2022
The winner will be listed first, in CAPITAL letters.
Filmsite's Greatest Films
of 2022
Best Picture
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Germ.) (aka Im Westen nichts Neues)
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
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Elvis (2022)
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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The Fabelmans (2022)
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Tár (2022)
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
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Women Talking (2022)
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Best Animated Feature Film
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
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Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2022)
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
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The Sea Beast (2022)
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Turning Red (2022)
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Actor: Austin Butler in "Elvis," Colin
Farrell in "The Banshees of Inisherin," Brendan Fraser in "The
Whale," Paul Mescal in "Aftersun," Bill Nighy in "Living"
Actress: Cate Blanchett in "Tár," Ana de
Armas in "Blonde," Andrea
Riseborough in "To Leslie," Michelle Williams in "The
Fabelmans," Michelle Yeoh in "Everything Everywhere All
at Once"
Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson in "The Banshees of
Inisherin," Brian Tyree Henry in "Causeway," Judd
Hirsch in "The Fabelmans," Barry Keoghan in "The Banshees of Inisherin," Ke
Huy Quan in "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Supporting Actress: Angela Bassett in "Black Panther:
Wakanda Forever," Hong Chau in "The Whale," Kerry
Condon in "The
Banshees of Inisherin," Jamie Lee Curtis in "Everything
Everywhere All at Once," Stephanie Hsu in "Everything
Everywhere All at Once"
Director: Martin McDonagh for "The Banshees of Inisherin," Daniel
Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for "Everything Everywhere All at
Once," Steven Spielberg for "The Fabelmans," Todd Field for "Tár," Ruben
Ostlund for "Triangle of Sadness"
The
95th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), announced its official Oscar
nominations on January 24, 2023, in 23 categories of awards. In
terms of a scorecard for studio accolades after the nominations
were made public, Netflix (the previous year's front-runner) sat
in 2nd place behind A24:
- A24 - 17 nominations (most of them due to Everything
Everywhere All at Once (eleven), plus Aftersun (one)
and The
Whale (three))
- Netflix - 16 nominations (the majority attributed
to All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Warner Bros - 11 nominations (for two films, Elvis (eight) and The
Batman (three))
- Disney/20th Century Studios - 10 nominations (for
three films, Black Panther: Wanda Forever (five), Avatar:
The Way of Water (four), and Turning Red (one))
- Paramount Pictures - 9 nominations (for two films,
Top Gun: Maverick (six), Babylon (three))
- Universal Pictures - 8 nominations (for two films,
The Fabelmans (7), Puss n Boots: The Last Wish (1))
- Focus Features - 7 nominations (mostly for Tár
(6))
There were 10 nominees for Best Picture. It
was an unusual achievement that two of the films were not only
critically-acclaimed, but also were blockbusters that stood at
the top of the box-office for the year:
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Avatar:
The Way of Water
And remarkably, both of them were sequels.
In fact, only seven sequels have ever received a Best Picture nomination
up until now, and only two won the top prize: (i.e., The Bells
of St. Mary's (1945), The Godfather
Part II (1974) (win), The
Godfather Part III (1990), The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King (2003) (win), Toy
Story 3 (2010), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)).
[Note:
The last year in which the top two films in terms of domestic box-office
revenue were also nominated for the Best Picture Academy
Award was in 1982, when Spielberg's E.T.:
The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was competing with Tootsie
(1982). It also occurred in 1975 when
Spielberg's Jaws
(1975) was
competing against One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and
in 1973 when The Sting (1973) was up against The
Exorcist (1973).]
Also, some of the other contenders
this year were also populist choices with strong box-office,
including Everything
Everywhere All at Once and Elvis.
