The 2023 Oscar nominations have been announced and – drumroll – there are a few surprises on the list.
The announcement presentation, which was hosted by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams, was live streamed from Beverly Hills today at 1.30 pm GMT, which is an eye-watering 5.30am in California.
Runaway hit Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the nominations with 11, including two for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu, Best Actress for Michelle Yeo, Best Picture, and Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Ke Hey Quan takes a nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, making this almost certainly the year with the most Oscar nominations for South East Asian actors ever.
All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin tie with nine nominations each, with both up for Best Picture and All Quiet featuring on the list for Best International Feature Film. British-Irish multi-hyphenate Martin McDonagh gets the Best Director nod for Banshees, while the film’s actors dominated with a Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Kerry Condon, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for both Barry Keoghan and Brendan Gleeson, and Best Actor for Colin Farrell.
It’s a good day for talent across the water, with Paul Mescal also getting nominated for Best Actor for his role in Aftersun, The Quiet Girl appearing in the Best International Feature category, and An Irish Goodbye, set in rural Northern Ireland, up for Best Live Action Short Film.
British acting talent was recognised elsewhere too, with Bill Nighy getting the nod for Best Actor for Living and Andrea Riseborough receiving a nomination for Best Actress for her role in To Leslie.
With her nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Angela Bassett receives the first acting nomination for a Marvel film – the superhero blockbuster boasts four nominations, also including Best Costume Design. Darren Aronofsky’s lauded film The Whale didn’t trouble the voters as much as expected, but did come away with a nomination for Best Actor for its star Brendan Fraser and a Best Actress in a Supporting Role nod for Hong Chau.
It’s not a bumper year for women, there are none named in the Best Director category, and Canadian director Sarah Polley is the only one who features among those helming the nominees for Best Picture, with Women Talking, which she also wrote with Mirian Toews. The film is also up for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans comes away with seven nominations, including Best Picture and a Best Actress nod for Michelle Williams, but was just pipped by Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, whose eight nominations also include one for Best Picture.
Blockbusters Top Gun Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water also feature in the Best Picture category.
The 95th Academy Awards, still undoubtedly Hollywood’s most important night of the year, is now less than two months away.
So without further ado, with all 23 categories announced, here are the 2023 nominations.
Actor in a leading role
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living
Actor in a supporting role
Brendan Gleeson ,The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fablemans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
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
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
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Costume design
Babylon
Black Panther
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Directing
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
Documentary (feature)
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
Documentary (short)
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Marsha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate
Film editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
International feature film
All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany
Argentina, 1985, Argentina
Close, Belgium
EO, Poland
The Quiet Girl, Ireland
Makeup and hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Music (original score)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Music (original song)
Applause from Tell It Like a Woman
Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick
Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Naatu Naatu from RRR
This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once
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
Production design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Short film (animated)
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
Short film (live action)
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Visual effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Writing (adapted screenplay)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Writing (original screenplay)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
