Oscar nominations for 2024 Academy Awards

Maestro

Bradley Cooper

<p>In his directorial follow-up to&nbsp;<em>A Star Is Born</em>, Bradley Cooper dramatizes the public and private lives of legendary musician Leonard Bernstein with sensitivity, visual ingenuity, and symphonic splendor. Coasting on the boundless energy of its subject&rsquo;s runaway genius,&nbsp;<em>Maestro</em>&nbsp;transports the viewer back to a vividly re-created postwar New York, when Bernstein (Cooper) began his stratospheric rise to international fame as both a conductor and composer, and also when he first met Felicia (Carey Mulligan), the actress whom he would marry and spend his life with.&nbsp;<em>Maestro</em>&nbsp;is a tender, often intensely emotional film about the different faces one wears when living in the public eye, depicting the complicated yet devoted decades-spanning relationship between Leonard and Felicia. Fueled by Cooper and Mulligan&rsquo;s perfectly matched duet of towering performances, Matthew Libatique&rsquo;s balletic cinematography, and, of course, Bernstein&rsquo;s thrilling music,&nbsp;<em>Maestro</em>&nbsp;is a tour de force for its director.</p>

The Holdovers

Alexander Payne

<p>A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.</p>

Rustin

George C. Wolfe

<p>Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.</p>

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan

<p><em>Oppenheimer</em>&nbsp;propels audiences into the paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. With America locked in a devastating war, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes the central figure in a pulse-pounding race against the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb.</p>

American Fiction

Cord Jefferson

<p>A novelist who&#39;s fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.</p>

Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese

<p>When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.</p>

Barbie

Greta Gerwig

<p>Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.</p>

Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos

<p>In his boldest vision yet, iconoclast auteur Yorgos Lanthimos (<em>The Lobster</em>, NYFF53<em>; The Favourite</em>, NYFF56) creates an outlandish alternate 19th century on the cusp of technological breakthrough, in which a peculiar, childlike woman named Bella (Emma Stone) lives with her mysterious caretaker, the scientist and surgeon Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Violently rambunctious, with a growing and unquenchable desire for sexual gratification, Bella turns every social propriety on its head. The shocking truth about her state, soon revealed, doesn&rsquo;t stop Godwin&rsquo;s gentle young apprentice (Ramy Youssef) from falling in love with her. After a rakish, libertine lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) whisks her away to see the world, Bella comes to understand her place in it, allowing us to bear witness to her journey of self-actualization. At once poignant and grotesque,&nbsp;<em>Poor Things</em>, based on a 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, is a punkish update of the&nbsp;<em>Frankenstein</em>&nbsp;story that becomes a deeply feminist fairy tale about women taking back control of their own bodies and minds.</p>

Nyad

Jimmy Chin Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

<p>The remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.</p>

Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet

<p>The winner of this year&rsquo;s Palme d&rsquo;Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Justine Triet&rsquo;s drama is a riveting procedural and a delicate inquiry into the impossibility of an ultimate truth in human relationships. When the husband of famous novelist Sandra Voyter (played by&nbsp;<em>Toni Erdmann</em>&rsquo;s Sandra H&uuml;ller) is found dead on the ground outside their chalet in the French Alps, authorities suspect that she might have been responsible, as the impact and position of his body suggest a push rather than a fall. This leads to a murder trial that puts every aspect of their marriage under impossible scrutiny, and whose outcome might hinge on the perspective of their vision-impaired 11-year-old son. Triet&rsquo;s fiercely intelligent, emotionally devastating film dissects the ways we create subjective narratives for ourselves and others and questions the insufficiency of language to describe the essential mysteries each of us possesses. At its core is the brilliant H&uuml;ller, whose Sandra is articulate, open, and utterly inscrutable.</p>

The Color Purple

Blitz Bazawule

<p>A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.</p>

君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron)

Hayao Miyazaki

<p>The first film in a decade from Hayao Miyazaki is a ravishing, endlessly inventive fantasy that is destined to be ranked with the legendary animator&rsquo;s finest, boldest works. While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother&rsquo;s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy&rsquo;s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the &ldquo;long-awaited one.&rdquo; Indeed, an extraordinary and grand fate is in store for our young hero, who must journey to a subterranean alternate reality in the hopes of saving Natsuko&mdash;and perhaps himself. Uniting the countryside surreality of&nbsp;<em>My Neighbor Totoro</em>&nbsp;with the&nbsp;<em>Alice in Wonderland</em>&ndash;like dream logic of&nbsp;<em>Spirited Away</em>&nbsp;and the personal historical backdrop of&nbsp;<em>The Wind Rises&nbsp;</em>(NYFF51),&nbsp;yet fabricating something ingeniously original,&nbsp;<em>The Boy and the Heron</em>&nbsp;is a deeply felt work of eccentric beauty brimming with inspired images that lodge in the mind, from the adorable to the grotesque. Moving from earthbound serenity to a universe of boundless imagination, Miyazaki&rsquo;s long-anticipated film seeks, once and for all, a world without malice.</p>

Elemental

Peter Sohn Denise Ream

<p>Follows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, earth- and air-residents live together.</p>

Nimona

Nick Bruno Troy Quane

<p>When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn&#39;t commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he&#39;s sworn to destroy.</p>

Robot Dreams

Pablo Berger

<p>The adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s.</p>

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Joaquim Dos Santos Kemp Powers Justin K. Thompson

<p>Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.</p>

El Conde

Pablo Larraín

<p>After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.</p>

Napoleon

Ridley Scott

<p>An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.</p>

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer

<p>In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (<em>Under the Skin</em>) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It&rsquo;s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf H&ouml;ss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra H&uuml;ller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.</p>

Bobi Wine: The People's President

Moses Bwayo Christopher Sharp

<p>Bobi Wine, a popular Afrobeats musician, directs his charisma to politics as he runs for office as Uganda&rsquo;s presidential opposition candidate, challenging longtime leader Yoweri Museveni. The film unfolds like a thriller as Wine faces a brutal pushback. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a gripping piece of film-making: a propulsive, kinetic account of a grassroots campaign captured at what would seem to be considerable personal risk to both the subject and directors.&rdquo; (<em>The Guardian</em>)</p>

The Eternal Memory (2022)

Maite Alberdi

<p>Augusto and Paulina have been together and in love for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease, and his wife has since become his caretaker. As one of Chile&rsquo;s most prominent cultural commentators and television presenters, Augusto is no stranger to building an archive of memory, having been responsible for that herculean task following the Pinochet dictatorship and its systematic erasure of collective consciousness. Now he turns that work to his own life, trying to hold on to his identity with the help of his beloved. Day by day, the couple face this challenge head-on, adapting to the disruptions brought on by the taxing disease while relying on the tender affection and sense of humor shared between them that remains intact.</p> <p>Oscar-nominated director and Sundance alum Maite Alberdi (<em>The Mole Agent</em>, 2020) returns to the festival with a film that gracefully delves into the melancholy of remembrance met with resistance, uplifted by the beautiful partnership at its core. Traversing decades of intimacy, <em>The</em> <em>Eternal Memory</em> elegantly cements Alberdi&rsquo;s place as one of today&rsquo;s most thoughtful documentarians.</p>

Les Filles d'Olfa (Four Daughters)

Kaouther Ben Hania

<p>The Tunisian mother Olfa Hamrouni gained prominence in 2016 when two of her four daughters ran away to join the Islamic State in Libya. She grew outspoken in the hope of preventing other mothers from suffering her loss. Now filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania takes a novel approach to telling this story by casting two actors to portray the missing daughters alongside Hamrouni and her other daughters. &ldquo;Four Daughters is an enthralling narrative about memory.&rdquo; (<em>Variety)</em></p>

To Kill A Tiger

Nisha Pahuja

<p>Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.</p>

20 Days in Mariupol

Mstyslav Chernov

<p>During the Russian siege in 2022, unspeakably gruesome and bloody images of the countless dead and wounded victims of bombings and shootings in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol were seen around the world&mdash;thanks in part to the work of Ukrainian AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov. With great difficulty in this city lacking electricity and internet coverage, he managed to share these shocking and now-iconic images, such as the pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher from a bombed-out maternity clinic.</p> <p>This documentary offers an even more powerful and mind-boggling impression of the siege&mdash;if such a thing is possible. The crystal-clear quality of the video footage makes for an almost 3D viewing experience. The camera captures the entry into the blasted clinic, the hurriedly dug mass graves containing dead children, and emotional exclamations from the doctors working in operating rooms.</p> <p>The footage is pin-sharp, though sometimes jittery due to the explosions. In his soft-spoken voice-over, we hear Chernov talking about his emotional response to the 20 days that transformed this normal city into a shattered ruin.</p>

