Tonight the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the unmatched star studded evening of events we’ve all held our breath for. A big night for Ruth Carter who picked up her second Oscar win for Costume Design on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But for many, the night was full of major disappointments amongst the celebration of accomplishments. While we must take time to honor those who received praise for outstanding works in films that moved audiences across the globe; we also have to make note of the groundbreaking performances that went without recognition via the prestigious golden statue.
Snubs and Performances
The 2023 Oscars flew outside of the traditional structure with many of the nights winners not receiving honors at preceding shows like the Golden Globes and Sag Awards. Probably the biggest upset of the night was Angela Bassett with her second Oscar nomination with the Best Supporting Actress nod. Bassett was previously nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It.
Bassett was later seen holding the hand of Oscar hopeful Austin Butler for his portrayal of Elvis Presley in the biopic Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann. Butler, similar to Bassett in 1994, lost despite a super human transformation into Elvis from dialect to body movement. Both Bassett and Butler won the 2023 Golden Globe for the respective Oscar nominations.
Another notable, but expected, loss was Rihanna for her song “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which the stunning and pregnant global super star performed after a beautiful introduction from Danai Gurira.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The biggest winner for the evening was the insanely popular film Everything Everywhere All At Once which took home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Directing, Film Editing and Original Screenplay.
The Asian community is celebrating the films big wins along with other notable moments including Best Song going to “Naatu Naatu” from Indian film RRR, Michelle Yeoh being the first Asian American winner in the Best Actress category and a moving speech from Best Supporting Actor winner Ke Huy Quan.
WINNERS LIST
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
BRENDAN FRASER – The Whale – WINNER
AUSTIN BUTLER – Elvis
COLIN FARRELL – The Banshees of Inisherin
PAUL MESCAL – Aftersun
BILL NIGHY – Living
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
KE HUY QUAN – Everything Everywhere All At Once – WINNER
BRENDAN GLEESON – The Banshees of Inisherin
BRIAN TYREE HENRY – Causeway
JUDD HIRSCH – The Fabelmans
BARRY KEOGHAN – The Banshees of Inisherin
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
MICHELLE YEOH – Everything Everywhere All At Once – WINNER
CATE BLANCHETT – Tár
ANA DE ARMAS – Blonde
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH – To Leslie
MICHELLE WILLIAMS – The Fabelmans
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
JAMIE LEE CURTIS – Everything Everywhere All At Once – WINNER
ANGELA BASSETT – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
HONG CHAU – Everything Everywhere All At once
KERRY CONDON – The Banshees of Inisherin
STEPHANIE HSU – Everything Everywhere All At Once
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley – WINNER
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
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – James Friend – WINNER
BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS – Darius Khondji
ELVIS – Mandy Walker
EMPIRE OF LIGHT – Roger Deakins
TÁR – Florian Hoffmeister
COSTUME DESIGN
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Ruth Carter – WINNER ********************
BABYLON – Mary Zophres
ELVIS – Catherine Martin
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Shirley Kurata
MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS – Jenny Beavan
DIRECTING
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – WINNER
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Martin McDonagh
THE FABELMANS – Steven Spielberg
TÁR – Todd Field
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS – Ruben Östlund
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
NAVALNY – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris – WINNER
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
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga – WINNER
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
FILM EDITING
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Paul Rogers – WINNER
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
ELVIS – Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
TÁR – Monika Willi
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Eddie Hamilton
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Germany – WINNER
ARGENTINA, 1985 – Argentina
CLOSE – Belgium
EO – Poland
THE QUIET GIRL – Ireland
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
THE WHALE – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley – WINNER
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
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Volker Bertelmann – WINNER
BABYLON – Justin Hurwitz
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Carter Burwell
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Son Lux
THE FABELMANS – John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
NAATU NAATU – from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose – WINNER
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
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
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers – WINNER
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
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
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper – WINNER
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
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud – WINNER
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
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
AN IRISH GOODBYE – Tom Berkeley and Ross White – WINNER
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
SOUND
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor – WINNER
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
VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett – WINNER
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
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
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
WOMEN TALKING – Screenplay by Sarah Polley – WINNER
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
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – WINNER
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Written by Martin McDonagh
THE FABELMANS – Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
TÁR – Written by Todd Field
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS – Written by Ruben Östlund
