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  • Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Sound, Original Song, Original Score

    Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Sound, Original Song, Original Score

    Four films, Top Gun: Maverick, All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of the Water, and Elvis, all made the slates of the major precursors.

    To me the last slot is between Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Batman. The Batman is probably the most widely-acclaimed superhero movie of the year and this and Visual Effects are where those films get their flowers. But Everything Everywhere All at Once is the Best Picture winner and was the nominations leader at MPSE (although it did get snubbed at CAS). I think it will get in here based on the overwhelming support for the film and since it is an action-adventure film, which often do well in this category.

    BEST SOUND

    Top Gun: Maverick – MPSE, CAS. BAFTA

    Avatar: The Way of the Water – MPSE, CAS, BAFTA

    All Quiet on the Western Front – MPSE, CAS, BAFTA

    Elvis – MPSE, CAS, BAFTA

    Everything Everywhere All at Once – MPSE

    Could Jump In: The Batman – MPSE, CAS

     

    Even though RRR didn’t makes SCL’s nominations, I’m gonna write that off as it being an international film and still keep it as my winner prediction. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Top Gun: Maverick, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever hit all the major precursors and, to my ears, fit the kind of norms this category usually goes for.

    Taylor Swift’s song ‘Carolina’ for Where the Crawdad Sings, but the fact that it’s a song by TAYLOR SWIFT and has less than 50 million plays on Spotify is not a good sign and stands in stark contrast with the songs from Lady Gaga and Rihanna (which both have over 150 million plays each). So even though it hit all the major precursors (and that I think it’s one of the top five songs on the shortlist), I think will be snubbed for this year’s song from Diane Warren who has been nominated in all of the last FIVE years.

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG

    RRR – GG, CCA

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – GG, CCA, SCL

    Top Gun: Maverick – GG, CCA, SCL

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – GG, CCA, SCL

    Tell It Like a Woman – SCL

    Could Jump In: Where the Crawdads Sing – GG, CCA, SCL, White Noise – CCA, Till, Everything Everywhere All at Once

     

    Justin Hurwitz’s extravagant and bombastic music for Babylon and Alexandre Desplat’s at-one-moment-wondrous-and-devastating-in-the-next backing score for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio will be battling this category out until the end. John Williams’ score for The Fabelmans’ is being billed as the last of his career and as this an Academy that penciled him in for every one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy films, he is locked in my eyes. Hildur Guonadottir’s alternatingly ominous and comforting score for Women Talking seems quite likely to make it in as well.

    The last slot is between The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and All Quiet on the Western Front. I am going to stay safe and go with ‘Banshees’ since it has the most precursor nods of the three, but I have a feeling that even though hardly any one is predicting it, Everything Everywhere All at Once has a dark horse shot of attaining a nod in this category.

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

    Babylon – GG, CCA, BAFTA

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – GG, CCA, SCL, BAFTA

    The Fabelmans – GG, CCA

    Women Talking – GG, CCA

    The Banshees of Inisherin – GG, SCL, BAFTA

    Could Jump In: Everything Everywhere All at Once – SCL, BAFTA, All Quiet on the Western Front – BAFTA

  • Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Film Editing, Cinematography, Costume Design

    Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Film Editing, Cinematography, Costume Design

    The films that usually get in here usually fall into four categories: films centered around music, war films, sports films, sci-fi films, and the eventual Best Picture winner. There are obviously exceptions to this, but these are the kinds of films that are usually seen here. This year, five top-8 contenders fit this mold: Top Gun: Maverick, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Elvis, All Quiet on the Western Front, and All Quiet on the Western Front. Tar and Babylon also fit this mold as they are largely centered around music but I don’t see either of them getting in over ‘All Quiet’ or ‘Avatar’

    This year, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) are releasing their nominations on February 1st, a week after the Oscar nominations so we won’t have that guild to help us in predicting this category.

    BEST FILM EDITING

    Top Gun: Maverick – CCA, BAFTA

    Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA, BAFTA

    Elvis – CCA, BAFTA

    All Quiet on the Western Front – BAFTA

    Avatar: The Way of Water – CCA

    Could Jump In: The Banshees of Inisherin – BAFTA, Tar – CCA, The Fabelmans, Babylon – CCA

     

    Top Gun: Maverick is the only sure thing in this category as I could see every other one of the films I picked getting snubbed. All Quiet on the Western Front has fantastic cinematography and now that it is a top 7 Picture contender, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be recognized. Roger Deakins has been the sole nominee for his film twice in the past (Prisoners, The Man Who Wasn’t There) and this will likely be the third as Empire of Light hit all major precursors.

    If Elvis is nominated, which it is likely to, Mandy Walker will become only the third female cinematographer to receive a nomination in this category, joining Rachel Morrison for Mudbound and Ari Wegner for last year’s The Power of the Dog.

    For me, the last slot was a toss-up between Babylon, The Batman, The Fabelmans, and Avatar 2. I ended up going with Babylon since I felt the film had to be a top 12 Best Picture contender (which excludes The Batman) and a BAFTA longlist selection (which excludes The Fabelmans and Avatar 2).

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Top Gun: Maverick – ASC, CCA, BAFTA

    All Quiet on the Western Front – BAFTA

    Empire of Light – ASC, CCA, BAFTA

    Elvis – ASC, BAFTA

    Babylon – CCA

    Could Jump In:  The Batman – ASC, BAFTA, The Fabelmans – CCA, Avatar 2: The Way of the Water – CCA, Bardo – ASC

     

    Three films, Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Elvis are locks here as they’ve either hit all the major precursors (Babylon and Elvis) or have won a major precursor and only missed one, (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, BAFTA wasn’t as big on the first film as the Oscars were so this is not a concern). As this branch seems to like only period or sci-fi/fantasy films and those three previously-mentioned films fit that criteria, I think they’re safe.

