10 Oscars Records Broken By The 2024 Nominations

Singer-songwriter Diane Warren has 15 Oscar nominations for Best Original Song. "The Fire Inside" by Becky G for Flamin' Hot, a biopic comedy, was nominated. 

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1. Diane Warren Repeats Best Original Song Nomination

Hayao Miyazaki, 83, was the oldest Best Animated Feature nominee. Before The Boy and the Heron, Miyazaki was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards for Spirited Away (2003), Howl's Moving Castle (2006), and The Wind Rises (2014).

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2. Hayao Miyazaki Is Oldest Best Animated Feature Nominee

Maestro boosted Carey Mulligan's 2024 Best Actress Oscar chances. Bradley Cooper's new film may make her a Best Actress candidate. She plays Leonard Bernstein's wife Felicia Montealegre in Maestro, about their decades-long love. 

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3. Spielberg Sets Best Picture Nomination Record

The first Indigenous Oscar nominee was Killers of the Flower Moon's Lily Gladstone. After winning the Golden Globe for playing Osage Nation member Mollie Burkhart, Gladstone is a favorite for the Oscar. 

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4. Lily Gladstone Gets First Indigenous Acting Nod

Her excellent film Anatomy of a Fall earned Justine Triet the first French female director nomination for Best Director at the 2024 Oscars. Triet is the eighth woman to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Director in 96 years.

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5. The First French Female Director Nominee Is Justine Triet

John Williams' 54th Oscar nomination for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny breaks his record. The greatest film composer, Williams, won Oscars for Fiddler on the Roof (1974), Jaws (1976), Star Wars (1978), E.T. (1983), and Schindler's List (1994).

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6. John Williams extends living record for nominations

First-ever Academy Awards Best Picture nominations go to three female-directed films. Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, topped 2023's box office. Both Justine Triet and Celine Song directed Anatomy of a Fall and Past Lives.

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7. First Time Three Best Picture Nominees Were Directed By Women

Famous actor Robert De Niro now has the widest gap between his first and most recent acting nominations with his Killers of the Flower Moon Supporting Actor nomination. 

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8. Robert De Niro Has The Longest Acting Nomination Gap

Martin Scorsese now has more Best Director Oscar nominations than Steven Spielberg. Spielberg and Scorsese tied at nine nominations before Killers of the Flower Moon gave Scorsese 10 Directing nominations.

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9. Scorsese Is Now The Most Nominated Living Director

The oldest Oscar nominee for Best Director is Martin Scorsese with Killers of the Flower Moon. The Maestro producer and director defeated Prizzi's Honor's 1986 nominee, 79-year-old John Huston. 

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10. Martin Scorsese Is Oldest Best Director Nominee

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