This year's 10 nominated Best Picture films - listed
in descending number
of nominations:
- Everything Everywhere All
at Once (11 nominations) - the front-runner from A24 and the
studio's highest-grossing film of all time - a free-wheeling, weird
domestic drama and comedy (with sci-fi and fantasy elements) co-written
and co-directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert; with numerous
nominations: Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Original
Score, Best Song ("This is a Life"), Best Costume Design,
Best Film Editing, and 4 acting nods for its mostly Asian-American
cast: Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie
Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu), and Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy
Quan)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (9 nominations),
Searchlight Pictures' and writer/director Martin McDonagh's R-rated
Irish drama and black tragi-comedy told about two lifelong friends
and drinking buddies - Padraic Súilleabháin (Colin
Farrell) and folk musician, wannabe composer Colm Doherty (Brendan
Gleeson) who lived in a remote island town (Inishmore) on Ireland's
Aran Islands; its nominations included Best Original Screenplay and Best
Director (for McDonagh), Best Actor (Colin Farrell), two Best
Supporting Actor nominations (Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan),
a Best Supporting Actress nomination (Kerry Condon), Best Original
Score, and Best Film Editing
[Note: There are only about 30 films that have achieved the honor
of receiving 4 acting nominations in all of Oscar history.]
- All Quiet on the Western Front (9 nominations),
from German director Edward Berger about the devastating effects
of war through the eyes of a young idealistic German soldier
sent to the front's trench warfare during WWI; Netflix's lengthy
adaptation and remake of the 92 year-old Oscar-winning war film
from director Lewis Milestone titled
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) was
based upon Erich Maria Remarque’s
1929 classic World War I novel; its nominations included Best
Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best
Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography,
and Best Production Design; it was devoid of acting nominations;
it was also nominated as Best International Feature Film (from
Germany)
[Note: It was the first German-language movie to be nominated
for Best Picture, and the first Best Picture nominee to be spoken
almost entirely in German. It became the 9th non-English-language
film ever to be nominated for both categories: Best International
Feature Film and Best Picture. Only two other foreign language
films have earned more Oscar nominations: Ang Lee's Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (with 10 noms and 4 Oscar wins),
and director Alfonso Cuaron's
Roma (2018) (with 10 noms and 3 Oscar wins). The double-nominee Parasite
(2019) (with 6 noms and 4 Oscar wins) was the first and only
foreign language film to win both prizes - Int'l Feature and
Best Picture.]
- Elvis (8 nominations), Warner Bros.' and
director and co-scripter Baz Luhrmann's dramatized, glitzy musical
biopic of Elvis Presley charted the life of the rock 'n'
roll singer and movie star icon; its many nominations included
Best Actor (Austin Butler as the title character), and other
technical categories - Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound,
Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing,
and Best Production Design
- The Fabelmans (7 nominations), a semi-autobiographic,
sentimental coming-of-age family drama based upon director Spielberg's
own upbringing; with nominations for Best Director (Spielberg), Best
Actress (Michelle Williams), Best Supporting Actor (Judd Hirsch),
Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Production
Design
[Note: At the age of 90, John Williams was nominated for
Best Original Score, making him the oldest person ever
to be nominated for a competitive Oscar. Williams’ nomination
was his 53rd — 48 for Score and five for Original Song.
He has won 5 Oscars.]
