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97th Oscars Shortlists Announced Across 10 Categories

Los Angeles, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the official shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards® in 10 categories. These categories include 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.

Documentary Feature Film
A total of 15 films have advanced in the Documentary Feature Film category. After a thorough voting process by members of the Documentary Branch, the following films have made the shortlist (listed alphabetically by title):

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
15 films have been shortlisted in the Documentary Short Film category. The eligible films (listed alphabetically by title) are:

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
A total of 15 films will move forward to the next round in the International Feature Film category. Films from 85 countries were eligible. The following films have been shortlisted (listed alphabetically by country):

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 Makeup and Hairstyling category has shortlisted 10 films. Academy members will view excerpts and interviews from these films in early January, with voting to determine the final five nominees:

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

Music (Original Score)
20 scores have made it to the shortlist for the Original Score category. The shortlisted scores are:

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)
15 songs have been shortlisted for the Original Song category. The shortlisted songs are:

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 Perez
Mi Camino from Emilia Perez
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
15 films have been shortlisted for the Animated Short Film category. The shortlisted films are:

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
15 films have advanced in the Live Action Short Film category. The shortlisted films are:
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
10 films have been shortlisted for the Sound category. The shortlisted films (listed alphabetically by title) are:

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

Visual Effects
10 films remain in the running for the Visual Effects category. The shortlisted films are:

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

Voting and Key Dates
Nominations voting for the 97th Academy Awards will begin on January 8, 2025, and conclude on January 12, 2025. The official nominations will be announced on January 17, 2025. The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby® Theatre in Ovation Hollywood and will be broadcast live on ABC, streamed on Hulu, and aired in over 200 territories worldwide.

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