No longer like every February but, post Pandemic, like every March that respects itself and will respect, here are the awards of the most famous cinematic night in the world: the Oscars!
Following the January 23 announcement, the 95th Academy Awards were held, as usual, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and were directed by television host Jimmy Kimmel, who returned to host the event for the third time after 2017 and 2018. Standing out among all the nominees is the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert under the pseudonym The Daniels, winner of 7 statuettes out of 11 nominations, including the Best Actress to Michelle Yeoh, making her the first Asian actress to win an Oscar.
So, Five statuettes for the war film “All Quiet on the Western Front” and applause for Brendan Fraser’s victory for Best Actor for “The Whale” who gets a statuette that smells like “revenge”, after a difficult past caused right out of Hollywood.
From the point of view of “media stunts”, however, this edition did not have its memorable moment, which then went viral on the internet. We recall Will Smith’s famous slap to Chris Rock (which is still being talked about), the wrong proclamation of La La Land as Best Picture when the winner was Moonlight or the fall of Jennifer Lawrence on the stage stairs.
Despite the presence of a little donkey on the stage, we can say that we saw a “flat” evening, while still having some beautiful moments like the emotional embrace between Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan, the child in Indiana Jones and the Cursed Temple!
Below, all the nominees and winners:
BEST FILM
• Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (WINNER)
• Avatar – The Way of Water (Avatar: The Way of Water), directed by James Cameron
• The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin), directed by Martin McDonagh
• Elvis, directed by Baz Luhrmann
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), directed by Edward Berger
• The Fabelmans, directed by Steven Spielberg
• Tar, directed by Todd Field
• Top Gun: Maverick, directed by Joseph Kosinski
• Triangle of Sadness, directed by Ruben Östlund
• Women Talking – The right to choose (Women Talking), directed by Sarah Polley
BEST DIRECTOR
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
• Martin McDonagh – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
• Todd Field – Tar
• Ruben Ostlund – Triangle of Sadness
BEST ACTOR
• Brendan Fraser – The Whale (WINNER)
• Austin Butler-Elvis
• Colin Farrell – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Paul Mescal – Aftersun
• Bill Nighy-Living
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
• Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
• Cate Blanchett – Tar
• Ana de Armas – Blonde
• Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie
• Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once(WINNER)
• Brendan Gleeson – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Brian Tyree Henry-Causeway
• Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans
• Barry Keoghan – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
• Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Hong Chau – The Whale
• Kerry Condon – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNERS)
• Martin McDonagh – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
• Todd Field – Tar
• Ruben Ostlund – Triangle of Sadness
BEST NON-ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Sarah Polley – Women Talking – The right to choose (Women Talking) (WINNER)
• Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
• Rian Johnson – Glass Onion – Knives Out (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
• Kazuo Ishiguro – Living
• Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), directed by Edward Berger (Germany) (WINNER)
• Argentina, 1985, directed by Santiago Miter (Argentina)
• Close, directed by Lukas Dhont (Belgium)
• EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
• The Quiet Girl, directed by Colm Bairéad (Ireland)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson (WINNER)
• Marcel the Shell (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, directed by Joel Crawford
• The Sea Beast, directed by Chris Williams
• Red (Turning Red), directed by Domee Shi
BEST EDITING
• Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
• Mikkel EG Nielsen – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
• Monika Willi – Tar
• Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST SCENOGRAPHY
• Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) (WINNERS)
• Dylan Cole, Ben Procter and Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Way of Water (Avatar: The Way of Water)
• Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino – Babylon
• Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy and Bev Dunn – Elvis
• Rick Carter and Karen O’Hara – The Fabelmans
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY
• James Friend – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) (WINNER)
• Darius Khondji – Bardo, the False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)
• Mandy Walker-Elvis
• Roger Deakins – Empire of Light
• Florian Hoffmeister – Tar
BEST COSTUMES
• Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (WINNER)
• Mary Zophres – Babylon
• Catherine Martin-Elvis
• Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Jenny Beavan – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLE
• Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley – The Whale (WINNERS)
• Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
• Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine – The Batman
• Camille Friend and Joel Harlow – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti – Elvis
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
• Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett – Avatar: The Way of Water (WINNERS)
• Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
• Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy – The Batman
• Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST SOUND
• Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor – Top Gun: Maverick (WINNERS)
• Victor Prasil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
• Julian Howarth, Gwendolin Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges – Avatar – The Way of Water (Avatar: The Way of Water)
• Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson – The Batman
• David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller – Elvis
BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
• Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) (WINNER)
• Justin Hurwitz-Babylon
• Carter Burwell – The spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• John Williams – The Fabelmans
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
• Naatu Naatu (music by MM Keeravani; lyrics by Chandrabose) – RRR (WINNER)
• Applause (music and lyrics by Diane Warren) – Tell It Like a Woman
• Hold My Hand (music and lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop) – Top Gun: Maverick
• Lift Me Up (music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson; lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler) – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• This Is a Life (music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne) – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DOCUMENTARY
• Navalny, directed by Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris (WINNER)
• All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), directed by Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
• Fire of Love, directed by Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
• A House Made of Splinters, directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellstrom
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
• Raghu, the little elephant (The Elephant Whisperers), directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga (WINNER)
• Haulout, directed by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
• How Do You Measure a Year?, directed by Jay Rosenblatt
• The Martha Mitchell Effect, directed by Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
• Stranger at the Gate, directed by Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
BEST SHORT FILM
• An Irish Goodbye, directed by Tom Berkely and Ross White (WINNER)
• Ivalu, directed by Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
• The Pupils, directed by Alice Rohrwacher
• Nattriken, directed by Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
• The Red Suitcase, directed by Cyrus Neshvad
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, directed by Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud (WINNER)
• The Flying Sailor, directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
• Ice Merchants, directed by João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
• My Year of Dicks, directed by Sara Gunnarsdottir and Pamela Ribbon
• An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It, directed by Lachlan Pendragon
Honorary Oscars to Euzhan Palcy (director and producer), Diane Warren (composer) and Peter Weir (director, screenwriter and producer). Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Michael J. Fox.
Emmanuel Olmo