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Your guide to the 2024 Oscars

Everything you need to know about this year’s Academy Awards.

7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars
Your guide to the 2024 Oscars

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The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10, at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT, with some of the most celebrated names in cinema and emerging hopeful stars taking part in Hollywood’s most prestigious night. But what are the Oscars focused on this time around? What are the best picture nominees about? What’s worth paying attention to?

To recap, 2023 was a massive year for movies. Summer movie phenomenon Barbieheimer took the box office by storm, with the two supposedly opposed films leading to a record-breaking July. Martin Scorsese’s latest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, received both critical acclaim and criticism for his take on the Osage Reign of Terror. “Great man” biopics like Oppenheimer and Maestro were bountiful, and so much more.

Read Vox’s reviews, historical analyses, and news coverage to learn more about this year’s winners, nominees, and to understand why all of these conversations matter.

The winners

The Boy and the Heron treats growing up with the seriousness it deserves
No, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the Oscars
A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine
The movies to watch for this fall
The profound weirdness of Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win — and the category he won
In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel
Poor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of age
The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer is an audacious inquiry into power, in all its forms
The nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop culture
17 Cannes movies worth watching for
7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars
The Boy and the Heron treats growing up with the seriousness it deservesThe Boy and the Heron treats growing up with the seriousness it deserves
No, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the OscarsNo, the director of Zone of Interest did not disavow his Jewish identity at the Oscars
A harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in UkraineA harrowing film exposes the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine
The movies to watch for this fallThe movies to watch for this fall
The profound weirdness of Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win — and the category he wonThe profound weirdness of Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win — and the category he won
In American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novelIn American Fiction, a Black writer who “doesn’t see race” pens a race novel
Poor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of agePoor Things stars Emma Stone as a horny Frankenstein’s monster coming of age
The year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of InterestThe year’s scariest horror film is The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer is an audacious inquiry into power, in all its formsOppenheimer is an audacious inquiry into power, in all its forms
The nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop cultureThe nuclear bomb’s enduring, evolving place in pop culture
17 Cannes movies worth watching for17 Cannes movies worth watching for
7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars7 winners and 0 losers from the surprisingly delightful 2024 Oscars

The Oscars, explained

Oppenheimer

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Learn more about the nominees

Mary Kay Letourneau, the grim inspiration for May December, explained
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The lasting impact of The Color Purple
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When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.
Elemental isn’t Pixar’s best, but it taps into the studio’s superpower
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a gorgeous, daring triumph
Why Spider-Verse fans see Gwen Stacy as a transgender allegory
We can’t grieve what we can’t remember
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reminds you how much Hollywood has changed
Mary Kay Letourneau, the grim inspiration for May December, explainedMary Kay Letourneau, the grim inspiration for May December, explained
Taraji P. Henson’s salary issues point to a larger problem in HollywoodTaraji P. Henson’s salary issues point to a larger problem in Hollywood
The lasting impact of The Color PurpleThe lasting impact of The Color Purple
It’s a movie! Now it’s a musical! Now it’s a movie musical!It’s a movie! Now it’s a musical! Now it’s a movie musical!
When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.When is a nose just a nose? A brief history of non-Jews playing Jews onscreen.
Elemental isn’t Pixar’s best, but it taps into the studio’s superpowerElemental isn’t Pixar’s best, but it taps into the studio’s superpower
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a gorgeous, daring triumphSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a gorgeous, daring triumph
Why Spider-Verse fans see Gwen Stacy as a transgender allegoryWhy Spider-Verse fans see Gwen Stacy as a transgender allegory
We can’t grieve what we can’t rememberWe can’t grieve what we can’t remember
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reminds you how much Hollywood has changedIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reminds you how much Hollywood has changed