- Tár (6 nominations),
from Focus Features and writer/director Todd Field, a provocative,
meticulously-created R-rated classical musical drama about the
rise and fall of the toxic, imperious title character - Lydia
Tár
(Best Actress-nominated Cate Blanchett); with nominations for
Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography,
and Best Film Editing
- Top Gun: Maverick (6 nominations), the
crowd-pleasing # 1 picture of the year at the box office, with
Tom Cruise reprising his role as top
Naval aviator Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell; it received a number of technical
achievement nominations, including Best Film Editing, Best Sound,
Best Visual Effects, and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original
Song (Lady Gaga's "Hold My Hand")
- Avatar: The Way of Water (4 nominations);
the visually-astounding, CGI
sci-fi action-epic sequel to the 2009 original film, had three technical
nominations including Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best
Production Design besides Best Picture; with his 7th overall
career Oscar nomination, director James Cameron (as producer)
shared the Best Picture nomination with co-producer Jon Landau
- Triangle of Sadness (3 nominations), Swedish
writer/director Ruben Östlund's satirical tale of the uber-wealthy,
the year's Palme d'Or winner, was told in three acts. It told
about a luxury yacht cruise for the privileged super-rich, with
a hapless Captain (Woody Harrelson) that ended disastrously with
a shipwreck and 'Lord of the Flies' struggles to survive on a
desert island; its nominations included Best Director (Ruben Östlund)
and Best Original Screenplay
- Women Talking (2 nominations), co-writer/director
Sarah Polley's powerful religious drama was about serial rapes
conducted from 2005 to 2009 against drugged women in a conservative,
Bolivian Mennonite religious community; its nominations included
Best Adapted Screenplay
The five nominees for Best Animated Feature Film included:
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio -
from Netflix, a dark and scary version of the familiar Carlo
Collodi classic tale (in stop-motion animation) set in 1930s
Fascist Italy, about a disobedient wooden boy-puppet/marionette
who became ethically-challenged and was brought to life as a
real boy, pleasing grieving woodcarver Geppetto
- Marcel the Shell With Shoes On - from A24,
based on the 2010 shorts about a tiny shell named Marcel who
wore shoes; the feature-length stop-motion mockumentary chronicled
the coming-of-age adventures and travails of a tiny, one-inch
mollusk named Marcel - the victim of a broken home, with two
companions: grandma Connie (Isabella Rossellini) and a pet piece
of lint named Alan
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - from DreamWorks
Animation, a re-boot of DreamWorks’ Puss franchise and the
6th film in the Shrek series,
with storybook-stylized CG animation, about the charismatic cat Puss
(with his last 9th life) on a mythical mission to restore his eight
previous lives
- The Sea Beast - from Netflix, a thrilling,
swashbuckling animated adventure about an orphan girl who joined
a crew of deep-sea monster hunters to capture a huge, legendary
sea creature (the 'Red Bluster') in the ocean
- Turning Red - from Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar
Animation, Pixar’s 25th feature film - with a female director
Domee Shi, a
coming-of-age tale of a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl whose
extreme upset and emotions transformed her into a giant red panda
The five Best Directors nominated this year
included an all-male slate of candidates whose films were all
included amongst the Best Picture nominees. In the last
two years of Oscars with back-to-back wins, both Chloé Zhao
(for Nomadland
(2020))
and Jane Campion (for The Power of the Dog (2021)) became
the second and third females to win the directoral prize:
[Note: This marked the fourth consecutive year with Asian talent
nominated for both producing and directing. Parasite (2019), Minari/Nomadland
(2020), Drive My Car (2021), and Everything Everywhere
All At Once (2022).]
- 76 year-old Steven Spielberg (with many previous
nominations (22) and Oscar wins (3) to date) for The Fabelmans
[Note: Spielberg became a nine-time Oscar nominee
in the Best Director category with this nomination. The record
of 12 Best Director nominations remains with William Wyler.
Spielberg and Wyler were now tied at 13 films nominated for
Best Picture - a record number. In Spielberg's career, he has won three
Academy Awards, two for Best Director (Schindler's
List (1993) and Saving
Private Ryan (1998)), and one for Best Picture (Schindler's
List (1993).]
- 58 year-old Todd Field (with three previous Oscar
nominations) for Tár
[Note: In addition to three nominations this year
for Tar, Todd Field has been nominated previously three
times for: Little
Children (2006) (Best Adapted Screenplay), and In the
Bedroom (2001) (Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously
Produced or Published and Best Picture).]
- 52 year-old Martin McDonagh (with three previous
nominations and no Oscar wins), a British-Irish playwright,
screenwriter, producer, and director, for The
Banshees of Inisherin
[Note: McDonagh was also nominated for Best
Original Screenplay and Best Picture for the same film. He
also has two nominations for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri (2017) - Best Original Screenplay and Best Director,
and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for In Bruges
(2008).]
- 48 year-old Ruben Ostlund, a Swedish film director
(with no previous Oscar nominations) for Triangle of Sadness
[Note: This was Ostlund's English-language debut film. Ostlund
received two noms for this film, Best Director and Best Original
Screenplay.]
