The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences has introduced shortlists in ten main classes for the 97th Academy Awards this week, and also you is likely to be shocked to be taught {that a} small handful of horror films made the lower. The horror style has a protracted historical past of being ignored by the Academy, however subsequent 12 months’s ceremony might show to be an exception to the rule.
For the sake of full readability earlier than we start, a film making the Oscars shortlist signifies that it’s on the listing for *probably* receiving an official nomination for an Academy Award, with these shortlist alternatives quickly being whittled right down to the ultimate listing of precise nominees. Nominations voting begins on January 8, 2025, and concludes on Sunday, January 12, 2025.
With that out of the best way, it’s nonetheless a giant deal for any horror film to make the Oscars shortlist, and 5 of this 12 months’s finest and brightest have certainly acquired recognition this 12 months.
Listed here are the horror highlights from this wave of Oscars shortlist classes…
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“The Apprentice”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“A Completely different Man”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Waltzing with Brando”
“Depraved”
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
“Alien: Romulus”
“Babygirl”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“Blink Twice”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“Challengers”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Hearth Inside”
“Gladiator II”
“Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1”
“Inside Out 2”
“Nosferatu”
“The Room Subsequent Door”
“Sing Sing”
“The Six Triple Eight”
“Depraved”
“The Wild Robotic”
“Younger Girl and the Sea”
SOUND
“Alien: Romulus”
“Blitz”
“A Full Unknown”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Joker: Folie à Deux”
“Depraved”
“The Wild Robotic”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Alien: Romulus”
“Higher Man”
“Civil Conflict”
“Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Gladiator II”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Mufasa: The Lion King”
“Twisters”
“Depraved”
Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards can be introduced on Friday, January 17, 2025, and the present can be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, televised on ABC and streamed on Hulu.
You’ll be able to be taught extra concerning the shortlist over on The Academy’s official web site.
‘Nosferatu’
