Shortlists
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred sixty-nine 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:
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
Eno
Frida
Hollywoodgate
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Queendom
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Union
Will & Harper
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred four 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:
Chasing Roo
Death by Numbers
Eternal Father
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
Keeper
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
Once upon a Time in Ukraine
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Planetwalker
The Quilters
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
A Swim Lesson
Until He’s Back
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Fifteen films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Films from 85 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:
Brazil, I’m Still Here
Canada, Universal Language
Czech Republic, Waves
Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
France, Emilia Pérez
Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Iceland, Touch
Ireland, Kneecap
Italy, Vermiglio
Latvia, Flow
Norway, Armand
Palestine, From Ground Zero
Senegal, Dahomey
Thailand, How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
United Kingdom, Santosh
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Ten films will advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 97th 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 Saturday, January 11, 2025. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar® consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
The Apprentice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
The Substance
Waltzing with Brando
Wicked
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Twenty scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred forty-five 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:
Alien: Romulus
Babygirl
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blink Twice
Blitz
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
The Fire Inside
Gladiator II
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
Inside Out 2
Nosferatu
The Room Next Door
Sing Sing
The Six Triple Eight
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Young Woman and the Sea
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Fifteen songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 97th Academy Awards. Eighty-nine 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:
Forbidden Road from Better Man
Winter Coat from Blitz
Compress/Repress from Challengers
Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late
El Mal from Emilia Pérez
Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
Sick In The Head from Kneecap
Beyond from Moana 2
Tell Me It’s You from Mufasa: The Lion King
Piece By Piece from Piece by Piece
Like A Bird from Sing Sing
The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
Out Of Oklahoma from Twisters
Kiss The Sky from The Wild Robot
Harper And Will Go West from Will & Harper
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. Eighty-eight films qualified in the category. Academy members from the Animation Branch and Short Films Branch 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 the Animation Branch and Short Films Branch 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:
Au Revoir Mon Monde
A Bear Named Wojtek
Beautiful Men
Bottle George
A Crab in the Pool
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Maybe Elephants
Me
Origami
Percebes
The 21
Wander to Wonder
The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Yuck!
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Fifteen films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. One hundred eighty films qualified 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 title, are:
Anuja
Clodagh
The Compatriot
Crust
Dovecote
Edge of Space
The Ice Cream Man
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
A Lien
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
The Masterpiece
An Orange from Jaffa
Paris 70
Room Taken
SOUND
Ten films will advance in the Sound category for the 97th 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 9, 2025, in the San Francisco Bay area, followed by London, Los Angeles and New York on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
Alien: Romulus
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Joker: Folie à Deux
Wicked
The Wild Robot
VISUAL EFFECTS
Ten films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 97th 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 11, 2025. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Mufasa: The Lion King
Twisters
Wicked
Eligibility Lists
Best Picture
Aadujeevitham – The Goat Life
Abigail
The Absence of Eden
Albany Road
Alien: Romulus
All We Imagine as Light
Am I Racist?
The American Society of Magical Negroes
American Star
Anora
The Apprentice
Argylle
Arthur the King
Babes
Babygirl
Back to Black
Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Band of Maharajas
The Beast
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Better Man
Between the Temples
The Bikeriders
Black Dog
Blink Twice
Blitz
Bob Marley: One Love
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
The Book of Clarence
The Brutalist
Bull Street
Cabrini
Challengers
City of Dreams
Civil War
Close to You
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Critic
Cuckoo
Daddio
Dandelion
Day of the Fight
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Deliverance
Despicable Me 4
Dìdi
A Different Man
Drive-Away Dolls
Dune: Part Two
Elton John: Never Too Late
Emilia Pérez
The End
Evil Does Not Exist
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Ezra
The Fall Guy
Fancy Dance
The Fire Inside
Firebrand
Flow
Fly Me to the Moon
The Forge
Fresh Kills
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostlight
Gladiator II
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
Good One
Goodrich
The Greatest Hits
Green Border
Handling the Undead
Hard Truths
Here
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Heretic
His Three Daughters
Hit Man
The Hopeful
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
I Saw the TV Glow
The Idea of You
IF
I’ll Be Right There
I’m Still Here
Imaginary
The Imaginary
Immaculate
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
In the Summers
Inside Out 2
The Instigators
It Ends with Us
Janet Planet
Joker: Folie à Deux
Juror #2
Kanguva
The Keeper
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Kinds of Kindness
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kneecap
Kraven the Hunter
Kung Fu Panda 4
La Cocina
The Last Front
The Last Showgirl
Last Summer
Late Night with the Devil
Lee
Lisa Frankenstein
Longing
Longlegs
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Los Frikis
Love Lies Bleeding
Maria
MaXXXine
Megalopolis
Memoir of a Snail
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Moana 2
Monkey Man
Mufasa: The Lion King
My Old Ass
My Penguin Friend
National Anthem
Never Let Go
Nickel Boys
Night Swim
Nightbitch
1992
Nosferatu
Oh, Canada
One Life
The Order
Ordinary Angels
The Outrun
The People’s Joker
The Performance
The Piano Lesson
Piece by Piece
Porcelain War
Problemista
Putul
Queens
Queer
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Real Pain
Red One
The Return
The Room Next Door
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Rumours
Santosh
Sasquatch Sunset
Saturday Night
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Seeking Mavis Beacon
September 5
Shirley
Sing Sing
The Six Triple Eight
Skincare
Small Things like These
Sometimes I Think about Dying
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Spaceman
Speak No Evil
Strange Darling
The Strangers – Chapter 1
Stress Positions
The Substance
Sugarcane
Suncoast
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar
Thelma
The Thicket
Tokyo Cowboy
Touch
Transformers One
Trap
Tuesday
Twisters
Ultraman: Rising
Unstoppable
Venom: The Last Dance
Vermiglio
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Watchers
We Grown Now
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We Live in Time
White Bird
Wicked
Wicked Little Letters
Widow Clicquot
The Wild Robot
Wildcat
Will & Harper
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
Wolfs
Young Woman and the Sea
Your Monster
General Entry
The General Entry list includes all titles eligible for Best Picture along with any film that is eligible for other categories but which didn’t submit necessary inclusivity paperwork to be considered for Best Picture.
