Winner 96th Academy Awards
The 2023 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Year
2023
Nominations
140
Categories Decided
All 27
Top Winner
Oppenheimer
96th Academy Awards — March 10, 2024
Oppenheimer won Best Picture, Christopher Nolan won Director, Cillian Murphy won Actor, and Emma Stone won Actress. The ceremony functioned almost as a coronation for Nolan after years of being seen as “Oscar-adjacent” rather than fully embraced. More broadly, it represented a rare moment when box-office force, critical esteem, awards momentum, and industrial myth all lined up behind the same movie.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to Oppenheimer. The winning leader is Oppenheimer with 7 wins. The most nominated title is Oppenheimer with 13 nominations. 43 winners named across 27 categories.
Most awarded titles
- Oppenheimer 7 wins13 nominations
- Poor Things 4 wins11 nominations
- The Zone of Interest 2 wins5 nominations
- Barbie 1 win8 nominations
- American Fiction 1 win5 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
The 2023 ceremony centers on Oppenheimer. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 25 nominees in all.
Best Picture Winner
- American Fiction Ben LeClair | Nikos Karamigios | Cord Jefferson | Jermaine Johnson
- Anatomy of a Fall Marie-Ange Luciani | David Thion
- Barbie David Heyman | Margot Robbie | Tom Ackerley | Robbie Brenner
- Killers of the Flower Moon Dan Friedkin | Bradley Thomas | Martin Scorsese | Daniel Lupi
- Maestro Bradley Cooper | Steven Spielberg | Fred Berner | Amy Durning | Kristie Macosko Krieger
- Past Lives David Hinojosa | Christine Vachon | Pamela Koffler
- Poor Things Ed Guiney | Andrew Lowe | Yorgos Lanthimos | Emma Stone
- The Holdovers Mark Johnson
- The Zone of Interest James Wilson
Best Director Winner
Best Actor Winner
Best Actress Winner
Complete Ceremony Ledger
The winner in every category. Open the full ballot to see every nominee.
23 categories140 records43 winners
1 winner10 records
9 more nominees in the full ballot
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1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
Winner
Oppenheimer
Credit: Christopher Nolan
1 winner5 records
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American Fiction
Credit: Cord Jefferson
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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The Zone of Interest
Credit: United Kingdom
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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Oppenheimer
Credit: Ludwig Göransson
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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Poor Things
Credit: Holly Waddington
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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Oppenheimer
Credit: Hoyte van Hoytema
1 winner5 records
4 more nominees in the full ballot
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Oppenheimer
Credit: Jennifer Lame
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Ceremony Highlights
On Lunara Film
Lunara Film reviews of films from this ceremony.
Categories in this ceremony
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actress
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Production Design
Best Picture
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COSTUME DESIGN
Best Director
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
FILM EDITING
HONORARY AWARD
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
MUSIC (Original Score)
MUSIC (Original Song)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
SHORT FILM (Animated)
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
Sound
VISUAL EFFECTS
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
Winner Circle
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
Emma Stone
Cillian Murphy
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Robert Downey Jr.
Anatomy of a Fall
American Fiction
The Boy and the Heron
The Zone of Interest
Oppenheimer
What Was I Made For?
Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston
Holly Waddington
Hoyte van Hoytema
Jennifer Lame
Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath
Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
Angela Bassett
Carol Littleton
Mel Brooks
JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Michelle Satter
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Charles Q. Robinson, Nicolas Tsingos, Christophe Chabanne, Mark Vinton and Dolby Laboratories
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin and Jeremy Cowles
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Jaden Oh
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Ken Museth, Peter Cucka and Mihai Aldén
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Michael Perkins, Gerwin Damberg, Trevor Davies and Martin J. Richards
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Peter Janssens, Goran Stojmenovik and Wouter D’Oosterlinck
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
Steve Read and Barry Silverstein
Arnold Peterson, Elia P. Popov and John Frazier
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Bill Beck
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Gregory T. Niven
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Jeff Lait, Dan Bailey and Nicholas Avramoussis
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Jon G. Belyeu
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Lucas Miller, Christopher Jon Horvath, Steve LaVietes and Joe Ardent
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Oliver Castle, Marcus Schoo and Keith Lackey
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
Yoshitaka Nakatsu, Yoji Nagao, Tsuyoshi Hirao, Tomonori Morizumi and Kazuma Kozuru
Dave Mullins and Brad Booker
Wes Anderson and Steven Rales
Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.