Who’s nominated?
“Oppenheimer” leads the pack with 13 nominations, adopted by “Poor Issues,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s black comedy concerning the sexual awakening of a younger Victorian lady, with 11, and the Martin Scorsese epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” with 10. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” the highest-grossing movie of 2023, picked up eight.
Within the appearing races, Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Colman Domingo (“Rustin”), Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) will sq. off for finest actor. Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Issues”) will duke it out for finest actress.
What must you look ahead to?
The hardest class to name might be finest actress, the place the 2 front-runners are Gladstone, who performs an Osage lady married to a white man concerned in a murderous conspiracy in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and Stone, as a grown lady with the thoughts of a kid within the “Frankenstein”-inspired “Poor Issues.”
Gladstone received their most up-to-date face-off on the Display Actors Guild Awards — to Stone’s apparent joy — and has additionally taken house honors from the Golden Globes, the Nationwide Board of Assessment and the New York Movie Critics Circle. However Stone got here out on prime on the BAFTAs and the Critics Selection Awards (and received her personal Globe within the musical or comedy class).
The perfect actor race as soon as seemed to be tilting in favor of the gregarious Giamatti, who performs a solitary and cantankerous New England boarding-school trainer saddled with babysitting responsibility over Christmas break in “The Holdovers.” However in current weeks, Murphy, who performs the titular theoretical physicist in “Oppenheimer,” has emerged because the probably winner.
How political will the speeches be?
Awards season to this point has been decidedly quiet with regards to political speeches. (“It’s too fraught,” a studio government instructed The New York Occasions’s awards season columnist, Kyle Buchanan, final week. “Individuals are apprehensive about their careers.”). However outdoors the USA, a BAFTA winner used that platform to criticize Israel’s bombing and invasion of Gaza — which got here after a Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7.
