Oscar Nominations 2023 — Full List and Breakdown
The final stretch of this year’s Oscar race finally begins. On Tuesday, the Academy announced the Oscar nominations for 2023. Check out the list below and scroll down afterwards for an analysis of what to expect from the main categories.
Girls co-lead Allison Williams and guest star Riz Ahmed were in charge of announcing the entire list through the Academy’s YouTube channel (it was also live-streamed on Disney Plus). Check it out here:
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 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 Östlund (Triangle of Sadness)
Best Actor
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Best 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 Hirsh (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 Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo: False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
The Fabelmans (Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg)
Tár (Todd Field)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
Living (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie)
Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
Best Original Score
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Best International Feature
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
Eo
The Quiet Girl
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
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Best Costume Design
Babylon
Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
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 Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
Best Live-Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupile
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
Best Animated Short Film
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
Best Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers
Callout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
Of all the surprises today, there are two that stand out. First, we have the domination of non-English-speaking films, with All Quiet on the Western Front scoring no less than nine nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and also Triangle of Sadness sneaking into both Best Director and Best Picture. One of my bets today was that we would see a non-American director in the former category, but I was giving the slight edge to RRR helmer S.S. Rajamouli. The beloved Indian film was shut out from all categories except for Best Song (which it’s likely to win).
Additionally, all four acting categories also had huge surprises in them. First, Best Lead Actress included at least two huge surprises for me with To Leslie‘s Andrea Riseborough and Blonde‘s Ana de Armas. For those who may not be caught up, Riseborough’s nomination campaign was entirely fan-driven, started through online chatter, and even got top-tier actresses like Kate Winslet to back her up. Ana de Armas, on the other hand, did score a SAG nomination, but I still thought her getting called out today was a very long shot. More likely candidates were Viola Davis for The Woman King and especially Danielle Deadwyler for Till. Michelle Williams might have come as a surprise to some people as well, but the truth is that her name carries a lot of weight, and so does Spielberg’s. That being said, this is absolutely Cate Blanchett’s award to lose.
Best Supporting Actress was an open race with up to ten people trying to sneak in. The Stephanie Hsu / Jamie Lee Curtis combo turned out to be right as predicted — one where one benefitted from the other, and not a case of split vote at all. The split vote curse might have hurt Jesse Buckley and Claire Foy’s chances of getting nominated here for Women Talking though, with Angela Bassett coming in to steal the show. The truth is there was a lot of chatter about her when Wakanda Forever came out, but I thought she’d lost a lot of steam. Other Awards shows were predicting the opposite, and I still thought she had a long road to walk. As it turns out, I was wrong, and she will be there on March 12. I’m hesitant to call a winner right now — a few weeks ago, I would have thought Kerry Condon had this in the bag, but now I feel like any of these five actresses could take it home. It’s going to be an interesting one to keep an eye on.
Moving over to the male side, Best Actor also had at least an open spot — Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, and Brendan Fraser were all locks for a nomination, and Bill Nighy was also very likely to attend the ceremony. The fifth spot could have gone to Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, Jeremy Pope, or the actual nominee, Paul Mescal for Aftersun. As a massive fan of the movie, I’m personally very happy about it even if I think it’s nowhere near the level of the other nominees, mostly because of his screentime. This will be a tight race between Fraser and Farrell.
Finally, Best Supporting Actor also flipped the script with two or even three surprise nominations. Ke Huy Quan is the absolute favorite to win at the Oscars, with Brendan Gleeson being his only real competition. The Fabelmans was going to have a nominee in this category, but the odds were with Paul Dano despite initial buzz surrounding Judd Hirsch. It seems like Dano’s campaign didn’t pick up enough steam. On the flipside, Brian Tyree Henry was a surprising but deserving nominee. There was some excitement around his performance in Causeway, but I honestly thought it wasn’t enough to grant him the nomination. Finally, Barry Keoghan was on a lot of people’s lists, and I think he was the least surprising of the three, but I would have thought the Academy would have chosen Paul Dano over him, at least to recognize the name of one of the most talented actors working today, one that has been stealing the show since 2007’s There Will Be Blood.
As far as Best Director and Best Picture goes, it’s absolutely an open race at this point. Yesterday, I was convinced that Top Gun: Maverick had Best Picture in the bag, with The Fabelmans being not as well-received as everyone expected, and Everything Everywhere All At Once being way too out there for the older members of the Academy. However, if they have no problem nominating foreign films on so many major categories, I don’t think that will be an issue anymore, and if CODA was facing an uphill battle last year to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, Top Gun: Maverick is facing the impossible under worse circumstances — they don’t have any acting nominations either, and the Best Adapted Screenplay category is a lost cause (Women Talking absolutely has that). I’m inclined to think the Daniels and Spielberg will split both categories, but I’m not sure who gets which.
These were the Oscar nominations for the 95th Academy Awards. Stay tuned for more updates on the race and come back on March 12 for the actual ceremony, which we will be covering live!
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
