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2023 Academy Awards Winners - Fraser & Yeoh Finally Win Oscars

by Alex Billington
March 12, 2023

The 95th Academy Awards are finally upon us and it's time to watch the show and discover the winners of the most prestigious award in Hollywood. The Oscars have once again returned to their normal routine, wrapping up another very long season with this spectacular March event. All awards will be marked below in the complete list alongside the nominees. There are ten Best Picture nominees from 2022, and it has been a rather exciting awards season. The frontrunner is the beloved Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is my #1 of 2022 anyway, though I was not expecting it to end up winning so much already. The rest of tonight should be a surprise. I'm enjoying this anticipation and I'm curious to find out what The Academy members picked. I'd also be happy with Tár or The Fabelmans winning as well. Big night for Hollywood! Now it's time to find out who's taking home Oscars this year, and who isn't, at the annual Academy Awards. The full set of nominees below will be updated with winners highlighted once revealed live on air - refresh for updates.

BEST PICTURE:

Everything Everywhere All at Once!!!!

BEST DIRECTOR:

The Daniels for EEAAO

BEST ACTOR:

Brendan Fraser in The Whale

BEST ACTRESS:

Michelle Yeoh in EEAAO

Continue reading for a complete list of #Oscars2023 nominees & winners. Comment on the winners below.

This will be updated throughout the night to reflect the winners as revealed. Additionally, I might be adding a small bit of personal commentary beneath each category. Winners are highlighted in BOLD below.

Picture:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking

Thoughts: YES!!!! I couldn't imagine this would happen when I first watched it last year, but here we are… and it's taking home the big prize. Love love love this film - what a glorious and exciting night for EEAAO.

Director:
Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
Todd Field - Tár
Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness

Thoughts: Yes! Yes! I am so happy about them winning. They deserved it. It's really THE movie of the year.

Actor:
Austin Butler - Elvis
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser - The Whale
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Bill Nighy - Living

Thoughts: Yay!!!! This is the other one I really wanted to happen, I loved the iflm, so happy for Brendan.

Actress:
Cate Blanchett - Tár
Ana de Armas - Blonde
Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Thoughts: I loved Cate in Tár, but also really wanted Yeoh to win because this is her chance to really shine and she deserves this one for EEAAO and for everything else she has made before.

Supporting Actor:
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

Thoughts: Yay!! I am so happy for this victory!! He deserves this and it has happened after all this time.

Supporting Actress:
Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau - The Whale
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Thoughts: Oh fabulous!! Another good win for EEAAO and I thought she was fantastic in it anyway.

Original Screenplay:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár - Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Östlund

Thoughts: Yes give this brilliant film all the awards, let's go!! The Daniels rule, what a night for them.

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
Top Gun: Maverick - Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie
Women Talking - Sarah Polley

Animated Feature:
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots
The Sea Beast
Turning Red

Thoughts: Guillermo is the best - and it's such a beautiful, one-of-a-kind film. It also makes me happy that a stop-motion animated film is winning remind us this animation style still matters and should live on.

International Feature:
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)

Thoughts: A big win for Germany! And for Netflix! This one was expected, but I would've gone with Close.

Cinematography:
All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend
Bardo - Darius Khondji
Elvis - Mandy Walker
Empire of Light - Roger Deakins
Tár - Florian Hoffmeister

Thoughts: An excellent film, but my personal choice for this category would be Tár.

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

Thoughts: Well, this is not my personal pick (I'd rather go with Fire of Love or All That Breathes) but it's a good film and an important film - so it's fine that it won here. Worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.

Documentary Short:
The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves & Guneet Monga
Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva & Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue & Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate - Joshua Seftel & Conall Jones

Animated Short:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy & Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor - Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants - João Gonzalez & Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks - Sara Gunnarsdóttir & Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It - Lachlan Pendragon

Live-Action Short:
An Irish Goodbye - Tom Berkeley & Ross White
Ivalu - Anders Walter & Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille - Alice Rohrwacher & Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride - Eirik Tveiten & Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase - Cyrus Neshvad

Visual Effects:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick

Thoughts: You can't beat James Cameron. But also, yes, Avatar 2 does have the best VFX. Hands down.

Production Design:
All Quiet on the Western Front - PD: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water - PD: Dylan Cole & Ben Procter; Set: Vanessa Cole
Babylon - PD: Florencia Martin; Set: Anthony Carlino
Elvis - PD: Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy; Set: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans - PD: Rick Carter; Set: Karen O'Hara

Costume Design:
Babylon - Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth Carter
Elvis - Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris - Jenny Beavan

Make-Up & Hair:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Heike Merker & Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman - Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Camille Friend & Joel Harlow
Elvis - Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, Aldo Signoretti
The Whale - Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, Anne Marie Bradley

Editing:
The Banshees of Inisherin - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis - Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
Tár - Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick - Eddie Hamilton

Thoughts: Woohoo!! Another one for EEAAO!!

Sound:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick

Original Score:
All Quiet on the Western Front - Volker Bertelmann
Babylon - Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin - Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Son Lux
The Fabelmans - John Williams

Thoughts: Wow - this is a bit of a surprise. Then again, hearing them play some of the score in the ceremony reminds me oh yeah actually this is a seriously unsettling, unique score that added quite a bit to the film.

Original Song:
"Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
"Naatu Naatu" from RRR
"This Is A Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once

Thoughts: Yessss!! Go RRR!! I'm glad it finally got its Oscar, the one win I absolutely needed to see tonight.

Honorary:
Euzhan Palcy, Diane Warren, Peter Weir (More info)

Final Thoughts: This is the best outcome!! I never thought in a million years that Everything Everywhere All at Once would go on to win a total of 7 Oscars. I think it's a brilliant, innovative, emotionally intelligent, beautiful film and it absolutely deserves all of these Oscars (and maybe even a few others it didn't win). Yes, I also think Tár is a phenomenal film and even though it didn't win anything, I'm can't be unhappy because at least one of my favorites won a bunch anyway! I'm still a bit unsure about All Quiet on the Western Front succeeding in so many of the technical categories, then again, this is really where the film shines the most so it deserves to win them anyway. Overall, the ceremony was rather easy going and uneventful, which might just be the right way for this presentation to strive onward. Let the winners speak and let the films be the center of attention! Not the ceremony. I couldn't be happier to see Brendan Fraser win, what an emotional speech. I'm also pleased that Women Talking got something (good film). Plus of course RRR livening up the Dolby Theatre with its "Naatu Naatu" energy, especially when it then won and he sang his thank you speech.

[For last year's Academy Awards winners, with CODA and Jane Campion landing the top prizes, click here.]

Chime in below after reviewing the list of 2023 Oscars winners updated throughout the night and tell us if you're satisfied with this year's awards, and thoughts on the jubilant ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel - the main event being held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. One final congratulations to all of 2023's winners as well as every last nominee! Are you relieved? Any thoughts on the 95th Academy Awards?

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