Here are all the songs and scores eligible for 2024 Oscars. It’s quite a list. If I could pick five songs and scores each, what would they be? I’ll bold face the ones I think have a shot.

Eligible Songs

“American Symphony”: “It Never Went Away”
“Asteroid City”: “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven”
“Barbie”: “Dance the Night,” “I’m Just Ken,” “What Was I Made For”
“The Beanie Bubble”: “This”
“Bella”: “The Easy Way”
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”: “Everything’s Gonna Be Fine”
“The Boy and the Heron”: “Spinning Globe”
“Carmen”: “Slip Away”
“Champions”: “Tell Somebody That You Love Them Right Now”
“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”: “My Sweet Baby”
“The Color Purple”: “Superpower,” “Keep It Movin’”
“Creed III”: “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
“Dicks: The Musical”: “Out Alpha the Alpha”
“Dreamin’ Wild”: “A Dream Is Beautiful”
“Drift”: “It Would Be”
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”: “Wings of Time”
“80 for Brady”: “Gonna Be You”
“Elemental”: “Steal the Show”
“The Face of the Faceless”: “Barala Tribal Song,” “Ek Sapna Mera Suhana,” “Jalta Hai Suraj”

“Flamin’ Hot”: “The Fire Inside”
“Flora and Son”: “High Life,” “Meet in the Middle”
“A Good Person”: “The Best Part,” “I Hate Myself,” “Stardust”
“Heart of Stone”: “Quiet”
“Here. Is. Better”: “A Little More Time”
“The Home Fairy”: “Amar em Segredo”
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”: “Can’t Catch Me Now”
“The Inventor”: “From This Tiny Seed”
“The Iron Claw”: “Live That Way Forever”
“Jacob the Baker”: “Better Times”
“Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister”: “It’s Precious We Have It Today”
“John Wick: Chapter 4”: “Eye for an Eye”
“Journey to Bethlehem”: “Mother to a Savior and King”
“Killers of the Flower Moon:”: “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)”
“King Coal”: “King Coal”
“Knights of Santiago”: “Las Navas de Tolosa”
“Leo”: “When I Was Ten”
“The Little Mermaid”: “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt,” “Wild Uncharted Waters”
“The Magician’s Elephant”: “Found”
“M3gan”: “Tell Me Your Dreams”
“My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”: “We’re All Together”
“My Love Affair With Marriage”: “Lion / My Love Affair With Marriage”
“Nimona”: “T-Rex”
“Nyad”: “Find a Way”
“Origin”: “Falling Into Place,” “I Am”
“Orlando, My Political Biography”: “Pharma Coliberation”
“Our Son”: “Always Be My Man”
“Past Lives”: “Quiet Eyes”
“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie”: “Down Like That,” “Learning to Fly”
“The Peasants”: “End of Summer”
“Prisoner’s Daughter”: “Shotgun Clown”
“Radical”: “Sader”
“The Road Dog”: “Remember Me”
“Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken”: “Rise,” “This Moment”
“Rustin”: “Road to Freedom”
“Saving Ana”: “Missing Children”
“Scream VI”: “In My Head,” “Still Alive”
“She Came to Me”: “Addicted to Romance”
“Silver Dollar Road”: “Wounded Heart”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”: “Am I Dreaming”
“Spinning Gold”: “Greatest Time”
“The Starling Girl”: “Ace Up My Sleeve”
“State of the Unity”: “One Mile,” “Songbird,” “Hides”
“Stephen Curry Underrated”: “Lil Fish, Big Pond”
“Strays”: “All of You”
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie”: “Peaches”
“Suzume”: “Kanata Haluka.” “Suzume”
“Sweetwater”: “Taking Me Higher”
“Theater Camp”: “Camp Isn’t Home”
“They Cloned Tyrone”: “Drunk AF”
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”: “On My Soul”
“Trolls Band Together”: “Better Place (Reunion)”
“Uncharitable”: “All of Our Dreams”
“We Dare to Dream”: “Don’t Need to Sleep”
“Wish”: “I’m a Star,” “This Is the Thanks I Get?!,” “This Wish”
“Wonka”: “A World of Your Own”