AfrAId
American Cats: The Good, the Bad & the Cuddly
Americans with No Address
Armand
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
The Bibi Files
Bird
Boy Kills World
Brief Tender Light
Captain Avispa
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallemberg
Clebrating Laughter, the Life and Films of Colins Higgins
Chicken for Linda!
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
The Colors Within
Coup!
Dahomey
Dance First
Daughters
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
The Devil’s Bath
Don’t Say It
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Everybody Loves Touda
Federer: Twelve Final Days
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey
Flipside
Following Harry
Food, Inc. 2
Free Time
Frida
From Embers
The Garfield Movie
Gaucho Gaucho
Ghost Cat Anzu
The Girl with the Needle
Girls Will Be Girls
Glitter & Doom
God & Country
The Grab
Harold and the Purple Crayon
High Tide
Hollywood Deal
Homegrown
Hummingbirds
I Am: Celine Dion
I Can’t Breathe
In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema
In Her Place
Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Joy
Knox Goes Away
Lake George
Left Behind
The Listener
The Long Walk of Carlos Guerrero
Look Back
Lost Ladies
The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio
Lovely Jackson
Lover of Men, The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Madame Web
Mahayogi
Mars Express
Martha
Mean Girls
Meeting You, Meeting Me
Milestone
Miss or Misses
Mother’s Instinct
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Murderess
The Neon Highway
No Right Way
Nurse Unseen
Omni Loop
The Other, Gold
Pedro Páramo
Ray of Hope
Reagan
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
Sebastian
Separated
She Taught Love
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Smile 2
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Spellbound
State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China
Stopmotion
Summer Solstice
The Taste of Mango
That Christmas
Thelma the Unicorn
There’s Still Tomorrow
2073
Universal Language
Unsung Hero
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Vigilantes Inc: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen
The Wait
Waltzing with Brando
War Game
Waves
We Will Dance Again
Woman of the Hour
The Zebras
Zurawski v Texas
Animated Feature
Art College 1994
Captain Avispa
Chicken for Linda!
The Colors Within
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Despicable Me 4
Flow
The Garfield Movie
Ghost Cat Anzu
The Glassworker
The Imaginary
Inside Out 2
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Kung Fu Panda 4
Living Large
Look Back
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Mars Express
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Piece by Piece
Rocket Club: Across the Cosmos
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
Spellbound
Sultana’s Dream
That Christmas
Thelma the Unicorn
Transformers One
Ultraman: Rising
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Documentary Feature
Adrianne & the Castle
After the Rain: Putin’s Stolen Children Come Home
Agent of Happiness
Am I Racist?
