Oscars 2023: all the nominations of the Academy Awards

After months of theories, hopes and assumptions, the race for Oscars 2023 finally comes alive with the announcement of the nominations for the 23 categories who on March 12 will compete for the most coveted statuette in Hollywood. Live from the Academy Museum’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Allison Williams and Riz Ahmed announce, in fact, the titles, performers and technical workers who have distinguished themselves over the last year and who are ready to inaugurate a journey that will culminate, in fact, with the delivery ceremony scheduled, as always, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, which has returned to being the Oscars base of operations since 2022, after the break caused by the pandemic and the restrictions that prevented the event from being enjoyed as it has always been. Many of these titles – from The spirits of the island to elvis, from The Whale to Tar – have already been presented at the most prestigious international festivals such as Cannes and the Venice Film Festival, and now they are ready to compete on equal terms, just as the Oscars have always taught us. There are no less than 10 titles competing for the most coveted Oscar, the one for Best Film, which satisfy almost all tastes: together with wonderful films such as Tarwhich will most likely give Cate Blanchett the third Oscar of her career after The Aviator And Blue Jasminewe find, in fact, an author’s blockbuster like Everything Everywhere All At Oncethe Daniels’ schizophrenic masterpiece that has been talked about too little in Italy, and a global phenomenon such as Avatar: The Water Way, arrived just a few days ago at the record figure of 2 billion in global collections.

Who has a good chance of winning could be, in our opinion, The spirits of the islandthe moving and funny film written and directed by Martin McDonagh, already behind the beautiful Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouriwhich could double with the award for best screenplay – an award already won in Venice – and with the first Oscar in the career of Colin Farrell – also awarded on the Lido with the Coppa Volpi -. To stand up to him could be, accounts in hand, only The Fabelmens by Steven Spielberg, his most intimate film – had Blanchett not been in the running, surely the Oscar would have gone to Michelle Williams – and Everything Everywhere All At Once, which will certainly be talked about. Together with Netflix, which takes home an impressive number of nominations thanks to Nothing new on the western front, Edward Berger’s film already selected to represent Italy in the Best International Film category, Italy makes itself heard in the Best Short Film category thanks to The Pupils, the mini-film – it lasts, in fact, 40 minutes – directed by Alice Rohrwacher and available on Disney+, a tender and irresistible story inspired by a letter from Elsa Morante with a cast ranging from Valeria Bruni Tedeschi to Alba Rohrwacher: our support, in short, it’s all for them. All the Beauty and the Bloodshedthe film that won the Golden Lion, competes instead for Best Documentary: Needless to say, if it wins, the Lido could earn a handful more points against its rivals in Cannes.

Here is the complete list of Oscars 2023 nominations:

BEST FILM
Nothing new on the western front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The spirits of the island
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin McDonagh (The spirits of the island)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Todd Field (Tar)
Ruben Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness)

BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The spirits of the island)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Bill Nighy (Living)

BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (Tar)
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 spirits of the island)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeways)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)
Barry Keoghan (The spirits of the island)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Hong Chau (The Whale)
Kerry Condon (The spirits of the island)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Red

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 COSTUMES
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs Harris goes to Paris

BEST SHORT FILM
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
The Pupils
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

BEST TRICK
Nothing new on the western front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

BEST SOUNDTRACK
Nothing new on the western front
Babylon
The spirits of the island
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

BEST SOUND
Nothing new on the western front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST NON-ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Nothing new on the western front
Glass Onion: Knives Out
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The spirits of the island
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tar
Triangle of Sadness
An Irish Goodbye

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bard
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tar

BEST DOCUMENTARY
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The Elephant Whisperers
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate

BEST EDITING
The spirits of the island
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Nothing new on the western front
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl

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 SCENOGRAPHY
Nothing new on the western front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Nothing new on the western front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

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