Thursday, January 26, 2023

95th Academy Awards







Broadcast Date: 13th March 2023 - Australia


Hello, everyone. I'm back and alive and kicking. I had just recovered from COVID (but I won't disclose the full details of that), but I haven't been doing much else on my blog except fixing the cast and crew descriptions and updating a few of my reviews. Anyway, the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards just got unveiled by yesterday. Here is the list of nominees in over 23 categories. Also, on a surprising note, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water are among the nominees for Best Picture.


Best Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front - Frank Petzold, Viktor Muller, 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 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 Costume Design

Babylon - Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth E. Carter
Elvis - Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Jenny Beavan


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 Aido Signoretti
The Whale - Adrian Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley


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 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 Proctor; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon - Production Design: Florencio Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverly Dunn
The Fablemans - Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara


Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front - Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemier, 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


Best Original Song

"Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman - Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick - Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Music by Tems, Rhianna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson; Lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler
"Naatu Naatu" from RRR - Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandabose
"This Is a Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once - Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Bryne


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 Animated Short Film

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor - Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Robbin
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon


Best Live-Action Short Film

An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkely 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 Documentary Short Subject

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 Documentary Feature

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 International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) - Directed by Edward Berger
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) - Directed by Santiago Mitre
Close (Belgium) - Directed by Lukas Dhont
EO (Poland) - Directed by Jerzy Skolimonwski
The Quiet Girl (Ireland) - Directed by Colm Bairéad


Best Animated Feature Film

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkey
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 Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front - Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell; based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Rian Johnson; based on characters created by Johnson and the film Knives Out
Living - Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the original motion picture screenplay Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni
Top Gun: Maverick - Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; based on the film Top Gun written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.
Women Talking - Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews


Best Original Screenplay

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


Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda
Hong Chau - The Whale as Liz
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki


Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty
Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway as James Aucoin
Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans as Boris Schlidkraut
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang


Best Actress

Cate Blanchett - Tár as Lydia Tár
Ana de Armas - Blonde as Norma Jeane Mortensen/Marilyn Monroe
Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie as Leslie Rowlands
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans as Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang


Best Actor

Austin Butler - Elvis as Elvis Presley
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin
Brendan Fraser - The Whale as Charlie
Paul Mescal - Aftersun as Calum Paterson
Bill Nighy - Living as Mr Rodney Williams


Best Director

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


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, Peter Czernin and Martin McDonagh, producers
Elvis - Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormack and Schiller 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
Triangle of Sadness - Erik Hemmendoff and Philippe Bober, producers
Women Talking - Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, producers


Honorary Awards

Euzhan Palcy
Diane Warren
Peter Weir


Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Michael J. Fox


Make sure you let me know who the winners are. My predictions for the winners of the following categories are

Best Visual Effects - Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Production Design - Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Costume Design - Elvis
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Elvis
Best Cinematography - Elvis
Best Original Song "Hold My Hand" - Top Gun: Maverick
Best Actor - Austin Butler for Elvis
Best Picture - Top Gun: Maverick


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