    The Woman King is a top-15 Best Picture contender set in the 18th and 19th centuries with intricately-designed costumes. I would be surprised if it misses, especially as the film has been nominated at multiple of the guilds and as Viola Davis is a very-likely Best Actress nominee.

    While this category loves period films, that period includes the 70s and before, anything after is not considered ‘period’ in what is the average age demographic of the Academy and so even if films are set around clothing or clothing tycoons (such as in the case of last year’s House of Gucci), they have a much lesser chance of being nominated here. That is a lucky thing for ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ as it is both set around clothing and set in the 50s and seems poised for a nomination. Amsterdam, a BAFTA nominee, also has a chance of replacing ‘Mrs. Harris’ but while it is a film that would’ve been nominated a few years ago, the horrendousness of David O. Russell should keep the film from a nomination.

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    Babylon – CCA, CDG, BAFTA

    Elvis – CCA, CDG, BAFTA

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – CCA, CDG

    The Woman King – CCA, CDG

    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – CDG, BAFTA

    Could Jump In: Amsterdam – BAFTA, Corsage, Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA, CDG, The Fabelmans

  • Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Animated Feature, International Feature, Documentary Feature

    Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Animated Feature, International Feature, Documentary Feature

    This year, four films seem locked for a mention come Tuesday morning: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Turning Red, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish being those four. They’ve hit all the major precursors and have the wide support needed to be confidently nominated in this category.

    In my mind, the last slot is between My Father’s Dragon, Inu-Oh, Wendell & Wild and The Sea Beast. As Inu-Oh has the best ratings of the three (highest IMDb and Metacritic scores) and has another nod in addition to just the Annie nomination, it may be my pick to take the fifth slot but watch out for the previously-mentioned films as well. My Father’s Dragon is a Cartoon Saloon film and the Academy has shown their love for the studio in the past as every single other Cartoon Saloon film (Secret of the Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, and Wolfwalkers) has been nominated in this category. However, all four of those films were nominated at either GG, CCA, or PGA or were critics’ favorites, none of which My Father’s Dragon has.

    Another stat to consider is that in the last nine years, there has been at least one non-American made film nominated here. Of the films I have noted as contenders for that fifth spot, only My Father’s Dragon and Inu-Oh fit this mold. Between the two, I think the former better represents what the Academy usually nominates in this category and as much as I wnat them to, I doubt the Academy will ever nominate a Masaaki Yuasa film (sigh).

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – GG, CCA, Annie, BAFTA, PGA

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – GG, CCA, Annie (Indie), BAFTA, PGA

    Turning Red – GG, CCA, Annie, BAFTA, PGA

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – GG, CCA, Annie, BAFTA, PGA

    My Father’s Dragon – Annie (Indie)

    Could Jump In: Inu-Oh – GG, Annie (Indie), Wendell & Wild – CCA, Annie, The Sea Beast – Annie

     

    Like with the previous category, four films seem essentially locked here: All Quiet on the Western Front, Decision to Leave, Argentina, 1985, and Close (though I think Close is vulnerable for a surprise miss like A Hero last year).

    This category is so unpredictable, there has been at least one massive shock nominee in the last three years. I would not be surprised if that happens again (even though there is a lower chance of that happening due to ANOTHER rule change which will allow all Academy members to opt in to voting in this category if they say they’ve seen all the shortlisted films), but I’m going to play it safe and go with The Quiet Girl, which I think will be a definite nominee if enough people see it, which if Academy members are honest about seeing all the shortlisted films, they will have.

    BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

    All Quiet on the Western Front – GG, CCA, BAFTA

    Decision to Leave – GG, CCA, BAFTA

    Argentina, 1985 – GG, CCA, BAFTA

    Close – GG, CCA

    The Quiet Girl – BAFTA

    Could Jump In: EO, Bardo – CCA, Holy Spider, Return to Seoul, Corsage – BAFTA

     

    Fire of Love has hit every precursor so far but it is a documentary built on mostly archival footage, which we see snubbed here time and time again. However, Critics Choice winner Good Night Oppy was already snubbed by not even being included in the longlists, so maybe the branch’s impulse to snub has already been exhausted.

    One of the big four in this category (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, Navalny, All That Breathes) will be snubbed, I just can’t decide on which one even though I can think of arguments for each. So essentially I really doubt that this is what the nominations look like, these are just the most likely nominees in my view.

    Other than the four films with the most precursor nominations, Descendent is my pick the round out the top five. The Obamas’ production company Higher Ground has made two films eligible for the Oscar in this category, American Factory and Crip Camp, both of which were nominated (the former won). As a result, Descendent which is also critically-acclaimed and has both CCA and PGA nominations, seems pretty likely to continue this trend.

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – IDA, CEH, BAFTA

    Fire of Love – CCA, IDA, CEH, PGA, BAFTA

    Navalny – CCA, IDA, CEH, PGA, BAFTA

    All that Breathes – IDA, CEH, PGA, BAFTA

    Descendent – CCA, PGA

    Could Jump In: The Territory – CEH, PGA, The Janes – IDA, Moonage Daydream – CCA, BAFTA, Bad Axe

  • Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Live Action Short, Documentary Short, and Animated Short

    Final 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: Live Action Short, Documentary Short, and Animated Short

    There are some topics that the Academy highlights in these categories consistently but other than that, predictions in these categories are essentially throwing darts at a map.

    BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

    Le Pupille

    An Irish Goodbye

    The Red Suitcase

    Warsha

    Nakam

    Could Jump In: Almost Home, The Lone Wolf

     

    BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

    The Flagmakers

    The Elephant Whisperers

    How Do You Measure a Year?

    38 at the Garden

    Nuisance Bear

    Could Jump In: Holding Moses, How Far Can They Run

     

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

    New Moon

    Save Ralph

    The Flying Sailor

    My Year of Dicks

    Could Jump In: Ice Merchants, An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It

  • BAFTA Nominations 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Shocks With 14; ‘Fabelmans’ Limited to Screenplay

    BAFTA Nominations 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Shocks With 14; ‘Fabelmans’ Limited to Screenplay

    All Quiet on the Western Front’s massive haul of fourteen nominations is the biggest story of the morning and makes predicting what the Netflix film and what the international film will be this year in Picture so much easier. It’s so interesting how All Quiet on the Western Front had basically no major precursor nods, it missed out at CCA, PGA, DGA, AFI, and NBR (it did win Adapted Screenplay here though). So even with this haul, I don’t think it is a top 5 Best Picture contender at the Oscars by any means, but I think it would be foolish of me not to have in my Best Picture nomination predictions and topping by Best International Feature predictions.

    Unlike last year where 2 of the 6 nominees in the performance categories were chosen by a membership-wide vote, this year 3 of the 6 were chosen by BAFTA members and the other 3 were chosen by juries. As a result, I think they deserve more closer analysis, in terms of Oscar nomination predictions, than I think they did in the last couple years.

    Another shock of the morning was Spielberg’s The Fabelmans coming out with exactly one nomination, in Original Screenplay. It was snubbed in Cinematography, Production Design, and Score, all technical categories it is projected to be nominated in at the Oscars. As a result of this, I foresee an Editing snub for the film and this gives even more evidence that Everything Everywhere All at Once is the clear frontrunner.

    Here are the BAFTA nominees:

    BEST FILM
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
    ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
    TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan

    OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
    AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells, Producer(s) TBC
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
    BRIAN AND CHARLES Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward
    EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris
    GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Sophie Hyde, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski, Katy Brand
    LIVING Oliver Hermanus, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Kazuo Ishiguro
    ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Matthew Warchus, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Luke Kelly, Dennis Kelly
    SEE HOW THEY RUN Tom George, Gina Carter, Damian Jones, Mark Chappell
    THE SWIMMERS Sally El Hosaini, Producer(s) TBC, Jack Thorne
    THE WONDER Sebastián Lelio, Ed Guiney, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue

    OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
    AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells (Writer/Director)
    BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director), Hélène Sifre (Producer)
    ELECTRIC MALADY Marie Lidén (Director)
    GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Katy Brand (Writer)
    REBELLION Maia Kenworthy (Director)

    FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
    ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) TBC
    CORSAGE Marie Kreutzer
    DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok
    THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí

    DOCUMENTARY
    ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
    ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons
    FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
    MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgan
    NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae

    ANIMATED FILM
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley
    MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
    PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift
    TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins

    DIRECTOR
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
    DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    TÁR Todd Field
    THE WOMAN KING Gina Prince-Bythewood

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    THE FABELMANS Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg
    TÁR Todd Field
    TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
    LIVING Kazuo Ishiguro
    THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad
    SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz
    THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter

    LEADING ACTRESS
    CATE BLANCHETT Tár
    VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King
    DANIELLE DEADWYLER Till
    ANA DE ARMAS Blonde
    EMMA THOMPSON Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    MICHELLE YEOH Everything Everywhere All At Once

    LEADING ACTOR
    AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis
    COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin
    BRENDAN FRASER The Whale
    DARYL McCORMACK Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    PAUL MESCAL Aftersun
    BILL NIGHY Living

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    HONG CHAU The Whale
    KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin
    DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness
    JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything Everywhere All At Once
    CAREY MULLIGAN She Said

    SUPPORTING ACTOR
    BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin
    BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin
    KE HUY QUAN Everything Everywhere All At Once
    EDDIE REDMAYNE The Good Nurse
    ALBRECHT SCHUCH All Quiet on the Western Front
    MICHEAL WARD Empire of Light

    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
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat

    CASTING
    AFTERSUN Lucy Pardee
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Simone Bär
    ELVIS Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sarah Halley Finn
    TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Pauline Hansson

    CINEMATOGRAPHY
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT James Friend
    THE BATMAN Greig Fraser
    ELVIS Mandy Walker
    EMPIRE OF LIGHT Roger Deakins
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Claudio Miranda

    EDITING
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sven Budelmann
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
    ELVIS Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton

    PRODUCTION DESIGN
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Christian M. Goldbreck, Ernestine Hipper
    BABYLON Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
    THE BATMAN James Chinlund, Lee Sandales
    ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Curt Enderle, Guy Davis

    COSTUME DESIGN
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lisy Christl
    AMSTERDAM J.R. Hawbaker, Albert Wolsky
    BABYLON Mary Zophres
    ELVIS Catherine Martin
    MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Jenny Beavan

    MAKE UP & HAIR
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Heike Merker
    THE BATMAN Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir
    ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas
    ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin
    THE WHALE Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot

    SOUND
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler
    AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, Gwendoyln Yates Whittle
    ELVIS Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley
    TÁR Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten

    SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzoid
    AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon
    THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope

    BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
    THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella
    MIDDLE WATCH John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy
    YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian

    BRITISH SHORT FILM
    THE BALLAD OF OLIVE MORRIS Alex Kayode-Kay
    BAZIGAGA Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail
    BUS GIRL Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
    A DRIFTING UP Jacob Lee
    AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley, Ross White

    EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
    AIMEE LOU WOOD
    DARYL McCORMACK
    EMMA MACKEY
    NAOMI ACKIE
    SHEILA ATIM

    Source: Deadline

  • SAG 2023 Nominees Announced: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Banshees’ Lead Pack With 5 Each

    SAG 2023 Nominees Announced: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Banshees’ Lead Pack With 5 Each

    Both Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin cemented their place as the top two contenders of this year’s race with record-tying hauls at SAG. Both received 5 nods apiece which only three films, Shakespeare in Love, Chicago, and Doubt, have done before. The former two went on to win Best Picture.