- 34 year-old Daniel Kwan and 35 year-old Daniel
Scheinert (known as the two 'Daniels') (with no previous Oscar
nominations) for Everything
Everywhere All at Once
[Note: Kwan and Scheinert were also nominated for
Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture for the same film. They
were the fourth duo in Oscar history nominated for Best Director,
with two of the duos ultimately winning the award. Previous duos
were nominated for West
Side Story (1961) (Jerome
Robbins and Robert Wise - win), No Country For Old Men (2007) (Joel
and Ethan Coen - win), True Grit (2010) (Joel and Ethan Coen),
and
Heaven Can Wait (1978) (Warren Beatty and Buck Henry). Also,
Asian-American director Daniel Kwan's nomination marked
the fourth year in a row that an Asian director was nominated.]
In the four acting categories with 20 Oscars up for
grabs, an amazing 16 of the contenders were first-time nominees.
Four of the 20 performers were Asian-American (three were nominated
for Everything
Everywhere All at Once, and one for The Whale). This
marked the most Asian acting nominees in a single year. And both The
Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere
All at Once had four nominees in the four acting categories.
The five Best Actor nominees this year - all
were first-time nominees (of varying ages and nationalities), but
as some noted, without ethnic diversity: [Note:
The last time there were all first-timer Best Actor nominees was
for films in 1934, 88 years earlier.]
- 73 year-old British actor Bill Nighy, for his
role as Mr. Rodney Williams - a 1950s London civil servant-bureaucrat
working in the county's Public Works Department who received
a diagnosis of a terminal illness, in director Oliver Hermanus'
UK drama about the meaning of life titled Living (also
nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro that
was adapted from Akira Kurosawa's classic
Ikiru (1952, Jp.))
- 54 year-old American-Canadian actor Brendan Fraser
for his characterization of Charlie - a morbidly-obese English
professor who made attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage
daughter Ellie Sarsfield (Sadie Sink), in The Whale (with
a total of 3 nominations)
- 46 year-old Irish actor Colin Farrell, for his
role as stunned villager Pádraic Súilleabháin
who was suddenly ignored by his life-long friend and drinking
buddy Colm Doherty (co-star Brendan Gleeson), in The Banshees
of Inisherin
- 31 year-old Austin Butler, for his role as the
title character - hip-gyrating rock 'n' roll singer and actor
- seen from the flashbacked point of view of his former manager
Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), in Baz Luhrmann's musical biopic Elvis
- 26 year-old Irish-born Paul Mescal for his role
as 30 year-old Scottisher Calum Paterson, the father of 11 year
old daughter Sophie Paterson (Frankie Corio/Celia Rowlson-Hall),
on a vacation trip with her to Turkey, in writer/director Charlotte
Wells' nostalgic drama (and feature film debut) Aftersun
The five Best Actress nominees this year were
in a highly-competitive category. The inclusion of unexpected nominee
Andrea Riseborough was due to a last-minute viral celebrity campaign.
Nine of the 10 Best Actor and Best Actress nominees were white:
- 53 year-old Australian actress Cate Blanchett
(with two Oscar wins), for her role as toxic classical music
conductor Lydia Tár, in Tár
(2022)
[Note: Blanchett has a total of 8 Oscar nominations,
with a Best Supporting Actress win for The Aviator (2004),
and another win as Best Actress for Blue Jasmine (2013).
Other Oscar-nominated films for Best Supporting Actress include
Notes on a Scandal (2006) and I'm Not There (2007), and for
Best Actress include Elizabeth (1998), Elizabeth: The
Golden Age (2007), and Carol (2015).]
- 60 year-old Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh (with
her first nomination), for her role as Evelyn Quan - a middle-aged,
overwhelmed laundromat owner who traversed parallel and alternate
universes (the multiverse), in the dramatic sci-fi fantasy Everything
Everywhere All at Once
- 42 year-old Michelle Williams (with her fifth
nomination after four previous Oscar noms with no wins),
for her portrayal of Mitzi Fabelman (the Jewish mother of Steven
Spielberg's film-making alter-ego Sammy Fabelman), in director
Spielberg's autobiographical tale The
Fabelmans
[Note: Williams has two previous Best Actress noms, for Blue
Valentine (2010) and My Week with Marilyn (2011),
and two previous Best Supporting Actress noms, for Brokeback
Mountain (2005) and Manchester by the Sea (2016).]
