2023 Oscar nominations we want to see
Why Top Gun: Maverick, Brendan Fraser, Janelle Monae, Michelle Yeoh, and more need to be called when nominations for the Academy Awards are announced tomorrow
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Clockwise from left: Everything Everywhere All At Once, RRR, The Woman King, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Image: Courtesy A24, DVV Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Netflix
With nominations for the 95th Academy Awards just a day away—contenders for the 2023 Oscars will be announced on January 24 at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT—predictions abound for the films, shows, directors, and others that are likely to be called. But at The A.V. Club, we decided to play our movie fan card, at least for the time being. So, we’ve pulled together our wish list of the projects and people who we think really should be nominated tomorrow. Some are already heavily favored (for good reason), while some are sentimental picks, and others are in the mix here just for fun. Because every once in a while, we like to wear our hearts on our sleeves.
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I’ll settle for hearing “And the nominees for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Stunt Work are…..”
The battle for that award to be included has literally spanned decades.
They want people to watch the show? I might tune in to see the Best Stunt nominee highlights….
Richard gets it. There’s nothing but upside to having this as a category. Especially in a year where Top Gun Maverick’s real-life flying deserves to be honored. The last time we saw that? The very first Best Picture winner: Wings.
Wait, so a sequel to… ANYTHING has to be up for Adapted Screenplay and not original, even if the content itself is original and not actually adapted from anything? What a bizarre rule.
It counts as an adaptation because it’s based on pre-existing characters. Then again, this is the same academy that was totally cool with Judas and the Black Messiah having zero leads, so…
Yeah, it seems odd at first, but it’s one of those things where you need a rule and you can kinda see how they got there. Like most of these comic book movies aren’t direct adaptations of specific stories, but they pull enough elements from multiple stories that it would be weird to call them original. But then you get into weird percentages and math that’s hard to define. The Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies have a lot of new plot, but they still have Holmes and Watson and Irene Adler trying to catch Moriarty and ending up going over a waterfall. Is that a new story that borrows pre-existing elements or an adaptation of a handful of different Holmes stories that takes a lot of liberties? If you don’t want to have this argument every year, it’s probably easiest just to say “fuck it, if the characters already existed before you sat down to write the screenplay, it’s an adaptation” even if it produces weird edge cases where people are “adapting” their own work with a sequel.
Because it is an “adaptation” of existing characters.
Not that bizarre.
“Yep.” – me, to all of the above
I expected this article to be filled with dark horses and oddball entries, but over half of these are locks for nominations and a few are favorites to win outright. But then I was completely blindsided by “Apartment for Sale” from Tar, and yes, I want to live in the universe where that gets nominated.
It didn’t make the shortlist, so it’s out.
I still really dislike that Nacho Nacho song from RRR. The attempted lip syncing is absolutely atrocious, and the acting of the white people is preposterously bad. I just cringe when I hear (and see) the “No Jake, I’ve had enough of your bullying…” with the two guys kinda just smiling and running in place in the background. This whole sequence goes on for too long, and while I can say that the dancing is decently impressive, it never varies enough to stay interesting.I can appreciate the cheese of a ridiculous production from time to time, but often with Bollywood, the cheesiness is taken it to a whole new level, and it’s really not for me. The action scenes of the movie are cool, and all the CGI animals certainly make things interesting, but I can’t get past how cringe a lot of the acting is from the white people who feel like they’ve never recited lines before, or the director simply didn’t know what acceptable English dialogue sounded like and just went with it. This can be a problem in a lot of good foreign films. Take Ip Man 2 for example… There are a few white people in the cast and all their English dialogue sounds like they’ve never spoken the language before, even though they’re all native speakers. I get that a lot from Bollywood, which wouldn’t be so much of an issue (as English dialogue in Ip Man is quite rare) if the English speaking characters weren’t so heavily present in most aspects of the story.Now, obviously, the song from RRR is much better than this “Apartment For Sale” song, which is seemingly added to this list as a joke, right?And is Marcel The Shell With Shoes On really considered an “animated” feature? Yes, scenes with Marcel are obviously animated (although a bit choppy at times), but a huge majority of the movie is not animated—featuring real actors in a live-action setting—similar to Okja or the Garfield movie with Bill Murray.Also, the movie Bullet Train needs some more love. It’s basically not being considered for anything, but it’s an extremely fun movie—pretty much the top one I’ve seen all year next to Everything Everywhere All At Once.