    MOVIES

    Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture

    Babylon
    The Banshees of Inisherin
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
    The Fabelmans
    Women Talking

    Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role

    Cate Blanchett (Tar)
    Viola Davis (The Woman King)
    Ana de Armas (Blonde)
    Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
    Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

    Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role

    Austin Butler (Elvis)
    Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
    Bill Nighy (Living)
    Adam Sandler (Hustle)

    Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role

    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)

    Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role

    Paul Dano (The Fabelmans)
    Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

    TELEVISION

    Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

    Abbott Elementary
    Barry
    The Bear
    Hacks
    Only Murders in the Building

    Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

    Better Call Saul
    The Crown
    Ozark
    Severance
    The White Lotus

    Outstanding performance by a female actor in a miniseries or television movie

    Emily Blunt (The English)
    Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy)
    Julia Garner (Inventing Anna)
    Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

    Outstanding performance by a male actor in a miniseries or television movie

    Steve Carell (The Patient)
    Taron Egerton (Black Bird)
    Sam Elliott (1883)
    Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)
    Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)

    Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

    Christina Applegate (Dead to Me)
    Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
    Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)
    Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
    Jean Smart (Hacks)

    Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

    Anthony Carrigan (Barry)
    Bill Hader (Barry)
    Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
    Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
    Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

    Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

    Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul)
    Jason Bateman (Ozark)
    Jeff Bridges (The Old Man)
    Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
    Adam Scott (Severance)

    Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

    Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
    Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown)
    Julia Garner (Ozark)
    Laura Linney (Ozark)
    Zendaya (Euphoria)

    STUNTS

    Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a comedy or drama television series

    Andor
    The Boys
    House of the Dragon
    Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
    Stranger Things

    Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture

    Avatar: The Way of Water
    The Batman
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Top Gun: Maverick
    The Woman King

    Source: People

  • Late December Oscar Predictions 2023

    Late December Oscar Predictions 2023

    The Golden Globes, AFI, and Critics Choice awards have all been released and with them comes a clearer picture of what the Best Picture race will most probably end up looking like. At this point, I can essentially guarantee that EEAAO, The Fabelmans, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Tar will be receiving Best Picture nods. They are the biggest contenders this year and other than hitting all the major precursors, they’ve also performed the best at the critics’ awards thus far. 

    The films that I see as very close to locked yet could also foresee a scenario where they don’t get a Best Picture nod are Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking, Babylon, and Elvis. All four of these films have done very well so far and have hit enough precursors for me to be confident in their inclusion, but a couple of factors here and there keep me from naming them guarantees. 

    That leaves two slots. One thing to note is that in the last four years, there has been at least one Netflix film nominated and, in the last three there have been two a year. In this year’s top eight, I have not included a Netflix film meaning that one of these last two slots will be filled by the streamer. RRR and Glass Onion are Netflix’s two biggest films this year and while both making it is a possibility, I don’t see it happening. RRR is the film with more passion and with a Best Director award from NYFCC and a CCA nod under its belt I can see the film being this year’s primarily non-English inclusion (the last four years have seen at least one primarily non-English film nominated). I am choosing Avatar 2 to fill in the last slot as of the remaining films it has hit the most precursors. 

    BEST PICTURE 

    Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24) – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical), AFI 

    The Fabelmans (Universal) – CCA, GG (Drama), AFI 

    The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight) – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical), AFI (Special Award) 

    Tar (Focus) – CCA, GG (Drama), AFI  

    Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) – CCA, GG (Drama), AFI  

    Women Talking (MGM) – CCA, AFI 

    Babylon (Paramount) – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical) 

    Elvis (Warner Bros.) – CCA, GG (Drama), AFI 

    RRR (Netflix) – CCA 

    Avatar 2 (20th Century) – CCA, GG (Drama), AFI 

    Could Jump In: Aftersun, She Said (Universal) – AFI, Glass Onion (Netflix) – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical), The Woman King (Sony) – AFI, Till (MGM), Triangle of Sadness (NEON) – GG (Comedy/Musical), All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix), Bardo (Netflix), Decision to Leave (MUBI), Empire of Light (Searchlight), The Whale (A24) 

    Without DGA (the strongest predictor of this category), this category can be very hard to predict. However, I still believe I can safely say that Spielberg and the Daniels are pretty much locked and are the only two directors that have a realistic chance of taking this award come March. If RRR gets into Picture, I think NYFCC winner Rajamouli could follow it into Director in turn.  

    While The Fabelmans could very likely give Spielberg his third Director Oscar, I think Everything Everywhere All at Once is too strong and take Director, if not the trifecta of Picture, Director, and Screenplay. 

    BEST DIRECTOR 

    Daniels – Everything Everywhere All at Once – GG, CCA 

    Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans – GG, CCA 

    Todd Field – Tar – CCA 

    Sarah Polley – Women Talking – CCA 

    S.S. Rajamouli – RRR – CCA 

    Could Jump In: Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin – GG, CCA, Damien Chazelle – Babylon – CCA, James Cameron – Avatar 2 – GG, CCA, Baz Luhrmann – Elvis – GG, CCA, Ruben Ostlund – Triangle of Sadness, Gina Prince-Blythewood – The Woman King – CCA, Darren Aronofsky – The Whale 

    For the past five years in this category, the Critics Choice Awards have either chosen all of the eventual Oscar nominees or four. With that in mind, we can assume that at least four of Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Austin Butler, Paul Mescal, Bill Nighy, and Tom Cruise will be nominated. The former three (Farrell, Fraser, and Butler) are essentially locked for nominations at this point as they are far and away the leaders at the critics’ awards in terms of nominations. Which means at a minimum, at least one of Mescal, Nighy, or Cruise will be nominated. Since Bradley Cooper missed a Golden Globe nod in 2014, every eventual Best Actor nominee received a Golden Globe nomination en route to becoming an Oscar nominee (Banderas and Yeun being exceptions as films in contention for the Globes’ foreign language film prize couldn’t make their performances eligible for the lead acting categories until this year). With that in mind, Nighy, Jackman, and Calva are the most likely of the remaining seven Globe nominees to receive a nomination. Since Nighy is the only one with a CCA nod I’ll choose him and since Calva is essentially a newcomer I’ll go with Jackman even though Calva’s film is a much more likely Best Picture nominee. 

