“Fun” and “powerful” titles are set to sweep the 2024 Oscar nominees for Best Picture, marking a tone change from last year’s standout mood of “outrageous”. This year’s Academy Awards, taking place March 2024, also signal a renaissance of sorts for “satirical” movies – a clear sign of the demographic shift which is fated to dethrone Hollywood over the next decade. An analysis of the forthcoming Oscars, as well as the last 15 years of film industry awards, has been carried out by Gracenote, with the Nielsen subsidiary again applying the taxonomy of its revered Video Descriptors to map out the main moods of 2024 Oscar Best Picture nominees. Again, like last year, our own take on Gracenote’s results must…