the Flower Moon, having been snubbed by Bafta last week, and also by the Academy for The Irishman in 2020. It would be his eighth nomination since 1975.

These are the nominee contenders:

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer

Charles Melton – May December

Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Let’s run through our predictions for certain categories, starting with Best Supporting Actress.

We should immediately say that this is very much Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s to lose. The actor, so great in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, has been taking home trophies all awards season long, and this won’t change at this year’s Oscars. But who will she be competing against?

These are the nominee contenders:

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest

Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Julianne Moore – May December

Rosamund Pike – Saltburn

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Fortunately for both Gladstone and Gerwig, though, the Golden Globes – typically held in January ahead of the Academy Awards – has been a major predictor for the Oscars winners and nominees.

So take a look at the 2024 Golden Globes winners and nominees – they might inform the forthcoming Oscars nominees and ultimate winners.

So, to flag: the Oscar nominations are being announced TODAY at 1.30pm GMT. There’ll be a live stream at the top of this article for you to watch along, and we’ll be posting them here in full.

This morning, we’ll be running through contenders and possible snubs.

The in memoriam tribute is not only the most melancholy part of any Oscars ceremony – it is by far the thorniest to produce. The segment, instituted in 2014, serves a noble cause: to honour members of the film industry who have died in the year preceding the event, serving as a reminder of their contributions to the arts. But when the in memoriam sequence makes headlines, it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

Here, Clémence Michallon takes a closer look at a segment that tends to make headlines for the wrong reasons:

It’s as true of the Oscars as it is any other awards show: Winners leave happy, and losers go home empty-handed.

So while actors are often skilled at disguising their disappointment – this is show business, after all – sometimes they let their real feelings slip through.

Here’s a round-up of the best and funniest reactions to realising someone else just won in your category:

Officially they’re the Academy Awards, but almost everybody knows them better as the Oscars.

Exactly where the beloved nickname first came from is open to debate. The Independent’s Annabel Nugent investigates:

There’s another two-horse race in this year’s Best Actor category, with Cillian Murpy (Oppenheimer) and Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) both the most likely stars to receive a trophy this year.

The other nominees will just be showing up for the afterparty – but it would be brilliant to see Colman Domingo (Rustin), Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) and Teo Yoo (Past Lives) in particular receive their first nods.

These are the possible contenders to be nominated in this category:

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Barry Keoghan – Saltburn

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

OK, let’s take a look at the contenders for the Best Actress category.

Until the Bafta nominations, this was a two-horse race between Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Emma stone (Poor Things). But Stone has proved the favourite after beating Gladstone at the Critics Choice Awards – not to mention Gladstone’s Baftas snub. It would be Stone’s second win after taking home Best Actress for La La Land in 2017.

If I had my way, Sandra Hüller would beat them both and win for Anatomy of a Fall.

These are the nominee contenders:

Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Natalie Portman – May December

Emma Stone – Poor Things

Time for the Best Supporting Actor contenders, which will probably be won by Robert Downey Jr for Oppenheimer (will be his third nomination after Chaplin in 1993 and Tropic Thunder in 2009).

We’re also hoping Robert De Niro gets a look in for Killers of the Flower Moon, having been snubbed by Bafta last week, and also by the Academy for The Irishman in 2020. It would be his eighth nomination since 1975.

These are the nominee contenders:

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer

Charles Melton – May December

Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Let’s run through our predictions for certain categories, starting with Best Supporting Actress.

We should immediately say that this is very much Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s to lose. The actor, so great in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, has been taking home trophies all awards season long, and this won’t change at this year’s Oscars. But who will she be competing against?

These are the nominee contenders:

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest

Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Julianne Moore – May December

Rosamund Pike – Saltburn

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Fortunately for both Gladstone and Gerwig, though, the Golden Globes – typically held in January ahead of the Academy Awards – has been a major predictor for the Oscars winners and nominees.

So take a look at the 2024 Golden Globes winners and nominees – they might inform the forthcoming Oscars nominees and ultimate winners.

So, to flag: the Oscar nominations are being announced TODAY at 1.30pm GMT. There’ll be a live stream at the top of this article for you to watch along, and we’ll be posting them here in full.

This morning, we’ll be running through contenders and possible snubs.

The in memoriam tribute is not only the most melancholy part of any Oscars ceremony – it is by far the thorniest to produce. The segment, instituted in 2014, serves a noble cause: to honour members of the film industry who have died in the year preceding the event, serving as a reminder of their contributions to the arts. But when the in memoriam sequence makes headlines, it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

Here, Clémence Michallon takes a closer look at a segment that tends to make headlines for the wrong reasons:

It’s as true of the Oscars as it is any other awards show: Winners leave happy, and losers go home empty-handed.

So while actors are often skilled at disguising their disappointment – this is show business, after all – sometimes they let their real feelings slip through.

Here’s a round-up of the best and funniest reactions to realising someone else just won in your category:

Officially they’re the Academy Awards, but almost everybody knows them better as the Oscars.

Exactly where the beloved nickname first came from is open to debate. The Independent’s Annabel Nugent investigates: