Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Reading the 2024 Oscars

American Fiction

Based on Erasure by Percival Everett

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score



The Color Purple

Based on The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)


Killers of the Flower Moon

Based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Actress (Lily Gladstone), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Original Song ("Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People"))

Nimona

Based on: Nimona by ND Stevenson

Nominated for: Best Animated Feature



The Boy and the Heron
Adapted from How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino.
Nominated for: Animated Feature 


Nyad

Based on Find a Way by Diana Nyad

Nominated for: Best Actress (Annette Bening), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster)


Oppenheimer

Based on: American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound

Poor Things

Based on Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.d. Scottish Public Health Officer by Alasdair Gray 

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Costume Design, Cinematography, Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score

Bonus: check out this interactive website about Gray's novel! 

The Zone of Interest

Based on The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director (Jonathan Glazer), Adapted Screenplay, Sound, International Feature


Society of the Snow
Nominated for: 
Best International Feature Film (Spain), Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling (Ana López-PuigcerverDavid MartíMontse Ribé)




Robot Dreams

Adapted from Robot Dreams by Sara Varon.

Nominated for: Animated Feature


The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Adapted from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl.

Nominated for: Live-Action Short


Flamin’ Hot

Adapted from A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie (now retitled Flamin’ Hot) by Richard Montanez.  

Nominated for: Original Song 



Inspired by NYPL, Thank you

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