“This whole sequence goes on for too long”The irony of this complaint in the midst of your 400 word comment.
Hildur’s score for Tar isn’t eligible. There’s so much pre-existing music that her compositions are relatively brief.
I might be partial to Texas-set movies, but Andrea Riseborough was fantastic in To Leslie…
I heard it was the greatest performance committed to film.
Where the hell is Mia Goth? She deserves best actress for Pearl. Incredible performance.
The academy pretty much hates genre movies. Her performance in Pearl was amazing and deserves a nomination for that ending monologue alone.
Every single movie that is nominated is a genre movie. They do not hate them. Year after year wee see snubs of all kinds. Everyone knows it is a combination of; in the pubic eye, push from the production companies, release dates, and other competition in that category. It is a highly imperfect system.
You know what I mean. They’re pretty resistant to horror (especially), sci-fi, fantasy, etc (which is what is typically meant by genre movies). Only if those types of movies get a TON of buzz or are made by a creative with previous noms do they make it on the Academy radar (like Get Out or Interstellar).
We’re using the Zsaslavian definition of Genre.
I would be 100% okay with Everything, Everywhere, All at Once winning Everything.
Agreed. It was amazing
It really is pathetic how little research you guys do these days. The song and score from “Tar” didn’t make the shortlists, and therefore can’t be nominated. There are literally dozens of websites and news sources – including the Academy’s site – that would have given you this information if you put out even the most minimal of effort. It’d one thing if you noted this fact and lamented that they can’t make the field (the score’s omission is a victory for those of us who hate shameless awards baiting after seeing the film start with Cate Blanchett literally campaigning for Hildur in her opening monologue), but to ignore the fact that they’ve already been eliminated from consideration is a basic failure of journalism. I’m honestly surprised you’re not stumping for “RRR” to get an International Feature nomination despite India not submitting it. Y’all are just lazy.
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought the MVP supporting actor in FABELMANS was Chloe East as the christian girlfriend.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she gets nominated, not only is she great, but it would also be hilarious for Spielberg’s fictional girlfriend to get nominated.
“It’s difficult to explain why exactly Janelle Monáe deserves a supporting actress nomination”Because she doesn’t deserve one.She gorgeous but can’t act for shit.Can anyone recommend an acting teacher for Miss Monáe?
For some weird reason, critics are desperate to push Johnson on us as the next great auteur in cinema.
From Star Wars apologists to award show prognosticators, we’re supposed to believe that he’s a brilliant filmmaker, unrivaled in his cinematic vision.“Glass Onion” was terrible and the real crime would be if it robbed a deserving nominee of their place.Has White even seen “The Quiet Girl”?
The only reason I don’t want Brendan Fraser to win is because I’m worried he’ll decide he no longer needs/wants to do Doom Patrol. I know it’s mostly voice work, but I’m hoping he doesn’t decide against doing one more season after all these awards.
You don’t really seem to know Brendan well enough. He’s not going to ditch a production that helped him pick himself up when he was struggling.
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They need to go back to 5 Best Picture nominees. The experiment is over. It changed nothing. Still always a 2-movie race anyway
The fact that The Reader, Winesten payola scam of the ’00s, was nominated ahead of Dark Knight should ensure that the only 5 nominated films never happens again
Marcel the Shell is adorable, but how does a movie that uses real life backgrounds (it was shot completely live-action, with the stop motion composited later) qualify as an animated feature? The LEGO movie couldn’t even get an Animation nomination because it used real people towards the end.
I believe it has to do with like percentage of animation so it is eligible because aside from a few closeups of Leslie Sthall and the documentary director its like 90% has animated characters in frame
Now that I’ve finally watched RRR….I’m sort of speechless. It’s an amazing, weird, sincere, epic film that’s sort of a cross between historical drama and Marvel movie, with a pretty good dance number and several songs thrown in for good measure. It’s an experience for sure, and makes me want to watch more films from this region to see if they’re all this entertaining…and bonkers.