The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards have been announced. Sci-fi adventure film Everything Everywhere All at Once is leading the pack with 11 nods, followed by All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin, with nine nominations each. All three films have made it to the Best Picture category.
The rest of the films competing in the race for best picture include the two highest-grossing movies of the year, Top Gun: Maverick, and Avatar: The Way of Water, along with Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tár, Triangle of Sadness, and Women Talking.
In acting categories, Brendan Fraser has made a powerful comeback and is nominated for Best Actor for his performance in The Whale. Austin Butler, Colin Farrell, Paul Mescal, and Bill Nighy are the other nominees in the category. Ana de Armas has received the Best Actress nomination along with Cate Blanchett, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Williams and Michelle Yeoh.
95th Academy Awards Nominations
The full list of nominations is given below:
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 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 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 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 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 Aldo Signoretti
The Whale, Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
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 Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
Best Documentary Short
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
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 International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)Â
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)Â
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)Â
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)Â
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 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, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson; Lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler
Naatu Naatu from RRR, Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyrics by Chandrabose Â
This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once, Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski; Lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
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 Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front, Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water, Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon, Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis, Catherine Martin, and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans, Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Best Animated Short
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 Live-Action Short
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
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
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 Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The event will be telecasted live on ABC. This year’s ceremony will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, marking his third time as the anchor after 2017 and 2018.
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