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Academy Awards 2023

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Austin Butler, Elvis [PENDING]
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 [PENDING]
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fablemans
Michelle Yeoh, 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, Everythign 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
[PENDING]
Turning Red

CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
[PENDING]
Empire of Light
Tár 


COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
[PENDING]
Everything Everywhere All at Once

DIRECTING
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin 
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fablemans
Todd Field, Tár 
Ruben Ostlund, 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 SUBJECT
"The Elephant Whisperers" -Yeah, it's gorgeous.  This has the Richard Attenborough / Planet Earth vibe all over it.  It is moving and is more about the culture of a people than it necessarily has to do with saving animals.  But ultimately, I had a hard time connecting with this one.  Perhaps it's because I'm not a pet person or because it seemed so removed from my schema, but it just is a pretty movie to me.

"Haulout" -Here's my contradiction: It's an important movie, but it's also just a photograph that you are showing over and over.  Yes, the movement of the walruses is haunting.  But this is a 25 minute movie that is entirely based on seeing just a deluge of walruses crushing each other. 

"How Do You Measure a Year?"

"The Martha Mitchell Effect" -See, so far, this is the movie that's up my alley.  I learned something about history.  I now have a cultural talking point.  I went from knowing nothing about Martha Mitchell to now being able to work her into conversations about gaslighting and the insidiousness of the GOP.

"Stranger at the Gate" -Part of me loves this.  Part of me hates this.  Fundamentally, it has to be about the myth about terrorism while also talking about the reality of domestic terrorism.  That stuff is there.  But also, there's a really weird message that kind of places the onus on non-radicalized folks to de-radicalize terrorists.  It kind of comes across as unfair to those people who failed to stop a bomber.

FILM EDITING
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis [PENDING]
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár 
Top Gun: Maverick

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl


MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis [PENDING]
The Whale

ORIGINAL SCORE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin

Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fablemans


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
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BEST PICTURE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fablemans

Tár 
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking


PRODUCTION DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
[PENDING]
The Fablemans

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse" -Okay, visually very pretty.  But I might be the only one to say this, but it feels like I'm walking down the aisles of a Hobby Lobby or a Michael's.  Everything just reads like a platitude written in a fleurish script that someone saw on TikTok.  Let us absorb the message.  Every sentence said doesn't have to be the theme.

"The Flying Sailor" -There's going to be a theme of falling animation.  I'll tell you, if it wasn't for the tag "Based on a True Story, I might have written this one off.   But because of that tag, I loved it.  It's so simple and oddly beautiful, despite mainly focusing on an overweight nude gentleman gracefully falling two kilometers.

"Ice Merchants" -And it's the other movie that has a bunch of falling and the animation that comes with falling.  In terms of art design, top notch. But there's something oddly forgettable considering how gorgeous of a short film this is.

"My Year of Dicks" -Yeah.  Now I have this movie title on my blog.  This is both the most controversial and the most personal of the films.  Because it was originally a video diary then animated, it has an earnestness to it.  But also, it dares you to cringe or tout any kind of moral outrage towards it.

"An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It"

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"An Irish Goodbye"

"Ivalu"

"Le Pupille" -My goodness, this is a pretty movie.  Based on the time of me writing this, I've seen two of the entries this year.  But this feels like it is the least restricted by form that I've ever noticed in a short.  Somehow, it channels post-war Italian Neorealism that I haven't seen in a movie in a while.  It's gorgeous.  It's fun.  Despite being wrapped in pretention, it's unpretentious.  I love it.

"Night Ride" -"Night Ride" feels like an Academy Award nominated short.  Luckily, it has a clever premise, but it really needs that to tell the story.  It hits a lot of beats a bit too hard, lacking subtlety when actually exploring what needs to be said.  A longer version of this might solve some of the heavy-handedness.

"The Red Suitcase"

SOUND 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
[PENDING]
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


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 Fablemans

Tár 
Triangle of Sadness
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