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The 2023 Academy Awards aired Sunday night, and you can see the full list of nominees with notations of who won below along with our original guesses on who we thought would win. It was a big night for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, and Brendan Fraser for his performance in THE WHALE. Most of the results were what many expected, but there were a few surprises, such as Jamie Lee Curtis winning Best Supporting Actress over Angela Bassett, and The Daniels winning Best Director over Steven Spielberg. We had another good year for films even if some people still aren’t quite ready to head back to theaters just yet… did you agree with the winners? I honestly thought THE FABELMANS would win more, but it seems like The Academy is making some more daring moves lately. Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

I always note, for what it’s worth, the picks defined below of what we thought would win are not necessarily what we thought should win, rather what we expected would win based on a variety of factors…

Actor in a Leading Role Nominees
Austin Butler – Elvis
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Bill Nighy – Living

Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees
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 – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
Cate Blanchett – Tár
Ana de Armas – Blonde
Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – our pick to WIN!
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

Animated Feature Film Nominees
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast – Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red – Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

Cinematography Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – James Friend – WINNER!
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Darius Khondji
Elvis – Mandy Walker – our pick to WIN!
Empire of Light – Roger Deakins
Tár – Florian Hoffmeister

Costume Design Nominees
Babylon – Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Elvis – Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Jenny Beavan

Directing Nominees
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – WINNER!
The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg – our pick to WIN!
Tár – Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund

Documentary Feature Film Nominees
All That Breathes – Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
Fire of Love – Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
A House Made of Splinters – Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
Navalny – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Documentary Short Film Nominees
The Elephant Whisperers – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Haulout – Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev – WINNER!
How Do You Measure a Year? – Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect – Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate – Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones – our pick to WIN!

Film Editing Nominees
The Banshees of Inisherin – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis – Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Tár – Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton

International Feature Film Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Germany – WINNER!
Argentina, 1985 – Argentina – our pick to WIN!
Close – Belgium
EO – Poland
The Quiet Girl – Ireland

Makeup and Hairstyling Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman – Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
Elvis – Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Music (Original Score) Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann – WINNER!
Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Son Lux
The Fabelmans – John Williams – our pick to WIN!

Music (Original Song) Nominees
Applause from Tell It like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop – our pick to WIN!
Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
Naatu Naatu from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose – WINNER!
This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best Picture Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees of Inisherin – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers – WINNER!
The Fabelmans – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers – our pick to WIN!
Tár – Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
Top Gun: Maverick – Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Triangle of Sadness – Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

Production Design Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper – WINNER!
Avatar: The Way of Water – Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon – Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino – our pick to WIN!
Elvis – Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Short Film (Animated) Nominees
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
The Flying Sailor – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants – João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks – Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It – Lachlan Pendragon

Short Film (Live Action) Nominees
An Irish Goodbye – Tom Berkeley and Ross White – WINNER!
Ivalu – Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille – Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride – Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen – our pick to WIN!
The Red Suitcase – Cyrus Neshvad

Sound Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
Avatar: The Way of Water – Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
The Batman – Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
Elvis – David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!

Visual Effects Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
The Batman – Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees
All Quiet on the Western Front screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery written by Rian Johnson
Living written by Kazuo Ishiguro – our pick to WIN!
Top Gun: Maverick screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking screenplay by Sarah Polley – WINNER!

Writing (Original Screenplay) Nominees
The Banshees of Inisherin written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – WINNER!
The Fabelmans written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner – our pick to WIN!
Tár written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness written by Ruben Östlund

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