Oscar Nominations: 2023

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January 23, 2023. The wait is over as the voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have just released the Oscar nominations and their categories for the 95th Academy Awards Ceremony.

Best Picture

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans
• Tár
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Women Talking

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett: Tár
• Ana de Armas: Blonde
• Andrea Riseborough: To Leslie
• Michelle Williams: The Fabelmans
• Michelle Yeoh: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Austin Butler: Elvis
• Colin Farrell: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser: The Whale
• Paul Mescal: Aftersun
• Bill Nighy: Living

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Angela Bassett: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Hong Chau: The Whale
• Kerry Condon: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jamie Lee Curtis: Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Stephanie Hsu: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Brenda Gleeson: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry: Causeway
• Judd Hirsch: The Fablemans
• Barry Keoghan: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Ke Huy Quan: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director

• Martin McDonagh: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert: Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Steven Spielberg: The Fablemans
• Todd Field: Tár
• Ruben Östlund: Triangle of Sadness

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Martin McDonagh: The Banshees of Inisherin
• Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert: Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner: The Fablemans
• Todd Field: Tár
• Ruben Östlund: Triangle of Sadness

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• Edward Berger, Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson: All Quiet on the Western Front
• Rian Johnson: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Living
• Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie: Top Gun: Maverick
• Sarah Polley: Women Talking

Best International Feature Film

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Argentina 1985
• Close
• EO
• The Quiet Girl

Animated Feature Film

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• The Sea Beast
• Turning Red

Best Documentary (Feature)

• All That Breathes
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Fire of Love
• A House Made of Splinters
• Navalny

Best Film Editing

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Tár
• Top Gun: Maverick
• “Tick, Tick…Boom!

Best Cinematography

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Elvis
• Empire of Light
• Tár

Best Music (Original Score)

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans

Best Original Song

• “Applause”: Tell It Like a Woman
• “Hold My Hand”: Top Gun: Maverick
• “Lift Me Up”: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• “Naatu Naatu”: RRR
• “This Is a Life”: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Sound

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Elvis
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Babylon
• Elvis
• The Fabelmans

Best Costume Design

• Babylon
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• The Whale

Best Short Film (Animated)

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
• The Flying Sailor
• Ice Merchant
• My Year of Dicks
• An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Best Short Film (Live Action)

• An Irish Goodbye
• Ivalu
• Le Pupille
• Night Ride
• The Red Suitcase

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• The Elephant Whisperers
• Haulout
• How Do You Measure a Year?
• The Martha Mitchell Effect
• Stranger at the Gate

The 95^th Academy Awards ceremonies will be broadcast live from the Dolby^® Theater with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show for the third time. Honorary Oscars will be given to Diane Warren, Euzhan Palcy and Peter Weir  while Michael J. Fox  will receive the Hersholt Humanitarian.There was no shortage of surprises including the two films receiving the most nominations–Everything Everywhere All at Once with 11, followed by All Quiet on the Western Front with 10.  Other multiple nominees included The Banshees of Inisherin (8), Elvis (8), and The Fabelmans and Top Gun: Maverick both received 7. There was no shortage of big budget extravaganzas, but only the second comings of Avatar and Top Gun received Best Picture nominations. This will be Cate Blanchett’s eighth Oscar nomination—she has won twice—although her 2022 vehicle Tár was a box office bust.Will Top Gun: Maverick finally get four-time nominee Tom Cruise his first golden statuette? Tune in on March 13, 2023 to find out.

The 95th Academy Award Ceremonies will be carried by the ABC Network beginning at 8:00 pm (EST)/5:00 pm (PST)