Bill Nighy was excellent in LOVE ACTUALLY...
Posted on 01/25/2023 6:40:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams dropped the nominations for the 95th Oscars on Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had for the first time in awhile the most wide open and competitive race in years.
Fans of the underdog have rooting interest beyond the surprising and delightful nominations of Brian Tyree Henry’s Best Supporting Actor nom for the film Causeway, and Andrea Riseborough’s Best Actress turn in To Leslie, the latter the result of a grass-roots campaign waged by industry admirers of her performance in the little-seen film. No fewer than 15 of the major category nominees are first timers.
Also on the underdog track is A24’s mulitverse-spanning Everything Everywhere All at Once, which scored a leading 11 nominations. That includes Ke Huy Quan, who began his career as the Indiana Jones sidekick Short Round, and hung in there until this historic moment, which included co-star Michelle Yeoh becoming the first Asian actress to be nominated for Best Actress, in a role that writer-directors Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert wrote originally for Jackie Chan. Searchlight’s quirky Irish yarn The Banshees of Inisherin and Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front followed in overall noms with nine apiece. Latter is a story that was first told onscreen in 1930, winning two Oscars.
This year’s Best Picture nominees included a wide range of pics from the big studios, the streamers and the indies: 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 and Women Talking.
There is something for everyone here. There are two billion-dollar-grossing films in the Best Picture mix in Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water. Both are sequels. This might well help the Oscarcast that have been in steady decline over the past pandemic-plagued years.
Also helping is the chance to see Rihanna and Lady Gaga perform their nominated tunes for Wakanda Forever and Top Gun: Maverick, respectively. They will compete against perennial nominee Diane Warren, who is up for the award yet again for the film Tell It Like A Woman. There is also the rousing theme from RRR, and the prospect of Talking Heads leader David Byrne for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Academy’s final voting runs March 2-7, with the Oscars set for Sunday, March 12 at the Dolby Theater in a ceremony airing live on ABC and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
Here’s the full list of 2023 nominees, with the nominations scorecards below.
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production
Malte Grunert, Producer
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney)
A 20th Century Studios Production
James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
A Blueprint Pictures/Film4/TSG Entertainment Production
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
A Bazmark Production
Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
A Hot Dog Hands Production
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
An Amblin Partners Production
Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
“Tár” (Focus Features)
A Standard Film Company/EMJAG Production
Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
A Paramount Pictures/Skydance/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production
Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
A Plattform Production
Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
“Women Talking” (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing)
A Plan B Entertainment / hear/say Production
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in “Elvis”
(Warner Bros.)
Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
(Searchlight)
Brendan Fraser in “The Whale”
(A24)
Paul Mescal in “Aftersun”
(A24)
Bill Nighy in “Living”
(Sony Pictures Classics)
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in “Tár”
(Focus Features)
Ana de Armas in “Blonde”
(Netflix)
Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie”
(Momentum Pictures)
Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans”
(Universal/Amblin Partners)
Michelle Yeoh in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
(A24)
Directing
Martin McDonagh
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Steven Spielberg
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Todd Field
“Tár” (Focus Features)
Ruben Östlund
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
(Searchlight)
Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway”
(Apple)
Judd Hirsch in “The Fabelmans”
(Universal/Amblin Partners)
Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
(Searchlight)
Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
(A24)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
(Walt Disney)
Hong Chau in “The Whale”
(A24)
Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
(Searchlight)
Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
(A24)
Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
(A24)
Animated Feature Film
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
(Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
(A24)
Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
(Universal)
Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
“The Sea Beast”
(Netflix)
Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
“Turning Red” (Walt Disney)
Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Documentary Feature Film
“All That Breathes” (Submarine Deluxe and Sideshow in association with HBO Documentary Films)
A Kiterabbit Films and Rise Films in collaboration with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Production
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon)
A Participant Production
Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
“Fire of Love” (National Geographic)
A National Geographic Documentary Films/Sandbox Films/Intuitive Pictures & Cottage M Production
Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
“A House Made of Splinters”
“A House Made of Splinters” A Final Cut For Real Production
Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
“Navalny” (Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max)
A Fishbowl Films/RaeFilm Studios/Cottage M Production
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
International Feature Film
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
A La Unión de los Ríos Production
“Close” (Belgium)
A Menuet Production
“EO” (Poland)
A Skopia Film Production
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)
An Inscéal Production
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
Screenplay – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Netflix)
Written by Rian Johnson
“Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
“Women Talking” (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing)
Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Written by Martin McDonagh
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
“Tár” (Focus Features)
Written by Todd Field
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
Written by Ruben Östlund
Cinematography
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
James Friend
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Netflix)
Darius Khondji
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Mandy Walker
“Empire of Light” (Searchlight)
Roger Deakins
“Tár” (Focus Features)
Florian Hoffmeister
Film Editing
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Paul Rogers
“Tár” (Focus Features)
Monika Willi
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
Eddie Hamilton
Music (Original Score)
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
Volker Bertelmann
“Babylon” (Paramount)
Justin Hurwitz
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Carter Burwell
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Son Lux
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
John Williams
Music (Original Song)
“Applause” from “Tell It like a Woman”
(Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”
(Paramount)
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
(Walt Disney)
Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR”
(Variance Films/Sarigama Cinemas)
Music by M.M. Keeravaani Lyric by Chandrabose
“This Is A Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
(A24)
Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Production Design
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
(Netflix)
Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck
Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
“Avatar: The Way of Water”
(Walt Disney)
Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter
Set Decorator: Vanessa Cole
“Babylon”
(Paramount)
Production Design: Florencia Martin
Set Decorator: Anthony Carlino
“Elvis”
(Warner Bros.)
