And here we are. Official news arrived this morning from Los Angeles, where the official nominations for the 95th edition of the Academy Awards were revealed.
Are you surprised or not surprised? Well, most of the list was highly predictable by looking at the Golden Globes, BAFTA, and SAG Awards. However, a few unexpected nominations are enough to overturn the game.
First of all, let’s start from the foreseeable news: Everything Everywhere All at Once leads with an astonishing total of eleven nominations, among which we find Best Picture, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Actor, Best Original Song, Best Original Screenplay, and a lot more. Right behind the sci-fi movie directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, we have a tight. The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front follow with nine nominations each, also finding themselves competing for the prestigious Best Picture Award.
Furthermore, the highly anticipated Elvis, Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Tár, and Triangle of Sadness place themselves in several crucial categories, like Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Acting. Crucially, Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett nominated respectively as Best Leading Actor and Actresses, remain the favorites in their categories.
Surprisingly, though, on March 12, the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood will welcome a few names that had not been taken for granted or even into consideration.
Firstly, Paul Mescal. The Irish actor who became famous thanks to Normal People, the Hulu series based on the novel by Sally Rooney, gained his first Oscar nomination for his interpretation of Aftersun. Even if Mescal is already considered by many as the “golden boy” of Hollywood this year, he will not be the only “new guy” around, as the actors in the Best Actor category are all first-time nominees (Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Bill Nighy, and Mescal).
Another surprise (not so positive, though) can be found in the Best Director category that is, once again, only dominated by men, stopping the dream of those who hoped for Sarah Polley and her Women Talking.
Additionally, the 95th edition of the Oscars will present an unusual sequence of nominations for two films, Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick, which are the highest-grossing films of the year. This choice brings the Academy towards a much more commercially-oriented landscape, which many think should drive more audience to the ceremony. This event has drastically decreased in popularity over the past years.
However, it is not just who has been nominated to surprise, but also who has not. Being “snubbed” by the Academy happens often. This year, it was the time of Viola Davis, Brad Pitt, and Danielle Deadwyler, whose performances, respectively, in The Woman King, Babylon, and Till, failed to get them closer to the ambitious golden statue.
Therefore, now that the nominations have been revealed, the only thing that remains to do is arm yourself with patience, snacks, and coffee (if, like me, you will watch the ceremony from 2 a.m.) and wait for Jimmy Kimmel to call the beginning of the most important night of the year.
In the meantime, look at the complete list of nominees here.
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front - Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water - James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees of Inisherin - Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis - Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
The Fabelmans - Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
Tár - Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
Top Gun: Maverick - Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Triangle of Sadness - Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking - Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Best Director
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Todd Field (Tár)
Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness)
Best Lead Actor
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Best Lead Actress
Cate Blanchett (Tár)
Ana de Armas (Blonde)
Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Actress
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 Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front - Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Written by Rian Johnson
Living -Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick - Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking - Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin - Written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans - Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár - Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness - Written by Ruben Östlund
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - Darius Khondji
Elvis - Mandy Walker
Empire of Light - Roger Deakins
Tár - Florian Hoffmeister
Best Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes - Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
Fire of Love - Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
A House Made of Splinters - Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
Navalny - Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
Best Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Best Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis - Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
Tár - Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick - Eddie Hamilton
Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
Best Original Song
“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick - Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR - Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once - Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front - Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water - Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon - Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis - Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans - Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front - Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
Avatar: The Way of Water - Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
The Batman - Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
Top Gun: Maverick - Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Best Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On - Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast - Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red - Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon
Best Costume Design
Babylon - Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth Carter
Elvis - Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Jenny Beavan
Best Live Action Short
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley and Ross White
Ivalu - Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille - Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride - Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front - Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman - Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
Elvis - Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
The Whale - Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley
Best Original Score
All Quiet on the Western Front - Volker Bertelmann
Babylon - Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin - Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Son Lux
The Fabelmans - John Williams
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front -Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
Avatar: The Way of Water - Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
The Batman - Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
Elvis - David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
Top Gun: Maverick - Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
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