Wicked, Dune: Part Two, and The Substance Lead Genre’s Big Push at the Oscars

After last year proved to be a bit of a quiet one in the world of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy at last year’s Academy Awards (save for Godzilla Minus One‘s historic win), 2024 is shaping up to be quiet a different one: Dune: Part Two, Wicked, and The Substance are heavy hitter nominees in some of this year’s biggest categories, including Best Picture.

This morning the Academy announced the 2024 Oscar nominees, after proceedings were delayed recently due to the devastating wildfires impacting Los Angeles. Wicked is leading genre’s interests at the awards this year, with 10 nominations, including in Best Picture, Best Actress and Actress in a Supporting Role for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s performances as Elphaba and Glinda, Original Score, and more. Dune: Part Two secured five nominations, including a Best Picture nod, as did The Substance, with Coralie Fargeat tapped in the Best Director category.

We also thrilled for Demi Moore, recognized alongside Erivo for her Best Actress-worthy (and then some) performance in The Substance, and The Wild Robot, which was io9’s top movie of 2024, and rightfully notched a spot in the Best Animated Feature category as well as Original Score.

Here’s the complete list of nominees. The ceremony takes place Sunday, March 2, with Conan O’Brien hosting.

Best Picture

Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I’m Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked

Best Director

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet, The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat, The Substance James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Best Lead Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown Colman Domingo, Sing Sing Ralph Fiennes, Conclave Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Lead Actress

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez Mikey Madison, Anora Demi Moore, The Substance Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce, The Brutalist Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown Ariana Grande, Wicked Felicity Jones, The Brutalist Isabella Rossellini, Conclave Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Animated Feature Film

Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot

Best Animated Short Film

Beautiful Men In the Shadow of the Cypress Magic Candies Wander to Wonder Yuck!

Best Costume Design

A Complete Unknown Conclave Gladiator II Nosferatu Wicked

Best Live-Action Short

A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz) Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai) I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent) The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw) The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man Emilia Pérez Nosferatu The Substance Wicked

Best Original Score

The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez Wicked The Wild Robot

Best Sound

A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco) Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill) Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta) Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis) The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown Conclave Emilia Pérez Nickel Boys Sing Sing

Best Original Screenplay

Anora The Brutalist A Real Pain September 5 The Substance

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Maria Nosferatu

Best Documentary Feature Film

Black Box Diaries No Other Land Porcelain War Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short Film

Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart The Only Girl in the Orchestr

Best Film Editing

Anora The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez Wicked

Best International Feature Film

Brazil, I’m Still Here Denmark, The Girl With the Needle France, Emilia Pérez Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig Latvia, Flow

Best Original Song

“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez “Like A Bird” from Sing Sing “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight

Best Production Design

The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Nosferatu Wicked

Best Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan) Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs) Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke) Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)

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