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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday unveiled the films eligible for consideration for the 2024 Oscars in the categories of Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film and Animated Feature Film.

A total of 167 documentaries have made the cut for the 96th Academy Awards, while 88 countries are eligible for the International Feature. Shortlists of 15 films in both categories will be revealed December 21.

In the Animated Feature race, 33 films are eligible for the 2024 race.

Final Oscar nominations will be revealed January 23, 2024, with the 96th Oscars to air Sunday, March 10 on ABC hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.

Here are the film lists revealed today, with AMPAS noting that not all have had their qualifying release yet, a requirement to advance in the voting process.

Animated Feature

The Amazing Maurice

Blue Giant

The Boy and the Heron

Chang’an

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Deep Sea

Elemental

Ernest & Celestine: A...

Kelly Clarkson was seen on a recent episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show wearing a gold cross ring on her wedding finger, only three years after her split from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.

The ring was not the only thing fans noticed. For the show, Clarkson wore a low-cut black dress and high heels that showed off her recent weight loss.

Clarkson confronted the topic of weight during her interview with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush. They were promoting their newest co-authored book, Love Comes First.

They were looking back at old photos when a picture of the sisters in blue dresses came up. They talked about how many dresses were “drop-waist” when they were younger. Clarkson said those dresses were “not good for girls with curves.”

Bush Hager asked, “Barbara, in my life, was I chubby?”

Her sister then responded, saying that there was “a stage” in her life where she was.

When things work, we take them for granted. Call it hedonic adaptation if you will, but the unfortunate truth about successful science, technology, or governmental policy is that when it actually works, it's not long before people stop noticing the problem was solved or even existed in the first place. In 1916, the infant mortality rate was 99.9 per 1,000 (via Nih); literally 10% of infants would die (and 18.5% of Black infants). In 2017, the average infant mortality rate was 0.57%. That's incredible improvement, and we've seen health and quality of life increase in so many areas (while still in proportion with social and racial inequality).

It wasn't really that long ago, across the span of our speck in time, that diseases ran rampant, killing and disabling large portions of humanity. Today, most of us don't even know what diphtheria is; smallpox has literally been eradicated; polio morbidity has decreased by a full 100%. But the generations...

Anti-vaxxers, as they're often called, began sprouting up in the late '90s after one factually erroneous paper — released by an alleged slimy grifter named Andrew Wakefield — made vague connections between vaccines and autism. As the 'truthiness' era of George W. Bush transformed into the post-truth era of the late Obama and then Trump administrations, the idea of 'vaccine skepticism' only grew more. Shot in the Arm is a powerful new documentary about the dangers of anti-scientific messaging, and the ramifications of this among society at large.

It's a potent message that actually began before the Covid pandemic, when Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy decided to make a film about a then-growing measles outbreak and the anti-vaxxers with (perhaps more than) figurative blood on their hands like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was interviewed here prior to his current presidential run. But as the world shut down and scientists everywhere...