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  • Final 95th Academy Awards Predictions

    2023 Academy Award Best Picture nominees.
    2023 Academy Award Best Picture nominees.

    The 95th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 12th and with it will come the end of the 2023 award season.

    Following Will Smith‘s “slap heard around the world” at last year’s Oscar ceremony, the Academy had hoped to get back to normal this year but has already had to deal with the controversy surrounding Andrea Riseborough’s surprise nomination for Best Actress for her performance in ‘To Leslie.’

    With an unusual number of box office hits nominated for Best Picture this year including ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ Top Gun: Maverick,’ and ‘Elvis,’ and an awards season that has seen several frontrunners emerge but some categories still too close to call, Sunday’s ceremony promises to be an entertaining event, once again hosted by the returning Jimmy Kimmel.

    Below are our predictions for who will win Oscars on Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards. We are only breaking down our predictions for the six major categories, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

    Let’s Begin!

    BEST PICTURE

    Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
    (L to R) Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs.

    In the Best Picture race, basically three frontrunners have emerged, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ and ‘The Fabelmans,’ with ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and to a lesser degree ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ still in the mix.

    Award season began with ‘Fabelmans’ and ‘Banshees’ both winning Best Picture at the Golden Globes, but since then ‘Everything Everywhere’ has definitely taken the lead winning Best Picture from the Critics Choice, Hollywood Critics Association, Independent Spirit Awards, Screen Actors Guild, and the coveted Producers Guild Award, which is usually a pretty good precursor of who will win Best Picture at the Oscars.

    It is worth mentioning that ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ won Best Picture at the BAFTA‘s, and it is not outside the realm of possibility that it could cause a surprise win, but given the Academy’s dislike for Netflix, I don’t think that will happen. And don’t forget ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ which has been given credit for saving the film industry, and it is possible that Tom Cruise, who would win his first Oscar ever as a producer, and longtime super producer Jerry Bruckheimer will be rewarded by the Academy for their contributions.

    That being said, safe money is certainly still on ‘Everything Everywhere’ taking the top prize, and I would be very surprised if that doesn’t happen.

    Nominees:

    ‘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’

    Who Will Win: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    Who Could Win: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

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    BEST DIRECTOR

    Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert on the set of A24's 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
    (L to R) Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert on the set of A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ Photo Credit: Courtesy of A24.

    Steven Spielberg began the award season winning Best Director from the Golden Globes, but since then The Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) have emerged as the frontrunners winning Best Director from Critics Choice, HCA, Independent Spirit Awards, and the Director’s Guild, which usually correctly predicts the Oscars.

    While Edward Berger won Best Director from the BAFTA’s for ‘All Quiet,’ the chances of him winning are very slim, and director Martin McDonagh’s Oscar night win will most likely come in the Best Original Screenplay category for ‘Banshees.’

    The Daniels biggest competition is still living legend Spielberg, who is the only filmmaker ever to be nominated in 6 different decades, which is ironic since he had a hard time being accepted by the Academy early in his career (He wasn’t even nominated for ‘The Color Purple!’). The Academy may recognize Spielberg for his very personal work on ‘Fabelmans,’ which would be his forth Oscar win for Best Director, tying him with John Ford for most wins of all time.

    But with their DGA win, The Daniels are the safest bet, and if they do win, they will only be the third directing team to win Best Director in Oscar history behind Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for 1961’s ‘West Side Story,’ and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the Coen Brothers) for ‘No Country for Old Men.’

    Nominees:

    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’

    Who Will Win: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
    Who Could Win: Steven Spielberg – ‘The Fabelmans’

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    BEST ACTOR

    Austin Butler as Elvis in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama 'Elvis,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
    Austin Butler as Elvis in Warner Bros. Pictures’ drama ‘Elvis,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2022 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    Related Article: 2023 Oscar Nominations Announced

    Awards season started off with both Colin Farrell and Austin Butler winning Golden Globes for ‘Banshees’ and ‘Elvis,’ respectively. But since then Brendan Fraser has come on strong winning The Critic’s Choice, HCA, and SAG Awards for his performance in ‘The Whale.’

    ‘Banshees’ won big at the BAFTA’s, but Farrell still lost to Butler, basically eliminating his chances at the Oscars. With Butler’s BAFTA and Fraser’s SAG win, it’s really too close to call, but I feel Butler will most likely take the win.

