Oscars 2023: See the Complete List of Winners

This year’s Oscars were full of historic moments! Every year, the Academy Awards recognize and honor the film industry’s finest performances. The awards ceremony took place on March 12, 2023, Sunday.

For those of you who are unaware, let us share with you, comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel served as the host at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards. Read on to learn which celebs took the Oscar home.

Here’s all you need to know about the Oscars 2023

The 2023 Oscars were held on March 12, 2023, Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards ceremony which aired on ABC honored the movies released in the year 2022.

Jimmy Kimmel played the role of the host of the awards show for the third time. In the past, he has emceed the awards in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The nominations for the Oscars 2023 were announced by Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams on January 24, 2023.

This year, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led the list of nominees at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards with a total of 11 nominations in different categories.

Which movie won the Oscar for best picture at the 2023 Academy Awards?

And the Oscar for best picture goes to Everything Everywhere All at Once. The movie follows a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.

In addition to this, the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once also picked up three awards in acting categories. Michelle Yeoh walked away with the Academy Award for best actress, Ke Huy Quan secured the Oscar for best supporting actor and Jamie Lee Curtis nabbed the award for best supporting actress.

Not only this, but the film also won the Oscar for best original screenplay, and the best director trophy for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert popularly known as ‘The Daniels’, and the award for best film editing for Paul Rogers.

Michelle Yeoh took home best actress honors

On Sunday night, Michelle Yeoh was named best actress for her brilliant performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. She became the second woman of color to win the award for best actress.

In her award-winning speech, Yeoh said, “Ladies, don’t ever let anyone tell you that you are past your prime. For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility.”

Brendan Fraser was named best actor at the 95th annual Academy Awards

Canadian star Brendan Fraser won the best actor Oscar for his amazing performance as an obese man trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter in the 2022 movie named The Whale.

After winning the award, Fraser shed some light on his career setbacks and said, “I started in this business 30 years ago, and this – they certainly didn’t come easily to me, but there was a facility that I didn’t appreciate at the time until it stopped.” In his speech, he even thanked his director Darren Aronofsky for “throwing me a creative lifeline and hauling me aboard.”

Who were the other winners at the 2023 Oscars?

Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Ke Huy Quan nabbed the award for best supporting actor. In the last couple of years, he had given up acting due to the lack of opportunities. After accepting the award, he tried to hold back his tears while talking about his personal history.

Quan said, “My journey started on a boat. “I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood’s biggest stage. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it’s happening to me. This is the American dream.”

All Quiet on the Western Front won the award for best international feature film, meanwhile, Navalny picked up the Oscar for best documentary film. Other major winners included RRR’s Naatu Naatu which was named best original song and The Elephant Whisperers which earned the best documentary short film.

Which artists performed at the 2023 Oscars?

The star-studded awards show consisted of some great performances by stars including pregnant popstar Rihanna who sang Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Lady Gaga who took the stage to perform Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, Indian singer duo Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava hit the stage to perform Naatu Naatu from RRR.

Sofia Carson sang Diane Warren’s Applause from Tell It Like a Woman. David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu, and Son Lux performed This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Lenny Kravitz arrived on the stage during the “In Memoriam” segment.

Take a look at the complete list of 2023 Oscar winners

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, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis — Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang, Producers (WINNER)
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, Producers
Triangle of Sadness — Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking — Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Frances McDormand, Producers

Best Directing

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale (WINNER)
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Costume Design

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

Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front — Viktor Prásil, 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 (WINNER)

Best Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front — Volker Bertelmann (WINNER)
Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin — Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Son Lux
The Fabelmans — John Williams

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front — Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Written by Rian Johnson
Living — Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick — Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking — Screenplay by Sarah Polley (WINNER

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin — Written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (WINNER)
The Fabelmans — Written by Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
Tár — Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness — Written by Ruben Östlund

Best Live-Action Short Film

“An Irish Goodbye” — Tom Berkeley and Ross White (WINNER)
“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 Animated Short Film

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

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley (WINNER)
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 Original Song

“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose (WINNER)
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany (WINNER)
Argentina, 1985 — Argentina
Close — Belgium
EO — Poland
The Quiet Girl — Ireland

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 (WINNER)

Best Production Design

All Quiet on the Western Front — Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper (WINNER)
Avatar: The Way of Water — Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon — Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis — Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans — Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front — James Friend (WINNER)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Darius Khondji
Elvis — Mandy Walker
Empire of Light — Roger Deakins
Tár — Florian Hoffmeister

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 (WINNER)
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 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 (WINNER)

Best Documentary Short Film

“The Elephant Whisperers” — Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga (WINNER)
“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 Film Editing

The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once — Paul Rogers (WINNER)
Tár — Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton