The run-up to the OSCARS 2023

[Chris Knipp]

Comparing the 2022 films of Richard Linklater, James Gray, and Stephen Spielberg



A hopeful coming of age and a disenchanted one; Spielberg's magic touch

After initial rejection, in early November Richard Linkater's APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACER AGE CHILDHOOD was included in the competition for Best Animated Feature. It's rotoscoped, which means instead of being drawn - or computer-animated - from scratch, it's largely reformatted from film of staged or real events. It's interesting to contrast Linklater's personal but fanciful coming of age animation about Houston in 1969 with James Gray's semi-autobiographical film about a a Jewish boy in Queens in the early 1980's.

This new Netflix film by Richard Linklater follows the life of Stan, a young boy in 1969 Houston, around the time of the first moon-landing. To make the project, Linklater set up live-action scenes on a sound stage with a team then using rotoscoping and 2D animation to bring the film to life. It's very loosely autobiographical. Linklater didn't have five siblings like this one. The Houston setting is where Linklater was born; he grew up in other towns. Houston is headquarters of NASA; the film downplays the fact that the flight to the moon took off from Cape Kennedy, Florida.

Stan tells that he was secretly recruited by NASA officials for a top secret mission to train for and execute travel to the moon on a test vehicle that is "a little smaller" than adult size, so they need a talented kid. We don't quite know whether this is the boy's fantasy or the film's. The stark rotoscoping effect masks the distinction.

This is the portrait of a bland, hopeful place and a big (Catholic?), cooperative family in an optimistic time. When America landed a man on the moon and 600 million people saw it on television, the US was ecstatic, and for a while could ignore the disaster of the Vietnam War Kennedy expanded, Johnson continued, and Nixon tried to end. Linklater uses a lot of actual TV footage, including NIxon's phone conversation with Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. We see Stan's family watching, with him sleepy from a day at Astro-World, but "remembering" his magical, wonderfully imagined moon flight. The cultural life of this time is largely projected through television, at a time when there were three channels and indeed everybody watched them. TV really did provide a common culture that now has faded away.

As A.O. Scott's review of ARMAGEDDON TIME points out, it follows a familiar theme in American fiction: a white boy or man whose closeness with a person of color leads to moral awakening.

Interracial friendship is an old and complicated theme in American culture. Think of Ishmael and Queequeg bedded down at the Spouter-Inn in Moby-Dick, Huck and Jim adrift on the Mississippi in Huckleberry Finn or Dylan and Mingus tagging up Brooklyn in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. In almost every case, the white character’s perception is central (these books are all first-person narratives, and in a palpable if not literal sense, Armageddon Time is too). The Black character, however brave, beautiful or tragic he may be, is the vehicle of his companion’s moral awakening.

The best friend of Paul, who is a Jewish boy in Queens in 1980, is Johnny, who is black and gets into more trouble in class just because of his race. Paul is aware of this disparity and injustice, but not only can't do anything: his father sends him, like his brother, to a private school, and so is cut off from Johnny by his family's economic advantage. Paul feels guilt and disenchantment over this.

APOLLO 10 1/2 and ARMAGEDDON TIME both have a scene were a boy fires off a toy rocket in the yard. Coincidentally, Johnny collects NASA mission patches and dreams of becoming an astronaut. It soon emerges that he isn't as likely a candidate for living that dream as Stan is - at least in his imagination fueled by the happy, secure surroundings of his childhood and family and their involvement with NASA, where his father has a job in accounting and logistics - while Johnny lives alone with his aging grandmother.

We could also contrast ARMAGEDDON TIME with Stephen Spielberg's THE FABELMANS. These are both coming-of-age tales of boys who realized early on they wanted to make movies, though Spielberg's surrogate got more actual movies made early on. What I liked about ARMAGEDDON TIME is that it's so self-critical. There is nothing rosy about it. Gray is hard on his family, his young self, and the times he grew up in. Even though THE FABELMANS focuses a lot on the splitting up of the boy's parents and his mother's secret infidelity with his father's best friend that leads up to it, there is a lot that is rosy about the picture of childhood. Spielberg acknowledges that he is Jewish ad encountered anti-Semitism, but there is not the sense of growing up in a Jewish environment. The Fabelmans are out West. A Jewish friend of mine used to say "California Jews don't know they are Jewish," and relatively, this seems true and is illustrated in the differences between the two films.

While I admire the harshly self-critical stance of ARMAGEDDON TIME, and I feel a greater kinship with the insecure, suspicious world of Gray's cinematic childhood than with the bland, hopeful one of Richard Linklater, as awards season progresses we see the optimistic view is the one that most often draws the praise and sells the tickets. ARMAGEDDON TIME was a failure at the box office (which Gray seemed to expect). APOLLO 10 1/2 is fun, even quietly exhilarating. Typically for Linklater, it doesn't try too hard (even though it's actually quite spectacular in its way).

As for THE FABELMANS, it's got seven Oscar nominations, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design, and Best Original Score. This fits my experience: despite my sympathy for ARMAGEDDON TIME and easy enjoyment of the charming but lightweight APOLLO 10 1/2, it was THE FABELMANS that gave me the heightened pleasure of watching a movie that is not only identifiable and thrilling but felt palpably beautifully made. Spielberg depicts his precocious early development as a filmmaker in a way that's a joy to watch. He has a magic touch.

[Chris Knipp]

The BAFTAS are coming

Gold Derby recently posted this comment:

WWhile presence among the precursor groups is a solid way of predicting which films will be nominated for the Oscar, looking at their winners as a way of predicting which of the academy’s five nominees will take the Oscar home is not as clear cut.

Nonetheless the BAFTAs have been closer and closer to the Oscars in recent years.

BANSHEES OF INISHIRIN is a BAFTA "heavy favorite" for Best Picture. How about LIVING or AFTERSUN? They're British. Well, no, though.

THe Oscar Expert says ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED is dropping because it's a critics' picture with little mainstream appeal. MOONAGE DAYDREAM is a big contender because it's British. Otherwise they favor NOVALNY and FIRE OF LOVE and are predicting NOVALNY for the Oscar. They say NOVALNY is really entertaining and exciting to watch. Entertaining?

I'm going to report on NOVALNY, on HBO. My personal favorite is ALL THAT BREATHES now. Of this list. But the Oscar nominations omit some docs that I consider more importand, significant and also brilliant filmmaking: DESCENDANT (Margaret Brown), THE TERRITORY (Alex Prit), MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY (Patricio Guzman) and RETROGRADE (Matthew Heineman). These all have something important to teach us. HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS by the maker of DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS (a haunting doc), I just watched. It is beautifully made. for me it plays a little bit too much into politics (Ukraine) and emotions (kids seeking adoption).

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED touchings on a hot, important issue, the opioids crisis. But it does approach it from a sideways, non-mainstream manner (bohemian druggie Nan Goldin's life).

The popularity of FIRE OF LOVE seems exaggerated to me. A volcano-chasing couple who get burned. More about NOVALNY later.

ALL THAT BREATHES may still have a chance.

[Chris Knipp]

Surprises at the BAFTAs

Date: 19 February 2023
Site:Royal Festival Hall, London
Hosted by: Richard E. Grant, Alison Hammond

ALL QUIET AT THE WESTERN FRONT WON SEVEN (7) AWARDS!THE JURY LIKED THIS MOVIE, AND THE ACADEMY WILL PROBABLY LIKE IT TOO. SO IS 'EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE' STILL LOOKING LIKE A BIG WINNER? (YES, THE DANIELS WON BEST DIRECTOR AT THE DGAs; BUT HERE, ONLY BEST EDITING.)

