Each year, the Oscar nominations come out to eager audiences. Fans, stars, and all the individuals who worked on movies during the previous year anticipate what films, actors, and other colleagues will get highly sought-after nods.
The lead-up to Oscar nominations is peppered with other awards, many of which offer hints as to what will make it to the top of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences list each year. Once the nominations are out, praise for the chosen few has calmed, and anger over snubs has eased, it's time to decide who and what deserves to win.
Not all movies that earn Best Picture nominations are universally liked. Many haven't been seen by a lot of people. As often as not, the group of Best Picture picks is full of divisive options as well as beloved favorites. This is true most years, and especially so for the 2024 Best Picture Oscar nominees.
That's when folks begin to chime in with opinions of their own.
Here's your chance to weigh in and decide for yourself - which 2024 Best Picture nominees deserve to take Oscar home?
- 1
- During WWII, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
- Directed by: Christopher Nolan
- Genres: Drama
- Runtime: 180
- 2
- A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
- Directed by: Alexander Payne
- Genres: Drama
- Runtime: 133
- 3
- Real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal as Mollie Burkhart, a member of the Osage Nation, tries to save her community from a spree of murders fueled by oil and greed.
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Genres: Drama
- Runtime: 206
- 4
- Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
- Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
- Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
- Runtime: 141
- 5
- A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
- Directed by: Justine Triet
- Genres: Mystery, Drama
- Runtime: 151
- 6
- 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.
- Directed by: Greta Gerwig
- Genres: Comedy
- Runtime: 114