    This category often rewards very transformative performances. In just the last few years, we’ve seen Oldman as Churchill, Malek as Freddie Mercury, Phoenix as the Joker, and Smith as Richard Williams all win in this category. Of the three performances that are most likely to win in this category, Fraser’s and Butler’s are the transformative ones, while Farrell’s is relatively understated (and phenomenal). However, Fraser’s The Whale has an incredibly slim chance of receiving a Best Picture nomination  

    The last time a winner in this category has won for a performance in a film not nominated for Best Picture was Jeff Bridges for 2009’s Crazy Heart. This category especially  

    BEST ACTOR 

    Brendan Fraser – The Whale – GG (Drama), CCA 

    Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin – GG (Comedy/Musical), CCA 

    Austin Butler – Elvis – GG (Drama), CCA 

    Bill Nighy – Living – GG (Drama), CCA 

    Hugh Jackman – The Son – GG (Drama) 

    Could Jump In: Paul Mescal – Aftersun – CCA, Diego Calva – Babylon – GG (Comedy/Musical), Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick – CCA, Adam Driver – White Noise – GG (Comedy/Musical), Daniel Craig – Glass Onion – GG (Comedy/Musical), Song Kang-Ho – Broker 

    The CCA nominees are Blanchett, Yeoh, Deadwyler, Williams, Davis, and Robbie and I think the five eventual Oscar Actress nominees will come from this six. The question is which one of these six will miss. Past history implies that a Globe nod is usually required to be nominated for an Oscar in this category later on (the last time a Best Actress nominee was nominated without a Globe nod was Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years), which would mean Davis and Robbie receiving nominations as Deadwyler was snubbed by the Globes. If Robbie receives a SAG nom I don’t see her missing but until then I’ll stick with Davis and Deadwyler. 

    The biggest mystery with this category is who will end up triumphing between Blanchett and Yeoh. Both are phenomenal and completely deserving. I think Yeoh has the zeitgeist but I feel like Blanchett is responsible for a performance that I believe is more like what Oscar usually rewards in this category. I am going to with Blanchett for now, but I think Yeoh has a 49% chance of winning this at this point, we need the precursors to be sure. 

    BEST ACTRESS 

    Cate Blanchett – Tar – CCA, GG (Drama) 

    Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical) 

    Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans – CCA, GG (Drama) 

    Danielle Deadwyler – Till – CCA 

    Viola Davis – The Woman King – CCA, GG (Drama) 

    Could Jump In: Margot Robbie – Babylon – CCA, GG (Comedy/Musical), Naomi Ackie – I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Olivia Colman – Empire of Light – GG (Drama), Ana de Armas – Blonde – GG (Drama), Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande – GG (Comedy/Musical), Tang Wei – Decision to Leave, Jennifer Lawrence – Causeway 

    At least three of the Globe nominees will be nominated for the Oscar (most likely) and at least four of the Critics Choice nominees will be nominated for the Oscar. Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Gleeson are locked as they’ve hit the most precursors by far. Even though Paul Dano surprisingly missed at the Globes, I think he’s pretty much locked as well. I have a feeling either Keoghan or Hirsch (but not both) will be nominated and since Keoghan made both GG and CCA, he seems most poised to be nominated. Whishaw’s role seems like one that is often nominated here and if he gets a SAG nod, he should follow that up with a nod from Oscar as well, but he needs that SAG nod if he even wants that to be a consideration. 

    Though Gleeson has a pretty solid shot at winning this, Quan has won the most critics’ awards by a wide margin and being in what is presumed to be this year’s Best Picture winner can’t hurt him. 

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

    Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once – GG, CCA 

    Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin – GG, CCA 

    Paul Dano – The Fabelmans – CCA 

    Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin – GG, CCA 

    Ben Whishaw – Women Talking 

    Could Jump In: Brad Pitt – Babylon – GG, Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans – CCA, Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway – CCA, Eddie Redmayne – The Good Nurse – GG, Anthony Hopkins – Armageddon Time, Woody Harrelson – Triangle of Sadness, Michael Ward – Empire of Light 

    This is one of the hardest major categories to predict at this point as everything feels so up-in-the-air and no performance seems safe for a nomination except for Kerry Condon. Having watched The Banshees of Inisherin, I can confirm that Condon is fantastic but I’m really not sure her performance is of the kind that the academy likes to award in this category. However, none of the biggest contenders have a performance that traditionally would win in this category, meaning that Condon will be my pick to win it for now (If Michelle Williams was category frauded and entered into Supporting she would’ve taken this easily).  

    Hsu, Curtis, and Buckley are all in likely Best Picture nominees so I’ll go with them as the next three. That leaves the last slot between Chau, Monae, Foy, Mulligan, and Bassett. I don’t see Women Talking getting two of its actresses in so that leaves out Foy. Even though she’s done very well at the precursors I still don’t see a superhero performance getting nominated even if Bassett is deserving. While Monae and Chau are doing very well with the critics’ groups, I think I’m going to go with the twice-nominated Mulligan to receive her third.  

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

    Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin – GG 

    Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once 

    Jessie Buckley – Women Talking 

    Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once – GG 

    Carey Mulligan – She Said – GG 

    Could Jump In:  Janelle Monae – Glass Onion, Hong Chau – The Whale, Claire Foy – Women Talking, Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – GG, Dolly De Leon – Triangle of Sadness – GG, Nina Hoss – Tar, Thuso Mbedu – The Woman King 

    Either 4 or 5 of the Critics Choice nominees in this category have been nominated for the O. Screenplay Oscar in this category. The first four seem almost locked and the last slot is really between Triangle of Sadness, Aftersun, and Babylon. I’ll go with Cannes winner Triangle of Sadness as it has been giving attention in other categories such as Director and Supporting Actress and this seems like the best place for the fans of the film in the Academy to award it.  

    While I think Everything Everywhere All at Once will take this if Spielberg ends up winning Director, McDonagh has won the most critics awards so far and I give him a 50.1% chance of taking this.  

