2023 Oscar Nominations (Who I Think Should Win Each Category)

In January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their 2023 Oscar nominations. This will be the 95th Academy Awards and there are plenty of nominations to be excited about (Brenden Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan) and some films were definitely snubbed (RRR). I’ll release my Top 10 2022 movie list the night of the Oscars (March 12), but below I’ve listed which nominee (bolded/underlined) I think should win each category, not who I think will win. For who I think will win, check out this graphic. I’ll skip some categories as I have no idea who should win best Short Film, Live Action or Animated.

There are some really great nominees so choosing my favorites for some categories was very difficult (Actor in a Supporting Role and Original Song). I will confess that I have not yet seen every movie that received a nomination, but I have seen 82 movies so far in 2022 and plan on watching most of them before March 12th.

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)

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)

Actor in a Leading Role:

AUSTIN BUTLER in Elvis

COLIN FARRELL in The Banshees of Inisherin

BRENDAN FRASER in The Whale

PAUL MESCAL in Aftersun

BILL NIGHY in Living

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

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

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

STEPHANIE HSU in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Animated Feature Film:

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley)

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)

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)

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)

Directing:

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Martin McDonagh)

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)

THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)

TÁR (Todd Field)

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund)

Film 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)

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 (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)

Music (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)

Music (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)

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)

Production Design:

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper)

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)

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)

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)

Writing (Adaptive Screenplay):

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Screenplay – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & 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)

Writing (Original Screenplay):

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Written by Martin McDonagh)

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

THE FABELMANS (Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner)

TÁR (Written by Todd Field)

TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Written by Ruben Östlund)