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The Oscar award is the most prestigious and well-known award in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements.
The first Oscars were presented in 1929, and since then, the ceremony has become one of the most highly anticipated events in the entertainment industry. The award categories range from Best Picture to Best Actor and Actress in leading and supporting roles, as well as technical categories like Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing.
Complete list of nominees for the 2023 Oscars (95th Academy Awards) are as follows:
Best Actor
AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin BRENDAN FRASER The Whale PAUL MESCAL Aftersun BILL NIGHY Living
Best Supporting Actor
BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin BRIAN TYREE HENRY Causeway JUDD HIRSCH The Fablemans BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin KE HUY QUAN Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actress
CATE BLANCHETT Tar ANA DE ARMAS Blonde ANDREA RISEBOROUGH To Leslie MICHELLE WILLIAMS The Fablemans MICHELLE YEOH 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 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
Best 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
Best 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
Best Director
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
Best Documentary Feature Film
ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
Best Documentary Short Film
THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga HAULOUT Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR? Jay Rosenblatt THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison STRANGER AT THE GATE Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Best 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
Best International Feature Film
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Germany ARGENTINA, 1985 Argentina CLOSE Belgium EO Poland THE QUIET GIRL Ireland
Best 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 Annemarie Bradley
Best 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
Best 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
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
Best 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
Best Animated Short Film
THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud THE FLYING SAILOR Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby ICE MERCHANTS João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano MY YEAR OF DICKS Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT Lachlan Pendragon
Best Live Action Short Film
AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley and Ross White IVALU Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan LE PUPILLE Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón NIGHT RIDE Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen THE RED SUITCASE Cyrus Neshvad
Best 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
Best 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
Best Adapted 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
Best 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
FAQs
Q. When did the first Oscars take place?
A. The first Oscars took place on May 16, 1929.
Q. Who votes for the Oscars?
A. The Oscars are voted on by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is made up of over 9,000 industry professionals.
Q. How are the nominees chosen?
A. The nominees are chosen by the members of the Academy through a nomination ballot process.
