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Oscar Nominations 2024
Here are some of this year's Academy Award nominees that you can check out and watch at home.
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Barbie
2023Get this itemBarbie has an existential crisis. She journeys from Barbie Land to Los Angeles (with sidekick Ken along for the ride) to learn the truth about the universe. It was a box office hit--subversive, meta, and very pink. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Original Song (two songs), Best Picture, Best Production Design, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Oppenheimer
2023Get this itemThis epic biographical film about American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the development of the first atomic bomb, is as much a study of a deeply mysterious and brilliant man as it is a thriller. It earned 13 Oscar nominations: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Directing, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The Holdovers
2024Get this itemSet in a New England prep school where the holdovers, a small group of students who have nowhere to go during the winter holidays, must stay on campus. An unpopular classics professor is assigned to “babysit” the holdovers, and the well-liked cafeteria manager, grieving the recent loss of her son in the Vietnam War, chooses to stay with them. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.
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Past Lives
2023Get this itemChildhood best friends Nora and Hae Sung reconnect after 20 years, having been separated when Nora’s family emigrated from South Korea. The film explores destiny, choices, what ifs, and different versions of oneself. It received two Oscar nominations: Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023Get this itemThe highly anticipated sequel to Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse. Miles Morales ventures into the Multiverse, joining Gwen Stacy and other Spider-People, as a threat to their very existence looms large. The first won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2019. This is nominated in the same category.
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American Fiction (DVD)
2023Get this itemThelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black author/professor, hasn’t had a novel published in a long while because he refuses to write the stereotypical fiction that white publishers want. Frustrated, he takes on a fake identity, writes a book as a joke that he thinks is dreadful, and to his surprise it becomes a huge success. This is nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Picture, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The Boy and the Heron (DVD)
2023Get this itemLegendary animator/filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) came out of retirement to tell this exquisite coming-of-age tale. Set in Japan during WWII, a young boy, mourning the loss of his mother in a hospital fire, enters a fantasy realm where he searches for a way to save himself and the loved ones around him. It’s nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
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Elemental
2023Get this itemFrom Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. In Element City, air, earth, water, and fire live together, but the simple rule is that elements cannot mix. One day Ember (fire) meets Wade (water) and their friendship makes Ember rethink what she thought she knew about the world. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
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Four Daughters
2024Get this itemTunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania pushes the boundaries of "documentary" by inserting metacommentary and actors playing the roles of absent people. It's the story of Olfa Hamrouni, a Tunisian mother whose two eldest daughters disappeared almost a decade ago when they were teens. What could have been a sensationalized story of radicalism becomes a nuanced look at the complex relationships between mother and daughter, a patriarchal society, and intergenerational trauma. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.
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20 Days in Mariupol
2023Get this itemUkrainian filmmaker/Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov was trapped in the city when it came under attack by Russian forces. Collaborating with a team from Frontline, he chronicled the first 20 days of the devastating siege. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.
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The Creator
2023Get this itemDirector Gareth Edwards, known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, writes and directs an original story that pits humans against AI robots. John David Washington stars as a former soldier who is grieving the death of his wife and 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. Nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
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The Color Purple (DVD)
2023Get this itemAn adaptation of the musical stage production based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book of the same title, the story centers on Celie, a Black woman living in the American South in the early 1900s. Celie experiences tragedy and hardship, yet proves to be resilient as she leans into the friendship and support of the women around her. Reprising her role from the stage musical, Danielle Brooks picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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Golda
2023Get this itemHelen Mirren becomes Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. The movie covers the period of the Yom Kippur War (1973), detailing the challenges of the situation and the actions she took. It is nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023Get this itemIndy is back for one final adventure! Set 1969, the professor of archaeology and his estranged goddaughter Helena are unlikely partners as they race against time to locate a powerful artifact before it falls into the hands of a former Nazi, who’s determined to use it to alter the outcome of World War II. Composer John Williams is also back, and he collected his 54th Oscar nomination for Best Original Score.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
2023Get this itemThe final installment in the Guardians of the Galaxy series focuses on Rocket’s origin story and the Guardians' efforts to save his life and the galaxy from the High Evolutionary, a horrific cyborg scientist. Nominated for Best Visual Effects.
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Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Part One
2023Get this itemIn the latest Mission: Impossible movie, IMF agent Ethan Hunt and his team pursue a sentient rogue AI called The Entity that can control everything. Nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
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Anatomy of a Fall (DVD)
2024Get this itemThemes of uncertainty and the impossibility of knowing the truth are examined in this French courtroom drama about a German author suspected of killing her husband. Their visually impaired son's testimony is key to a verdict of guilt or acquittal. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.
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Poor Things (DVD)
2024Get this itemTaking place in Victorian times with a steampunk, sci-fi/fantasy vibe, a young woman is brought back to life by a brilliant yet unconventional scientist. This is a "Frankenstein"-inspired story about self-discovery and empowerment, plus a lot of extremes and weirdness at its core. Nominated for 11 Oscars: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Directing, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Production Design, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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