The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its short lists for 10 categories on Thursday, giving us a clearer picture of how some of these tight races might shape up.
As they do every year ahead of nominations voting, the Academy announced short lists for documentary and international features, as well as documentary short subject, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, animated short, live-action short, visual effects, and sound. There are always a few surprises and snubs, and this year was no exception.
Barbie had the most mentions of any film, with five overall. It did surprisingly miss in the makeup and hairstyling category. The category included expected favorites like Maestro, Poor Things, and Killers of the Flower Moon, along with the more unexpected inclusion of Beau Is Afraid and horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Original song remains a highly competitive category with several films getting multiple songs in. Barbie, as expected, has three songs in the running, while The Color Purple and Flora and Son landed two each. Songs from Wonka and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, however, were left off the short list despite strong reviews for its songs.
The biggest surprise of the lists might be Society of the Snow, Spain’s submission for the international-feature Oscar, which also landed on the short lists for makeup and hairstyling, original score, and visual effects. The film, a survival thriller about a rugby team whose plane crashes on a glacier in the Andes, closed the Venice Film Festival and will be released by Netflix in January. Killers of the Flower Moon also fared well by landing on four lists.
The international-feature-film list didn’t have any glaring omissions like it has in years’ past. Strong front-runners that made the list include France’s The Taste of Things, Germany’s The Teachers’ Lounge, and the UK’s Zone of Interest.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, which has been in the conversation to possibly land other nominations outside of the international-feature race, fared well overall by making the lists for sound and original score.
The short lists are the final step before nominations voting begins January 11, with nominations to be announced on January 23.
See below for the full list:
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
American Symphony
Apolonia, Apolonia
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
In the Rearview
Stamped From the Beginning
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
A Still Small Voice
32 Sounds
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Bear
Between Earth and Sky
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Camp Courage
Deciding Vote
How We Get Free
If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Last Song From Kabul
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Oasis
Wings of Dust
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Armenia, Amerikatsi
Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun
Denmark, The Promised Land
Finland, Fallen Leaves
France, The Taste of Things
Germany, The Teachers’ Lounge
Iceland, Godland
Italy, Io Capitano
Japan, Perfect Days
Mexico, Totem
Morocco, The Mother of All Lies
Spain, Society of the Snow
Tunisia, Four Daughters
Ukraine, 20 Days in Mariupol
United Kingdom, The Zone of Interest
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Beau Is Afraid
Ferrari
Golda
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
American Fiction
American Symphony
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Elemental
The Holdovers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
“Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)” from Asteroid City
“Dance the Night” from Barbie
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
“Keep It Movin’” from The Color Purple
“Superpower (I)” from The Color Purple
“The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
“High Life” from Flora and Son
“Meet in the Middle” from Flora and Son
“Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon
“Quiet Eyes” from Past Lives
“Road to Freedom” from Rustin
“Am I Dreaming” from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Boom
Eeva
Humo (Smoke)
I’m Hip
A Kind of Testament
Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Once Upon a Studio
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
Pete
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War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Wild Summon
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The After
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
An Avocado Pit
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
Dead Cat
Good Boy
Invincible
Invisible Border
Knight of Fortune
The One Note Man
Red, White, and Blue
The Shepherd
Strange Way of Life
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Yellow
SOUND
Barbie
The Creator
Ferrari
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Rebel Moon—Part One: A Child of Fire
Society of the Snow
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