95th Academy Awards facts for kids

Quick facts for kids 95th Academy Awards
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 presented in a ceremony held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The awards honor films released in 2022.

The event was televised in the U.S. by ABC and was produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss. Weiss was also the director. Comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show for the third time, after the 89th and 90th editions of the ceremony in 2017 and 2018.

Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven awards, including Best Picture; Everything Everywhere All at Once also had eleven nominations, the most of the ceremony. Other winners included All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards and The Whale with two. Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Elephant Whisperers, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, An Irish Goodbye, Navalny, Top Gun: Maverick and Women Talking each won with one.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams on January 24, 2023.

With Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick, it was the first time the Best Picture category featured two sequels in one ceremony, as well as the first time two films grossing over $1 billion worldwide were nominated together for Best Picture. All Quiet on the Western Front's nine nominations trailed only Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Roma (2018) for the most nominations by a non-English-language film. The Quiet Girl became the first submission from Ireland to receive a nomination for Best International Feature Film.

The 16 first-time Oscar nominees across the four acting categories, including all five Best Actor nominees, marked the most first-time nominees in Oscar history. Michelle Yeoh became the first woman who identifies as Asian nominated in the Best Actress category. A record four Asian actors received acting nominations: Hong Chau, Stephanie Hsu, and winners Ke Huy Quan and Yeoh. With her Best Supporting Actress nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Angela Bassett became the first person to receive an acting nomination for a role in a film based on Marvel Comics. Judd Hirsch, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fabelmans, became the actor with the largest gap between two nominations, following his nomination for Ordinary People (1980). At age 90, John Williams became the oldest competitive nominee in Oscar history, and with this being his 53rd nomination, he also broke his own record as the most Oscar-nominated living person, and the second-most nominated person (behind Walt Disney). For Le pupille, with his nomination for Live Action Short Film, Alfonso Cuarón became the second person to be nominated in seven different Oscar categories, following Kenneth Branagh. The film also marks Disney+'s first nomination for the award.

Studio A24's films won a total of nine awards, more than any other distributor; between Everything Everywhere and The Whale, the studio swept the "top five" awards — Best Picture and the four acting awards.

Awards

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

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Governors Awards

On June 21, 2022, the Academy announced its winners of the 13th annual Governors Awards ceremony. It was held on November 19, 2022, and during the event the Academy Honorary Awards and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award were presented to the following recipients:

Academy Honorary Awards

• Euzhan Palcy
• Diane Warren
• Peter Weir

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Michael J. Fox

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Ceremony information

On February 11, 2023, a majority of the full production team was announced, with Rob Paine as a co-executive producer, Sarah Levine Hall, Raj Kapoor, Erin Irwin and Jennifer Sharron joining as producers, Rickey Minor returning as music director since the 2020 ceremony, Taryn Hurd as talent producer, Dave Boone, Nefetari Spencer and Agathe Panaretos as writers, and Robert Dickinson returning as lighting designer.

The look and feel of red carpet arrivals at the ceremony received a major overhaul overseen by creative consultants Lisa Love and Raúl Àvila, in an effort to create a smoother transition from the late-afternoon sunlight outside the auditorium to the evening setting inside (which had been noted by Academy CEO Bill Kramer as a recurring issue with the red carpet since its introduction at the 33rd Academy Awards). As part of these changes, the color of the eponymous red carpet was changed for the first time, becoming a champagne color contrasted by Sienna-colored curtains designed to block more of the sun.

See also

In Spanish: 95.ª edición de los Premios Óscar para niños