Eligible Scores

All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

American Symphony

Anselm

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Baby Ruby

Barbie

The Beanie Bubble

Beau Is Afraid

Big George Foreman

Blue Beetle

Blue Jean

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Bottoms

The Boy and the Heron

The Boys in the Boat

The Burial

Butcher’s Crossing

Carmen

Cassandro

Chevalier

Cocaine Bear

The Color Purple

Common Ground

The Creator

Creed III

Daliland

The Deepest Breath

Dicks: The Musical

Dream Scenario

Dreamin’ Wild

Drift

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

80 for Brady

Eileen

Elemental

The End We Start From

The Equalizer 3

Every Body

The Face of the Faceless

Ferrari

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddie’s

Flamin’ Hot

The Flash

Foe

Fool’s Paradise

Freud’s Last Session

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Golda

Good Grief

A Good Person

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

Hadik

A Haunting in Venice

Heart of Stone

Here. Is. Better.

The Holdovers

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

The Inventor

Invisible Beauty

The Iron Claw

It Ain’t Over

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

John Wick: Chapter 4

Journey to Bethlehem

Jules

The Killer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Knock at the Cabin

Landscape With Invisible Hand

The League

Leave the World Behind

Leo

The Lesson

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Mafia Mamma

The Magician’s Elephant

The Marvels

Master Gardener

Migration

A Million Miles Away

The Miracle Club

Miranda’s Victim

The Monkey King

Monster

The Mother

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Love Affair With Marriage

Napoleon

Nimona

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

The Nun II

Nyad

Once Within a Time

Oppenheimer

Origin

Past Lives

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

The Peasants

The Persian Version

The Pigeon Tunnel

Polite Society

Poor Things

The Promised Land

Radical

Reptile

Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken

Rustin

Saltburn

Scream VI

Sharper

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

She Came to Me

Shortcomings

Silver Dollar Road

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Society of the Snow

A Song Film By Kishi Bashi: “Omoiyari”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stamped from the beginning

Starbright

The Starling Girl

State of the Unity

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Story Ave

Strays

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Suzume

Sweetwater

The Teachers’ Lounge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

They Cloned Tyrone

A Thousand and One

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2018 (Everyone Is a Hero)

Walid

War Pony

What Happens Later

Wish

Your Fat Friend

The Zone of Interest

UPDATED THURSDAY NIGHT: After I published this scoop at 1:18pm Thursday, it turned into chum in the water. Four hours later, “exclusives” were claimed everywhere about Clooney and Baumbach making a film for Netflix with Adam Sandler. You’re welcome, everyone!

1:15pm Thursday: The splashiest deal in New York last night?

An exclusive A list premiere at the Museum of Modern Art for George Clooney’s new film, “The Boys in the Boat.”

The screening was followed by a swanky party at the Polo restaurant, where corned beef sandwiches cost about 40 bucks at a regular dinner. The In Crowd loves it there.

Among the guests (besides George’s smart, glamorous wife Amal) were “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig with husband, director-writer Noah Baumbach (who also co-wrote the massive “Barbie” hit movie.)

I can tell that this hot filmdom couple’s presence was not only because they like George. Clooney will star in Baumbach’s next film, maybe for Netflix, where Baumbach previously had his great “Meyerowitz Stories.”

Amazon is very high on Clooney with “The Boys in Boat” and rightly so. The story of the American rowing team winning the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is a superbly exciting sports film, and Clooney’s best directing effort in some time. I thought it was outstanding. “The Boys in the Boat” opens wide Christmas Day, and it’s a great entertainment you can take the whole family to without fear of inappropriate material.

Amazon Studios are so keen on George that no less than their president, Jennifer Salke, came cross country for the event. That’s a big deal. Also spotted: CAA co-chief Bryan Lourd.

Other guests included “Elvis” star Austin Butler with his girlfriend, Kaia Gerber — she’s like Clooney’s god-daughter (her parents are Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber), plus Katie Couric, a sunglassed Anna Wintour, producer Jean Doumanian, and journalist Jill Brooke, from flowerpowerdaily.com.