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

    The Banshees of Inisherin – GG, CCA 

    Everything Everywhere All at Once – GG, CCA 

    The Fabelmans – GG, CCA 

    Tar – GG, CCA 

    Triangle of Sadness 

    Could Jump In: Aftersun – CCA, Babylon, The Menu, Elvis, Nope 

    Women Talking is most likely going to take this and I think Polley’s screenplay and Glass Onion are pretty much locked here for nominations. Living is a screenplay written by legendary author Kazuo Ichiguro adapting one of the most important films of the 50s: Kurosawa’s Ikiru. If that’s not screenplay branch bait, I don’t know what is. White Noise is Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the seminal Don DeLillo novel and I think it has a great chance of being a spoiler contender come nominations morning. 

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

    Women Talking – GG, CCA 

    Glass Onion – CCA 

    The Whale – CCA 

    Living – CCA 

    White Noise 

    Could Jump In: She Said – CCA, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Son, Bones and All 

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

    Pinocchio – GG, CCA 

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – GG, CCA 

    Turning Red – GG, CCA 

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – GG, CCA 

    Apollo 10 1/2 

    Could Jump In: Wendell & Wild – CCA, My Father’s Dragon, Strange World, Inu-Oh – GG, Apollo 10 ½, Lightyear 

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

    Babylon – CCA 

    The Fabelmans – CCA 

    Elvis – CCA 

    Black Panther 2 – CCA 

    Avatar 2 – CCA 

    Could Jump In: Glass Onion, Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA, All Quiet on the Western Front 

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

    Top Gun: Maverick – CCA 

    Avatar 2: The Way of the Water – CCA 

    The Fabelmans – CCA 

    Babylon – CCA 

    Empire of Light – CCA 

    Could Jump In: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Tar – CCA  

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

    Elvis – CCA 

    Babylon – CCA 

    Black Panther 2 – CCA 

    The Woman King – CCA 

    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 

    Could Jump In: Corsage, Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA, The Fabelmans, Glass Onion – CCA, Living 

    BEST FILM EDITING 

    Top Gun: Maverick – CCA 

    Everything Everywhere All at Once – CCA 

    Elvis – CCA 

    Babylon – CCA 

    The Fabelmans 

    Could Jump In: Avatar 2 – CCA, The Banshees of Inisherin, Tar – CCA 

    BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING 

    The Whale – CCA 

    Elvis – CCA 

    Babylon – CCA 

    The Batman – CCA 

    All Quiet on the Western Front 

    Could Jump In: Black Panther 2 – CCA, Blonde, Crimes of the Future 

    BEST SOUND 

    Top Gun: Maverick 

    Avatar 2 

    Elvis 

    All Quiet on the Western Front 

    Everything Everywhere All at Once 

    Could Jump In: Babylon, The Batman, Black Panther 2 

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 

    Avatar 2 – CCA 

    Top Gun: Maverick – CCA 

    Black Panther 2 – CCA 

    The Batman – CCA 

    Nope 

    Could Jump In: Doctor Strange 2, All Quiet on the Western Front, Jurassic World: Dominion 

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

    The Fabelmans – GG, CCA 

    Babylon – GG, CCA 

    Women Talking – GG, CCA 

    Pinocchio – GG, CCA 

    The Banshees of Inisherin – GG 

    Could Jump In: The Woman King, Black Panther 2, All Quiet on the Western Front 

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

    RRR – CCA, GG 

    Pinocchio – CCA, GG 

    Black Panther 2 – CCA, GG 

    Top Gun: Maverick – CCA, GG 

    Where the Crawdads Sing – CCA, GG 

    Could Jump In: Till, Tell it Like a Woman, White Noise – CCA (My favorite by far!) 

    BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 

    Decision to Leave – CCA, GG 

    All Quiet on the Western Front – GG 

    Close – CCA, GG 

    Argentina, 1985 – CCA, GG 

    Saint Omer 

    Could Jump In: Bardo – CCA, EO, Return to Seoul, Holy Spider, Corsage 

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 

    Fire of Love 

    All That Breathes 

    Navalny 

    Descendant 

    Could Jump In: The Territory, Moonage Daydream, Bad Axe, The Janes 

  • Critics Choice Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads With 14, ‘She Said’ Misses in All but Screenplay

    Critics Choice Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Leads With 14, ‘She Said’ Misses in All but Screenplay

    With the Critics Choice Awards coming through with their nominations this morning, we now have the penultimate piece of the puzzle (other than the Producers Guild Awards which will release on January 12th) when it comes to the Best Picture nomination slate. At this point, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’, ‘The Fabelmans’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, ‘Tar’, ‘Babylon’, ‘Women Talking’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and ‘Elvis’ are all essentially locked for nominations. ‘Glass Onion’, ‘Avatar’, and ‘RRR’ were also given nods, while other films on the cusp like ‘She Said, ‘The Woman King’, ‘Till’, ‘The Whale’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’ missed the cut. In my eyes, ‘She Said’, a film that I had predicted for a Best Picture nod up to this point, now needs a PGA nod to stay in the slate. At this point, my picks for which films will fill the remaining two slots in Best Picture are ‘Avatar: The Way of the Water’ and ‘RRR’ (though Aftersun also has a pretty good chance of taking this tenth slot).

