We’ve gotten a clearer picture of what the Oscar race will look like, given all the nominations for pre-award shows (like the Golden Globes) that have been announced so far. But now we have an even clearer picture with the publication of the shortlists for 10 categories from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. These categories include Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Music), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.

Here’s how it works: Academy members (in some cases just members of a specific industry, such as the documentary film industry or the makeup artist and hairdressing industry) narrowed the film pool down to a shortlist of 10 to 20 nominees. For example, the shortlist for the documentary came from a pool of 169 eligible films. Next, members of the documentary film department will vote from the shortlist of 15 films to recommend five nominees.

In certain cases, Academy members were required to meet a minimum reputation requirement in order to be eligible to vote for the category’s shortlist. In addition, they had to watch all the films that were shortlisted in order to vote for the final nominations. In some craft categories, such as makeup and hairstyling and visual effects, members of the relevant industries are “invited to view excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films” before voting for the final nominations. You can read more about the exact voting details for each category here and view the shortlists below.

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Documentary feature film

The Bibi files
Black box diaries
Dahomey
daughters
Eno
Frida
Hollywoodgate
No other country
Porcelain War
Queendom
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Soundtrack to a coup
Sugarcane
union
Will & Harper

Documentary short film

On the hunt for Roo
Death by numbers
Eternal Father
I’m ready, Overseer
incident
Instruments of a beating heart
guardian
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
Once upon a time in Ukraine
The only girl in the orchestra
Planetwalker
The quilters
31st place: Zooey Zephyr
A swimming lesson
Until he gets back

International feature film

Brazil, I’m still here
Canada, Universal language
Czech Republic, Waves
Denmark, The girl with the needle
France, Emilia Perez
Germany, The seed of the holy fig
Iceland, Touch
Ireland, kneecap
Italy, Vermiglio
Latvia, Flow
Norway, Armand
Palestine, From ground zero
Senegal, Dahomey
Thailand, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
United Kingdom, Santosh

Make-up and hair styling

The apprentice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Another man
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Mary
Nosferatu
The substance
Waltz with Brando
Evil

Music (original score)

Alien: Romulus
Baby girl
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blink twice
flash
The brutalist
challenger
conclave
Emilia Perez
The fire within
Gladiator II
Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1
Inside Out 2
Nosferatu
The room next door
Singing Singing
The Six Triple Eight
Evil
The wild robot
Young woman and the sea

Music (original song)

“Forbidden Road” by Better man
“Winter Coat” by flash
“Compress/Suppress” from challenger
“Never too late” by Elton John: Never too late
“El Mal” by Emilia Perez
“Mi Camino” by Emilia Perez
“Sick In The Head” by kneecap
“Beyond” by Moana 2
“Tell me it’s you” by Mufasa: The Lion King
“Bit by bit” by piece by piece
“Like A Bird” by Singing Singing
“The Journey” by The Six Triple Eight
“Out Of Oklahoma” by Twister
“Kiss The Sky” by The wild robot
“Harper And Will Go West” by Will & Harper

Animated short film

“Au Revoir Mon Monde”
“A bear named Wojtek”
“Beautiful Men”
“Bottle of George”
“A crab in the pool”
“In the shade of the cypress”
“Magic Candy”
“Maybe elephants”
“Me”
“Origami”
“Percebes”
“The 21”
“Hiking to amaze”
“The wildly tempered piano”
“Yuck!”

Live-action short film

“Anuja”
“Clodagh”
“The Countryman”
“Crust”
“Dovecote”
“Edge of Space”
“The Ice Cream Man”
“I am not a robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“A lien”
“The Man Who Couldn’t Stay Silent”
“The Masterpiece”
“An orange from Jaffa”
“Paris 70”
“Room occupied”

sound

Alien: Romulus
flash
A complete unknown
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Gladiator II
Joker: Folie à Deux
Evil
The wild robot

Visual effects

Alien: Romulus
Better man
Civil War
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Mufasa: The Lion King
Twister
Evil