You could tell “The Boys in the Boat” was going to be good because George did not give a long, windy introduction. He just welcomed the crowd, and said Let’s see it. Afterwards we met his sizzling young cast including Callum Turner, Jack Mulhern, Luke Slattery, and the Grace Kelly-like Hadley Robinson (who’d be great in a remake of “Chinatown” with Kirsten Dunst).

What makes “The Boys in the Boat” so timely is that the American Olympic team went to Berlin at a time when Hitler was securing his power. The sight of him being defeated by Americans is very satisfying. The swastikas adoring pillars at the Olympic site should be a warning to us all right now: if we’re not careful, this can happen again.

Meanwhile, Clooney revels in the training of the rowers– all of whom are actors who had to go through the whole process. How good are they now? George told me when I caught up with him: “They were posting such good numbers in training and rehearsal, the guys were looking around to compete for real. They found a race near us, but I persuaded them not to try it!”

I first saw Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” at the Hamptons Film Festival and was knocked out. It opens this Friday and is a sleeper hit that I hope will resonate at the box office.

Jefferson, who used to write for the defunct Gawker website, has come up with a trenchant satire along the lines of “Wag the Dog.” Like this year’s “The Holdovers,” “American Fiction” is also a personal statement with well drawn characters portrayed by top actors.

Chief among them is Thelonious “Monk” Ellison played in a career defining moment by Jeffrey Wright. Monk is a college professor who’s fighting with his students and hasn’t published a book in eons. His school puts him on leave, so he heads home to Boston and family. That includes his sister, Lisa — the charming Tracee Ellis Ross — his newly gay brother (a muscular and funny Sterling K. Brown) and his mom, played by the legendary Leslie Uggams. Monk also gets a girlfriend in the form of Erika Alexander, who should be in more movies. (She was a TV star in the 90s.)

At the same time, Monk — who publishes esoteric books and is a snob — is frustrated by new, hot Black writers who are pretending to be “ghetto” to get attention. One in particular, Sintara (that’s Issa Rae) is winning awards and getting attention for her book, which just makes Monk irate. Suddenly strapped with expenses from his mother’s dementia, Monk sets out to write a junk book under a pseudonym — Stagg R. Leigh — to make money and make fools of publishing and academia.

What unravels is Jefferson’s brilliant send up of the literary world and culture in general. Monk sells his book for a fortune and demands of the cluesless white publisher that it be titled “Fuck.” The publisher– who is led to believe Monk is an ex con on the run– agrees. And the rest is mayhem as Monk has to keep lying and covering up what he’s done. The book is (implausibly) rushed to publication, which it means it qualifies for a Literary Award both Monk and Sintara are judging. (This is a fable.) So now two different paths for lying have been set, and you know they will converge with a bang.

Jefferson is clever. He’s made the Ellisons debt heavy but still upper class, with a beautiful home in the Boston suburbs and a beach house on the city’s south shore. They are the opposite of what Monk is angry about in current Black movies and books. He comes from a good family that has nothing to do with pimps, gang bangers, and so on. The point is made precisely. Meanwhile, the music of the real Thelonious Monk plays in the background. (So does an obscure Joe Simon sounding R&B band called Ace Spectrum circa 1975.)

Like any layered satire, “American Fiction” benefits from a second screening because it’s full of little Easter eggs you might not get the first time. My favorite is the name Stagg R. Leigh, which no one in the movie picks up on. (The Lloyd Price hit, “Stagger Lee,” was derived from a 19th century African American pimp who became a legend in real life. Plus, the family name Ellison is a nod to Ralph, author of “Invisible Man.”)

Of course, “American Fiction” wouldn’t outdo itself without a surprise twist of an ending, very “meta,” and ironic as the whole thing maybe is an actual American fiction, but who can separate the various strands as Jefferson gives us multiple possibilities of how this will all conclude. Without doubt this screenplay will be a surprise winner at all the awards shows, and Jeffrey Wright — who I saw in “Top Dog/Underdog” on Broadway and has since become a standard bearer for great acting — will finally get his due.