2024 Oscars: Full List Of Nominations ( 96th Academy Awards )

The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer.... The story is loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis. Starring German actors Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as the Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, it focuses on the pair as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a home next to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp.

Cast
Christian Friedel as Rudolf Höss
Sandra Hüller as Hedwig Höss
Johann Karthaus as Claus Höss
Luis Noah Witte as Hans Höss
Nele Ahrensmeier as Inge-Brigit Höss
Lilli Falk [de] as Heidetraut Höss
With Anastazja Drobniak, Cecylia Pekala and Kalman Wilson as Annegret Höss
And Zuzanna Kobiela as Aniela

As of March 7, 2024, The Zone of Interest has grossed $7.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $16 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $23.8 million. In its opening weekend in the United States, the film made $124,000 from four theatres.[39] Following its five Oscar nominations, it expanded from 215 theatres to 333 in its seventh week of release and made $1.08 million, an increase of 141% from the previous weekend, and a running total of $3 million. The Zone of Interest premiered to critical acclaim. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 322 reviews are positive for the film, with an average rating of 8.7/10. ... On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 92 out of 100, based on 58 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

.... German critic Hanns-Georg Rodek wrote: "Here's the first question The Zone of Interest doesn't answer: [is it a film that showcases] ignorance? Of course it isn't. [Does it show] conscious approval based on .... nationalist delusion? I'm sure it [does]. Is it longing for an idyll in the midst of a situation perceived as threatening? Without a doubt. There are many attempts at an explanation, but they don't really interest Jonathan Glazer. Glazer describes the situation in what is possibly more oppressive than anything we've seen in Holocaust films before. It concentrates in one garden the attitude of an entire nation that wanted to know nothing."

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Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute) is a 2023 French legal drama film, directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari. It stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death. ....In an isolated mountain chalet near Grenoble, novelist Sandra Voyter is forced to reschedule her interview with a female student while her husband, university lecturer Samuel Maleski, plays music loudly in his attic. Their visually impaired son, Daniel, returns from a walk with his guide dog Snoop to find Samuel dead from an apparent fall from the open attic window.....Sandra insists that the fall must have been accidental.

Cast

Sandra Hüller as Sandra Voyter
Swann Arlaud as Vincent Renzi
Milo Machado-Graner as Daniel Maleski
Antoine Reinartz as the prosecutor
Samuel Theis as Samuel Maleski
With Jehnny Beth as Marge Berger
And Messi as Snoop

On set, Hüller repeatedly asked Triet whether her character was guilty or not, but the director refused to answer. Triet ended up instructing Hüller to play her character as innocent...On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 216 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.6/10. ...As of 8 March 2024, Anatomy of a Fall has grossed $4.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $26.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $32.2 million....In its opening weekend in the United States, the film made $117,000 from five theaters. It made $152,000 in its second weekend from fourteen theaters. Expanding to 262 theaters the following weekend, the film made $634,000, finishing in 11th. During its fourth weekend, the film expanded to 440 theaters and made $600,355 for a total of $2 million....

"....As the cinematic equivalent of an airport read, “Anatomy of a Fall” is adequate—not brisk but twisty, not stylish but unobtrusively informational. But the artistic failings are obvious and distracting throughout. For starters, it’s filled with herrings that surely turned red from blushing with shame, starting with the interview itself...Sandra talks in literary terms of the uncertain distinction of reality from fiction—an abstract theory that seems to provide ready-made self-exoneration in advance of any inconvenient evidence. There’s also Daniel’s visual impairment, which, though treated sensitively, hand-waves a facile metaphor regarding the source of knowledge and the nature of bearing witness. There’s Samuel’s obstreperous misbehavior, a seemingly obvious provocation of Sandra’s (murderous?) rage; the movie could be subtitled “Death of an A##hole.”....In short, “Anatomy of a Fall” is a movie of prefabricated attitudes, and its dramatic construction is airtight and incurious to match. The script (which Triet wrote with Arthur Harari) drops its tidbits of information into the action but offers no perspective on how its events unfold. There’s similarly no outside perspective on the court case, once that gets under way..." - Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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Past Lives is a 2023 American romantic drama film written and directed by Celine Song in her feature directorial debut. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, it follows two childhood friends over the course of 24 years while they contemplate the nature of their relationship as they grow apart, living different lives. The plot is semi-autobiographical and inspired by real events from Song's life....In 2000 Seoul, South Korea, Na Young and Hae Sung are 12-year-old classmates who develop feelings for one another and go on a date set up by their parents. Shortly thereafter, Na Young's family emigrates to Toronto and the two lose contact....Twelve years later, in 2012, Hae Sung has finished his military service and Nora has moved to New York City. One day, Nora discovers on Facebook that Hae Sung had posted that he was looking for Na Young...

Cast
Greta Lee as Nora Moon
Seung Ah Moon as young Nora
Teo Yoo as Hae Sung
Seung Min Yim as young Hae Sung
And John Magaro as Arthur

The film grossed $232,266 from four theaters in its opening weekend, an average of $55,066 per venue. By its sixth weekend, the film had a running total of $8.4 million....On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 99 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 9.0/10....

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The Holdovers is a 2023 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson. Set in the winter of 1970-71, the film stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break....In New England in December 1970, Paul Hunham is a classics professor at Barton Academy, an all-male boarding school that he once attended on scholarship. His students and fellow teachers despise him for his strict grading and stubborn personality.... Hunham is forced to supervise five students left on campus during the holiday break, including Angus Tully, whose mother cancelled a family trip to Saint Kitts to honeymoon with her new husband. Also staying behind is cafeteria manager Mary Lamb, whose son, Curtis, attended Barton and was killed in the Vietnam War after being drafted....To the students' chagrin, Hunham forces them to study and exercise on their break. After six days, the wealthy father of one of the students arrives by helicopter and agrees to take all five students on the family's ski trip with their parents' permission. Angus, unable to reach his parents for permission, is left alone at Barton with Hunham and Mary....

Cast
Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham
Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully, a Barton student
Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb
Andrew Garman as Dr. Hardy Woodrup
Stephen Thorne as Thomas Tully, Angus's father
Gillian Vigman as Judy Clotfelter, Angus's mother
With Kelly AuCoin as Hugh Cavanaugh, Paul's former Harvard classmate
And Tate Donovan as Stanley Clotfelter, Angus's stepfather

As of March 6, 2024, The Holdovers has grossed $20.2 million in the United States and Canada and $22.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $42.4 million....Following its five Oscar nominations, the film expanded from 127 theaters to 1,262 in its 14th week of release and made $520,000, an increase of 568% from the previous weekend....Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph garnered critical acclaim for their performances as Paul Hunham and Mary Lamb, and received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Supporting Actress, respectively.....On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 349 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10.

Plagiarism accusation: In March 2024, Variety reported that screenwriter Simon Stephenson had lodged a complaint with the Writers Guild of America, accusing the film's screenplay of plagiarizing an unproduced script he wrote entitled Frisco.[2] Stephenson said that Payne had been sent his script on at least two occasions in the 2010s, and accused Hemingson's final script of being "forensically identical" to his, alleging similarities in "story, characters, structure, scenes [and] dialogue" across the "meaningful entirety" of the film.

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American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson...Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise. ....Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a highly intelligent African-American upper-class writer and professor in Los Angeles. His novels receive academic praise, but sell poorly, and publishers reject his latest manuscript for not being "Black enough". His university places him on temporary leave due to his brashness with students over racial issues and suggests he attend a literary seminar and spend time with family in his hometown, Boston....Frustrated by.... the costs of care for his mother, Monk writes My Pafology, a satirical novel mocking the literary clichés expected from Black writers: melodramatic plots, deadbeat dads, gang violence, drugs. After submitting it to publishers out of contempt, he is shocked to be offered a $750,000 advance, and his agent Arthur convinces him to adopt the persona of convict on the run "Stagg R. Leigh". As "Stagg", Monk is offered a movie deal...

Cast
Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
Tracee Ellis Ross as Dr. Lisa Ellison
Sterling K. Brown as Dr. Clifford "Cliff" Ellison
John Ortiz as Arthur
With Adam Brody as Wiley
And Keith David

....As of March 7, 2024, American Fiction has grossed $20.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.8 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $22.5 million....Following its five Oscar nominations, the film expanded from 852 theaters to 1,702 in its 7th week of release and made $2.9 million, an increase of 65% from the previous weekend...On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 264 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.3/10...

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