Awards season is set to culminate with the 2024 Academy Awards. The nominees were announced earlier this morning, and you can view the full list HERE. There were a lot of favorites that many saw as a shoo-in for nominations. Oppenheimer was a heavy favorite to get recognized as the film would collect nominations for Christopher Nolan, Emily Blunt, and Cillian Murphy, and the film itself is now up for the big Best Picture award. With Killers of the Flower Moon receiving much-talked-about hype before the film came out as well as the non-stop praise after its release, it would seem Martin Scorsese would be an obvious nomination for Best Director, and the legendary filmmaker would indeed get the nod as he receives his tenth nomination and surpasses Steven Spielberg’s record.

Barbie was also a favorite this year, as the film stole 2024, with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Greta Gerwig collecting nominations for earlier awards this year. However, in some surprises revealed in the nomination announcements, Ryan Gosling would be the only one of the big three to get nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Every year, there are some surprises that come with the territory. Many hopefuls, some of whom were shown awards recognition prior, get snubbed, or inversely, some nominations seem to be a surprise. Deadline has started the conversation of the biggest surprises of this year’s announcements.

Their biggest snubs include:

MARGOT ROBBIE – Last year, it was Babylon, this year it’s Barbie. Seems the very talent actress needs to stay away from complicated and roles that are in movies that start with a B. Clearly that’s the only explanation why the SAG Awards nominee and I, Tanya 2017 Oscar nominee was left out of the race today.

SALTBURN – All those Golden Globes and BAFTA nominations meant nothing as the Emerald Fennell directed class conscious dark comedy was truly burned by the Academy this Tuesday morning.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO – The well-deserved Oscar love for Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone did not extend to the former Academy Award winner who portrayed her deceitful and whelp husband. Already given a pass in the SAG Awards nominations, this snub of Leo is a bit of crime unto itself.

FANTASIA – The Color Purple actress was fantastic in the Blitz Bazawule directed musical. Golden Globe and BAFTA voters thought so with nominations for the Grammy winner. Strikingly, not so much with AMPAS voters.

ANDREW SCOTT – Fleabag’s Hot Priest was not even lukewarm with Academy voters for his arresting All of Us Strangers performance.

GRETA GERWIG – Barbie must be tickled pink with its Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay nominations. Yet, AMPAS voters, a question: do you think the beloved and rule breaking blockbuster directed itself? Asking for a friend.

ORIGIN – Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed adaption of Isabel Wilkerson’s best seller Caste has been running a guerrilla campaign for months with big names like Regina King and Angelina Jolie casting their lot with the Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor starrer. Sadly, the root was not able to bear Oscar fruit this morning.

GRETA LEE – The Past Lives star was given a pass, even as the film itself garnered Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay nominations.

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR – The Spanish auteur’s 30-minute cowboy love story Strange Way of Life had the star power of Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, but nada in the Live-Action short category this morning.

LENNY KRAVITZ –  No one can take away the power of Colman Domingo scoring a Best Actor nomination for Rustin, but despite being the tune on everyone’s list, Kravitz’s ‘Road to Freedom’ proved a road to nowhere Oscar-wise.

STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE – Davis Guggenheim’s documentary about the Back To the Future star’s life, career and fight with Parkinson’s disease lit up Sundance this time last year and received seven Emmy nominations. Oddly, the film was stillborn with Academy voters.

 JULIANNE MOORE – When it came to Best Supporting Actress, it just wasn’t the year for the May December star.

And their biggest surprises include:

STERLING K. BROWN – There’s a lot of Emmys on the This Is Us actor’s shelf, and the American Fiction star has received Golden Globes and SAG Award noms of late. However, the Oscar recognition today for Brown’s tremendous turn in the Cord Jefferson directed drama is fittingly the real deal.

ANNETTE BENING – With her fifth Academy Award nomination today, the Nyad star is fittingly in the Best Actress pool and poised to give it the last one, fast one.

Do you agree? Who do you think was overlooked this year? Who do you think was not deserving?

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