Oppenheimer leads Oscar nominations with 13 nods, including for best picture, actor and director
Oppenheimer outpaced gothic comedy Poor Things, which received 11 nominations for the film industry's highest honours.
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy in a scene from Oppenheimer. (Universal Pictures via AP)
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Oppenheimer, the epic film about the World War II race to build the first atomic bomb, landed a leading 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday (Jan 23) and will compete for the prestigious best picture trophy.
Oppenheimer outpaced gothic comedy Poor Things, which received 11 nominations for the film industry's highest honours.
Also in the best picture contest were feminist doll adventure Barbie, Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro and Martin Scorsese's Killers Of The Flower Moon, about the murders of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s.
Christopher Nolan, a best director nominee for Oppenheimer, said it was "a real thrill" to see his film pile up so many nominations.
"I think it's a great year for movies, and it's a real honour to be included," Nolan said in an interview.
The remaining nominees in the field of 10 best picture nominees were American Fiction, The Holdovers, Past Lives, The Zone Of Interest and French film Anatomy Of A Fall.
Barbie, last year's highest-grossing movie, brought in eight nominations, including supporting actress for America Ferrera and supporting actor for Ryan Gosling. Voters passed over lead actress Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig.
Oppenheimer, another blockbuster at movie box offices, scored a lead acting nomination for Cillian Murphy, who played scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, and for supporting cast Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.
Ten of the 20 acting contenders were first-time nominees. Among them were Killers Of The Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone and Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K Brown for American Fiction, the story of a black writer fed up with publishers pushing stereotypes.
In a surprise, voters snubbed Flower Moon star Leonardo DiCaprio. Robert De Niro received a supporting actor nomination for the movie.
Winners of the golden Oscar statuettes will be chosen by the roughly 11,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The organisation added more women and people of colour to its ranks after the #OscarsSoWhite uproars of 2015 and 2016, and it increased membership from outside the United States. This year, votes came in from a record 93 countries.
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will return as host of the Oscars ceremony, which will be broadcast live in the US on ABC on Mar 10.
For best original song, Gosling's sad ballad I'm Just Ken will compete with Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For?, also from Barbie.
The following is a full list of nominees.
BEST PICTURE
American Fiction
Anatomy Of A Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone Of Interest
Oppenheimer
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone, Killers Of The Flower Moon
Sandra Huller, Anatomy Of A Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Annette Bening, Nyad
BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone Of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers Of The Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy Of A Fall
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sterling K Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Zone Of Interest
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anatomy Of A Fall
The Holdovers
May December
Past Lives
Maestro
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boy And The Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Robot Dreams
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Letter To A Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Io Capitano, Italy
Perfect Days, Japan
Society Of The Snow, Spain
The Teachers’ Lounge, Germany
The Zone Of Interest, United Kingdom
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill A Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Last Repair Shop
Nai Nai & Wai Po
The Barber Of Little Rock
Island In Between
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
American Fiction
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
It Never Went Away, American Symphony,
I’m Just Ken, Barbie
What Was I Made For?, Barbie
The Fire Inside, Flamin’ Hot,
Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People), Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST SOUND
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Barbie
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
The After
Invincible
Knight Of Fortune
Red, White And Blue
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
El Conde
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Golda
Society Of The Snow
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
BEST FILM EDITING
Anatomy Of A Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
