Disney and Searchlight Leading Nominations – The Hollywood Reporter

Searchlight, home to multiple Best Picture Oscar winners, pushed the Disney movie empire to the top of this year’s list of studio hits for most Oscar nominations.

Disney walked away with 20 nominations Tuesday morning for films from its myriad movie stables. Scout accounts for 13 of those, including 11 for Bad things. The Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film earned a spot in several top categories, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Emma Stone). Other Disney names include Pixar racist It won Best Animated Feature, while National Geographic Films took home a spot in the Best Feature Documentary category Bobby Wine: The People’s President.

In recent years, streaming companies — like Netflix — have often bested legacy Hollywood studios and major independent distributors in terms of nominations. This year, like last year, saw a more level playing field. Netflix received 18 Oscar nominations on Tuesday to tie with Universal’s film empire, which includes Focus Features.

Universal Pictures received 13 nominations, all of which went to Christopher Nolan Oppenheimermore than any film this year (Bad things is the second). Oppenheimer — which competes in nearly every top category — also becomes the most nominated film in the studio’s history. Focus received five nominations, all for dramatic drama Retainers.

Netflix’s tally of 18 nominations includes five for Bradley Cooper’s biopic Leonard Bernstein Artist, band leader, another Best Picture contender. While Cooper has been left out of the director race, he is nominated for Best Actor, while star Carey Mulligan is nominated for Best Actress. The total number of nominees is up from last year’s 15 nominations, but is well below the near-record 35 nominations she received in 2021 for her 2020 films, including Mank And Chicago 7 trial.

The previous year, Netflix nabbed 24 nominees, including one for Martin Scorsese Irish. This time around, Scorsese helped Apple Original Films score a best-ever 13 nominations, including 10 for the director’s historical crime epic. Moonflower Killers. The three-hour, 26-minute film is up for Best Picture, while Lily Gladstone is the front-runner for Best Actress (Leonardo DiCaprio, however, fell short of Best Actor). Apple’s other three nominations went to Ridley Scott Napoleon.

Meanwhile, Warner Bros. It performed well with nine nominations, eight of which went to the summer box office hit Barbie. While the film was nominated for Best Picture and several other top categories, director Greta Gerwig was overlooked, as was lead actress Margot Robbie.

In addition to being the most successful film in Warners history, with global ticket sales of more than $1.4 billion, Barbie It fueled what quickly became known as the Barbenheimer phenomenon. The image fed by the female was opened in the opposite direction Oppenheimer in late July, and many box office analysts attribute Oppenheimer’s huge success—it has grossed nearly $960 million worldwide—at least in part to BarbieThe film’s ability to attract moviegoers to return to cinemas in large numbers.

fact that Barbie – The highest-grossing film of 2023, both locally and internationally – and Oppenheimer — the third highest-grossing picture of 2023 globally — are competing for best picture that could help ratings when the Oscars air on ABC on March 10.

Independent distributors A24 and Neon, both Oscar darlings, tied this year with seven nominations each.

The A24 names were split between Area of ​​interest And Past life, both of which are nominated for Best Picture (it’s the first time the team has competed for Best Pictures). Last year, A24 wowed with 18 nominations before winning Best Picture Everything everywhere at once.

The neon number is led by five names Anatomy of a fall, which is also in the Best Picture competition. In 2020, Neon made history when it won best photo parasite.

Amazon MGM Studios received five nominations, including its third consecutive Best Picture nod American fantasy.

Below are details of nominations by studio/distributor:

Disney/Scout – 20

Netflix – 18

Global/Focus – 18

Original Apple Movies – 13

Warner Brothers – 9

A24-7

Neon – 7

Amazon MGM Studios – 5

Mio Distribution – 2

MTV Documentaries – 2

The New Yorker – 2

Paramount – 2

Bleecker Street – 1

Documentary + – 1

G Kids – 1

h264 distribution – 1

Kino Lorber – 1

Los Angeles Times Studios – 1

New York Times documents – 1

PBS Distribution – 1

Sony Pictures Classics – 1

Sony Pictures Launch – 1

Toho International – 1