The 2024 Oscar nominations are in

Ten of the acting contenders are first-time nominees

Among them is Jeffrey Wright who's nominated

for his performance in 'American Fiction'

(Jeffrey Wright, Actor)

"..everything that I do, have done, will do I owe to what my mother made possible for me."

Colman Domingo also received his first Oscar nod

for playing gay civil rights leader

Bayard Rustin in movie 'Rustin'

(Colman Domingo, Actor)

"To look at the steps and how I got here, it's just extraordinary. There's no path for this. It's just heart and faith and reinvention and making new opportunities. And then hoping that your goodwill is returned. And when I tell you... (crying) it's really overwhelming in a beautiful way."

The list of nominated animated films includes

'Nimona', which almost didn't get made

(Troy Quane, Director, Animator)

"We went from being dead like this movie was not getting made to the heights of Mount Olympus. You know, like the highest possible, you know, acknowledgment, in the industry. And I think it's more of a, it's an acknowledgment of the hard work, the effort, the blood, the sweat, the dedication of everybody who believed in it."

German-Turkish filmmaker Ilker Catak's film 'The Teachers' Lounge'

has been nominated for best international feature film

(Ilker Çatak, Director)

"I'm representing the country and it's kind of like this incredible migration story that, you know, I... It moves me and it moves my dad and you know it for, for, for, for Turks, it's also something very meaningful. And, I yeah, I, I'm just very lucky to be in that spot of, you know, representing Germany as well as Turks as in a way, you know, and, yeah, it means a lot to all of us."

The Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes

will be announced on March 10