    Hollywood loves a good comeback story and Fraser’s move from 90’s action star to dramatic actor after several years of obscurity and personal issues is one that the Academy might not ignore. But Butler gave the superior performance, and if Rami Malek can win Best Actor for lip-syncing as Freddy Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ then Butler deserves the win for actually singing.

    Nominees:

    Austin Butler – ‘Elvis’
    Colin Farrell – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
    Brendan Fraser – ‘The Whale’
    Paul Mescal – ‘Aftersun’
    Bill Nighy – ‘Living’

    Who Will Win: Austin Butler – ‘Elvis’
    Who Could Win: Brendan Fraser – ‘The Whale’

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    BEST ACTRESS

    Michelle Yeoh in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
    Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ Photo Credit: Courtesy of A24.

    By far this is the closest race of the night as Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh are essentially in a dead heat. Both Blanchett and Yeoh started the season strong winning Golden Globes, then Blanchett took the Critics Choice and BAFTA’s, while Yeoh took home HCA, SAG, and Independent Spirit Awards honors.

    Blanchett already has two Oscars, and a third would tie her with Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Frances McDormand for living actor with the most Oscar wins. However, she would still need to win one more to tie with the late Katharine Hepburn for most Oscar wins of all time at four.

    If Yeoh wins, she will be the first Asian woman in history to win Best Actress, and if ‘Everything Everywhere’ goes big on Oscar night, as I think it will, that could help put the actress over the top. Personally, I am rooting for Yeoh to be rewarded for her incredible body of work, and the momentum seems to be on her side going into Sunday.

    Nominees:

    Cate Blanchett – ‘TÁR’
    Ana de Armas – ‘Blonde’
    Andrea Riseborough – ‘To Leslie’
    Michelle Williams – ‘The Fabelmans’
    Michelle Yeoh – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    Who Will Win: Michelle Yeoh – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    Who Could Win: Cate Blanchett – ‘TÁR’

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    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang in A24's 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
    Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’

    If there has been any locked category this season it has definitely been in Best Supporting Actor as Ke Huy Quan has won almost every award there is to win including a Golden Globe, Critics Choice, HCA, Independent Spirit Awards and SAG.

    Yes, Barry Keoghan won the BAFTA, but he is an Irish actor and the BAFTA’s tend to reward Europeans over Americans when they can, so I wouldn’t read too much into that.

    Again, Hollywood loves a comeback story and no one (even Fraser) has a better one than Quan, who after becoming a child star thanks to ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom‘ and ‘The Goonies,’ had to leave acting altogether because of a lack of roles. The actor has returned in a big way, and especially if the movie has a good night, I completely expect Quan to win, which will make him only the second Asian actor in history to do so in this category after Haing S. Ngor‘s win in 1984 for ‘The Killing Fields.’

    Nominees:

    Brendan Gleeson – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
    Bryan Tyree Henry – ‘Causeway’
    Judd Hirsch – ‘The Fabelmans’
    Barry Keoghan – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
    Ke Huy Quan – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    Who Will Win: Ke Huy Quan – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    Who Could Win: Brendan Gleeson – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

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    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Angela Bassett as Ramonda in Marvel Studios' 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.'
    Angela Bassett as Ramonda in Marvel Studios’ ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.’ Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 Marvel.

    This may be the most interesting category of the night. After being the frontrunner all season and winning a Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and HCA, Bassett lost the BAFTA to Kerry Condon for ‘Banshees.’ More importantly, she lost the coveted SAG award to Jamie Lee Curtis for ‘Everything Everywhere,’ who hadn’t won an award all season, completely throwing this category into chaos.

    Again, I wouldn’t read too much into Condon’s BAFTA win, but Curtis’ win should be troubling for Bassett, as the SAG Awards are usually a good predictor for the acting categories on Oscar night. However, both actresses have long and distinguished careers, are well respected amongst their peers, and frankly, deserve to win.

    If Bassett wins, she will be only the 23 Black actor to ever win a competitive acting Oscar. She would also make history as the first actor ever to win an Oscar for a Marvel movie, and only the third actor overall to ever win for appearing in a superhero movie, after actors Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix both won for playing the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight‘ and ‘Joker,’ respectively.

    If ‘Everything Everywhere’ has a really big night, Curtis could win in an upset, and she does seem to have more momentum coming off of her big SAG win.

