Announced in a live press conference for the first time since 2020, the Oscar nominations 2023 announcement were the culmination of months of film-festival premieres, Q&As, precursor awards, and general hubbub. It’s also, for the awards obsessives who look forward to nominations like Christmas morning, a whole lot of fun.
As widely expected, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, and the German war drama All Quiet on the Western Front led the morning, with nominations in best picture and for a slew of below-the-line categories. Everything Everywhere All at Once led in total nominations, with 11. The surprises, however, were everywhere, perhaps most prominently in the best actress category. Following a fierce last-minute push for her small indie To Leslie, Andrea Riseborough earned her first Oscar nomination, shaking up a best actress category that also saw Ana de Armas get a nomination for the critically drubbed Blonde. Meanwhile, longstanding contenders like Viola Davis (The Woman King) and Danielle Deadwyler (Till) were left out. In best actor, things were a little steadier, with all five of the contenders from our Oscar predictions making the cut; in a very unusual scenario, all five best actor nominees are first-time Oscar contenders.
Many of these titles and names are front-runners we’ve been talking about since the season kicked off with the Venice and Telluride film festivals back in August. Banshees star Colin Farrell won the best-actor prize in Venice, even as Fraser and The Whale earned raves, and The Fabelmans won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a historically strong predictor of Oscar glory. But like any other Oscar season, there have been twists and turns. Even when the fall festival began, few expected springtime hit Everything Everywhere All at Once to hang in there and become what many think is a best-picture front-runner. And with mixed reviews for later-season efforts like Babylon and The Son, directors and stars who seemed bound for Oscar success have been taking a back seat while a fascinating mix of blockbusters (Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick) and smaller fare (Tár, Women Talking) got all the heat.
Below, see a full list of this year’s Oscar nominees.
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 DIRECTOR
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness
Todd Field, Tár
Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
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
Todd Field, Tár
Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Edward Berger, Ian Stokell & Lesley Paterson
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, by Rian Johnson
Living, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig, Justin Marks
Women Talking, by Sarah Polley
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All That Breathes
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once
John Williams, The Fabelmans
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna, & Tems, “Lift Me Up,” Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Lady Gaga & Michael “BloodPop,” “Hold My Hand,” Top Gun: Maverick
M. M. Keeravani & Chandrabose, “Naatu Naatu,” RRR
Diane Warren, “Applause,” Tell It Like a Woman
Ryan Lott, David Byrne, & Mitski, “This Is a Life,’ Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front
Roger Deakins, Empire of Light
James Friend, All Quiet on the Western Front
Mandy Walker, Elvis
Florian Hoffmeister, Tár
BEST EDITING
Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, The Banshees of Inisherin
Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa, Elvis
Monika Willi, Tár
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper, All Quiet on the Western Front
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Beverley Dunn, Elvis
Florencia Martin, Babylon
Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole, Avatar: The Way of Water
Rick Carter and Karen O’Hara, The Fabelmans
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Ruth Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Catherine Martin, Elvis
Mary Zophres, Babylon
Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
BEST SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
An Irish Goodbye
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
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