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The Oscars nominations 2023 list: from ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ to ‘Elvis’

It’s good news for Paul Mescal and Andrea Riseborough, but bad news for ‘Babylon’

Phil de Semlyen
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This year’s Oscar nominees have been unveiled and there was plenty of good news for The Banshees of InisherinEverything Everywhere All at Once and All Quiet on the Western FrontDaniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s leftfield sci-fi collected 11 nominations, while Martin McDonagh’s tragicomic fable of a crumbling friendship in 1920s Ireland picked up nine.

Netflix’s Great War epic All Quiet on the Western Front, the rolling stone of this year’s awards season, also proved a big hit with Academy voters across the board. Among its nine nominations were a Best Picture nod, multiple nominations in the technical categories and a Best International Feature nod, where it will surely be the hot favourite to become Germany’s first winner since 2006’s ​​The Lives of Others.

There were a few big surprises, too: Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning Triangle of Sadness picked up unexpected Best Picture and Best Director nominations, and there was a Best Actress nomination for Andrea Riseborough for the little-seen alcoholism drama To Leslie. The otherwise overlooked Women Talking will be vying against other Best Picture candidates like The Fabelmans and Everything Everywhere All at Once on March 13.

Perhaps surprisingly, there were snubs for two cinema-oriented films. Both Damien Chazelle’s extravagant Hollywood epic Babylon and Sam Mendes’s ode to the Odeon, Empire of Light, were shut out in all the major categories. The Whale earned Brendan Fraser a widely-tipped Best Actor nomination but didn’t land a Best Picture nod.

Full list of Oscar 2023 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
Woman Talking
Triangle of Sadness

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephenie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hong Chau, The Whale

Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway

Best Director
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

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 Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Tár

Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Quiet Girl

Best Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 
The Sea Beast 
Turning 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 Original Song
“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, Sofia Carson
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, Lady Gaga 
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Rihanna 
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR, Rahul Sipligunj, Kaala Bhairava & M.M. Keeravani
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, Son Lux featuring Mitski & David Byrne

Best Original Score
Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet on the Western Front
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Son Lux, Everything Everywhere all at Once
John Williams, The Fabelmans

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

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

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

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

Best Make-up and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

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

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

The 94th Academy Awards takes place on Sunday, March 13. Head to the official Academy site for all the info.

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