    But I think safe money is still on Bassett, who will not only win for her strong performance and the longevity of her career, but also for the memory of the late ‘Black Panther‘ star Chadwick Boseman. His last opportunity to win an Oscar was taken away by the Academy a few years ago when they awarded Anthony Hopkins for ‘The Father‘ over Boseman’s final performance in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.‘ I think that too will factor in voter’s minds, wanting to right a wrong, and reward Bassett in his memory.

    Nominees:

    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’

    Who Will Win: Angela Bassett – ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

    Who Could Win: Jamie Lee Curtis – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

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    Don’t forget to watch the 95th Academy Award ceremony Sunday, March 12th on ABC.

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    The 94th Oscars®. Photo credit: Blaine Ohigashi / A.M.P.A.S.

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  • ‘Babylon’ Interview: Composer Justin Hurwitz

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    Currently available on digital and streaming, and arriving on Blu-ray and DVD beginning March 21st is the Oscar nominated movie ‘Babylon,’ which was directed by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle (‘La La Land’).

    What is ‘Babylon’ about?

    ‘Babylon’ follows the rise and fall of a group of characters during Hollywood’s transition from silent film to talkies in the 1920s.

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    Who is in the cast of ‘Babylon?’

    ‘Babylon’ stars Brad Pitt as movie star Jack Conrad, Margot Robbie as young actress Nellie LaRoy, Diego Calva as assistant turned producer Manny Torres, Jean Smart as journalist Elinor St. John, Jovan Adepo as musician Sidney Palmer, Li Jun Li as performer Lady Fay Zhu, and Tobey Maguire as gangster James McKay.

    The movie also features appearances from Lukas Haas, Max Minghella, Katherine Waterston, Flea, Jeff Garlin, Ethan Suplee, Samara Weaving, Spike Jonze, Chloe Fineman, and Olivia Wilde.

    How many 2023 Academy Award nominations did ‘Babylon’ receive?

    ‘Babylon’ has received three 2023 Academy Award nominations including Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score for composer Justin Hurwitz.

    Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with two-time Academy Award winning composer Justin Hurwitz about his Oscar nominated work on ‘Babylon,’ collaborating with his friend director Damien Chazelle, watching dailies and creating music for the elephant.

    'Babylon' Composer Justin Hurwitz.
    ‘Babylon’ Composer Justin Hurwitz.

    You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch the interview.

    Moviefone: To begin with, can you talk about your first reaction to Damien Chazelle’s screenplay for ‘Babylon’ and the themes that you wanted to explore with the score?

    Justin Hurwitz: So I got the draft in fall of 2019, and I was just so entertained by it. I mean, my jaw was kind of on the floor for a lot of these scenes, and there were great monologues and really beautifully written emotional scenes as well. So it was just such a great read. The first thing I thought was, “Oh, my God, there’s going to be a lot of music in this movie.” So Damien and I started talking about it.

    Of course it’s set in old Hollywood, but what got me excited about it was right off the bat, Damien said he didn’t want the music to sound like 1920s jazz. He didn’t want it to sound like old movie music. He wanted to do something very different than that. So that got me excited, because I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the script. I was thinking super entertaining movie, but I don’t want to have to write period music, and luckily he didn’t want to do that either.

    Director Damien Chazelle on the set of 'Babylon' from Paramount Pictures.
    Director Damien Chazelle on the set of ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.

    MF: You’ve composed all of director Damien Chazelle’s previous movies. Can you talk about collaborating with him, your working relationship, and how the process of scoring one of his films works?

    JH: Well, so much of it feels exactly like it did when we were 20-years old working on the ‘Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,’ which was our student film that kind of ballooned into a small feature. Just the process of sitting at the piano, coming up with ideas, making voice notes, sending idea, after idea to Damien getting, “No, no, no, maybe, no, no, no,” before you finally get, “Yes, I love it, that’s the one.” I rely on him so much to help steer me into my best ideas, and that has never changed. Even the process of sitting at the piano and making little MP3s hasn’t changed. But we’ve gotten more efficient over the years at certain things.

