95th annual Academy Award Nominations (2023)

[Mike Blakesley]

Nominees for the 95th Academy Awards, announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills

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
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Austin Butler, Elvis
Bill Nighy, Living
Paul Mescal, Aftersun

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

Best Director
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness

Best Supporting Actor
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson, Banshees on Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

International Film
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

Original Screenplay
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness

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

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

Music (original score)
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once
John Williams, The Fabelmans

Original Song
Applause, from Tell It Like a Woman
Hold My Hand, from Top Gun Maverick
Lift Me Up from Black Panther Wakanda Forever
Naatu Naatu from RRR
This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once

Documentary Feature
All That Breathes'
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness

Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery
Living,
Top Gun Maverick
Women Talking

Cinematography
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front
Darius Khondj, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Mandy Walker, Elvis
Roger Deakins, Empire of Light
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár

Costume Design
Babylon
Black Panther Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

Animated Short
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it

Live Action Short
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun Maverick

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

Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis,
The Fabelmans

Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

[Mike Blakesley]

I guess the best thing about this list for me is that we've actually played some of the movies on the list. That wasn't the case last year, I don't think.

It's really sad about Disney this year. In an amazing reversal of fortune, they are only on the animation list with one direct-to-video film, even though they released two other animation films this year. (The fact that that both of them stunk may have had something to do with it.) Not exactly a year for the record books. Any year that has "Puss In Boots: The Last Wish" as one of the "best animated film" nominees is not exactly a banner year for animation.

Also sad: Top Gun Maverick not being nominated for cinematography. Considering some of the camera operations were done by the actors as they flew in planes, that movie should have gotten a nod, because it looked fantastic.

I was also very surprised to see "Till" get completely shut out. I thought it was really good. Although it didn't hit the cultural zeitgeist the way I thought it would.

Best Picture is a hard one to pick this year. I seriously doubt Top Gun or Avatar will get it. Hollywood will still want to reward the quirky or the "relevant" movie in the list, so I suppose "Everything Everywhere All at Once" or "Tar" probably have the best shot. Although "The Banshees of Inishirin" seems to be getting a lot of attention.

[Martin McCaffery]

Banshees is my favorite film of the year. I guess we depressing Irish people need to stick together. I can't see the Academy going for a film so relentlessly a downer, as well made and acted as it is.
Currently showing Tár. More the Academy's speed. Slick, yet ambitious. Exhausting performance by Cate Blanchett. As far as I can tell, the accent over the "a" serves the same purpose as the umlaut used by Spinal Tap.
Haven't seen Everything Everywhere... Sounds interesting.

[Jon Dent]

I'm surprised to see Elvis on here as much as it is. It was entertaining and had some glitzy cinematography (that one I can understand), but I didn't think it was particularly well edited.

Sound wise, Top Gun should run away with that one. Phenomenal mix all around.

Visual effects should go to Avatar. They looked good but it was also a tremendous undertaking.

[Bobby Henderson]

The producers of this year's Oscars telecast are so freaking screwed if they want to run that "In Memoriam" segment. A lot of pretty notable celebrities from the movie industry have been kicking the bucket lately. To me it seems like more than usual. There is no way they can run that segment without omitting possibly dozens of "can't omit" actors, directors, etc.

[Mike Blakesley]

They probably have a cutoff date, after which any notable who dies gets included in next year’s segment.

[Frank Cox]

So that would be a dead.. line?

[Leo Enticknap]

Once you omit those that AMPAS likely feels that it should omit on political grounds, the list will be down to manageable proportions.

IMHO, Puss In Boots and Top Gun are the only two nominees that come even close to being entertaining, demonstrating basic movie-making craft skills consistently, and refraining from subjecting the viewer to unwelcome political and/or ideological propaganda. All the others that I've seen fail on at least one of those criteria, and many of them on all three.

[Allan Young]

I'll presume you haven't seen The Banshees of Inisherin, because I can't imagine how it could be dismissed on those grounds.

[Marcel Birgelen]

I had some pretty good laughs while watching "Triangle of Sadness" but I guess the irony here is that the title of the movie also describes the state the industry is in. The very fact that this movie ends up in the list of best movies of the year is another kick in the crotch for that same industry.

After such a miseable year of Hollywood trying to push dreck down our throaths, maybe a quircky low-budget production like "Everything Everywhere All at Once" somehow deserves to win all the bloody Oscars it was nominated for, just to make a point. (Although "it" was apparently nominated twice for one category...)

I looked at my Disney stock lately and then I looked at their release roster for this year and I noticed a trend there: A sad state of affairs. I guess the time to start fixing things has since passed and to me it looks like this streaming thing is a bad idea. Not only does it cost them an arm and a leg, they just lost millions of subscribers in a single quarter...

BTW: I'm part of Disney's problems: I just cancelled my Disney+ subscription, for the 3rd time in a year, after I finished watching Andor (probably the first Star Wars thing I could keep watching past "episode 1" in the last five or so years) and found nothing else worth my time on there. At least, nothing that's not already in my "offline collection" already...

[Mike Blakesley]

I wish it was possible to edit an old post, I would go in and "bold" the winners in the above list.

But, basically "Everything Everywhere All At Once" won almost everything it was nominated for, including best picture.

found nothing else worth my time on there. At least, nothing that's not already in my "offline collection" already...

Us people with "offline collections" are the bane of streaming services. They need people basically to not pay attention to their credit card bills, so they can keep vacuuming that money out every month. But people are smarter than that, they're canceling when they don't see enough stuff they want to see for more than a month or two in a row.

It is odd how the studio heads keep saying streaming is the future but there is really no way to deal with the above problem because people won't keep endlessly subscribing to 10 different services.

[Martin McCaffery]

The most exciting thing about this year's Oscars was the removal of the Red Carpet. Please let that cliche die a deserved death.