The Abcs Of Book Banning

Sheila Nevins Trish Adlesic Nazenet Habtezghi

<p>In recent years, more than 2,500 books have been removed from school districts around the US, labeled as BANNED, RESTRICTED, or CHALLENGED, and made unavailable to millions of students. By no accident, the themes targeted are the usual scapegoats of the American Right - LGBT issues, Black history, and Women&rsquo;s empowerment - impeding the power of future generations to develop their own thoughts and opinions on critical social issues. By weaving together a lyrical montage of young readers and authors, the ABC&rsquo;S OF BOOK BANNING reveals the voices of the impacted parties, and inspires hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.</p>

The Barber of Little Rock

John Hoffman Christine Turner

<p>The barbershop is the heart of the Black community, and in Little Rock, Arkansas, now the starting place of a new community lending program.&nbsp;<em>&ndash; Samah Ali</em></p>

Island In Between

S. Leo Chiang

<p>S. Leo Chiang reflects on his relationship with Taiwan, the United States and China from the islands of Kinmen, just a few miles from mainland China.</p>

The Last Repair Shop

Ben Proudfoot Kris Bowers

<p>One warehouse in the Los Angeles area devotes their time and energy to repairing 80,000 beloved instruments in the Los Angeles area.&nbsp;<em>&ndash; Samah Ali</em></p>

Nai Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma)

Sean Wang

<p>A tale of two grandmothers who pass the time dancing, stretching, and being best friends. &nbsp;<em>&ndash; Anita Raswant</em>&nbsp;</p>

Io Capitano

Matteo Garrone

<p>A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe.</p>

Perfect Days

Wim Wenders

<p>As in his finest movies, Wim Wenders (<em>Paris, Texas,&nbsp;</em>NYFF22) here locates the magnificence in the everyday, casting the incomparable Koji Yakusho as the taciturn, good-natured Hirayama, who goes about his solitary hours working as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Interacting on his rounds with a variety of city denizens whose eccentricities put his gentle nature into even more delightful relief, the middle-aged Hirayama becomes the quiet hero of his own story, doing his menial work without complaint, bemused yet often enchanted at the younger folk orbiting him, and delighted by the natural wonders poking out from the corners of the always changing cityscape. Hirayama is a creature very much of the present, devoted to a daily routine that is nearly monastic&mdash;until it is disrupted by someone from his past. Working in concert with Wenders&rsquo;s documentarian eye, Yakusho, who won the Best Actor award at this year&rsquo;s Cannes Film Festival, makes his character&rsquo;s every movement magnetic.</p>

La sociedad de la nieve (Society Of The Snow)

J.A. Bayona

<p>The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world&#39;s toughest environments to survive.</p>

Das Lehrerzimmer (The Teachers' Lounge)

Ilker Çatak

<p>When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.</p>

Golda

Guy Nattiv

<p>Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the &#39;Iron Lady of Israel,&#39; faced during the Yom Kippur War.</p>

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

James Mangold

<p>Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.</p>

Flamin' Hot

Eva Longoria

<p>This is the inspiring true story of Richard Monta&ntilde;ez who, as a Frito Lay janitor, disrupted the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Flamin&#39; Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.</p>

American Symphony

Matthew Heineman

<p>Musician Jon Batiste was riding high in 2022 with 11 Grammy nominations and a planned event at Carnegie Hall to present a new composition called &ldquo;American Symphony.&rdquo; But the year grows more complex when his life partner Suleika Jaouad, a writer and musician, learns that her cancer has returned after a decade in remission. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman (<em>Cartel Land</em>) follows the couple as they experience the best and worst of what life has to offer.</p>

Past Lives

Celine Song

<p>Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora&#39;s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.</p>

Letter To A Pig

Tal Kantor

<p>A traumatic memory from a Holocaust survivor transports a young schoolgirl on an inner journey.</p>

Ninety-Five Senses

Jared Hess Jerusha Hess

<p>An ode to the body&#39;s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.</p>

