‘Tis the season, everyone! And by that I mean Awards Season! That’s right! It’s that special time of year where cinephiles everywhere put aside their differences to rejoice and bask in the golden glow of Scorsese, Nolan, Gerwig, and all the greatest filmmakers working in the industry today, then pelt them with heavy engraved statues representing true fortune and glory! And today, the Hollywood Creative Alliance was pleased to announce this year’s nominees for its newly rebranded 2024 Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards!
Being that several of our critics here at The Nerds of Color are members of the Hollywood Creative Alliance, it felt apt that we should share the news about the honorees, and have our readers celebrate the incredible work of these filmmakers alongside us.
Leading the charge in nominations for The Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards (formerly the HCA Awards) is Greta Gerwig’s Barbie with 15 nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with 14 nominations. Several other films received multiple nominations such as NOC favorites John Wick – Chapter 4, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Additionally, major awards-contenders, such as Celine Song’s Past Lives and Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon were also honored with multiple nominations each. Here’s the full breakdown of the major categories:
Best Picture
Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)
Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Color Purple (Warner Bros. Pictures)
The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Maestro (Netflix)
Best Actor
Barry Keoghan — Saltburn (Amazon MGM Studios)
Bradley Cooper — Maestro (Netflix)
Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Colman Domingo — Rustin (Netflix)
Jeffrey Wright — American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan — Maestro (Netflix)
Emma Stone — Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
Fantasia Barrino — The Color Purple (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Greta Lee — Past Lives (A24)
Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Margot Robbie — Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Best Supporting Actor
Charles Melton — May December (Netflix)
Colman Domingo — The Color Purple (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Dominic Sessa — The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Glenn Howerton — BlackBerry (IFC Films)
Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Ryan Gosling – Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Best Supporting Actress
America Ferrera — Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Danielle Brooks — The Color Purple (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Julianne Moore — May December (Netflix)
Rachel McAdams — Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)
Viola Davis — Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
Best Director
Alexander Payne — The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Ben Affleck — Air (Amazon MGM Studios)
Bradley Cooper — Maestro (Netflix)
Celine Song — Past Lives (A24)
Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Cord Jefferson — American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)
Emerald Fennell — Saltburn (Amazon MGM Studios)
Greta Gerwig — Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
Best Original Screenplay
Air, Written by Alex Convery (Amazon MGM Studios)
Anatomy of a Fall, Written by Justine Triet & Arthur Harari (NEON)
Barbie, Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Past Lives, Written by Celine Song (A24)
Saltburn, Written by Emerald Fennell (Amazon/MGM Studios)
The Holdovers, Written by David Hemingson (Focus Features)
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction, Screenplay by Cord Jefferson (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Screenplay by Kelly Fremon Craig (Lionsgate)
Killers of the Flower Moon, Screenplay by Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese (Apple Original Films)
Oppenheimer, Screenplay by Christopher Nolan (Universal Pictures)
Poor Things, Screenplay by Tony McNamara (Searchlight Pictures)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Screenplay by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave
Callaham (Sony Pictures)
Best Animated Feature
The Boy and The Heron (GKids)
Elemental (Disney/Pixar)
Nimona (Netflix)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
Suzume (Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount Pictures)
For a full list of nominations, check out the nominations on the HCA YouTube channel here:
The Astra Film and Creative Arts Awards will be taking place January 6, 2024 in Los Angeles.