    Here are Critics Choice’s nominees:

    BEST PICTURE

    “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    “Babylon”
    “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    “Elvis”
    “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    “The Fabelmans”
    “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    “RRR”
    “Tár”
    “Top Gun: Maverick”
    “Women Talking”

    BEST ACTOR

    Austin Butler – “Elvis”
    Tom Cruise – “Top Gun: Maverick”
    Colin Farrell – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    Brendan Fraser – “The Whale”
    Paul Mescal – “Aftersun”
    Bill Nighy – “Living”

    BEST ACTRESS

    Cate Blanchett – “Tár”
    Viola Davis – “The Woman King”
    Danielle Deadwyler – “Till”
    Margot Robbie – “Babylon”
    Michelle Williams – “The Fabelmans”
    Michelle Yeoh – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Paul Dano – “The Fabelmans”
    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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Angela Bassett – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    Jessie Buckley – “Women Talking”
    Kerry Condon – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    Jamie Lee Curtis – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Stephanie Hsu – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Janelle Monáe – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

    BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

    Frankie Corio – “Aftersun”
    Jalyn Hall – “Till”
    Gabriel LaBelle – “The Fabelmans”
    Bella Ramsey – “Catherine Called Birdy”
    Banks Repeta – “Armageddon Time”
    Sadie Sink – “The Whale”

    BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

    “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    “The Fabelmans”
    “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    “The Woman King”
    “Women Talking”

    BEST DIRECTOR

    James Cameron – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    Damien Chazelle – “Babylon”
    Todd Field – “Tár”
    Baz Luhrmann – “Elvis”
    Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Martin McDonagh – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    Sarah Polley – “Women Talking”
    Gina Prince-Bythewood – “The Woman King”
    S. S. Rajamouli – “RRR”
    Steven Spielberg – “The Fabelmans”

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    Todd Field – “Tár”
    Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Martin McDonagh – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – “The Fabelmans”
    Charlotte Wells – “Aftersun”

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    Samuel D. Hunter – “The Whale”
    Kazuo Ishiguro – “Living”
    Rian Johnson – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    Rebecca Lenkiewicz – “She Said”
    Sarah Polley – “Women Talking”

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Russell Carpenter – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    Roger Deakins – “Empire of Light”
    Florian Hoffmeister – “Tár”
    Janusz Kaminski – “The Fabelmans”
    Claudio Miranda – “Top Gun: Maverick”
    Linus Sandgren – “Babylon”

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara – “The Fabelmans”
    Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – “Elvis”
    Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – “Babylon”

    BEST EDITING

    Tom Cross – “Babylon”
    Eddie Hamilton – “Top Gun: Maverick”
    Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    Paul Rogers – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – “Elvis”
    Monika Willi – “Tár”

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    Ruth E. Carter – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    Jenny Eagan – “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    Shirley Kurata – “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    Catherine Martin – “Elvis”
    Gersha Phillips – “The Woman King”
    Mary Zophres – “Babylon”

    BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

    “Babylon”
    “The Batman”
    “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    “Elvis”
    “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    “The Whale”

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    “The Batman”
    “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    “RRR”
    “Top Gun: Maverick”

    BEST COMEDY

    “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    “Bros”
    “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
    “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    “Triangle of Sadness”
    “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
    “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
    “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
    “Turning Red”
    “Wendell & Wild”

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

    “All Quiet on the Western Front”
    “Argentina, 1985”
    “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths”
    “Close”
    “Decision to Leave”
    “RRR”

    BEST SONG

    “Carolina” – “Where the Crawdads Sing”
    “Ciao Papa” – “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
    “Hold My Hand” – “Top Gun: Maverick”
    “Lift Me Up” – “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    “Naatu Naatu” – “RRR”
    “New Body Rhumba” – “White Noise”

    BEST SCORE

    Alexandre Desplat – “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
    Michael Giacchino – “The Batman”
    Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Tár”
    Hildur Guðnadóttir – “Women Talking”
    Justin Hurwitz – “Babylon”
    John Williams – “The Fabelmans”

  • Golden Globes Nominations 2023: ‘Banshees’ Leads With 8, ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Fabelmans’ Cement Themselves as the Frontrunners

    Golden Globes Nominations 2023: ‘Banshees’ Leads With 8, ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Fabelmans’ Cement Themselves as the Frontrunners

    The Golden Globes released their slate of nominees this morning, shedding further light on what to expect this awards season. One thing I always mention when the Golden Globe noms are released is the stat that in the last 10 years (in all years except the most recent), the eventual Best Picture winner was nominated for a Best Film, Director, and Screenplay award at the Globes before going on to win Oscar’s biggest prize.

    This year, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, and Banshees of Inisherin received that nomination trifecta, cementing those films as the three biggest players of the season. The former pair will likely be the two biggest frontrunners and I predict EEAAO will end up winning it all in the end.

    Another stat I want to mention is that in the last ten years, at least four of the five nominees in Best Film – Drama went on to earn Best Picture nominations later on in their respective years. That means that at most one of Avatar 2, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tar, and Top Gun: Maverick won’t make the slate. I think that film is most likely to be Avatar 2 (my current BP slate being EEAAO, The Fabelmans, ‘Banshees’, Tar, Women Talking, Babylon, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, She Said). However, there is also a pretty good chance that all the films nominated here will make it in, hopefully the CCA nominations coming out on Wednesday will provide another piece of the puzzle.

    Here are the 2023 Golden Globe nominees:

    Film

    Best Picture (Drama)

    • Avatar: The Way of Water
    • Elvis
    • The Fabelmans
    • Tar
    • Top Gun: Maverick

    Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

    • Babylon
    • The Banshees of Inisherin
    • Everything Everywhere All at Once
    • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    • Triangle of Sadness

    Best Animated Film

    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
    • Inu-Oh
    • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
    • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
    • Turning Red

    Best Picture (Non-English Language)

    • All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
    • Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
    • Close (Belgium)
    • Decision to Leave (South Korea)
    • RRR (India)

    Best Actress (Drama)

    • Cate Blanchett (Tar)
    • Olivia Colman (Empire of Light)
    • Viola Davis (The Woman King)
    • Ana de Armas (Blonde)
    • Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

    Best Actor (Drama)

    • Austin Butler (Elvis)
    • Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
    • Hugh Jackman (The Son)
    • Bill Nighy (Living)
    • Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

    Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

    • Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris)
    • Margot Robbie (Babylon)
    • Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu)
    • Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande)
    • Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

    Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

    • Diego Calva (Babylon)
    • Daniel Craig (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
    • Adam Driver (White Noise)
    • Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)

