The holiday season may be over, but awards season is just heating up. The Golden Globes and Emmy Awards have been given out, and the next major event on the calendar is the Academy Awards. But who’s competing, and who is staying home this year?
The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and as expected, Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed blockbuster about the creation of the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer, leads the pack. The other half of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, Barbie, did well, too, getting nominations in the Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor categories.
Other movies that were recognized include Alexander Payne’s new Christmas classic The Holdovers with Paul Giamatti, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Lady Frankenstein sex comedy Poor Things with Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with Leonardo Di Caprio and Robert De Niro, and Bradley Cooper’s biopic Maestro starring the actor as the great composer Leonard Bernstein.
The following is a complete list of nominees in all 23 categories.
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
“It Never Went Away,” American Symphony
“What Was I Made For,” Barbie
“The Fire Inside,” Flamin’ Hot
“A Song For My People,” Killers of the Flower Moon
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar
War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?