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We don't need a 2024 nominations thread until there are actual nominations to post. However, it does feel strange to continue using the 2023 nomination thread to discuss the 2024 awards season.

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/france-the-taste-of-things-oscars-international-feature-film-race-1235730963/

Exactly. It only needs to meet two of the four requirements. But it's easier for people who don't know any better to think about Group A because the cast are who we see on screen. Oppenheimer absolutely qualifies via the other ones.

I don't really see the issue here. They're still going to be voting for what they think the best picture is. I can't think of any major film released recently which wouldn't qualify under those rules.

It is important to note that these rules go into effect for the 2025 ceremony honoring films released in 2024. It will not impact films in the current 2023-24 cycle. While I understand and appreciate the intention of supporting theatrical releases, I think it is potentially a very risky move...

Exactly. He referenced "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from Grease and Olivia Newton-John was the very first person whose name came up in the segment. I thought that connection was extremely clear. It had to be why they went with Travolta to introduce that segment in particular.

Just because the directors you mentioned deserved to be acknowledged and were passed over doesn't mean Daniels did not deserve to be acknowledged. I don't see a correlation there at all.

I don't think those films going home empty handed are a referendum on their quality. I think EEAAO is just that good and had the momentum that it needed to have. Although EEAAO had eleven nominations, two of them were in the same category (Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu), so the maximum...

And Triangle of Sadness. So that is half of the Best Picture nominees with nothing.

Tom Cruise is not attending. https://deadline.com/2023/03/top-gun-maverick-tom-cruise-not-coming-to-oscars-lady-gaga-singing-hold-my-hand-1235287054/

Variety says Lady Gaga is performing after all. If true, I'm not sure what changed her mind, but I'll take it. https://variety.com/2023/awards/news/lady-gaga-performing-oscars-hold-my-hand-1235550918/

I don't know, but by process of deduction I don't think so. I want to be clear that this is a best guess based on the information I have available, but I'm not an Academy insider or anything. So I don't have any official information about this. According to the article that @Malcom_R posted...

I know you're right because that is what I've heard as well. But it's still a bummer. Idina Menzel was the above-the-title star in If/Then on Broadway when Let It Go was nominated for an Oscar. Even though she had a very capable understudy for the production who could have gone on for her...

Not particularly in recent years....

A conversation with the directors and producers of the Best Animated Feature nominees:

I don't see why a win for Maverick in any category would be considered a statement about the war in Ukraine. The movie is about the United States Navy. It has nothing to do with Ukraine. The film was made long before the current war was a thing. It was supposed to be released in 2020 before...

Lady Gaga will be in attendance at the Oscars to accept if Hold My Hand wins, but won't perform the song because she is busy filming Joker. https://deadline.com/2023/03/oscars-lady-gaga-wont-perform-best-song-top-gun-maverick-1235283118/ This is a real bummer.

The Honest Trailer for this year's Oscars is here. Note that it does include spoilers for some of the Best Picture nominees if you haven't seen all of them.

They want to find a film that the majority of the Academy membership at least likes, rather than a film that is loved by a passionate minority.

This video (not by me) includes the best explanation and demonstration I've ever seen about how the Oscars ranked voting system works.

No. It means the Academy was able to understand and award The Return of the King because they had been paying attention to the previous two movies, which were both nominated in multiple categories the years prior. Therefore, we know the membership at large was paying attention to those movies...

Black Panther resonated in a way that the Academy simply could not ignore. I also think it was helped by its status as a fairly standalone story, which made it more accessible to non-MCU fans. I should also note here that despite calling out the Academy's indifference to blockbuster films, I...

That's the point, though. All three Lord of the Rings films were nominated, which means the Academy was paying attention to that series the whole way through its run. They saw them all and were aware of them all and that made it easy to appreciate the third one. They understood the...

I am in total agreement with you about the artistic merit of Endgame and its deserved Best Picture nomination. However, it was film #22 in a long serialized sequence of films which the Academy had for the most part ignored. You wouldn't understand the movie on its own without having the...

I wholeheartedly agree that no particular individual film should be nominated just based on its popularity. But certainly all films that are popular cannot be unworthy of recognition. The Academy didn't used to be allergic to blockbuster films. Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T...

I've said this every year for the past several years and it is still true. While commercial success should not be a prerequisite for awards, the Academy needs to acknowledge that quality work can be done at all different levels of filmmaking. If they want to maintain their relevance with the...

The Producers Guild went with Everything Everywhere All At Once as Best Picture. Since 2009, they have disagreed with the Academy choice for Best Picture only three times: they chose The Big Short, La La Land and 1917. Except for those, their choice has corresponded with the Academy...