Every British Artist Nominated at the 96th Annual Academy Awards

At the first Academy Awards, held in 1929, two British people were nominated — London-born cinematographer Charles Rosher and a little-known artist named Charlie Chaplin. Nearly a hundred years later, the categories have been expanded, the pageantry has skyrocketed, and the cartel of Hollywood studio influence has been broken and replaced with whatever the hell is going on in the entertainment industry right now. The ceremony runtime has also gone up slightly from 15 minutes, and due to American Daylight Savings time, this year, the ceremony starts at 7 p.m. ET instead of the traditional eight o’clock, giving red carpet viewers a full hour less of gown-gawking and the rest of us a reasonable bedtime.

Of course, there are also more British people nominated in 2024 — about 25 more. It’s a terrifically strong year for Britain at the 96th Annual Academy Awards, and ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, we’ve broken down every British nominee who’s in with a shot of Oscar gold.

Six of the ten Best Picture nominees have British talent nominated. (Sorry, American Fiction, Past Lives, The Holdovers, and Anatomy of a Fall.) Two big films, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, have one British nominee each: British producer Daniel Lupi as part of Flower Moon’s Best Picture nomination, and Carey Mulligan for Lead Actress in Maestro. Unfortunately, the odds aren’t in either nominee’s favor – Flower Moon doesn’t have the momentum to scoop the big prize; however, its leading lady, star Lily Gladstone, is fully expected to take Lead Actress and beat Mulligan to Oscar gold.