Production Design: Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy
Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
“The Fabelmans”
(Universal/Amblin Partners)
Production Design: Rick Carter
Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Costume Design
“Babylon” (Paramount)
Mary Zophres
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney)
Ruth Carter
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Catherine Martin
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Shirley Kurata
“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (Focus Features)
Jenny Beavan
Makeup and Hairstyling
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney)
Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
“The Whale” (A24)
Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley
Live Action Short Film
“An Irish Goodbye” (Network Ireland Television)
A Floodlight Pictures Production
Tom Berkeley and Ross White
“Ivalu”
An M&M Production
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
“Le Pupille” (Walt Disney)
An Esperanto Filmoj and Tempesta Production
Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
“Night Ride” (The New Yorker Studios)
A Cylinder Production
Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
“The Red Suitcase”
A Cynefilms Production
Cyrus Neshvad
Documentary Short Film
“The Elephant Whisperers” (Netflix)
A Netflix Documentary/Sikhya Entertainment Production
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
“Haulout” (The New Yorker Studios)
An Albireo Films Production
Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
“How Do You Measure a Year?”
A Jay Rosenblatt Films Production
Jay Rosenblatt
“The Martha Mitchell Effect” (Netflix)
An Outspoken Films Production
Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
“Stranger at the Gate” (The New Yorker Studios)
A Smartypants Pictures Production
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Animated Short Film
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” (BBC and Apple Original Films)
A NoneMore and Bad Robot Production
Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
“The Flying Sailor”
A National Film Board of Canada Production
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
“Ice Merchants”
A COLA Animation Production
João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
“My Year of Dicks”
An FX, Wonder Killer and Cat’s Pajamas Production
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”
A Griffith Film School Production
Lachlan Pendragon
Sound
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney)
Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
Visual Effects
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)
Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney)
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
“The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney)
Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount)
Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Everything Everywhere All at Once — 11
All Quiet on the Western Front — 9
The Banshees of Inisherin — 9
Elvis — 8
The Fabelmans — 7
Tár — 6
Top Gun: Maverick — 6
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — 5
Avatar: The Way of Water — 4
Babylon — 3
The Batman — 3
Triangle of Sadness — 3
The Whale — 3
Living — 2
Women Talking — 2
A24 — 17
Netflix — 14
Warner Bros — 12
Walt Disney — 10
Searchlight — 10
Paramount — 9
Universal — 8
Focus Features — 7
Neon — 4
Orion Pictures/UAR — 2
Sideshow — 2
Sony Pictures Classics — 2
Bill Nighy was excellent in LOVE ACTUALLY...
This is the first year in a long time that I’ve watched a best picture nominee and this year, I’ve actually seen two of them! Top Gun and Western Front. Both excellent. Western Front, I watched in German with subtitles, really blew me away. Very powerful film.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is gay. I would not have seen it if I had known that. It was a very entertaining movie in spite of its irritating pandering to the Rainbow Mafia . Seems like most movies made now have some propaganda poison pill added to pay tribute to their Commie overlords.
It would be nice to see Top Gun: Maverick win but of course it has no chance whatsoever as it’s too American.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258698/
Haven’t seen it. Do you recommend it?
Thanks. Added to my watchlist.
I haven’t seen Elvis, but heard it was woke-ish.
LOL! A good and well-deserved reply!
No I haven’t seen it, but I heard it got bad reviews. I’m just waiting for them to make a movie about Trump and Melania.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258698/
Yes great flick if a little dark. I'm not a big Colin Farrell fan but he was great in this.
Maybe they should make better movies!
Will have to check out “Living” when I get time. It sounds a bit like “The Remains of the Day” with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. I thought that movie was quite good.
“I haven’t seen Elvis, but heard it was woke-ish.”
It took time to acknowledge the African-American influences on Elvis and his music.
But that is factually accurate not woke. It’s not trying to invent some PC history that didn’t exist.
For the last 3 or 4 years, I haven’t seen any of the pictures that have been nominated for an Academy Award. This year, I have happened to watch 2 of them: ‘Top Gun Maverick’ and ‘Avata-The Way of Water’.
I do hope that ‘Top Gun’ gets it, but somehow I think one of the artsy-fartsy woke films will get the nod.
I nominate the very last movie that I went to, The Godfather...
You’ve missed some good ones since then, but each to his own.:)
Fortunately, in my old age, I’ve had my Amazon Firestik that has enabled me to catch up...🙄
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