North Dakota Film Society (NDFS) Nominations: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ Lead

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the nominations for the 5th Annual North Dakota Film Society Awards. The film earned 13 nominations, including those for Best Picture and Best Director. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things earned 12 nominations.

Searchlight Pictures and Netflix tied for the most nominations among studios, with 14 nominations each, including two Best Picture nominees (May December and Poor Things). A24 and Universal Pictures followed with 13 nominations each, including nods in Best Picture with Past Lives and Oppenheimer.

Winners will be announced January 15, 2024. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Picture

Anatomy of a Fall
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things

Best Director

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Teo Yoo, Past Lives

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Natalie Portman, May December
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Julianne Moore, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, May December
Celine Song, Past Lives
Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Robot Dreams
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Feature

20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Apolonia, Apolonia
Beyond Utopia
Four Daughters

Best International Feature

Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest

Best Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest

Best Film Editing

Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy of a Fall
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Paul Watts, The Zone of Interest

Best Production Design

Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran, Asteroid City
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
Shona Heath, James Price, & Szusza Mihalek, Poor Things

Best Costume Design

Milena Canonero, Asteroid City
Jacqueline Durran, Barbie
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ellen Mirojnick, Oppenheimer
Holly Waddington, Poor Things

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Barbie (Ivana Primorac)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Thomas Nellen, Siân Grigg, Kay Georgiou)
Maestro (Kazu Hiro, Siân Grigg, Kay Georgiou, Lori McCoy-Bell)
Oppenheimer (Luisa Abel, Jason Hamer, Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Ahou Mofid)
Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Couler, Josh Weston)

Best Original Score

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest

Best Original Song

”Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)” from Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley)
”I’m Just Ken” from Barbie (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt)
”It Never Went Away” from American Symphony (Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson)
”Quiet Eyes” from Past Lives (Zach Dawes, Sharon Van Etten)
”What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (Billie Eilish, Finneas)

Best Sound

Anatomy of a Fall (Olivier Goinard, Fanny Martin, Julien Sicart)
Ferrari (Tony Lamberti, Andy Nelson, Lee Orloff, Bernard Weiser)
Maestro (Richard King, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Steve Morrow)
Oppenheimer (Richard King, Gary a. Rizzo, Kevin O’Connell, Willie Burton)
The Zone of Interest (Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers)

Best Visual Effects

The Creator (Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts, Neil Corbould)
Godzilla Minus One hKiyoko Shibuya, Takashi Yamazaki)
Oppenheimer (Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott R. Fisher, David Drzewiecki)
Poor Things (Simon Hughes)
Society of the Snow (Félix Bergés, Laura Pedro)