Even though Disney is dominating at the Oscars this year, they have a few wake-up calls to pay attention to with the nominations.

Disney’s 2024 is already proving to be interesting, with some ups and downs when it comes to recognition for their productions. Earlier this year, the company was completely left out of the “Best Feature” ballot for the Annie Awards, highlighting some real issues with the company’s animated productions in 2023. At the same time, they also did well at the Golden Globes.

When it comes to the Academy Awards, however, Disney has a bittersweet result.

Disney Gets 20 Nominations at the Oscars

This year, Disney walked away with 20 nominations at the Oscars, in large part thanks to its film Poor Things from Searchlight Pictures.

The film, written by Tony McNamara and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.

It’s based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray and follows Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman living in a steampunk-styled Victorian-era London, who is resurrected by a scientist after she dies by suicide. She then runs off with a debauched lawyer to embark on “an odyssey of self-discovery and sexual liberation.”

Poor Things alone got 11 nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor—and Searchlight Pictures got a total of 13 (including Poor Things).

However, notably absent this year from any Oscar nominations is Disney’s Wish, an animated feature they were pinning a lot of hopes on prior to its release and unsuccessful box office stint. The film—meant to be the epitome of a Disney celebration—was skipped over this year.

Rather, the Disney film that the company didn’t do much for in the way of marketing, Pixar’s Elemental, is up for best-animated feature, while National Geographic Films landed a best documentary feature nomination for Bobi Wine: The People’s President.

Additionally, Disney’s main rival, Universal, walked away with its film Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Emily Blunt, becoming Universal’s most nominated film in history and this year’s overall leader.

Not only this, another film that Disney rejected—Nimona—a webcomic that became a cult-favorite fantasy graphic novel by ND Stevenson, who also created She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, has also been nominated for an Academy Award, and in particular for the Best Feature ballot.

Again… It is such HILARIOUS poetic justice that the film that was denied completion by Disney for "not fitting the brand" ends up nominated for Best Animated Feature while Wish, the brandiest Disney brand film to ever brand, ends up getting snubbed…#FizzVsComics #Nimona https://t.co/ODlor4MR4a pic.twitter.com/WgqoJ76LhB

— Michael Scally 🏳️‍🌈 🐀 (SAME USERNAME ELSEWHERE) (@FizzVsTheWorld) January 23, 2024

While Disney has a lot to celebrate, certainly, it also has a lot of self-reflection to do.

Other notable nominees mentioned for our film fanatics include Martin Scorsese, who made history by becoming the oldest directing nominee at the age of 81.

Barbie, last year’s big film of the summer, earned eight nominations, though director Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie did not score any nominations for their roles.

Late-night star Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars this year for the fourth time; they will be on Sunday, March 10, at 4 p.m. PT at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles.