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‘Inside Out 2’ among 15 Oscar nominations for Disney

“Inside Out 2” received the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar nomination today, one of 15 nominations for the 97th Academy Awards from across The Walt Disney Studios – including from 20th Century Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios and National Geographic Documentary Films.

The Oscars will air live on ABC and for the first time stream live on Hulu on Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the official live red-carpet show airing at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.

Searchlight Pictures received 10 nominations, with eight for “A Complete Unknown.” The studio also earned two nods for “A Real Pain,” for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. Searchlight Pictures has now amassed 23 Best Picture Academy Award nominations and a grand total of 205 Academy Award nominations.

Pixar Animation Studios’ “Inside Out 2,” the highest-grossing film of 2024, was nominated for Best Animated Feature. 20th Century Studios received two nods for Best Visual Effects across “Alien: Romulus” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”

National Geographic Documentary Films captured its fifth nomination in seven years in the Documentary Feature Film category for “Sugarcane.” Disney Branded Television received its second nomination in two years with “Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late” up for Best Original Song.

Disney’s streaming platforms are home to seven nominations, with Best Animated Feature nominee Inside Out 2 now streaming on Disney+ and “A Real Pain” on Hulu receiving nods for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay.

The Walt Disney Company’s total nominations are as follows:

Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) hits the recording studio in A Complete Unknown.

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
8 Nominations
Now in Theaters

  • Best Picture — Fred Berger, James Mangold, and Alex Heineman
  • Best Director — James Mangold
  • Best Actor — Timothée Chalamet
  • Best Supporting Actor — Edward Norton
  • Best Supporting Actress — Monica Barbaro
  • Best Adapted Screenplay — James Mangold & Jay Cocks
  • Best Costume Design — Arianne Phillips
  • Best Sound — Ted Caplan, Tod A. Maitland, Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Donald Sylvester
Cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother in A Real Pain.

A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
2 Nominations
Now in Theaters and Streaming on Hulu

  • Best Supporting Actor — Kieran Culkin
  • Best Original Screenplay — Jesse Eisenberg
Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) blasts a Xenomorph in Alien: Romulus.

Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios)
1 Nomination
Now Streaming on Hulu

  • Best Visual Effects — Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, and Shane Mahan
Disney Legend Elton John takes a moment to enjoy his final concert tour performance at Dodger Stadium on November 20, 2022, in Elton John: Never Look Back.

Elton John: Never Too Late (Disney Branded Television)
1 Nomination
Now Streaming on Disney+

  • Best Original Song — “Never Too Late,” Disney Legend Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin
Joy reflects on core memories in Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2.

Inside Out 2 (Pixar Animation Studios)
1 Nomination
Now Streaming on Disney+

  • Best Animated Feature Film — Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
Sylva (Eka Darville) roars in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
1 Nomination
Now Streaming on Hulu

  • Best Visual Effects — Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, and Rodney Burke
Julian Brave NoiseCat and his father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, look down at the Williams Lake Stampede from the top of “Indian Hill” on their roadtrip to St. Joseph’s Mission in Sugarcane.

Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
1 Nomination
Now Streaming on Disney+ and Hulu

  • Best Documentary Feature Film — Nominees to Be Determined

Here’s a complete list of all the nominations:

Best picture

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

I’m Still Here

Nickel Boys

The Substance

Wicked

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Yura Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Felicity Jones, The Brutalist

Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best animated feature film

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Best animated short film

Beautiful Men

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Magic Candies

Wander to Wonder

Yuck!

Achievement in cinematography

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Maria

Nosferatu

Achievement in costume design

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Gladiator II

Nosferatu

Wicked

Achievement in directing

Anora, Sean Baker

The Brutalist, Brady Corbet

A Complete Unknown, James Mangold

Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Best documentary feature film

Black Box Diaries

No Other Land

Porcelain War

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Sugarcane

Best documentary short film

Death by Numbers

I Am Ready, Warden

Incident

Instruments of a Beating Heart

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Achievement in film editing

Anora, Sean Baker

The Brutalist, David Jancso

Conclave, Nick Emerson

Emilia Pérez, Juliette Welfling

Wicked, Myron Kerstein

Best international feature film

I’m Still Here, Brazil

The Girl with the Needle, Denmark

Emilia Pérez, France

The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany

Flow, Latvia

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

A Different Man, Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado

Emilia Pérez, Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini

Nosferatu, David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton

The Substance, Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli

Wicked, Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth

Original Score

The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg

Conclave, Volker Bertelmann

Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol and Camille

Wicked, John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

The Wild Robot, Kris Bowers

Original Song

“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez

“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight

“Like A Bird” from Sing Sing

“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez

“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late

Achievement in production design

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

Best live action short film

A Lien

Anuja

I’m Not a Robot

The Last Ranger

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Achievement in sound

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Achievement in visual effects

Alien: Romulus

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks

Conclave, Screenplay by Peter Straughan

Emilia Pérez, Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi

Nickel Boys, Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing, Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Anora, Written by Sean Baker

The Brutalist, Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

A Real Pain, Written by Jesse Eisenberg

September 5, Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; Co-Written by Alex David

The Substance, Written by Coralie Fargeat

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