- 41 year-old British actress Andrea Riseborough
(with her first nomination), for her role as the title character
Leslie Rowlands, a troubled alcoholic who lived in West Texas
and won the state lottery of $190,000 before her life went into
a downhill spiral, in director Michael Morris' directorial debut
film - the indie drama To Leslie
- 34 year-old Cuban/Spanish actress Ana de Armas
(with her first nomination), for her role as the often-naked
Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jeane Mortenson in the fictionalized, NC-17
rated biopic and psychodrama Blonde
Eight of the 10 Supporting
Actor and Supporting Actress nominees were first-timers. The five Best
Supporting Actor nominees
this year:
[Note: This marked the fourth consecutive year that a film had
double-nominees in this category.]
- 67 year-old Irish-actor Brendan Gleeson (with
his first nomination) in his role as folk musician Colm Doherty
who came into conflict with his long-standing best friend and
drinking buddy Pádraic
Súilleabháin (Colin Farrell), in the Irish dark
tragi-comedy The
Banshees of Inisherin
- 87 year-old Judd Hirsch (with his second Oscar
nomination), in his role as Boris Schildkraut - Sammy Fabelman's
grand-uncle and a former film worker and circus lion tamer,
in the autobiographical coming-of-age drama The
Fabelmans
[Note: Hirsch was only on-screen for 8 minutes and
3 seconds. Hirsch's nomination broke a long-standing record held
by Henry Fonda of 41 years, for the longest time period between
his First and Last Nomination/Win.
Hirsch received his first Supporting Actor nod for Ordinary
People (1980) in 1981, and now received a second similar
nomination 42 years later. The record of 41 years was long-held
by actor Henry Fonda. Hirsch also became the 2nd oldest Best
Supporting Actor nominee at 87 years, 315 days.]
- 30 year-old Irish actor Barry Keoghan (with his
first nomination) for his role as troubled Dominic Kearney, in The
Banshees of Inisherin
- 40 year-old African-American Brian Tyree Henry
(with his first nomination) for his portrayal of New Orleans
auto-mechanic James Aucoin, who was physically and emotionally
traumatized in the past by a deadly and tragic car accident that
killed his nephew, and was befriended by brain-injured, rehabilitating
Afghanistan war veteran Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence), in director
Lila Neugebauer's debut feature film and Apple TV+'s R-rated
drama Causeway (the
film's sole nomination)
- 51 year-old Vietnamese-American Ke Huy
Quan (with his first nomination) in the role of Evelyn's naive and
meek husband Waymond Wang, in Everything
Everywhere All at Once
The five Best Supporting Actress nominees this year:
- 64 year-old African-American Angela Bassett (with
her second Oscar nomination), for her role as the grieving Queen
Ramonda of the kingdom of Wakanda after the death of her son
King T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman in the original film), in Marvel
Studios' and director Ryan Coogler's superhero sequel Black
Panther: Wakanda Forever
[Note: Bassett's previous nomination was for Best Actress,
for What's Love Got to Do with It (1993).]