    I love the way we have sort of developed it in post-production where we get offices next to each other so he can cut the movie with (editor) Tom Cross for a year or so, and I can be there the entire time, literally sharing a door. We have a suite with a shared door, so I can be in their room all the time and Damien’s coming into my room. We’re just going back and forth working on picture and music. That’s a process we’ve kind of refined over the years, and I love it. Probably my favorite time is when we’re in post, and we’re all under one roof, and we can finish the movie together, and the score can really take shape and come together. So that’s something that we learned from the past couple of movies, and we’ve sort of fallen into those practices.

    Damien is full-time with Tom Cross, the editor, so they’re working together, and then Damien’s full-time with me, really. So that’s why we have these shared offices. So he can be very hands-on with the editing and very hands on with the score. What’s great about Damien is he has such a specific vision, and he’s such a specific filmmaker. He knows what he wants visually, sonically, everything, but he also lets creative people do what we do.

    So it’s this very tricky balance and I think he’s found the right balance. He does it very well, and you don’t want to work with a filmmaker that doesn’t know what they want. It’s good to work with filmmakers that are very specific, and very hands on, but they need to give the latitude to the collaborators to come up with their own ideas, and explore, and be creative people of our own. So Damien does both of those things very well.

    Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy and Diego Calva plays Manny Torres in 'Babylon' from Paramount Pictures.
    (L to R) Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy and Diego Calva plays Manny Torres in ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.

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    MF: Do you watch dailies and take inspiration from the actor’s performances for the score?

    JH: Absolutely. There were kind of two phases of scoring this movie. We had to create about an hour of music in pre-production before we could even shoot the movie. So I was doing tons and tons of demos. We were building that for about a year and a half. We were in the studio recording that. All of that was before the movie was shot. I was going off of the script, and I was going off of Damien’s storyboards. He makes literally thousands of pages of hand-drawn storyboards, and he cuts animatics and we build to that.

    Then the movie’s shot, and I’m on set. So I’m there experiencing the feeling of the shoot and the scene. The performance is actually live in front of the camera. Then we have post-production and I made about another hour of music in post-production. At that point, that’s more of the traditional film scoring approach, where I’m watching the dailies, the cuts, the scenes, and then the entire cuts.

    For that last hour of score, these are the scenes that you have to just watch, and you have to just respond to what’s in the scenes. So the Manny/Nellie cues, those relationship cues, you just have to watch and respond to the rhythms of the dialogue, and the feeling of it, and the way it’s cut, and what you’re seeing in the design of it all. There were plenty of cues of that sort. So there is really kind of two totally different approaches to this movie. The hour of music we did before it was shot, and then the hour of music we did after it was shot, and it’s about two hours of score in total.

    I mean, it’s so well planned because like I said, Damien has storyboarded this thing down to the fraction of a second. While I’ve been building the demos, he’s been building the storyboards. He’s like, “Give me two more seconds here, cut a half second from there.” It’s like we are refining this. Of course things change, and that becomes part of my job. I said, an hour of music is created beforehand. I’m still rebuilding that music through post-production as well, because as the cut comes together, we are lengthening, or shortening, or rebuilding, and moving things around. Things are always changing. But I don’t think there were any pieces of music that we recorded that just got cut from the movie or anything that was that drastically rethought when it comes to those pre-recorded tracks.

    MF: Finally, what was it like scoring the scenes with the elephant?

    JH: Well, I wasn’t on set for the actual defecation scene. But the elephant does burst into the party a little bit later. That was fun because the track “Voodoo Mama” is the track that’s going on, and that’s where Nellie, Margot Robbie’s character is dancing, crowd surfing, and completely owning this room. It’s a real fun jazz band meets rock and roll, meets dance music sort of track. That track, as soon as the elephant bursts through the door, takes a big turn into circus music. So we have kazoos and slide whistles, and the band starts playing almost like a circus band in with all these crash symbols and circus sort of music. So the track takes a big turn there, and that was a very fun genre to play in.

    We actually use circus sounds throughout the score. We bring a lot of those sounds back even during some of those really intimate Manny/Nellie cues. Those cues are kind of this mixture of three pianos that have this very fragile, broken, half out of tune quality. But in those cues, sometimes we pull in little circus sounds as well because their relationship is a bit of a circus, and it’s just sort of a motif in this movie. So we had a lot of fun with many different colors in this score, including circus colors.

    Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in 'Babylon' from Paramount Pictures.
    Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.

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    ‘Babylon’ is produced by Paramount, Marc Platt Production, Material Pictures, C2 Motion Picture Group, Wild Chickens and Organism Pictures. ‘Babylon’ debuts on digital and streaming January 31st, and will be available on Blu-ray and DVD beginning March 21st.