    Best Supporting Actress

    • Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
    • Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Dolly De Leon (Triangle of Sadness)
    • Carey Mulligan (She Said)

    Best Supporting Actor

    • Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Brad Pitt (Babylon)
    • Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

    Best Director

    • James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water)
    • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
    • Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)
    • Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
    • Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

    Best Screenplay

    • The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
    • Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    • The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
    • Tar, Todd Field
    • Women Talking, Sarah Polley

    Best Original Score

    • Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
    • The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell
    • The Fabelmans, John Williams
    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
    • Women Talking, Hildur Guðnadóttir

    Best Original Song

    • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, “Lift Me Up” by Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler
    • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, “Ciao Papa” by Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro
    • RRR, “Naatu Naatu” by Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj
    • Top Gun: Maverick, “Hold My Hand” by Lady Gaga, Bloodpop, Benjamin Rice
    • Where the Crawdads Sing, “Carolina” by Taylor Swift

    TV

    Best Drama Series

    • Better Call Saul
    • The Crown
    • House of the Dragon
    • Ozark
    • Severance

    Best Musical or Comedy Series

    • Abbott Elementary
    • The Bear
    • Hacks
    • Only Murders in the Building
    • Wednesday

    Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie

    • Black Bird
    • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
    • The Dropout
    • Pam and Tommy
    • The White Lotus

    Best Actress (Drama)

    • Emma D’Arcy (House of the Dragon)
    • Laura Linney (Ozark)
    • Imelda Staunton (The Crown)
    • Hilary Swank (Alaska Daily)
    • Zendaya (Euphoria)

    Best Actor (Drama)

    • Jeff Bridges (The Old Man)
    • Kevin Costner (Yellowstone)
    • Diego Luna (Andor)
    • Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul)
    • Adam Scott (Severance)

    Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

    • Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)
    • Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant)
    • Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Jenna Ortega (Wednesday)
    • Jean Smart (Hacks)

    Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

    • Donald Glover (Atlanta)
    • Bill Hader (Barry)
    • Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)
    • Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

    Best Supporting Actress (Musical, Comedy or Drama)

    • Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown)
    • Hannah Einbinder (Hacks)
    • Julia Garner (Ozark)
    • Janelle James (Abbott Elementary)
    • Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary)

    Best Supporting Actor (Musical, Comedy or Drama)

    • John Lithgow (The Old Man)
    • Jonathan Pryce (The Crown)
    • John Turturro (Severance)
    • Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)
    • Henry Winkler (Barry)

    Best Actress (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Jessica Chastain (George and Tammy)
    • Julia Garner (Inventing Anna)
    • Lily James (Pam and Tommy)
    • Julia Roberts (Gaslit)
    • Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

    Best Actor (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Taron Egerton (Black Bird)
    • Colin Firth (The Staircase)
    • Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven)
    • Evan Peters (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Sebastian Stan (Pam and Tommy)

    Best Supporting Actress (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)
    • Claire Danes (Fleishman Is in Trouble)
    • Daisy Edgar-Jones (Under the Banner of Heaven)
    • Niecy Nash (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus)

    Best Supporting Actor (Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie)

    • F. Murray Abraham (The White Lotus)
    • Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient)
    • Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)
    • Richard Jenkins (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
    • Seth Rogen (Pam and Tommy)

    Source: CNET

  • 2022 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Power of the Dog’ Leads With 12

    2022 Oscar Nominations: ‘The Power of the Dog’ Leads With 12

    The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. The 2022 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and featured many snubs and surprises. I’ll get into those in a post coming soon so here are the nominations.

    Here are the Academy Award nominations, in the order they were announced this morning:

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
    Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
    Judi Dench (Belfast)
    Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
    Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
    Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
    Dune (Jacqueline West)
    Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
    West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

    BEST SOUND

    Belfast
    Dune
    No Time to Die
    The Power of the Dog
    West Side Story

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

    Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
    Dune (Hans Zimmer)
    Encanto (Germaine Franco)
    Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
    The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    CODA (Sian Heder)
    Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
    Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
    The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
    The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
    Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
    Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
    King Richard
    The Worst Person in the World

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT

    Affairs of the Art
    Bestia
    Boxballet
    Robin Robin
    The Windshield Wiper

    BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

    Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
    The Dress
    The Long Goodbye
    On My Mind
    Please Hold

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
    Troy Kotsur (CODA)
    Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
    J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
    Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

    BEST FILM EDITING

    Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
    Dune (Joe Walker)
    King Richard (Pamela Martin)
    The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
    Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)

    BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

    The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    House of Gucci
    Coming 2 America
    Cruella
    Dune

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    Encanto
    Flee
    Luca
    The Mitchells vs. The Machines
    Raya and the Last Dragon

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

    Ascension
    Attica
    Flee
    Summer of Soul
    Writing With Fire

    BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

    Audible
    Lead Me Home
    The Queen of Basketball
    Three Songs for Benazir
    When We Were Bullies

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG

    “Be Alive” — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
    “Dos Oruguitas” — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
    “Down to Joy” — Van Morrison (Belfast)
    “No Time to Die” — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
    “Somehow You Do” — Diane Warren (Four Good Days)

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    Dune (Greig Fraser)
    Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
    The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
    The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
    West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)

    BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

    Drive My Car (Japan)
    Flee (Denmark)
    The Hand of God (Italy)
    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
    The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette)
    Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
    The Power of the Dog (Grant Major & Amber Richards)
    The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)
    West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen)

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    Dune
    Free Guy
    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    No Time to Die
    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    BEST ACTRESS

    Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
    Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
    Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
    Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
    Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

    BEST ACTOR

    Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
    Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
    Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
    Will Smith (King Richard)
    Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

    BEST DIRECTOR

    Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
    Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
    Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
    Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
    Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)

    BEST PICTURE

    Belfast
    CODA
    Don’t Look Up
    Drive My Car
    Dune
    King Richard
    Licorice Pizza
    Nightmare Alley
    The Power of the Dog
    West Side Story

    Source: AwardsRadar