Oscar Nominations

[Reza]

I know, Yuri, but I'm curious to know what there is about her performance that impresses people while the rest of the film turns them off.

She is outstanding. The film has many very unsettling moments which actually don't seem even remotely fictional.

[Big Magilla]

I know, Yuri, but I'm curious to know what there is about her performance that impresses people while the rest of the film turns them off.

[Uri]

Although I'm not an active participant of this forum anymore, I still greatly care for you people and your wellbeing, so...

I guess I will have to see Blonde

Don't.

[mlrg]

With all the fury over the Best Actress slate already unleashed - and with a month to go - it feels like AMPAS will give Michelle Yeoh the trophy just out of defensiveness.

You can bet your house on it!

[HarryGoldfarb]

I'm glad that the Oscar nominations closed before the BAFTA nominations were announced just so the prognosticators can't claim that BAFTA influenced the voting on All Quiet on the Western Front. It is a thing, coming in a tie for second place with Banshees at 9 nominations each, just two below EEAAO at 11. It could even become the first remake of an Oscar winning film to itself win Best Picture.

Despite the impressive number of nominations it garnered (one nomination shy from tying the record for a foreign film) I think the end result leaves the film with almost no chance of winning best picture (no director, no editing, no nominated performances). Could it become the first Best Picture and International Picture nominee to lose both?

[Sonic Youth]

With all the fury over the Best Actress slate already unleashed - and with a month to go - it feels like AMPAS will give Michelle Yeoh the trophy just out of defensiveness.

[Big Magilla]

Overall, a pretty decent list of nominees.

For the first time since the Best Picture nominations extended beyond five, I got all the nominees right in my predictions. I also got all five Best Actor and Best Director nominees. I correctly predicted that Judd Hirsch would be the only one of ten male acting nominees to repeat.

I'm glad that the Oscar nominations closed before the BAFTA nominations were announced just so the prognosticators can't claim that BAFTA influenced the voting on All Quiet on the Western Front. It is a thing, coming in a tie for second place with Banshees at 9 nominations each, just two below EEAAO at 11. It could even become the first remake of an Oscar winning film to itself win Best Picture.

I'm not surprised that Viola Davis failed to be nominated for Best Actress, but I am shocked and saddened to see that Danielle Deadwyler missed the cut. I guess I will have to see Blonde and To Leslie now, but I am not looking forward to either one. I will also have to see Causeway, but I had intended to see that one at some point anyway.

[anonymous1980]

- I'm disappointed Dolly de Leon didn't get in but at least Stephanie Hsu did!

- The snub I *am* most mad about is Decision to Leave not getting in International Feature, a category that's way too Euro-centric especially in a year when there's a lot of Asian talent being honored.

- Wow. That Andrea Riseborough thing worked.

[Aceisgreat]

When Everything Everywhere All at Once bounced into Costume Design, I thought it might be heading into All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land terrority.

Crushed about Danielle Deadwyler. Stunned about Viola Davis.

The Fabelmans gets seven nods, the same amount Spielberg's West Side Story received last year.

Adapted Screenplay for Top Gun: Maverick? Okay...

[Franz Ferdinand]

It was worth waking up to hear Riz Ahmed read "My Year of Dicks", pause to let the wave of laughter pass over the room, then read "An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It".

Relieved that Taylor Swift didn't make it into Original Song, while also sad that James Murphy missed out for White Noise's essential dance scene.

9 nominations for All Quiet is quite an overperformance.

Although it seems unlikely, Kazuo Ishiguro could join George Bernard Shaw and Bob Dylan as having both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar on their mantlepiece.

[flipp525]

I didn’t have time to post my predictions so you’ll just have to take my word for it: I watched To Leslie this weekend and knew that, coupled with the unusual, one week, celebrity-backed campaign, that Andrea Risebirough would get in. And she deserves it. It’s an amazing performance that reminds me of the old 1970s character-driven nominations of yore.

I also knew this morning that Dolly de Leon could lose her spot to Stephanie Hsu (me, the person who’s been pushing her so hard). EEAAO really over-performed this morning and Hsu is the emotional center of that film.

Somehow knew in the show that Judd Hirsch would be mentioned. The Brian Tyree Henry nomination is a shocker though.

[Big Magilla]

The Nominations

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 Animated Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

Best Directing
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg
Tár – Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Ostlund

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 Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness

Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking

Best 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

Best Original Score
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

Best Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

Best Costume Design
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

Best International Feature
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl

Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

Best Documentary Short Subject
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate

Best 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

Best Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase