Joey Magidson
Well, now we know. The Academy Award nominations are here, with all of the accompanying snubs, surprises, and maybe even relief. There will be plenty of analysis this week, but leading the way were All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and The Fabelmans. All of the nominees are below…
Here are the Oscar 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
Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in “Elvis”
(Warner Bros.)
Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” (A24)
Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” (A24)
Bill Nighy in “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett
Ana de Armas
Andrea Riseborough
Michelle Williams
Michelle Yeoh
Directing
Martin McDonagh
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Steven Spielberg
Todd Field
Ruben Östlund
Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson
Brian Tyree Henry
Judd Hirsch
Barry Keoghan
Ke Huy Quan
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett
Hong Chau
Kerry Condon
Jamie Lee Curtis
Stephanie Hsu
Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss In Boots
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes
All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet One
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
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
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
Hold My Hand
Lift Me Up
Naatu Naatu
This Is A Life
Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Costume Design
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet
The Batman
Black Panther
Elvis
The Whale
Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year
Stranger at the Gate
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
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
Top Gun: Maverick
I’m disappointed that The Menu – which thoroughly smokes both Triangle of Sadness and Glass Onion in the class-conscious dark comedy competition in my eyes – got completely shut out, neither of the excellent supporting ladies of TÁR making it is a bummer, and I wish RRR had a stronger showing (though its one nomination is in the one must-have category… live performance of “Naatu Naatu” at the Dolby, here we come!).
But otherwise… I feel mostly okay about these choices. I mean, at a minimum, this lineup could have been a lot worse, and the number of first-time acting nominees is genuinely inspiring. With the sole exceptions of Jamie Lee Curtis and Angela Bassett, every nominee for Best Supporting Actress / Actor, in particular, are exactly the kinds of performers those Oscars were created to honor, and not a single attempted category fraud was successful this time around (give or take the ongoing debate around Michelle Williams).
As always, the Oscars have reliably provided me with a few competitors I’ll be rooting for (Everything Everywhere All At Once, TÁR, and to a lesser extent The Fabelmans) and a few bête noires I’ll be rooting against on the night of (All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin).
And now, I have to make time for To Leslie… boy, did that come out of nowhere…
Their embracing of first timers this year was definitely heartening to see.