93rd Oscars—Eligible Film Lists

Each year, the Academy sends members a list of all films that are eligible for Academy Award consideration. In addition, for certain categories with specialized requirements, separate lists are provided. In some cases these eligibility lists are winnowed down to a "shortlist" for final nomination consideration.

List of Eligible Films

Three hundred sixty-six films are eligible for nomination in the Best Picture category for the 93rd Academy Awards.

  • Absent Now the Dead
  • Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
  • Alberto and the Concrete Jungle
  • All I Can Say
  • All In: The Fight for Democracy
  • All My Life
  • All Together Now
  • Alone
  • American Skin
  • Ammonite
  • And Then We Danced
  • Another Round
  • Antebellum
  • Anton
  • Apocalypse '45
  • Apples
  • The Artist's Wife
  • Assassins
  • The Assistant
  • Athlete A
  • Atlantis
  • Babyteeth
  • Bacurau
  • Bad Boys for Life
  • Bad Hair
  • The Banker
  • Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
  • Be Water
  • Beastie Boys Story
  • Becoming
  • Belly of the Beast
  • Belushi
  • Big Time Adolescence
  • The Big Ugly
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • Billie
  • The Billionaire
  • Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
  • Black Bear
  • Blackbird
  • Blizzard of Souls
  • Bloodshot
  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  • Blue Story
  • Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
  • Bombay Rose
  • The Booksellers
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • The Boys in the Band
  • Boys State
  • Brahms: The Boy II
  • Broken Keys
  • Buddy Games
  • Burden
  • The Burnt Orange Heresy
  • Calamity Jane
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Canaan Land
  • Capone
  • Charm City Kings
  • Cherry
  • The Christmas Chronicles 2
  • Circus of Books
  • Clementine
  • The Climb
  • Collective
  • Color out of Space
  • Come Away
  • Come Play
  • Coming Clean
  • Coronation
  • Coup 53
  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
  • Crip Camp
  • Crisis
  • The Croods: A New Age
  • The Cuban
  • Cut Throat City
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Dads
  • Dara of Jasenovac
  • The Dark and the Wicked
  • The Dark Divide
  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
  • Dear Comrades!
  • Death Protocol
  • Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
  • Desert One
  • The Devil All the Time
  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • The Dig
  • Disclosure
  • The Dissident
  • Dolittle
  • The Donut King
  • Downhill
  • Dreambuilders
  • Driveways
  • Earwig and the Witch
  • Echo Boomers
  • Effigy — Poison and the City
  • Emma
  • Emperor
  • The Empty Man
  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
  • Extraction
  • Faith Based
  • Falling
  • The Family Tree
  • Fandango at the Wall
  • Farewell Amor
  • Fatale
  • The Father
  • Father Soldier Son
  • Fatima
  • Feels Good Man
  • The Fight
  • Finding Hannah
  • Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
  • First Cow
  • First Vote
  • Flannery
  • The Forty-Year-Old Version
  • Foster Boy
  • Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
  • Freaky
  • French Exit
  • Funny Boy
  • The Gentlemen
  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers
  • Giving Voice
  • The Glorias
  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
  • Greed
  • Greyhound
  • The Grizzlies
  • Gunda
  • Guns Akimbo
  • Half Brothers
  • The Half of It
  • Happiest Season
  • Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something
  • Herself
  • The High Note
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • His House
  • Hope Gap
  • Horse Girl
  • How to Build a Girl
  • The Human Factor
  • The Hunt
  • I Am Greta
  • I Care a Lot
  • I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo)
  • I Hate New Year's
  • I Still Believe
  • I Will Make You Mine
  • The Illegal
  • I'm No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí)
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • I'm Your Woman
  • The Infiltrators
  • The Invisible Man
  • Irresistible
  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
  • Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble
  • Journey to Royal: A World War II Rescue Mission
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Jungle Beat: The Movie
  • Juvenile Delinquents
  • Kajillionaire
  • Kalira Atita
  • A Kid from Coney Island
  • Kill It and Leave This Town
  • Killer Raccoons! 2! Dark Christmas in the Dark
  • Killian & the Comeback Kids
  • The King of Staten Island
  • Kingdom of Silence
  • Kiss the Ground
  • La Llorona
  • Lance
  • Land
  • The Last Blockbuster
  • Last Call
  • The Last Full Measure
  • The Last Shift
  • The Last Thing He Wanted
  • The Last Vermeer
  • Let Him Go
  • Let Them All Talk
  • The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)
  • Like a Boss
  • Lingua Franca
  • The Little Things
  • Locked Down
  • The Lodge
  • Lost Girls
  • Love and Monsters
  • Lupin III: The First
  • Luxor
  • MLK/FBI
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Malcolm & Marie
  • Mank
  • Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf
  • The Marksman
  • Martin Eden
  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
  • The Mauritanian
  • Max Winslow and the House of Secrets
  • The Midnight Sky
  • Mighty Oak
  • Military Wives
  • Minari
  • Miss Americana
  • Miss Juneteenth
  • Mr. Jones
  • Mr. Soul!
  • Mmmmm (Sound of Pain)
  • The Mole Agent
  • Monster Hunter
  • Mosley
  • Mosul
  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
  • Mulan
  • Music
  • My Favorite War
  • My Octopus Teacher
  • My Psychedelic Love Story
  • Nasrin
  • The Nest
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • News of the World
  • Night of the Kings
  • Nomadland
  • The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks
  • Notturno
  • No. 7 Cherry Lane
  • The Old Guard
  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
  • Olympia
  • On-Gaku: Our Sound
  • On the Record
  • On the Rocks
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • One Night in Miami …
  • Onward
  • Ordinary Love
  • The Other Lamb
  • Our Friend
  • Our Time Machine
  • The Outpost
  • Over the Moon
  • The Painter and the Thief
  • Palm Springs
  • Palmer
  • Pearl
  • Penguin Bloom
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • The Phenomenon
  • The Photograph
  • Pieces of a Woman
  • Pinocchio
  • Possessor
  • Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton
  • Premature
  • Princess of the Row
  • Project Power
  • The Prom
  • Promising Young Woman
  • Radioactive
  • The Real Exorcist
  • Rebecca
  • Rebuilding Paradise
  • Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Relic
  • The Rental
  • Resistance
  • The Rhythm Section
  • The Ride
  • Ride Your Wave
  • Rising Phoenix
  • River Tales
  • The Roads Not Taken
  • Roald Dahl's The Witches
  • Run
  • Saint Frances
  • Saint Maud
  • Save Yourselves!
  • Scoob!
  • Searching for Mr. Rugoff
  • The Secret Garden
  • The Secrets We Keep
  • 76 Days
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
  • She Dies Tomorrow
  • Shirley
  • Show Me What You Got
  • Sky Blossom
  • Snake White: Love Endures
  • The Social Dilemma
  • Son of the South
  • Songs of Solomon
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Soorarai Pottru
  • Soul
  • Sound of Metal
  • Spaceship Earth
  • Spell
  • Stand!
  • Standing Up, Falling Down
  • Stars and Strife
  • Supernova
  • Swallow
  • System K
  • Tenet
  • Terra Willy
  • This Is Not a Movie
  • A Thousand Cuts
  • Tiger Within
  • Tigertail
  • Time
  • Tom and Jerry
  • Tommaso
  • Totally under Control
  • The Traitor
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • The Trip to Greece
  • Trolls World Tour
  • True History of the Kelly Gang
  • The Truffle Hunters
  • The Truth
  • Tulsa
  • The Turning
  • Tuscaloosa
  • The Twentieth Century
  • Twiceborn
  • 2 Hearts
  • Underneath the Same Moon
  • Underwater
  • The United States vs. Billie Holiday
  • Used and Borrowed Time
  • Valley Girl
  • WW84
  • Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Wander Darkly
  • The Way Back
  • The Way I See It
  • We Are Little Zombies
  • Welcome to Chechnya
  • Wendy
  • A Whisker Away
  • The White Tiger
  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph
  • Wild Daze
  • Wild Mountain Thyme
  • The Willoughbys
  • Wolfwalkers
  • Words on Bathroom Walls
  • Working Man
  • The World to Come
  • The Wretched
  • Yellow Rose
  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

