Oscars 2024 nominations: Hollywood prepares for movie awards announcement

Time for the Best Supporting Actor contenders, which will probably be won by Robert Downey Jr for Oppenheimer (will be his third nomination after Chaplin in 1993 and Tropic Thunder in 2009).

We’re also hoping Robert De Niro gets a look in for Killers of the Flower Moon, having been snubbed by Bafta last week, and also by the Academy for The Irishman in 2020. It would be his eighth nomination since 1975.

These are the nominee contenders:

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr – Oppenheimer

Charles Melton – May December

Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Let’s run through our predictions for certain categories, starting with Best Supporting Actress.

We should immediately say that this is very much Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s to lose. The actor, so great in Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, has been taking home trophies all awards season long, and this won’t change at this year’s Oscars. But who will she be competing against?

These are the nominee contenders:

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest

Julianne Moore – May December

Rosamund Pike – Saltburn

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Fortunately for both Gladstone and Gerwig, though, the Golden Globes – typically held in January ahead of the Academy Awards – has been a major predictor for the Oscars winners and nominees.

So take a look at the 2024 Golden Globes winners and nominees – they might inform the forthcoming Oscars nominees and ultimate winners.

So, to flag: the Oscar nominations are being announced TODAY at 1.30pm GMT. There’ll be a live stream at the top of this article for you to watch along, and we’ll be posting them here in full.

This morning, we’ll be running through contenders and possible snubs.

The in memoriam tribute is not only the most melancholy part of any Oscars ceremony – it is by far the thorniest to produce. The segment, instituted in 2014, serves a noble cause: to honour members of the film industry who have died in the year preceding the event, serving as a reminder of their contributions to the arts. But when the in memoriam sequence makes headlines, it tends to be for all the wrong reasons.

Here, Clémence Michallon takes a closer look at a segment that tends to make headlines for the wrong reasons:

It’s as true of the Oscars as it is any other awards show: Winners leave happy, and losers go home empty-handed.

So while actors are often skilled at disguising their disappointment – this is show business, after all – sometimes they let their real feelings slip through.

Here’s a round-up of the best and funniest reactions to realising someone else just won in your category:

Officially they’re the Academy Awards, but almost everybody knows them better as the Oscars.

Exactly where the beloved nickname first came from is open to debate. The Independent’s Annabel Nugent investigates:

Jimmy Kimmel is widely seen in Hollywood as the safest pair of hands around, but as we’ve seen in recent weeks hosting a live awards show is trickier than it looks.

Over the years, from Jon Stewart to Seth MacFarlane, the quality of Oscars hosts has fluctuated immensely.

Here, Louis Chilton looks back at the best and worst to ever do it:

For most actors, winning an Oscar is seen as the absolute pinnacle of a Hollywood career. For a select group of performers, though, one simply isn’t enough.

There have been 44 different actors to have won multiple awards, the first coming in 1937 when Luise Rainer became the original two-time Oscar darling.

From Anthony Hopkins to Meryl Streep