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The nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards might finally answer the definitive movie question of the season: Is this the year of “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer?” Or, if both films get a similar amount of Oscar nominations, it will just be another excuse for us to use the term “Barbenheimer.”
Kyle Buchanan, The New York Times’s awards-season columnist, has written that because of the amount of good movies and impressive talent we have been treated to this past year, it is hard to say what film, if any, is likely to sweep in the big categories of best picture, best director, best actor and best actress. With that being said, Buchanan has predicted that “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Holdovers” and “Poor Things” are all safe bets to be nominees in the picture category.
See below for the list of nominees.