The Walt Disney Company Leads With 20 Academy Award® Nominations

The Walt Disney Company proudly announces 20 nominations for the 96th Academy Awards® across its Walt Disney Studios, content brands and platforms: 20th Century Studios, Disney+, Hulu, Lucasfilm Ltd., Marvel Studios, National Geographic Documentary Films, Pixar Animation Studios, and Searchlight Pictures.

Searchlight Pictures garnered 13 nods, with 11 for “Poor Things”, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor. The studio also garnered nominations for Best Original Song for “Flamin’ Hot” and Best Documentary Short Film for  “The Last Repair Shop.”

National Geographic Documentary Films captures its fourth nomination in six years in the Feature Documentary category for “Bobi Wine: The People’s President.”

A complete list of all The Walt Disney Company nominations follows below. (As some of the nominations overlap, these are grand totals for each entity.)

2024 ACADEMY AWARDS® NOMINATIONS

Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
11 nominations
Now in theaters

• Best Picture
• Best Director – Yorgos Lanthimos
• Best Actress – Emma Stone
• Best Supporting Actor – Mark Ruffalo
• Best Adapted Screenplay – Tony McNamara
• Best Cinematography – Robbie Ryan, BSC, ISC,
• Best Editing – Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE
• Best Production Design – James Price, Shona Heath
• Best Costume Design – Holly Waddington
• Best Makeup & Hairstyling – Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston
• Best Original Score – Jerskin Fendrix

The Creator (20th Century Studios)
2 nominations
Now streaming on Hulu

• Best Visual Effects – Andrew Roberts, Ian Comley, Jay Cooper, Neil Corbould
• Best Sound – Ian Voigt, Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van der Ryn, Tom Ozanich and Dean Zupancic

Bobi Wine: The People’s President (National Geographic Documentary Films)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu

• Documentary Feature Film

Elemental (Pixar Animation Studios)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Disney+

• Best Animated Film – Peter Sohn, Denise Ream

Flamin’ Hot (Searchlight Pictures)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Hulu and Disney+

• Best Original Song – “The Fire Inside” Written by Diane Warren

Guardians of The Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Marvel Studios)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Disney+

• Best Visual Effects – Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, Stephane Ceretti, Theo Bialek

The Last Repair Shop (Searchlight Pictures)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Hulu and Disney+

• Best Documentary Short Film – Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Lucasfilm Ltd.)
1 nomination
Now streaming on Disney+

• Best Original Score – John Williams

Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Disney+)
1 nomination

• Best Documentary Short Film – Sean Wang, Sam Davis

Media Contacts:
Searchlight Pictures
Nastasya Morauw
Director, Communications & Awards
Nastasya.Morauw@Searchlightpictures.com

Walt Disney Studios
Derek Del Rossi
Senior Vice President, Publicity
derek.del.rossi@disney.com