LIST: Academy Awards outs shortlist in 10 categories

The films shortlisted in 10 award categories for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced.

On Dec. 18 (Philippine time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlists in 10 categories for the upcoming Oscars. The list includes categories Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.

Leading the list is Netflix’s Emilia Pérez with six mentions, followed by Universal Pictures’ Wicked which earned four.

Respective categories had to be narrowed down from more or less a hundred eligible entries to only 15 or 20. Afterward, only five entries will be selected for the official list of nominees.

The voting will begin on Jan. 8, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2025. The official list of nominees will be announced on Jan. 17, 2025.

Documentary Feature Film 

• The Bibi Files
• Black Box Diaries
• Dahomey
• Daughters
• Eno
• Frida
• Hollywoodgate
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Queendom
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Sugarcane
• Union
• Will & Harper

Documentary Short Film 

• Chasing Roo
• Death by Numbers
• Eternal Father
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• Keeper
• Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
• Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Planetwalker
• The Quilters
• Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
• A Swim Lesson
• Until He’s Back

International Feature Film

• Brazil, I’m Still Here
• Canada, Universal Language
• Czech Republic, Waves
• Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
• France, Emilia Pérez
• Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Iceland, Touch
• Ireland, Kneecap
• Italy, Vermiglio
• Latvia, Flow
• Norway, Armand
• Palestine, From Ground Zero
• Senegal, Dahomey
• Thailand, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
• United Kingdom, Santosh

Makeup and Hairstyling

• The Apprentice
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• A Different Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Waltzing with Brando
• Wicked
   

Music (Original Score)

• Alien: Romulus
• Babygirl
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Blink Twice
• Blitz
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• The Fire Inside
• Gladiator II
• Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
• Inside Out 2
• Nosferatu
• The Room Next Door
• Sing Sing
• The Six Triple Eight
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot
• Young Woman and the Sea

Music (Original Song)

• Forbidden Road from Better Man
• Winter Coat from Blitz
• Compress/Repress from Challengers
• Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late
• El Mal from Emilia Pérez
• Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
• Sick In The Head from Kneecap
• Beyond from Moana 2
• Tell Me It’s You from Mufasa: The Lion King
• Piece By Piece from Piece by Piece
• Like A Bird from Sing Sing
• The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
• Out Of Oklahoma from Twisters
• Kiss The Sky from “The Wild Robot
• Harper And Will Go West from Will & Harper

Animated Short Film

• Au Revoir Mon Monde
• A Bear Named Wojtek
• Beautiful Men
• Bottle George
• A Crab in the Pool
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Maybe Elephants
• Me
• Origami
• Percebes
• The 21
• Wander to Wonder
• The Wild-Tempered Clavier
• Yuck!

Live Action Short Film

• Anuja
• Clodagh
• The Compatriot
• Crust
• Dovecote
• Edge of Space
• The Ice Cream Man
• I’m Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
• The Masterpiece
• An Orange from Jaffa
• Paris 70
• Room Taken

Sound

• Alien: Romulus
• Blitz
• A Complete Unknown
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Visual Effects

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Civil War
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Mufasa: The Lion King
• Twisters
• Wicked

The 97th Oscars, to be hosted by Conan O'Brien, will be held on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. It will be televised live on ABC and streamed live on Hulu.