Oscar Awards Winners and Nominees 2024
These are the nominees and winners of films submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 2024.
(Please note these are the ones we were able to purchase on DVD. Some films are only released to streaming services.)
Oppenheimer
Author(s):
Motion picture adaptation of (work):
Description:
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
The holdovers
Author(s):
Description:
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
Comedy
Barbie
Author(s):
Description:
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Comedy
Poor things
Author(s):
Description:
The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
SciFi/Fantasy
Anatomy of a Fall
Author(s):
Description:
Justine Triet's masterful Palme d'Or winner, a riveting courtroom thriller starring Sandra Hüller as a writer who is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, is a mystery that is less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
The color purple
Author(s):
Motion picture adaptation of (work):
Description:
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Elemental
Author(s):
Description:
An all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted, and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Children
Spider-Man. Across the Spider-Verse
Author(s):
Description:
Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Action
20 days in Mariupol
Author(s):
Description:
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
947.7086 20
Four daughters
Author(s):
فر دغترس / درتد بي كثر بن هن.
Chikahoui, Eya,
Description:
880-03
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
320.557 Fou
Golda
Author(s):
Description:
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting of her all-male cabinet, with little hope of rescue, one woman is in a race against time to save millions of lives on both sides of the conflict.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny
Author(s):
Description:
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Action
The creator
Author(s):
Description:
Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory only to discover the world-ending weapon he's been instructed to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
SciFi/Fantasy
Guardians of the Galaxy. Volume 3
Author(s):
Description:
Our beloved band of misfits is looking a bit different these days. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
SciFi/Fantasy
Past lives
Author(s):
Description:
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Format:
DVD
Call Number:
Drama