Our Uniform

Yegane Moghaddam

<p>An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories through the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform. She admits that she&#39;s nothing but a &quot;female&quot; and explores the roots of this idea in her school years.</p>

Pachyderme

Stéphanie Clément

<p>Like every summer, Louise stays at her grandparents&#39; in the countryside for a few days during the holidays. It will snow at the height of summer and a monster is going to die.</p>

War Is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko

Dave Mullins

<p>At a World War I front, a carrier pigeon delivers moves messages between two soldiers playing a chess game, unaware they are on opposite sides.</p>

The After

Misan Harriman

<p>In this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.</p>

Invincible

Vincent René-Lortie

<p>Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.</p>

Knight Of Fortune

Lasse Lyskjær Noer

<p>The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it&#39;s much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben - a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief. Knight of Fortune is a short film written and directed by Lasse Lyskj&aelig;r Noer and produced in Denmark, Scandinavia by Jalabert Productions.</p>

Красный, белый и голубой (Red, White And Blue)

Nazrin Choudhury

<p>Rachel (Brittany Snow) is a single mother living paycheck to paycheck. When an unexpected pregnancy threatens to unravel her already precarious financial position, she&#39;s forced to cross state lines in search of an abortion. As Rachel contemplates the series of events that necessitated this journey and the obstacles placed in her path, we learn a heartbreaking truth that means her life will never be the same again</p>

The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar

Wes Anderson

<p>Henry Sugar, an independently wealthy man who enjoys gambling, finds and reads a doctor&#39;s report on a strange patient the doctor met while stationed at a hospital in India. This patient, who called himself &quot;The Man Who Sees Without Using His Eyes&quot;, had the ability to see even after the doctors had medically sealed the man&#39;s eyes shut and bandaged his head. The man was part of a circus act and used his ability to make money. When interviewed in more detail by the curious doctors, he gave an account which they wrote up. The man claimed he had been interested in magic all his life, and managed to study with Yogi Hardawar in India, by which he developed the ability to see through thin objects such as paper or playing cards and see around solid objects such as a wooden door if he is allowed a finger or hand around it. The doctors decide the man could be of great benefit as a teacher of the blind and return to the circus, only to find the show canceled when the Man Who Sees Without Using His Eyes has died.</p>

The Creator

Gareth Edwards

<p>Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war-and mankind itself.</p>

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Mission: Impossible 7)

Christopher McQuarrie

<p>Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most.</p>

Gojira -1.0 (Godzilla Minus One)

Takashi Yamazaki

<p>Feeling as if he unfairly cheated death too many times, Shikishima, a surviving Kamikaze pilot is attacked on Odo Island along with many war plane engineers by a gargantuan monster. After the engineers die due to Shikishima failing to distract the monster, an overwhelming amount of guilt weighs on him, especially after a homeless woman and a baby move into his home when he returns. Shikishima, now on a personal mission, teams up with a large group of veterans to finally take down the monster known as Godzilla.</p>

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

James Gunn

<p>In Marvel Studios &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3&quot; our beloved band of misfits are looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.</p>

May December

Todd Haynes

<p>Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a popular television star, has arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Julianne Moore), whom she&rsquo;ll be playing on-screen, and her much younger husband, Joe (Charles Melton), to better understand the psychology and circumstances that more than 20 years ago made them notorious tabloid figures. As Elizabeth attempts to get closer to the family, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing difficult, long-dormant emotions to resurface. From the sensational premise born from first time screenwriter Samy Burch&rsquo;s brilliant script, director Todd Haynes (<em>Safe</em>,&nbsp;<em>Carol</em>) has constructed an American tale of astonishing richness and depth, which touches the pressure and pleasure points of a culture obsessed equally with celebrity and trauma. It&rsquo;s a feat of storytelling and pinpoint-precise tone that is shrewd in its wicked embrace of melodrama while also genuinely moving in its humane treatment of tricky subject matter. Boasting a trio of bravura, mercurial performances by Moore, Portman, and Melton,&nbsp;<em>May December</em>&nbsp;is a film about human exploitation, the elusive nature of performance, and the slipperiness of truth that confirms Todd Haynes&rsquo;s status as one of our consummate movie artists.</p>