'BANSHEES' AND 'ELVIS' EACH WON FOUR AWARDS

BEST FILM
“All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“Elvis”
“‘TÁR”

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
“Aftersun”
“The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER
“Brian and Charles”
“Empire of Light”
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
“Living”
“Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical”
“See How They Run”
“The Swimmers”
“The Wonder”

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR, OR PRODUCER
“Aftersun” Charlotte Wells (writer/director) *WINNER
[This was a sure thing]
“Blue Jean” Georgia Oakley (writer/director), Hélène Sifre (producer)
“Electric Malady” Marie Lidén (director)
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” Katy Brand (writer)
“Rebellion” Elena Sánchez Bellot (director) Maia Kenworthy (director)todi
Best film not in the English language
“All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
“Argentina, 1985”
“Corsage”
“Decision to Leave”
“The Quiet Girl”

BEST DOCUMENTARY
“All That Breathes”
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
“Fire of Love”
“Moonage Daydream”
“Navalny” *WINNER. [As expected - but FIRE OF LOVE just won at the DGAs]

BEST ANIMATED FILM
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” *WINNER As eExpected]
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“Turning Red”

BEST DIRECTOR
Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Park Chan-wook, “Decision To Leave”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Todd Field, “TÁR”
Gina Prince-Bythewood, “The Woman King”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
Todd Field, “TÁR”
Ruben Östlund, “Triangle of Sadness”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Edward Berger, Ian Stokell and Leslie Patterson, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
*WINNER
Kazuo Ishiguro, “Living”
Colm Bairéad, “The Quiet Girl”
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, “She Said”
Samuel D. Hunter, “The Whale”

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Ana de Armas, “Blonde”
Cate Blanchett, “TÁR” *WINNER
Viola Davis, “The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”
Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Austin Butler, “Elvis” *WINNER
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Daryl McCormack, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
Bill Nighy, “Living”

BEST SUPPPORTING ACTDRESS
Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Hong Chau, “The Whale”
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER
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” *WINNER [!!!!]
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Good Nurse”
Albrecht Schuch, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Michael Ward, “Empire of Light”

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”
Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Son Lux, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Alexandre Desplat, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

BEST CASTING
Lucy Pardee, “Aftersun”
Simon Bär, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian, “Elvis” *WINNER
Sarah Halley Finn, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Pauline Hansson, “Triangle of Sadness”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
Greig Fraser, “The Batman”
Mandy Walker, “Elvis”
Roger Deakins, “Empire of Light”
Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick”

BEST EDITING
Sven Budelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Matt Villa, “Elvis”
Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” *WINNER {There's one]
Eddie Hamilton, “Top Gun: Maverick”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIBN
Christian M. Goldbreck, Ernestine Hipper, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino, “Babylon” *WINNER
James Chinlund, Lee Sandales, “The Batman”
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn, “Elvis”
Curt Enderle, Guy Davis, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lisy Christl, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
J.R. Hawbaker and Albert Wolsky, “Amsterdam”
Mary Zophres, “Babylon”
Catherine Martin, “Elvis” *WINNER
Jenny Beavan, “Mrs Harris Goes To Paris”

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR
Heike Merker, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Michael Marino and Zoe Tahir, “The Batman”
Shane Thomas, Louise Coulston, Mark Coulier and Barrie Gower, “Elvis” *WINNER
Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical”
Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot, “The Whale”

BEST SOUND
Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil and Markus Stemler, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER
Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers and Gwendoyln Yates Whittle, “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson and Wayne Pashley, “Elvis”
Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single and Roland Winke, “TÁR”
Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor and Mark Weingarten, “Top Gun: Maverick”

BEST SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller and Frank Petzoid, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon, “Avatar: The Way of Water” *WINNER
Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy, “The Batman”
Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck and Zak Stoltz, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson and Ryan Tudhope, “Top Gun: Maverick”

BEST BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
“The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” *WINNER
“Middle Watch”
"Your Mountain is Waiting”

BEST BRITISH SHORT FILM
“The Ballad Of Olive Morris”
“Bazigaga”
“Bus Girl”
“A Drifting Up”
“An Irish Goodbye” *WINNER

EE RISING STAR
Aimee Lou Wood
Daryl McCormack
Emma Mackey *WINNER
Naomi Ackie
Sheila Atim

DGA Highlights

75th Directors Guild of America Awards
Date February 18, 2023
Site: Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, USA
Hosted by: Judd Apatow

Highlights:
BEST DIRECTOR,FEATURE FILM:
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

BEST DIRECTOR,DOCUMENTARY:
Fire of Love – Sara Dosa

BEST DIRECTOR, FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM:
Aftersun

[Chris Knipp]

A Critic's Choice. Justin Chang ranks and describes the ten 2023 Best Picture nominees.

