The Oscar Narrative - First 2024 Nomination Predictions - Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best International Feature, and Best Original Song

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Nimona

Spider-Man: Across the Universe

Wish

Other Contenders - Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibbertia, The Peasants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Robot Dreams, Trolls Band Together, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Canterville Ghost, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Suzume, Leo, The First Slam Dunk, Unicorn Wars, They Shot the Piano Player, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, The Monkey King, Migration

Best Documentary Feature

20 Days in Mariupol 

American Symphony

Anselm

Little Richard: I Am Everything 

Kokomo City

Other Contenders - Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, They Shot the Piano Player, The Mission, Stamped From the Beginning, Silver Dollar Road, Beyond Utopia, The Pigeon Tunnel, The Eternal Memory, 32 Sounds, Orlando My Political Documentary, Joan Baez I Am a Noise, The Deepest Breath, The Lady Bird Diaries, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros, Every Body, BS High, Four Daughters, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, January 6th, The League

Best International Feature

The Monk and the Gun (Bhutan)

Society of the Snow (Spain)

The Taste of Things (France)

The Teacher's Lounge (Germany)

The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Other Contenders - Perfect Days (Japan), Fallen Leaves (Finland), Shayda (Australia), The Peasants (Poland), Totem (Mexico), Banel & Adama (Senegal), The Settlers (Chile), Housekeeping for Beginners (North Macedonia), Io Capitano (Italy), Godland (Iceland), Four Daughters (Tunisia), 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine), The Visitor (Bolivia), The Mother of All Lies (Morocco), Rojek (Canada), Inshallah a Boy (Jordan), Do Not Expect Much From the End of the World (Romania), About Dry Glasses (Turkey), Concrete Utopia (South Korea)

Best Original Song

American Symphony - It Never Went Away

Barbie - I'm Just a Ken

Barbie - What Was I Made For?

Flamin' Hot - The Fire Inside Me

Trolls Band Together - Better Place

Other Contenders - Wish - This Wish, Origin - I Am, Rustin - Road to Freedom, The Little Mermaid - For the First Time, The Color Purple - TBA, Flora and Son - High Life, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Am I Dreaming, Past Lives - Quiet Eyes, The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Peaches, Elemental - Steal the Show, Theater Camp - Camp Isn't Home, Wonka - A World of Your Own, 80 For Brady - Gonna Be You