- 43 year-old Vietnam-born American actress Hong
Chau (with her first nomination) for her role as best friend
and nurse Liz, who was caring for a severely-obese
male named Charlie (Brendan Fraser), an English professor teaching
online, in Darren Aronofsky's drama
The
Whale
- 40 year-old Irish actress Kerry Condon (with her
first nomination), for her portrayal of Siobhán Súilleabháin
- the
long-suffering sister of Pádraic (co-star Colin Farrell),
in the Irish drama The
Banshees on Inisherin
- 64 year-old Jamie Lee Curtis (with her first nomination),
for her characterization of cruel bureaucratic IRS inspector
Deirdre Beaubeirdra, in Everything
Everywhere All at Once
- 32 year-old Chinese-American Stephanie Hsu (with
her first nomination) for her role as two iterations: Joy Wang,
the lesbian daughter of Evelyn Quan Wang (co-star Michelle Yeoh),
and as her multiverse manifestation known as Jobu Tupaki, in Everything
Everywhere All at Once
Snubs or Overlooked Films or Nominees:
- popular actor Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski
were both overlooked for nominations in the Top Gun: Maverick sequel,
although the film acquired six Oscar nominations, including Best
Picture; the action-film also missed obtaining an expected Best
Cinematography nomination
- although director Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis received
8 nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor, the director
was devoid of recognition
- Ryan Coogler's sequel Black Panther: Wakanda
Forever was unable to match the performance of its Best
Picture-nominated superhero predecessor Black
Panther (2018) (with three Oscar wins from its seven nominations);
it only received five nominations including Best Visual Effects,
Best Original Song ("Lift Me Up"), Best Makeup and Hairstyling,
Best Costume Design, and Best Supporting Actress (Angela Bassett)
- Brad Pitt was denied a Best Supporting Actor nomination
for his role as aging,
hedonistic, recently-divorced silent film matinee idol Jack Conrad
in Damien Chazelle's epic Babylon (with only three nominations,
Best Costume and Best Production Design, and Best Original Score);
it was a frenzied, uneven, fast-paced, and extravagant historical
drama with an ensemble cast that chronicled the madcap magic
and the excesses of Hollywood and Tinseltown showbiz in the late "Roaring" 1920s;
in addition, Margot Robbie was denied a Best Actress nomination
for her role as Nellie LaRoy - an ambitious, wannabe NJ starlet
and hedonistic "It-Girl"
inspired by Clara Bow
- James Cameron - the producer, director, and co-writer
of the blockbuster sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, was
overlooked as Best Director; in his acclaimed career, his wins
included Best Picture and Best Director for Titanic (1997)
- the historical epic The
Woman King lacked
a single nomination - a complete shut-out - it could easily have
obtained a nod for Viola
Davis as the title character General Nanisca in The Kingdom
of Dahomey, West Africa in 1823, who was reunited with her daughter
Nawi (Thuso Mbedu); Lashana Lynch was also ignored for her role
as Izogie, and female director Gina Prince-Bythewood
was also unnominated
- co-writer/director Sarah Polley's acclaimed drama Women
Talking received two nominations (Best Adapted Screenplay
and Best Picture), but Polley was left without a Best Director
nomination
- Eddie Redmayne's acting performance as the infamous
serial-killing title character Charlie Cullen was passed over,
in director Tobias Lindholm's chilling crime drama The
Good Nurse
- Living, adapted from Akira Kurosawa's classic
Ikiru (1952, Jp.) received only a Best Adapted Screenplay
for Kazuo Ishiguro; the film's only other Oscar nomination was Bill Nighy's Best Actor nomination
- Paul Dano was snubbed for his role as Steven Spielberg's
gentle-minded father Burt in The Fabelmans, although his
two co-stars received noms for Best Actress (Michelle Williams)
and Best Supporting Actor (Judd Hirsch)
- Indian filmmaker-director S.S. Rajamouli's rousing
and spectacular Telugu film, the crime epic RRR managed
only one nomination: Best Original Song ("Naatu Naatu"),
although was considered a dark-horse Best Picture nominee
- rising star Danielle Deadwyler was ignored for
her portrayal of Mamie Till
in the biographical drama Till (with no nominations)
- as the grieving mother of lynched 14 year-old schoolboy son
Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955, she became a strong and determined
civil rights activist
- director Rian Johnson's who-dun-it mystery sequel
to Knives
Out (2019) -- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, with
an ensemble cast and Daniel Craig reprising his role as master
detective Benoit Blanc, received only one nomination for Johnson's
own Best Adapted Screenplay
- in the wealth satire Triangle of Sadness,
Filipina actress Dolly De Leon was denied a Best Supporting Actress
nomination for her role as housekeeper-toilet cleaner Abigail
- Adam Sandler was denied a Best Actor nomination
for his role as Stanley Sugerman in director Jeremiah Zagar's basketball
drama Hustle
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