Here they are. Read the article by Chang, LA Times critic, HERE. Confirms my view that Everything, Everywhere is vastly overrated lately.

1. Tar
2. The Fabelmans
3. Women Talking
4. Triangle of Sadness
5. The Banshees of Inishirin
6. Avatar; the Way of Water
7. Top Gun; Maverick
8. All Quiet on the Western Front
9. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
10. Elvis

[Chris Knipp]

Catching up: shortlisted documentaries.
Just some brief comments. This is a work in progress.



BAD AXE
THe title is the name of a remote northern 3,000+ population largely Trump supporter Michigan town. The filmamker David Siev who grew up here came back from NYC and moved in with parents and siblings to escape the pandemic, or share the lockdown, with his mixed Cambodian-Mexican-American family of origin whose members collaborate in running a restaurant called "Rachel's." His father is a childhood refugee from the Cambodian Killing Fields, his mother Mexican-American. One sister's husband is white, the other's husband's adopted black raised by a white couple. David turns his camera on the family. The film follows the tumultuous year 2020, month by month, including the George Floyd-Black Lives Matter demos, even in this small town, leading to a confrontation with skull-mask-wearing armed white suprematists, repeated menace from what turn out to be members of a terrorist cell who wind up bing arrested by the FBI, anti-Asian slurs prompted by Trump's calling COVID "Kung Flu," and finally the election of Joe Biden. And so the film is an astonishingly vivid mirroring of America at the period it covers. You can say the filmmaking is messy and reads like a home movie, that the score is loud and crude, but you can't get away from how central this material is to the American experience at this moment. And what an engaging, beautiful, sometimes embarrassing family this is.

NOVALNY
You probably know what this is. He is the prominent would-be Russian rival to Putin who Putin (or somebody) attempted to kill by poisoning but who miraculously survived, and went back to Russia, and was put into jail. Novalny is cool, so is his wife. The whole sequence of events is like a political thriller. It is also sometimes amusing. For me this is not as interesting or as important a theme as the threat to the Amazon rainforest (TERRITORY), climate change and the undermining of the natural world (ALL THAT BREATHES), discovering the legacy of slavery and racism in America (DESCENDANT), the opioid crisis and the culpability in it of the billionaire ackler famiily (ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED), Biden's disastrous, abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan (RETROGRADE), even maybe the stunning art of David Bowie (MOONAGE DAYDREAM. Sometimes it's a question of how beautifully made these documentaries are. NOVALNY is a conventionally slick and competent film, but there is nothing distinctive about it; it could just be an episode of some TV news feature series episode. BAD AXE may be home-movie-ish and raw, but Chun Siev and his family are vital and unique as well as emblematic, and hence memorable.




A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS
I recently reported on this as part of the SF Jewish series WinterFest: it's by the maker of the previous award-winning THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS (which I liked better) by the risk-taking Danish documentarian Simon Lereng Wilmont, also made in Ukraine, about a sort of halfway house for children rescued from dangerous families hopefully awaiting adoption. It is touching and beautifully and delicately made, also a little bit sentimental and more conventional and less risk--taking than DISTANT BARKING.

HIDDEN LETTERS
About a secret language subjugated Chinese women used to communicate among themselves, a language now just barely saved from dying out.

THE JANES
Abouta band of women in Chicago who conspired to help women have abortions, and enabled thousands of them.

LAST FLIGHT HOME
About a family and a dying man whose remarkable life they celebrate. (I could have watched this film but avoided it because it sounded depressing.)

[Chris Knipp]

BRADSHAW'S OSCAR PICKS
Here are Peter Bradshaw's predictions/comments, published in the Guardian today

Best picture
Will win Everything Everywhere All at Once
Should win Tár
Shoulda been a contender Funny Pages

Best director
Will win Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Should win Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Shoulda been a contender Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best actor
Will win Austin Butler, Elvis
Should win Bill Nighy, Living
Shoulda been a contender Hugh Jackman, The Son

Best actress
Will win Cate Blanchett, Tár
Should win Cate Blanchett, Tár
Shoulda been a contender Danielle Deadwyler, Till

Best supporting actor
Will win Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Should win Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Shoulda been a contender Don Cheadle, White Noise