American Cats: The Good, the Bad & the Cuddly
Americans with No Address
America’s Burning
And So It Begins
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking
Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Bad Faith
Bad River
Behind the Mist
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Black Girls
Blind Spot
Blink
Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
The Body Politic
Bread & Roses
Brief Tender Light
Carol Doda Topless at the Condor
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Celebrating Laughter, The Life and Films of Colin Higgins
The Commandant’s Shadow
Copa 71
The Cowboy and the Queen
Dahomey
Daughters
Death without Mercy
Einhundertvier
Elton John: Never Too Late
Eno
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Escape from Extinction Rewilding
Every Little Thing
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine
Farming the Revolution
Favoriten
Federer: Twelve Final Days
Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey
500 Days in the Wild
The Flats
Flipside
Following Harry
Food and Country
Food, Inc. 2
Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
Frank Miller: American Genius
Frida
From Ground Zero
Gaucho Gaucho
Girls State
God & Country
Gonzo for Democracy
The Grab
The Greatest Night in Pop
Happy Campers
Happy Clothes: A Film about Patricia Field
Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes
Hollywoodgate
Homegrown
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Hummingbirds
I Am: Celine Dion
I Can’t Breathe
In Between Stars and Scars: Masters of Cinema
Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All
Intercepted
Invisible Nation
It Happened on Our Ground
Jewel of the Desert
Jim Henson Idea Man
Join or Die
Just a Bit Outside: The Story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers
King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones
Kiss the Future
The Landscape and the Fury
The Last Journey
The Last of the Sea Women
The Last Ones
Leap of Faith
Left Behind
Legacy: The De-Colonized History of South Africa
Look into My Eyes
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio
Lovely Jackson
Lover of Men, The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Luther: Never Too Much
Mad about the Boy – The Noel Coward Story
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Majority Rules
Marching in the Dark
Martha
Maya and the Wave
Mediha
Merchant Ivory
Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory
Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Music by John Williams
My Sweet Land
Natterer’s Treasure
Never Look Away
A New Kind of Wilderness
New Wave
No One Asked You
No Other Land
Nocturnes
Nurse Unseen
October H8te: The Fight for the Soul of America
Of Color and Ink
One Person, One Vote?
1489
One with the Whale
Ozogoche
Patrice: The Movie
A Photographic Memory
Piece by Piece
Porcelain War
Power
Queendom
Ray of Hope
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Remembering Gene Wilder
Resurgo Detroit: The Rise from Within
Resynator
Sabbath Queen
Samuel: Hollywood vs Hollywood
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Separated
She Rises Up
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru
The Sixth
64 Days – The Insurrection Playbook
Skywalkers: A Love Story
Sorry/Not Sorry
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China
Stolen Time
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
Studio One Forever
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Sweetheart Deal
Taking Venice
The Taste of Mango
The Tuba Thieves
2073
Uncropped
Unfightable
Union
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen
War Game
We Will Dance Again
Welcome to Babel
Whale Restaurant
Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?
Will & Harper
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
The World According to Allee Willis
The World Is Family
Yintah
Zurawski v Texas
International Feature
Albania, Waterdrop
Algeria, Algiers
Argentina, Kill the Jockey
Armenia, Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev
Austria, The Devil’s Bath
Bangladesh, The Wrestler
Belgium, Julie Keeps Quiet
Bolivia, Own Hand
Bosnia and Herzegovina, My Late Summer
Brazil, I’m Still Here
Bulgaria, Triumph
Cambodia, Meeting with Pol Pot
Cameroon, Kismet
Canada, Universal Language
Chile, In Her Place
Colombia, La Suprema
Costa Rica, Memories of a Burning Body
Croatia, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day
Czech Republic, Waves
Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
Dominican Republic, Aire Just Breathe
Ecuador, Behind the Mist
Egypt, Flight 404
Estonia, 8 Views of Lake Biwa
Finland, Family Time
France, Emilia Pérez
Georgia, The Antique
Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Greece, Murderess
Guatemala, Rita
Hong Kong, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Hungary, Semmelweis
Iceland, Touch
India, Lost Ladies
Indonesia, Women from Rote Island
Iran, In the Arms of the Tree
Iraq, Baghdad Messi
Ireland, Kneecap
Israel, Come Closer
Italy, Vermiglio
Japan, Cloud
Kazakhstan, Bauryna Salu
Kenya, Nawi
Kyrgyzstan, Paradise at Mother’s Feet
Latvia, Flow
Lebanon, Arzé
Lithuania, Drowning Dry
Malaysia, Abang Adik
Malta, Castillo
Mexico, Sujo
Mongolia, If Only I Could Hibernate
Montenegro, Supermarket
Morocco, Everybody Loves Touda
Nepal, Shambhala
Netherlands, Memory Lane
Nigeria, Mai Martaba
Norway, Armand
Pakistan, The Glassworker
Palestine, From Ground Zero
Panama, Wake Up Mom
Paraguay, The Last Ones
Peru, Yana-Wara
Philippines, And So It Begins
Poland, Under the Volcano
Portugal, Grand Tour
Romania, Three Kilometres to the End of the World
Senegal, Dahomey
Serbia, Russian Consul
Singapore, La Luna
Slovakia, The Hungarian Dressmaker
Slovenia, Family Therapy
South Africa, Old Righteous Blues
South Korea, 12.12: The Day
Spain, Saturn Return
Sweden, The Last Journey
Switzerland, Queens
Taiwan, Old Fox
Tajikistan, Melody
Thailand, How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
Tunisia, Take My Breath
Turkey, Life
Ukraine, La Palisiada
United Kingdom, Santosh
Venezuela, Back to Life
Vietnam, Peach Blossom, Pho and Piano
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