There are 323 feature films vying for the 97th Academy Awards

207 feature films are vying for the title of best picture

INN/LOS ANGELES, @Infodeaofficial

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 323 feature films are in the running for the 2024 Academy Awards®. The Best Picture category, which has additional eligibility standards beyond those for general entry, is open to 207 feature films.

Feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas—Los Angeles County, the City of New York, the Bay Area, Chicago, Illinois, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia—between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue in order to be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, according to rules put in place for the 97th Academy Awards year. The duration of feature films must be greater than forty minutes.

The “Reminder List of Productions Eligible for the 97th Academy Awards” in the general entry categories is available at https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility. The Reminder List also includes the performers eligible for consideration in the Acting categories.

To be eligible for consideration in the Best Picture category for the 97th Academy Awards, films must be eligible for general entry and have submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards (RAISE) entry form.  They must have met two of the four standards required in addition to an expanded theatrical eligibility requirement, which includes a theatrical run of seven days, consecutive or non-consecutive, in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets, no later than 45 days after the initial release in 2024.

Eligibility in the Best Picture category is subject to change if late-in-the-year films do not complete the planned expanded theatrical run by January 24, 2025.  A film’s distributor or producer had the option to opt out of Best Picture consideration.  A list of productions eligible in the Best Picture category is available at https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility.

Nominations voting begins on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and concludes on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Nominations for the 97th Academy Awards will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025. The 97th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and airs live in more than 200 territories worldwide