Well, now that the ceremony is over and done with, there’s only one thing left to really be said about this year’s Oscar season: What an absolute bore. To be fair, we’ve been spoilt with compelling and/or exciting races over the last decade, starting with A24’s win for Moonlight back on one infamous night in 2017, so it’s only fitting that the favored horse in the race — Everything Everywhere All at Once — would sweep all the major categories it was nominated for. Brendan Fraser’s probably pretty glad that Ke Huy Quan was put in supporting rather than listed as a co-lead, because this prime stallion had its eyes on that mechanical Oscar-shaped rabbit and practically ripped that thing right off the rails. It was a juggernaut from the minute people began to consider it as a real contender, and rightfully so: It’s a blend of perfect populist, commercial cinema with the arty stylings of the modern indie world, an immensely personal tale of cultural identity and assimilation that’s easily accessible to all viewers, and is active proof that non-conventional fare could still turn out a crowd in the post-pandemic era. In short, it’s what a Best Picture winner is in the modern era, and the fact that it was basically the unchallenged favorite from the first day the nominees were announced is a testament to how much the notion of the “Oscar bait” movie has changed in just twenty-odd years.
Importantly, for the Academy, this year’s ceremony was a pretty standard affair, Cocaine Bear antics and donkey cameos included. If all you really have to go on to wrench dramatics out of a rote broadcast is a single moment of Angela Bassett looking miffed, well, you’re doing pretty well with what happened the last time around. As for the other winners: It’s still somewhat baffling how All Quiet on the Western Front tore up the technical categories, given that Netflix’s promotional interests were elsewhere during the campaign season; Navalny was perhaps the most certified of all favorites, given that awarding it is a swell fuck-you to Vladimir Putin on the behalf of voters; and Women Talking beating Glass Onion and All Quiet is also funny and kind of genuinely fitting. In short, it was a modern Oscars, and it’ll be pretty dope to see both the A24 backlash form and the Academy revert to the mean by doing the dumbest shit possible next year.
Here’s the full list of winners and nominees:
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, Pete 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 Lead Actress
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Cate Blanchett (Tár)
Ana de Armas (Blonde)
Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Lead Actor
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Best Director
Daniel Kwan, 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 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 Original Song
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR — music by M.M. Keeravaani, lyric by Chandrabose
“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman — music and lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick — music and lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once — music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; lyric 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 Adapted Screenplay
Women Talking — Sarah Polley
All Quiet on the Western Front — Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Rian Johnson
Living — Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick — screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
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 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
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 Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front — production design by Christian M. Goldbeck, set decoration by Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water — production design by Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, set decoration by Vanessa Cole
Babylon — production design by Florencia Martin, set decoration by Anthony Carlino
Elvis — production design by Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, set decoration by Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans — production design by Rick Carter, set decoration by Karen O’Hara
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
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 Documentary Short Film
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 International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
EO (Poland)
The Quiet Girl (Ireland)
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 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 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 Live Action Short
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 Documentary Feature Film
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 Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Hong Chau (The Whale)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
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