The 97th annual Oscar nominations were revealed Thursday morning in Los Angeles. And the latest lineup featured a number of historic milestones. Among them this year:
Best picture
- With 13 nominations, “Emilia Perez” is the most nominated non-English language film of all time, breaking the record of 10 nominations held by “Roma” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
- “Emilia Pérez” and “I’m Still Here” are also the 18th and 19th predominantly non-English language films to be nominated for Best Picture. Both are nominated for Best International Film – the first time ever that two nominees from that category have also been nominated for Best Film.
- At 3:35, “The Brutalist” is the sixth-longest Best Picture nominee, a few minutes longer than two recent Martin Scorsese films, “The Irishman” (3:29) and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (3:26) ) . “Cleopatra,” from 1963, is the longest Best Picture nominee of all time at 4:11.
Assigned categories
- Seven acting nominees are from musicals or music-related films: two from “Wicked,” two from “Emilia Perez” and three from “A Complete Unknown.”
- Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”) is the second black actress to be nominated twice for Best Actress, after Viola Davis. Erivo was previously nominated for the 2019 “Harriet”.
- Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”) is the second artist nominated to play Bob Dylan, after Cate Blanchett for 2007’s “I’m Not There.”
- If Chalamet wins, he will become the second Oscar winner to portray an Oscar winner, after the aforementioned Blanchett. Bob Dylan won best song for 2000’s “Wonder Boys,” while Blanchett won for her role in “The Aviator” as four-time winner Katharine Hepburn.
- Yura Borisov is the first Russian actor nominee since Mikhail Baryshnikov for 1977’s “The Turning Point.” Baryshnikov was born in a part of the former Soviet Union that is now Latvia; he defected from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1974.
- Nominees Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”) and Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”) are daughters of previous actress nominees. Rossellini’s mother Ingrid Bergman won three Oscars and Torres’ mother Fernanda Montenegro was nominated in 1999 for “Central Station”.
- A record six nominees are for performances wholly or partially in a language other than English: Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña (Spanish), Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones (Hungarian), Yura Borisov (Russian) and Fernanda Torres (Portuguese).
- Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”) is the first Romanian-born actor ever to be nominated in the Leading Actor category.
- Stan is also the only actor in Oscar history to be nominated for portraying the current US president. In addition to Stan’s performance as Donald Trump, actors have been nominated for playing John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.
Best director
- Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”) is the ninth woman nominated for director and her name marks the 10th time a woman has made the cut; director Jane Campion was nominated twice. Fargeat is the second French woman, after Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”), to be nominated here.
- Fargeat and Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”) represent the first time two French directors have been nominated in the same year since 1975, when François Truffaut (“Day for Night”) and French-Polish Roman Polanski (“Chinatown”) were nominated.
- Sean Baker (“Anora”) is the sixth director to be nominated for four Oscars in the same year. Baker is also up for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Past Four Club members include Orson Welles (“Citizen Kane”), Warren Beatty (“Heaven Can Wait” and “Reds”), the Coen Brothers (“No Country for Old Men”), Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”). and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”).
Best Original and Adapted Screenplay
- Nine of the ten nominees were written or co-written by their directors – all nominated except “Conclave,” written by Peter Straughan.
- Actor Clarence Maclin, although not nominated for his performance in “Sing Sing”, was nominated for his contribution to the film’s screenplay.
Best Cinematography
- The nomination for “Dune: Part Two” marks the first time a sequel to an Oscar winner has been nominated in this category. The first “Lord of the Rings” and “Avatar” films received the statuette here, only for their sequels to be shut out of the nominees.
Best Animated Feature
- Latvia’s “Flow” is the second film nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature, following 2021’s “Flee.”
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