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Official poster
Date	March 12, 2023
Site	Dolby Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Jimmy Kimmel
Preshow hosts	Ashley Graham Vanessa Hudgens Lilly Singh
Produced by	Glenn Weiss Ricky Kirshner
Directed by	Glenn Weiss
Highlights
Best Picture	Everything Everywhere All at Once
Most awards	Everything Everywhere All at Once (7)
Most nominations	Everything Everywhere All at Once (11)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC (International)
Duration	3 hours, 40 minutes
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The 95th Academy Awards were a big celebration for movies! These awards, also known as the Oscars, are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). They honor the best films that came out in 2022.

The awards show happened on March 12, 2023. It took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Many people watched it on TV in the U.S. on ABC.

Jimmy Kimmel, a famous comedian and TV host, was the host for the third time. He had hosted the Oscars before in 2017 and 2018.

The movie Everything Everywhere All at Once was a huge winner. It took home seven awards, including the top prize, Best Picture. This movie also had the most nominations, with eleven in total. Other movies that won many awards included All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards, and The Whale with two. Several other films won one award each. These included Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Top Gun: Maverick.

Winners and Nominees: Celebrating the Best Films
About the Ceremony
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Winners and Nominees: Celebrating the Best Films

The list of movies and people nominated for awards was announced on January 24, 2023. Actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams shared the exciting news.

This year was special because two sequel movies, Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick, were nominated for Best Picture. It was the first time two sequels were nominated in the same year. Also, these were the first two movies to earn over $1 billion worldwide and both be nominated for Best Picture.

All Quiet on the Western Front, a movie not in English, received nine nominations. This was one of the most nominations ever for a non-English film. The Quiet Girl made history as the first movie from Ireland to be nominated for Best International Feature Film.

Many actors were nominated for an Oscar for the first time. In fact, all five actors nominated for Best Actor were first-timers! This was a record for the Oscars. Michelle Yeoh became the first woman of Asian heritage to be nominated for Best Actress. A record four Asian actors were nominated for acting awards this year. These included Hong Chau, Stephanie Hsu, and the winners Ke Huy Quan and Michelle Yeoh.

Angela Bassett was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She was the first person to get an acting nomination for a movie based on Marvel Comics. Judd Hirsch, nominated for The Fabelmans, had the longest time between his Oscar nominations. His last nomination was in 1980!

At 90 years old, John Williams became the oldest person ever nominated for a competitive Oscar. It was his 53rd nomination, breaking his own record as the most nominated living person. Only Walt Disney has more nominations.

The movie studio A24 had a very successful night. Their films won a total of nine awards. Between Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Whale, A24 movies won all five of the main awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Award Winners

Here are the winners of the main awards. The winners are listed first and are in bold letters.

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay winners

Brendan Fraser, Best Actor winner

Michelle Yeoh, Best Actress winner

Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actor winner

Jamie Lee Curtis, Best Supporting Actress winner

Sarah Polley, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Guillermo del Toro, Best Animated Feature co-winner

Edward Berger, Best International Feature Film winner

Daniel Roher, Best Documentary Feature winner

Kartiki Gonsalves, Best Documentary Short Subject winner

Volker Bertelmann, Best Original Score winner

M. M. Keeravani, Best Original Song winner

Ruth E. Carter, Best Costume Design winner

Joe Letteri, Best Visual Effects winner

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang, producers
- 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, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, producers
- Elvis – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss, producers
- The Fabelmans – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner, producers
- 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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie
- Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley
- Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin
- Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Calum Paterson
- Bill Nighy – Living as Mr. Rodney Williams

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang
- Ana de Armas – Blonde as Norma Jeane
- Cate Blanchett – Tár as Lydia Tár
- Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie as Leslie Rowlands
- Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans as Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman

Best Supporting Actor

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang
- Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty
- Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway as James Aucoin
- Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans as Boris Schildkraut
- Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney

Best Supporting Actress

Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre
- Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda
- Hong Chau – The Whale as Liz
- Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin
- Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

Women Talking – Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell; based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson; based on characters created by Johnson and the film Knives Out
- Living – Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the original motion picture screenplay Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni
- Top Gun: Maverick – Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks; based on the film Top Gun written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.

Best Animated Feature Film

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alex Bulkley
- 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

Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) – directed by Edward Berger
- Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) – directed by Santiago Mitre
- Close (Belgium) – directed by Lukas Dhont
- EO (Poland) – directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
- The Quiet Girl (Ireland) – directed by Colm Bairéad

Best Documentary Feature

Navalny – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris
- 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

Best Documentary Short Subject

The Elephant Whisperers – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
- Haulout – Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
- 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

Best Live Action Short Film

An Irish Goodbye – Tom Berkeley and Ross White
- Ivalu – Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
- Le pupille – Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
- Night Ride – Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
- The Red Suitcase – Cyrus Neshvad

Best Animated Short Film

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
- The Flying Sailor – Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
- 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

Best 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

Best Original Song

"Naatu Naatu" from RRR – Music by M. M. Keeravani; Lyrics by Chandrabose
- "Applause" from Tell It Like a Woman – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren
- "Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick – Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
- "Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson; Lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler
- "This Is a Life" from Everything Everywhere All at Once – Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski; Lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

Best Sound

Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor
- 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

Best Production Design

All Quiet on the Western Front – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
- 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
- Elvis – Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
- The Fabelmans – Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara

Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front – James Friend
- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Darius Khondji
- Elvis – Mandy Walker
- Empire of Light – Roger Deakins
- Tár – Florian Hoffmeister

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
- 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

Best Costume Design

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

Best Film Editing

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

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank, and Kamil Jafar
- 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

Governors Awards: Special Honors

Before the main Oscar ceremony, there's a special event called the Governors Awards. This event gives out honorary awards to people who have made amazing contributions to movies over their careers. It also gives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to someone who has done great work for others.

The 13th Governors Awards ceremony was held on November 19, 2022. Here are the people who received these special honors:

Academy Honorary Awards

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Michael J. Fox

Movies with Many Nominations and Wins

Some movies are so good that they get nominated for many awards, and some even win a lot! Here's a look at the films that stood out in 2022.

Films with multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
11	Everything Everywhere All at Once
9	All Quiet on the Western Front
9	The Banshees of Inisherin
8	Elvis
7	The Fabelmans
6	Tár
6	Top Gun: Maverick
5	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
4	Avatar: The Way of Water
3	Babylon
	The Batman
	Triangle of Sadness
	The Whale
2	Living
2	Women Talking

Films with multiple wins
Wins	Film
7	Everything Everywhere All at Once
4	All Quiet on the Western Front
2	The Whale

About the Ceremony

The team that put together the Oscars show was announced in February 2023. This team included producers, the music director Rickey Minor, and writers. They all worked to make the show run smoothly.

One big change this year was the color of the red carpet. For the first time, it wasn't red! It was a soft, light color called champagne. This change was made to help the lighting look better as the sun went down. It helped make the transition from daytime outside to evening inside the theater much smoother.