Animated Feature Film

Twenty-seven features are eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards.

  • Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
  • Bombay Rose
  • Calamity
  • The Croods: A New Age
  • Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
  • Dreambuilders
  • Earwig and the Witch
  • Kill It and Leave This Town
  • Lupin III: The First
  • Mosley
  • My Favorite War
  • Nos Ili Zagovor Ne Takikh
  • No.7 Cherry Lane
  • On-Gaku: Our Sound
  • Onward
  • Over the Moon
  • Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Ride Your Wave
  • Scoob!
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
  • Soul
  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
  • Terra Willy
  • Trolls World Tour
  • A Whisker Away
  • The Willoughbys
  • Wolfwalkers

Documentary Feature Shortlist

Two hundred thirty-eight films were eligible for the Documentary Feature category this year. The Members of the Documentary Branch of the Academy voted to determine the shortlist.

  • "All In: The Fight for Democracy"
  • "Boys State"
  • "Collective"
  • "Crip Camp"
  • "Dick Johnson Is Dead"
  • "Gunda"
  • "MLK/FBI"
  • "The Mole Agent"
  • "My Octopus Teacher"
  • "Notturno"
  • "The Painter and the Thief"
  • "76 Days"
  • "Time"
  • "The Truffle Hunters"
  • "Welcome to Chechnya"

Documentary Short Subject Shortlist

One hundred fourteen films were eligible for the Documentary Short Subject category this year. The Members of the Documentary Branch of the Academy voted to determine the shortlist.

  • "Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa"
  • "Call Center Blues"
  • "Colette"
  • "A Concerto Is a Conversation"
  • "Do Not Split"
  • "Hunger Ward"
  • "Hysterical Girl"
  • "A Love Song for Latasha"
  • "The Speed Cubers"
  • "What Would Sophia Loren Do?"

International Feature Film Shortlist

Ninety-three countries from around the world submitted films for this year's Academy Awards. Academy Members who have seen a minimum number of eligible films were invited to participate in voting to determine the shortlist.

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, "Quo Vadis, Aida?"
  • Chile, "The Mole Agent"
  • Czech Republic, "Charlatan"
  • Denmark, "Another Round"
  • France, "Two of Us"
  • Guatemala, "La Llorona"
  • Hong Kong, "Better Days"
  • Iran, "Sun Children"
  • Ivory Coast, "Night of the Kings"
  • Mexico, "I’m No Longer Here"
  • Norway, "Hope"
  • Romania, "Collective"
  • Russia, "Dear Comrades!"
  • Taiwan, "A Sun"
  • Tunisia, "The Man Who Sold His Skin"

Makeup and Hairstyling Shortlist

  • "Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn"
  • "Emma"
  • "The Glorias"
  • "Hillbilly Elegy"
  • "Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey"
  • "The Little Things"
  • "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom"
  • "Mank"
  • "One Night in Miami..."
  • "Pinocchio"

Original Score Shortlist

  • "Ammonite"
  • "Blizzard of Souls"
  • "Da 5 Bloods"
  • "The Invisible Man"
  • "Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey"
  • "The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)"
  • "The Little Things"
  • "Mank"
  • "The Midnight Sky"
  • "Minari"
  • "Mulan"
  • "News of the World"
  • "Soul"
  • "Tenet"
  • "The Trial of the Chicago 7"

Original Song Shortlist

One hundred five songs were eligible this year. The Members of the Music Branch of the Academy voted to determine the shortlist.

  • "Turntables" from All In: The Fight for Democracy
  • "See What You’ve Done" from Belly of the Beast
  • "Wuhan Flu" from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • "Husavik" from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
  • "Never Break" from Giving Voice
  • "Make It Work" from Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
  • "Fight For You" from Judas and the Black Messiah
  • "Io Sì (Seen)" from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)
  • "Rain Song" from Minari
  • "Show Me Your Soul" from Mr. Soul!
  • "Loyal Brave True" from Mulan
  • "Free" from The One and Only Ivan
  • "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami...
  • "Green" from Sound of Metal
  • "Hear My Voice" from The Trial of the Chicago 7

Animated Short Film Shortlist

Ninety-six films were eligible for the Animated Short Film category this year. The Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy voted to determine the shortlist.

  • "Burrow"
  • "Genius Loci"
  • "If Anything Happens I Love You"
  • "Kapaemahu"
  • "Opera"
  • "Out"
  • "The Snail and the Whale"
  • "To Gerard"
  • "Traces"
  • "Yes-People"

Live Action Short Film Shortlist

One hundred seventy-four films were eligible for the Live Action Short Film category this year. The Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy voted to determine the shortlist.

  • "Bittu"
  • "Da Yie"
  • "Feeling Through"
  • "The Human Voice"
  • "The Kicksled Choir"
  • "The Letter Room"
  • "The Present"
  • "Two Distant Strangers"
  • "The Van"
  • "White Eye"

Visual Effects Shortlist

  • "Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn"
  • "Bloodshot"
  • "Love and Monsters"
  • "Mank"
  • "The Midnight Sky"
  • "Mulan"
  • "The One and Only Ivan"
  • "Soul"
  • "Tenet"
  • "Welcome to Chechnya"