Best supporting actress
Will win Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Should win Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Shoulda been a contender Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best animated feature
Will win Pinocchio
Should win Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Shoulda been a contender Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure

Best adapted screenplay
Will win Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell All Quiet on the Western Front
Should win Kazuo Ishiguro, Living
Shoulda been a contender Sjón and Robert Eggers, The Northman

Best original screenplay
Will win Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Should win Todd Field, Tár
Shoulda been a contender Panah Panahi for Hit the Road

Best documentary
Will win Navalny
Should win Navalny
Shoulda been a contender Moonage Daydream

Best international feature film
Will win All Quiet on the Western Front
Should win The Quiet Girl
Shoulda been a contender Saint Omer

Best production design
Will win Florencia Martin, Babylon
Should win Rick Carter, The Fabelmans
Shoulda been a contender Helen Scott, Living

Best cinematography
Will win Roger Deakins, Empire of Light
Should win Roger Deakins, Empire of Light
Shoulda been a contender Kate McCullough, The Quiet Girl

Best makeup and hairstyling
Will win Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti, Elvis
Should win Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti, Elvis
Shoulda been a contender Eryn Krueger Mekash, The Fabelmans

Best costume design
Will win Catherine Martin, Elvis
Should win Ruth Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Shoulda been a contender Monika Buttinger, Corsage

Best editing
Will win Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Should win Monika Willi, Tár
Shoulda been a contender Matthew Hannam, White Noise

The Oscars ceremony takes place at the Dolby theatre, Los Angeles, on 12 March and will be televised worldwide

[Chris Knipp]

MICHELLE YEOH IS THE FIRST ASIAN WOMAN TO WIN THE BEST ACRESS OSCAR

"Thank you, thank you. For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities. This is proof that, dream big, and dreams do come true. And ladies don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. Never give up."

OSCAR WINS, OSCAR SURPRISES

A tweet:
amil
@amil
Something about the relentlessly long awards season and how predictable these wins have been based on those wins has taken all the surprise, joy and excitement out of tonight. We’ve know[n] who’s going to win for months now. #Oscars
[Some truth in this.]

EEAAO WON 7 OSCARS OF ITS 11 NOMINATIONS WITH 3 ACTING AWARDS
BRENDAN FRASER PUSHED OUT AUSTIN BUTLER IN A CLOSE BEST ACTOR RACE
ELVIS SHUT OUT, NOTHING; DITTO BABYLON
A24 WON 9 AWARDS
BAFTAS ONLY PREDICTED 5 MAJOR CATEGORY AWARDS RIGHT
"RRR" BEST SONG, “Naatu Naatu,” FIRST INDIAN OSCAR WINNER

(For a minute-by-minute account of the evening, see GOLD DERBY)

The Winners:

ANIMATED FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER!
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

SUPPORTIING 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 – WINNER!

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 – WINNER!
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny – WINNER!

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
An Irish Goodbye – WINNER!
Ivalu
Le Pupille
Night Ride
The Red Suitcase

CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár

MAKEUP AND HAIR
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale – WINNER!

COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – WINNER!
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

INTERNATIONAL FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!
Argentina, 1985
Close
EO
The Quiet Girl

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Elephant Whisperers – WINNER!
Haulout
How Do You Measure a Year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Stranger at the Gate

ANIMATED SHORT
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – WINNER!
The Flying Sailor
Ice Merchants
My Year of Dicks
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

PRODUCTION DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans

ORIGINAL SCORE
All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans

VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water – WINNER!
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER!
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking – WINNER!

SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick – WINNER!

ORIGINAL SONG
Applause, Tell It Like a Woman
Hold My Hand, Top Gun: Maverick
Lift Me Up, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Naatu Naatu, RRR – WINNER!
This Is a Life, Everything Everywhere All at Once

EDITING
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER!
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

DIRECTOR
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER!
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

LEAD ACTOR
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale - WINNER!
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

LEAD ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER!

BEST PICTURE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once - WINNER!
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

SEE BRENDAN FRASER'S EMOTIONAL SPEECH

[Johann]

Maybe this years winners were a backlash in-joke: only in a multi-verse would these people win...