Oscar Contenders 2023
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- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsCillian MurphyEmily BluntMatt DamonThe story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.Best Picture
Best Director - Christopher Nolan
Best Actor - Cillian Murphy
Best Supporting Actress - Emily Blunt
Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Original Score
Best Sound - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioRobert De NiroLily GladstoneWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.Best Picture
Best Director - Martin Scorsese
Best Actress - Lily Gladstone
Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Supporting Actor - Robert De Niro
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - Wahzhazhe
Best Sound - DirectorGreta GerwigStarsMargot RobbieRyan GoslingIssa RaeBarbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.Best Picture
Best Director - Greta Gerwig
Best Actress - Margot Robbie
Best Supporting Actress - America Ferrara
Best Supporting Actor - Ryan Gosling
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - I'm Just Ken
Best Original Song - What Was I Made For?
BEst Sound - DirectorAlexander PayneStarsPaul GiamattiDa'Vine Joy RandolphDominic SessaA cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.Best Picture
Best Director - Alexander Payne
Best Actor - Paul Giamatti
Best Supporting Actress - Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Best Supporting Actor - Dominic Sessa
Best Original Screenplay
Best Editing - DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsEmma StoneMark RuffaloWillem DafoeAn account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.Best Picture
Best Director - Yorgos Lanthimos
Best Actress - Emma Stone
Best Supporting Actor - Willem Dafoe
Best Supporting Actor - Mark Ruffalo
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Original Score
Best Visual Effects - DirectorBradley CooperStarsCarey MulliganBradley CooperMatt BomerThis love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.Best Picture
Best Director - Bradley Cooper
Best Actress - Carey Mulligan
Best Actor - Bradley Cooper
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Sound - DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.Best Picture
Best Actress - Greta Lee
Best Actor - Teo Yoo
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Song - Quiet Eyes - DirectorJustine TrietStarsSandra HüllerSwann ArlaudMilo Machado-GranerA woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.Best Picture
Best Director - Justine Triet
Best Actress - Sandra Huller
Best Original Screenplay
Best Editing - DirectorCord JeffersonStarsJeffrey WrightTracee Ellis RossJohn OrtizA novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.Best Picture
Best Actor - Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor - Sterling K. Brown
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Score - DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsChristian FriedelSandra HüllerJohann KarthausAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.Best Picture
Best Director - Jonathan Glazer
Best Supporting Actress - Sandra Huller
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best International Feature - UK - DirectorAndrew HaighStarsAndrew ScottPaul MescalCarter John GroutA screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.Best Picture
Best Actor - Andrew Scott
Best Adapted Screenplay - DirectorKelly Fremon CraigStarsAbby Ryder FortsonRachel McAdamsKathy BatesWhen her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.Best Picture
Best Supporting Actress - Rachel McAdams
Best Adapted Screenplay - DirectorBen AffleckStarsMatt DamonJason BatemanBen AffleckFollows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan.Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorJoaquim Dos SantosKemp PowersJustin K. ThompsonStarsShameik MooreHailee SteinfeldBrian Tyree HenryMiles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.Best Picture
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - Am I Dreaming
Best Visual Effects
Best Animated Feature - DirectorTodd HaynesStarsNatalie PortmanChris TenzisCharles MeltonTwenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.Best Director - Todd Haynes
Best Supporting Actress - Julianne Moore
Best Supporting Actor - Charles Melton
Best Original Screenplay - DirectorBlitz BazawuleStarsFantasia BarrinoTaraji P. HensonDanielle BrooksA woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.Best Director - Blitz Bazawule
Best Actress - Fantasia Barrino
Best Supporting Actress - Danielle Brooks
Best Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson
Best Supporting Actor - Colman Domingo
Best Costume Design
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Original Song - Keep It Movin' - DirectorAva DuVernayStarsAunjanue Ellis-TaylorJon BernthalNiecy NashThe unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.Best Director - Ava DuVernay
Best Actress - Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - DirectorA.V. RockwellStarsTeyana TaylorAaron Kingsley AdetolaAven CourtneyAfter unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.Best Actress - Teyana Taylor
- DirectorJimmy ChinElizabeth Chai VasarhelyiStarsAnnette BeningJodie FosterAnne Marie KempfThe remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.Best Actress - Annette Bening
Best Supporting Actress - Jodie Foster - DirectorEmerald FennellStarsBarry KeoghanJacob ElordiRosamund PikeA student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.Best Actor - Barry Keoghan
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography - DirectorMichael MannStarsAdam DriverShailene WoodleyGiuseppe FestineseSet in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.Best Supporting Actress - Penelope Cruz
Best Makeup & Hair
Best Production Design
Best Sound - DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsJay BaruchelGlenn HowertonMatt JohnsonThe story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.Best Supporting Actor - Glenn Howerton
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsAnna AntoniadesMia McKenna-BruceLara PeakeThree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorRaine Allen-MillerStarsDavid JonssonVivian OparahPoppy Allen-QuarmbyTwo youngsters reeling from bad breakups connect over an eventful day in South London.Best Original Screenplay
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMichael FassbenderTilda SwintonCharles ParnellAfter a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound - DirectorChad StahelskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneGeorge GeorgiouJohn Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.Best Cinematography
Best Editing - DirectorPaul KingStarsTimothée ChalametGustave DieMurray McArthurWith dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.Best Costume Design
Best Production Design - DirectorRidley ScottStarsJoaquin PhoenixVanessa KirbyTahar RahimAn epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.Best Costume Design
Best Makeup & Hair
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Best Sound
Best Visual Effects - DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsCailee SpaenyJacob ElordiAri CohenWhen teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.Best Costume Design
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanScarlett JohanssonTom HanksFollowing a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.Best Costume Design
Best Production Design
Best Original Song - Dear Alien - DirectorAri AsterStarsJoaquin PhoenixPatti LuPoneAmy RyanFollowing the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.Best Makeup & Hair
- DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsSoma SantokiMasaki SudaKô ShibasakiIn the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.Best Original Score
Best Animated Feature - DirectorJames MangoldStarsHarrison FordPhoebe Waller-BridgeAntonio BanderasArchaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.Best Original Score
Best Visual Effects - DirectorJohn CarneyStarsEve HewsonJoseph Gordon-LevittOrén KinlanA single mom at war with her son is trying to find a hobby for him. One day, she rescues a guitar from a dumpster.Best Original Song - High Life
- DirectorChristopher McQuarrieStarsTom CruiseHayley AtwellVing RhamesEthan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.Best Sound
Best Visual Effects - DirectorGareth EdwardsStarsJohn David WashingtonMadeleine Yuna VoylesGemma ChanAgainst the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.Best Visual Effects
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsMinami HamabeRyunosuke KamikiSakura AndôPost war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.Best Visual Effects
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlma PöystiJussi VatanenJanne HyytiäinenIn modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.Best International Feature - Finland
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJuliette BinocheBenoît MagimelEmmanuel SalingerThe story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.Best International Feature - France
- DirectorIlker ÇatakStarsLeonie BeneschAnne-Kathrin GummichRafael StachowiakWhen one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.Best International Feature - Germany
- DirectorMstyslav ChernovStarsMstyslav ChernovEvgeniy MaloletkaLiudmyla AmelkinaAs the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.Best International Feature - Ukraine
Best Documentary Feature - DirectorPablo BergerStarsIvan LabandaAlbert Trifol SegarraRafa CalvoThe adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s.Best Animated Feature
- DirectorDK WelchmanHugh WelchmanStarsKamila UrzedowskaRobert GulaczykMiroslaw BakaJagna is a young woman determined to forge her own path in a late 19th century Polish village - a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.Best Animated Feature
- DirectorNick BrunoTroy QuaneStarsChloë Grace MoretzRiz AhmedEugene Lee YangWhen a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona -- a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy.Best Animated Feature
- DirectorSam FellStarsThandiwe NewtonZachary LeviBella RamseyHaving pulled off an escape from Tweedy's farm, Ginger has found a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new threat, and Ginger and her team decide to break in.Best Animated Feature
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsHyeonseo LeeSung-eun KimSo-yeon LeeThe story of several families as they attempt to escape oppression in North Korea, revealing a world most of us have never seen.Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMaciek HamelaA small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers' confidences.Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDan AbrahamTrent CorreyStarsScott AdsitStan AlexanderStephen J. AndersonAn all-star ensemble of beloved characters from Walt Disney Animation Studios come together for a joyful, entertaining and emotional reunion as they assemble for a spectacular group photo to mark Disney's 100th anniversary.Best Animated Short
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesBenedict CumberbatchDev PatelChronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEthan HawkePedro PascalPedro CasablancAfter twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorIain SoftleyStarsBen RadcliffeClaire PriceScarlet GraceOn Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home gets lost mid-flight over water and needs a miracle to land safely.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorMisan HarrimanStarsDavid OyelowoJessica PlummerAmelie DokuboIn this intense short film, a grieving rideshare driver picks up a passenger who helps him confront the past.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorNazrin ChoudhuryStarsBrittany SnowJuliet DonenfeldRedding MunsellA poor single mother must go out of state for a necessary abortion.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorGeorge SiougasStarsJason WatkinsLouisa CleinCrystal YuA musical man lives a careful life. Each day is like the next, just how he likes it. One day, however, misfortune and fate collide, breaking his routine and rocking his world forever.Best Live Action Short
- DirectorElham EhsasStarsAfsaneh DehrouyehElham EhsasAhmad Jan ManoIn Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.Best Live Action Short