85th Academy Awards: 2023 nominees and awardees, history of Academy Awards, trivia!

March 18, 2023: Continue reading to know more about Oscars 2023, nominations, awardees and more!

The Academy Awards are regarded as the most prestigious forms of felicitation programme in the entertainment industry, not only in the United States, but all across the globe! Better known as the Oscars, the awards are given away to those who harbour extraordinary merit in the film and the art industry, and have created considerable impact through their work.

This year marked the 95th year of the Academy Awards, and was celebrated on March 12, 2023 to honour films released in 2022. The event was directed by Glenn Weiss, who, alongside Ricky Kirshner, was also the producer. Jimmy Kimmel served as the host of the event, live from the Dolby Theater, Los Angeles, for the third time, after hosting the 89th and 90th editions of the Oscars in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

The Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscar, is the most prestigious award given annually by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to honour the art of filmmaking. AMPAS is a professional honorary organisation based out of California. It was founded by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B Mayer to enhance the image of the film industry. Later, the Oscar was introduced as an award of “merit for distinctive achievements in filmmaking.” The very first ceremony was organised at the Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929.

The Oscars were first celebrated almost 93 years ago, on May 16, 1929, and are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). They were first radio-broadcasted in 1930, and aired on television, for the very first time, in 1953. The first Oscars were presented at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in front of about 270 guests, in 1929. The winners were announced to the media three months later.

Oscar statuette, the award given to the winner, weighs 8.5 pounds and is 13.25 inches high.

Some fun facts and history before we go to the main article:

• Emil Jannings – The Last Command as General Dolgorucki (Grand Duke Sergius Alexander) won the 1st Oscar for Best Actor.
• Janet Gaynor – 7th Heaven as Diane won the 1st Oscar for Best Actoress
• Wings – Paramount Famous Lasky won the 1st Oscar for Outstanding Picture. Wings was the first silent film and is the only one so far to win an Oscar in the Best Picture category.

• In 1927. Gone With The Wind was the first colour film to win the Best Picture award.

• Louise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Jason Robards, Tom Hanks are a few of the winners who won an Oscar for two years in a row.
• Parasite became the first foreign film to win the Best Picture award at the 92nd academy awards.

Back to the main article:

Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Scheinert, was the chart-topper with eleven nominations and seven victories, including Best Picture. We have attached the complete list of nominees and winners below:

Best picture

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

Best Actor

• Brendan Fraser, "The Whale" — Winner
• Colin Farrell, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• Austin Butler, "Elvis"
• Bill Nighy, "Living"
• Paul Mescal, "Aftersun"

Best Actress

• Michelle Yeoh, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• Ana de Armas, "Blonde"
• Cate Blanchett, "Tár"
• Andrea Riseborough, "To Leslie"
• Michelle Williams, "The Fabelmans"

Best director

• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• Martin McDonagh, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• Steven Spielberg, "The Fabelmans"
• Todd Field, "Tár"
• Ruben Ostlund, "Triangle of Sadness"

Best supporting actor

• Ke Huy Quan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• Brian Tyree Henry, "Causeway"
• Judd Hirsch, "The Fabelmans"
• Brendan Gleeson, "Banshees on Inisherin"
• Barry Keoghan, "Banshees of Inisherin"

Best supporting actor

• Jamie Lee Curtis, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• Angela Bassett, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
• Hong Chau, "The Whale"
• Kerry Condon, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• Stephanie Hsu, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

International film

• "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Germany) — Winner
• "Argentina, 1985" (Argentina)
• "Close" (Belgium)
• "EO" (Poland)
• "The Quiet Girl" (Ireland)

Best animated feature

• "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio" — Winner
• "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On"
• "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish"
• "The Sea Beast"
• "Turning Red"

Visual effects

• Avatar: The Way of Water" — Winner
• "Top Gun: Maverick"
• "The Batman"
• "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
• "All Quiet on the Western Front"

Original score

• Volker Bertelmann, "All Quiet on the Western Front" — Winner
• