96th Academy Awards (2023): Eligibility & Shortlists

Shortlists

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-seven films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

American Symphony
Apolonia, Apolonia
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
In the Rearview
Stamped from the Beginning
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
A Still Small Voice
32 Sounds
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. One hundred fourteen films qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Bear
Between Earth & Sky
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Camp Courage
Deciding Vote
How We Get Free
If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Last Song from Kabul
Nai Nai & Wài Pó
Oasis
Wings of Dust

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Fifteen films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. Films from 88 countries and regions were eligible in the category.

Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.

In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

Armenia, Amerikatsi
Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun
Denmark, The Promised Land
Finland, Fallen Leaves
France, The Taste of Things
Germany, The Teachers’ Lounge
Iceland, Godland
Italy, Io Capitano
Japan, Perfect Days
Mexico, Totem
Morocco, The Mother of All Lies
Spain, Society of the Snow
Tunisia, Four Daughters
Ukraine, 20 Days in Mariupol
United Kingdom, The Zone of Interest

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Ten films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 96th Academy Awards. All members of the Academy’s Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Sunday, January 14, 2024. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar® consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

Beau Is Afraid
Ferrari
Golda
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Fifteen scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 96th Academy Awards. One hundred forty-eight scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The scores, listed in alphabetical order by film title, are:

American Fiction
American Symphony
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Elemental
The Holdovers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 96th Academy Awards. Ninety-four songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title:

It Never Went Away – American Symphony
Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven) – Asteroid City
Dance The Night – Barbie
I’m Just Ken – Barbie
What Was I Made For? – Barbie
Keep It Movin’ – The Color Purple
Superpower (I) – The Color Purple
The Fire Inside – Flamin’ Hot
High Life – Flora and Son
Meet In The Middle – Flora and Son
Can’t Catch Me Now – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) – Killers of the Flower Moon
Quiet Eyes – Past Lives
Road To Freedom – Rustin
Am I Dreaming – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Fifteen films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. Ninety-three films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

Boom
Eeva
Humo (Smoke)
I’m Hip
A Kind of Testament
Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Once upon a Studio
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
Pete
27
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Wild Summon

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Fifteen films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 96th Academy Awards. One hundred eighty-seven films qualified in the category. For the first time, Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must have met a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.

In the nominations round, Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate and must view all 15 shortlisted films to vote.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

The After
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
An Avocado Pit
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
Dead Cat
Good Boy
Invincible
Invisible Border
Knight of Fortune
The One Note Man
Red, White and Blue
The Shepherd
Strange Way of Life
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Yellow

SOUND

Ten films will advance in the Sound category for the 96th Academy Awards. All eligible members of the Sound Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. Academy members will be invited to view excerpts from each of the shortlisted films beginning Thursday, January 11, 2024, in the San Francisco Bay area, followed by London, Los Angeles and New York. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

Barbie
The Creator
Ferrari
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

VISUAL EFFECTS

Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 96th Academy Awards. The Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 13, 2024. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Eligibility Lists

Best Picture

About Dry Grasses
Afire
Air
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
Altered Perceptions
The Amazing Maurice
America, We Salute the Military
American Fiction
American Symphony
America’s Family
Anatomy of a Fall
Anselm
Anyone but You
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Asteroid City
At the Gates
Baby Ruby
Bad Press
Barbie
The Beanie Bubble
Beau Is Afraid
Before the Sunset
Bella!
Beyond Utopia
Big George Foreman
Biosphere
BlackBerry
The Blackening
Blue Beetle
Blue Jean
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Bottoms
The Boy and the Heron
The Boys in the Boat
Brother
The Burial
Candy Cane Lane
Carlos
Carmen
Cassandro
Champions
Chevalier
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Cocaine Bear
The Color Purple
A Compassionate Spy
Corner Office
Country of Blind
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Creed III
Dalíland
Deep Sea
The Deepest Breath
Dicks: The Musical
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dream Scenario
Dreamin’ Wild
Drift
Dumb Money
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves
Earth Mama
The Eight Mountains
80 for Brady
Eileen
El Conde
Elemental
The End We Start From
Enys Men
The Equalizer 3
The Eternal Memory
Every Body
Evil Dead Rise
The Exorcist: Believer
Fair Play
Fallen Leaves
Fast X
Ferrari
Fingernails
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Flamin’ Hot
The Flash
Flora and Son
Foe
For the Animals
Fremont
Freud’s Last Session
Godzilla Minus One
Golda
Golden Vanity
Good Grief
A Good Person
Gran Turismo
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
A Haunting in Venice
Heart of Stone
The Holdovers
House Party
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Immediate Family
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Infinity Pool
Inside
The Inventor
Invisible Beauty
The Iron Claw
It Ain’t Over
It Lives Inside
Jacob the Baker
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
John Wick: Chapter 4
Journey to Bethlehem
Joy Ride
Jules
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
King Coal
The Kitchen
Knock at the Cabin
Kokomo City
La Chimera
La Syndicaliste
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Landscape with Invisible Hand
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
The League
Leave the World Behind
Leo
The Lesson
Let Us Make Eve
The Little Mermaid
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Lonesome Soldier
Lost Cos
Love Again
Maestro
Mafia Mamma
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
The Magician’s Elephant
Master Gardener
May December
Meg 2: The Trench
M3gan
Memory
Migration
A Million Miles Away
The Miracle Club
Miranda’s Victim
The Mission
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mr. Jimmy
Monica
Monster
Moving On
Mutt
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
My Love Affair with Marriage
Napoleon
The Next Big Hit
Next Goal Wins
Nimona
No Hard Feelings
The Nun II
Nyad
Occupied City
Of an Age
Once within a Time
Online Blues
Oppenheimer
Origin
Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Father, the Devil
Our Son
Pain Hustlers
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Passages
Past Lives
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Peasants
Perfect Days
The Persian Version
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Pod Generation
Polite Society
Poor Things
Priscilla
The Promised Land
R.M.N.
Radical
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Renfield
Reptile
The Road Dog
Robot Dreams
Rose
The Royal Hotel
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Rustin
Saltburn
Sanctuary
Saving Ana
Scrapper
Scream VI
Sharper
Shayda
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
She Came to Me
Shelter in Solitude
Shortcomings
Showing Up
Silver Dollar Road
Simón
Sitting in Bars with Cake
65
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Smoking Causes Coughing
Society of the Snow
Somewhere in Queens
Sound of Freedom
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spinning Gold
Stamped from the Beginning
The Starling Girl
Statica
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Story Ave
Strays
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Sweetwater
Talk to Me
The Taste of Things
The Teachers’ Lounge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tetris
Theater Camp
They Cloned Tyrone
32 Sounds
A Thousand and One
Tori and Lokita
Tótem
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Trolls Band Together
12th Fail
2018 Everyone Is a Hero
Uncharitable
The Unknown Country
Walid
War Pony
We Might as Well Be Dead
What Happens Later
When You Finish Saving the World
Wildflower
The Wind & the Reckoning
Wish
Wonka
Yoshiki Under the Sky
You Hurt My Feelings
The Zone of Interest

General Entry (not eligible for Best Picture

Amanda
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
As We Know It
Blue Giant
Butcher’s Crossing
Canary
Chang’an
Common Ground
Concrete Utopia
The Creator
Dostojee
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
The Face of the Faceless
The First Slam Dunk
Fool’s Paradise
Full Circle
Godland
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Hadik
Here. Is. Better.
The Hill
The Home Fairy
In the Company of Rose
Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister
Knights of Santiago
Lift
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Lyvia’s House
Mami Wata
The Marvels
Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
The Monkey King
Moon Garden
The Mother
My Sailor, My Love
Nefarious
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
Perlimps
Prisoner’s Daughter
Rebel
Simone, Woman of the Century
Sisu
A Song Film by Kishi Bashi – ‘Omoiyari’
State of the Unity
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour
They Shot the Piano Player
This Much We Know
Titina
20 Days in Mariupol
Unicorn Wars
Warrior King
We Dare to Dream
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
Your Fat Friend

Animated Feature

The Amazing Maurice
Blue Giant
The Boy and the Heron
Chang’an
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Deep Sea
Elemental
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia
The First Slam Dunk
The Inventor
Leo
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
The Magician’s Elephant
Migration
Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie
The Monkey King
My Love Affair with Marriage
Nimona
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Peasants
Perlimps
Robot Dreams
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
They Shot the Piano Player
Titina
Trolls Band Together
Unicorn Wars
Warrior King
Wish

Documentary Feature

AKA Mr. Chow
After Sherman
Against the Tide
Alexander
American Symphony
American: An Odyssey to 1947
Americonned
And Miles to Go before I Sleep
Anhell69
Anonymous Sister
Another Body
Anselm
Apache Blues: Welcome Home
Apolonia, Apolonia
Bad Press
Batata
Bella
Bella!
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Bye Bye Tiberias
Canary
Carlos
Carterland
Close to Vermeer
Common Ground
A Compassionate Spy
Cup of Salvation
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Deep Rising
The Deepest Breath
Deserters
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime
Downwind
Eat Bitter
The Echo
El Juicio
Elis & Tom – It Had to Be You
The Eternal Memory
Every Body
Fantastic Machine
Finding Her Beat
Fioretta
For the Animals
Four Daughters
Full Circle
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Grandpa Was an Emperor
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd
Here. Is. Better.
High & Low – John Galliano
The Holly
Holy Frit
I Got a Monster
If You Let Me Go
Imagining the Indian
Immediate Family
In the Company of Rose
In the Rearview
In the Shadow of Beirut
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Incompatible with Life
Into the Spotlight
The Invention of the Other
Invisible Beauty
The Issue with Tissue – A Boreal Love Story
It Ain’t Over
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
Joonam
King Coal
Knights of Santiago
Kokomo City
The Lady Bird Diaries
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Land of My Dreams
The Last Rider
The League
Lift
Little Richard: I Am Everything
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
The Mission
Mission Peace: The Staunch Moderates Documentary
Mr. Jimmy
The Mother of All Lies
Motherland
The Mountains
Mourning in Lod
Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
My Name Is Happy
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
North Circular
Occupied City
Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Body
Pacific Mother
The Padilla Affair
The Painting
Pay or Die
Periodical
Photophobia
Pianoforte
Pictures of Ghosts
The Pigeon Tunnel
Plan C
Radical Wolfe
Razing Liberty Square
Reality Winner
Refuge
A Revolution on Canvas
Rewind & Play
A Rising Fury
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Rojek
Sam Now
Samuel and the Light
The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler
Shot in the Arm
Show Her the Money
Silver Dollar Road
Sly
The Smell of Money
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
A Song Film by Kishi Bashi – ‘Omoiyari’
Songs of Earth
Sound of the Police
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
Stamped from the Beginning
State of the Unity
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
A Still Small Voice
A Storm Foretold
Subject
Symphony of the Holocaust
Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
They Shot the Piano Player
32 Sounds
This Much We Know
Thy Neighbours
Tito, Margot and Me
To Kill a Tiger
Total Trust
20 Days in Mariupol
26.2 to Life
Twice Colonized
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
Uncharitable
Unconditional
Under the Sky of Damascus
Unfinished Business
Unseen
Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality
Victim/Suspect
We Dare to Dream
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?
While the Green Grass Grows
While We Watched
Who I Am Not
Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
Yoshiki under the Sky
You Were My First Boyfriend
Your Fat Friend

International Feature

Albania – Alexander
Argentina – The Delinquents
Armenia – Amerikatsi
Australia – Shayda
Austria – Vera
Bangladesh – No Ground beneath the Feet
Belgium – Omen
Bhutan – The Monk and the Gun
Bolivia – The Visitor
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Excursion
Brazil – Pictures of Ghosts
Bulgaria – Blaga’s Lessons
Burkina Faso – Sira
Cameroon – Half Heaven
Canada – Rojek
Chile – The Settlers
China – The Wandering Earth II
Colombia – Un Varón
Costa Rica – I Have Electric Dreams
Croatia – Traces
Czech Republic – Brothers
Denmark – The Promised Land
Dominican Republic – Cuarencena
Egypt – Voy! Voy! Voy!
Estonia – Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Finland – Fallen Leaves
France – The Taste of Things
Georgia – Citizen Saint
Germany – The Teachers’ Lounge
Greece – Behind the Haystacks
Hungary – Four Souls of Coyote
Iceland – Godland
India – 2018 – Everyone Is a Hero
Indonesia – Autobiography
Iran – The Night Guardian
Iraq – Hanging Gardens
Ireland – In the Shadow of Beirut
Israel – Seven Blessings
Italy – Io Capitano
Japan – Perfect Days
Jordan – Inshallah A Boy
Kenya – Mvera
Latvia – My Freedom
Lithuania – Slow
Luxembourg – The Last Ashes
Malaysia – Tiger Stripes
Mexico – Totem
Moldova – Thunders
Mongolia – City of Wind
Montenegro – Sirin
Morocco – The Mother of All Lies
Namibia – Under the Hanging Tree
Nepal – Halkara
Netherlands – Sweet Dreams
Nigeria – Mami Wata
North Macedonia – Housekeeping for Beginners
Norway – Songs of Earth
Pakistan – In Flames
Palestine – Bye Bye Tiberias
Panama – Tito, Margot and Me
Paraguay – The Last Runway 2, Comando Yaguarete
Peru – The Erection of Toribio Bardelli
Philippines – The Missing
Poland – The Peasants
Portugal – Bad Living
Romania – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Saudi Arabia – Alhamour H.A.
Senegal – Banel & Adama
Serbia – The Duke and the Poet
Singapore – The Breaking Ice
Slovakia – Photophobia
Slovenia – Riders
South Africa – Music Is My Life – Dr. Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
South Korea – Concrete Utopia
Spain – Society of the Snow
Sudan – Goodbye Julia
Sweden – Opponent
Switzerland – Thunder
Taiwan – Marry My Dead Body
Thailand – Not Friends
Tunisia – Four Daughters
Turkey – About Dry Grasses
Ukraine – 20 Days in Mariupol
United Kingdom – The Zone of Interest
Uruguay – Family Album
Venezuela – The Shadow of the Sun
Vietnam – Glorious Ashes
Yemen – The Burdened