The Call Sheet: Previewing The Oscars noms
Jan. 22, 2023 | Vol. 1, Issue 4 | Oscar nom guesses, another $2 billion film and a new Rian Johnson show
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Oscar nom guesses, another $2 billion film and a new Rian Johnson show
Predicting the Academy Awards nominations
This Tuesday, Jan. 24, the full list of nominees for the 95th Academy Awards will be unveiled. The show, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. ET, is set to include all 24 major categories ranging from best animation feature, to best sound, to best documentary and, of course, best picture and acting categories. Collider has more on how to tune in to the full nomination show.
While 2022 certainly had a few stumbles at the box office, it also had some incredible successes between smash-hits like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, never mind moving artistic films like The Fablemans, The Banshees of Inisherin, Tár, and The Whale, to name a few.
In anticipation of this year’s nomination show, I’m offering my first ever slate of predictions for this year’s Oscars. While I have seen most of the domestic films that are in contention this year, for a few of these categories I had to lean on the expertise of others from major trade publications like The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Keep in mind that these aren’t necessarily my picks across the board for what I think deserves a nod, but rather an effort to predict what the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences plans to do.
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Woman King
Best Director
James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
Todd Field, Tár
Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Williams, The Fablemans
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Adapted Screenplay
All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Rian Johnson
Living, Kazuo Ishiguro
She Said, Rebecca Lekiewicz
Women Talking, Sarah Polley
Best Original Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans, Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
Tár, Todd Field
Till, Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu & Michael Reilly
Best International Feature
All Quiet on the Western Front, Germany
Argentina, 1985, Argentina
Close, Belgium
Decision to Leave, South Korea
EO, Poland
Best Documentary Feature
All That Breathes
Fire of Love
Last Flight Home
Navalny
Retrograde
Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Strange World
Turning Red
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front, James Friend
Avatar: The Way of Water, Russell Carpenter
Top Gun: Maverick, Claudio Miranda
Babylon, Linus Sandgren
Elvis, Mandy Walker
Best Costume Design
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ruth E. Carter
Babylon, Mary Zophres
Elvis, Catherine Martin
The Fabelmans, Mark Bridges
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Jenny Eagan
Best Film Editing
Avatar: The Way of Water, David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen E. Rivkin
Elvis, Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul Rogers
The Fabelmans, Sarah Broshar & Michael Kahn
Top Gun: Maverick, Eddie Hamilton
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Best Original Score
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ludwig Göransson
The Fabelmans, John Williams
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
Women Talking, Hildur Guðnadóttir
The Woman King, Terence Blanchard
Best Original Song
“Carolina,” Where the Crawdads Sing — Taylor Swift
“Lift Me Up,” Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna and Tems
“Hold My Hand,” Top Gun: Maverick — Lady Gaga and Michael Tucker
“Ciao Papa,” Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Guillermo del Toro and Roeban Katz
“Stand Up,” Till — Dernst ‘D’Mile’ Emile II and Jazmine Sullivan
Best Production Design
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Sound
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Jurassic World: Dominion
Stories worth reading
Surprise, surprise! Avatar: The Way of Water has crossed the $2 billion mark, in its sixth week at the box office (where it remained No. 1 overall). It’s expected in the coming weeks to cross into the top five box office films of all-time (not adjusted for inflation). The Hollywood Reporter’s Pamela McClintock has the details.
The Banshees of Inisherin is one of the frontrunners for the Best Picture of 2022 at the Academy Awards, so it shouldn’t come as a shock that a lot of thought went into the movie’s design. The film’s production designer, Mark Tildesley, spoke with The Wrap’s Joe McGovern about how Vincent Van Gogh inspired part of the film’s look.
A big statement was made at Sundance over the weekend, as jurors for the film festival walked out of a screening of Magazine Dreams because deaf audience members—including juror and actor Marlee Matlin—were given closed captioning devices that did not work. Futher, jurors had apparently repeatedly asked that movies at the festival played with open captions on the screen, but many filmmakers resisted the request. Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, Matt Donnelly, Brent Lang has more details on the situation.
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The Godfather Part II
Blurb: “I understand what they were going for, and the message of the story. And for many viewers it worked great—I’m genuinely happy for those who love this movie, I just wish I was one of them. But to me, the glimpses of greatness throughout this nearly three-and-a-half-hour spectacle are mostly fleeting. That’s largely because the film’s most dramatic and damning moments are outweighed by a meandering and exposition-heavy tale that, much like Michael Corleone himself, has a strong notion of what it wants to be, but no interest of informing onlookers of the full picture.”
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What’s next
Movies
Close, in theaters Jan. 27: “The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.” Starring Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele. Trailer →
Television/Streaming
How I Met Your Father, season two premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 24, streaming on Hulu: Part of a larger How I Met Your Mother universe, HIMYF follows as a woman tells her son about how she met his father, and, per the synopsis, “catapults us back to the present where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.” Starring Hillary Duff. Trailer →
Poker Face, season two premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 24, streaming on Hulu: A new anthology show from Rian Johnson, the creator of Knives Out and Glass Onion. Synopsis: “Blessed with an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying, Charlie Cale investigates crimes she encounters on the road.” Starring Natasha Lyonne. Trailer →
In case you missed it…
Actor Jeremy Renner broke more than 30 bones after being run over by a snowplow, but is in good spirits about it. Variety has an update on Renner’s condition.
Is Disney more likely to buy out Hulu, or to sell it off? Puck News looks at what strategies are at returned CEO Bob Iger’s disposal in this paywalled story.
The Mandalorian’s season three trailer got a lot of eyeballs in its first 24 hours. The Hollywood Reporter looks at what record the show claimed with the performance.
What is Jason Momoa’s next step in the DC Universe? It could be Lobo… CinemaBlend has more on the actor’s not-so-subtle teases about his next steps after Aquaman.
Parting thoughts
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All the best,
Mickey