The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 321 feature films are in contention for the 96th Academy Awards, including 265 eligible for Best Picture, which has additional eligibility requirements beyond those for general entry.
To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, under rules implemented for the 96th Academy Awards year, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue. Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes. The full ‘Reminder List’ for general feature film entry, including actors also under consideration, can be found here.
To be eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category for the 96th Academy Awards, films must be eligible for general entry and have submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards (RAISE) entry form. They must have met two of the four standards required in addition to the theatrical eligibility requirement. A film’s distributor or producer had the option to opt out of Best Picture consideration. A list of all productions eligible in the Best Picture category is here.
Included in this roster of contenders are several animated features, also among the films eligible for Best Animated Feature. They include:
- The Amazing Maurice
- The Boy and the Heron
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
- Elemental
- The Inventor
- Leo
- Migration
- My Love Affair with Marriage
- Nimona
- PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
- The Peasants
- Robot Dreams
- Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Suzume
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Trolls Band Together
- Wish