     

  • 2023 Oscar Nominations Announced

    Michelle Yeoh in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
    Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ Photo Credit: Courtesy of A24.

    If anyone was concerned that a film featuring multiverses, sensual use of hot dog fingers and a fight involving butt plugs might be too weird for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, those concerns were put to one side this morning as ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ stormed the Oscar nominations with an impressive 11 nods.

    We’ll wait to see how many of those nominations are converted into wins come Oscar night, but it’s a welcome show of support for the scrappy film that could which has gone on to become a major awards contender, winning plenty for directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert and stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, the latter of whom is surely the favorite as Best Supporting Actor. It’s also nice to see fellow co-star Stephanie Hsu up for Best Supporting Actress.

    Elsewhere, fellow front-runners and awards hoovers ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ got nine nominations each, and both seem likely to take something home. ‘Elvis’ is nipping at their heels with eight, and star Austin Butler remains a potential Best Actor winner.

    Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis.' Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros.
    Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis.’ Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros.

    On the big blockbuster front, it was a case of mixed fortunes, much like the box office of late. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ both made it into Best Picture and several technical categories, while ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ couldn’t repeat the trick of the first film, cropping up mostly in the likes of costume and make-up, though Angela Bassett has real (and deserved) momentum as Best Supporting Actress.

    Like ‘Wakanda Forever’, ‘The Batman’ is mostly found in the technical side of the nominations while both ‘Babylon’ and ‘Empire of Light’ lingered with just a couple of nods. We’re also sorry to see ‘RRR’ miss out on an International nod, though it is in contention for Best Original Song.

    Among the pleasant surprises? The groundswell of support for Andrea Riseborough in ‘To Leslie’ sees her end up on the Best Actress list and an Animated Film category where you’d be happy with pretty much any of the listed entries winning. Also, Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ certainly deserves to be sharing Best Picture space with the others in that category (and Adapted Screenplay), even if its acting ensemble perhaps deserved better.

    And disappointments? No sign of ‘Till’s Danielle Deadwyler or anything for ‘Decision to Leave’.

    Here is the full list of nominees:

    BEST PICTURE

    Jake Sully, Ronal, and Tonowari in 20th Century Studios' 'Avatar: The Way of Water.'
    (L to R): Jake Sully, Ronal, and Tonowari in 20th Century Studios’ ‘Avatar: The Way of Water.’ Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

    ‘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’

    DIRECTING

    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’

    ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

    Austin Butler – ‘Elvis’

    Colin Farrell – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    Brendan Fraser – ‘The Whale’

    Paul Mescal – ‘Aftersun’

    Bill Nighy – ‘Living’

    ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

    Cate Blanchett – ‘TÁR’

    Ana de Armas – ‘Blonde’

    Andrea Riseborough – ‘To Leslie’

    Michelle Williams – ‘The Fabelmans’

    Michelle Yeoh – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    Brendan Gleeson in the film 'The Banshees of Inisherin.'
    Brendan Gleeson in the film ‘The Banshees of Inisherin.’ Photo by Jonathan Hession. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.

    Brendan Gleeson – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    Bryan Tyree Henry – ‘Causeway’

    Judd Hirsch – ‘The Fabelmans’

    Barry Keoghan – ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    Ke Huy Quan – ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    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’

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’

    ‘Living’

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

    ‘Women Talking’

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    ‘The Fabelmans’

    ‘TÁR’

    ‘Triangle of Sadness’

    INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

    Felix Kammerer in 'All Quiet on the Western Front.'
    Felix Kammerer in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’ Credit: Reiner Bajo.

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Argentina, 1985’

    ‘Close’

    ‘EO’

    ‘The Quiet Girl’

    ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

    ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’

    ‘Marcel The Shell with Shoes On’

    ‘Puss In Boots: The Last Wish’

    ‘The Sea Beast’

    ‘Turning Red’

    DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

    ‘All That Breathes’

    ‘All The Beauty and the Bloodshed’

    ‘Fire of Love‘

    ‘A House Made of Splinters’

    ‘Navalny’

    COSTUME DESIGN

    ‘Babylon’

    ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

    ‘Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris’

    SOUND

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    Robert Pattinson as Batman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure ‘The Batman,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Jonathan Olley/™ & © DC Comics. Copyright: © 2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

    ‘The Batman’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

    ORIGINAL SCORE

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Babylon’

    ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    ‘The Fabelmans’

    ORIGINAL SONG

    ‘Woman Talking’: “Applause” – Diane Warren

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: “Hold My Hand” – Lady Gaga

    ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: “Lift Me Up” – Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson

    ‘RRR’: “Naatu Naatu” – M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once: “This Is A Life” – Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne

    MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘The Batman’

    ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘The Whale’

    PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in 'Babylon' from Paramount Pictures.
    Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy in ‘Babylon’ from Paramount Pictures.

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

    ‘Babylon’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘The Fabelmans’

    FILM EDITING

    ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’

    ‘TÁR’

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

    CINEMATOGRAPHY

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’

    ‘Elvis’

    ‘Empire of Light’

    ‘TÁR’

    VISUAL EFFECTS

    Tom Cruise in Top Gun 2
    Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

    ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

    ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

    ‘The Batman’

    ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

    DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

    ‘The Elephant Whisperers’

    ‘Haulout’

    ‘How Do You Measure a Year?’

    ‘The Martha Mitchell Effect’

    ‘Stranger at the Gate’

    LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

    ‘An Irish Goodbye’

    ‘Ivalu’

    ‘Le Pupille’

    ‘Night Ride’

    ‘The Red Suitcase’

    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’

    The 95th Oscars are set to air live, March 12th, on ABC.

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  • Jimmy Kimmel to Host the 95th Oscars

    Jimmy Kimmel to Host the 95th Oscars.
    Jimmy Kimmel to Host the 95th Oscars. Photo: ABC/Jeff Lipsky.

    Given that the first time Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars, we got the memorable ‘La La Land’/’Moonlight’ Best Picture mix-up, you might think he’d be wary of coming back.

    But that was in 2017, and Kimmel actually came back in 2018 for a less dramatic ceremony. Now, after five years away, he will once more lead the show for the 95th Oscars, which will be held next year.

    The announcement was made by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the executive producers and showrunners for the next show.

    Kimmel, who hosts popular late-night show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ joins a three-peat club that also includes Jerry Lewis, Steve Martin, Conrad Nagel and David Niven. He has some way to go, however, to compete with the likes of Billy Crystal, who has wrangled the show nine times and Bob Hope, who hosted 11 times in his career.

    “Being invited to host the Oscars for a third time is either a great honor or a trap,” Kimmel says in a statement. “Either way, I am grateful to the Academy for asking me so quickly after everyone good said no.”

    “We’re super thrilled to have Jimmy score his hat trick on this global stage,” Weiss and Kirshner said in a joint statement. “We know he will be funny and ready for anything.”

    “Jimmy is the perfect host to help us recognize the incredible artists and films of our 95th Oscars,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy president Janet Yang enthuse. “His love of movies, live TV expertise, and ability to connect with our global audiences will create an unforgettable experience for our millions of viewers worldwide.”

    Chris Rock at the Oscars
    Chris Rock presents the Oscar® for Documentary Feature during the live ABC telecast of the 94th Oscars® at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Photo Credit: Blaine Ohigashi / A.M.P.A.S.

    Naturally, neither the Academy nor the producers are speaking as to whether anyone was asked before Kimmel, though there had been speculation that producers reached out to Chris Rock in the wake of last year’s Will Smith slap incident.

    The Academy and those running the show have struggled with plummeting ratings and finding the right hosts in recent years. In 2020, the show relied on a variety of hosts after first choice Kevin Hart left the gig under fire for problematic attitudes on social media.

    In 2021, the pandemic forced the ceremony out of its usual Dolby Theatre home and once again employed a changing roster of presenters instead of the traditional host for a muted ceremony. This year represented a return to a more normal ceremony, albeit with three hosts – Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.

    Bringing Kimmel back points to all involved hoping that a familiar face will draw people back in, and that popular big movies with Oscar buzz such as ‘Top Gun Maverick’ and, potentially, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.

    The 95th Oscar nominations will be announced on January 24th, 2023, with the ceremony to be held on March 12th.

    Will Smith accepts the Oscar
    Will Smith accepts the Oscar® for Actor in a Leading Role during the live ABC telecast of the 94th Oscars® at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA, on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Photo Credit: Kyusung Gong / A.M.P.A.S.
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