The 2024 Oscar nominations are in, and as always, all anyone can talk about are the snubs. Buzzy, highly debated audience favorites like Saltburn and May December were all but shut out in the final tally, while arty treatments of real-life subjects received Best Picture nods. The latter camp includes “great man” biopics like Oppenheimer (the leader with 13 nominations) and Maestro, as well as “banality of evil” chronicles Killers of the Flower Moon and Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama Zone of Interest. It was a banner year for international films, with both the British Zone of Interest and French courtroom...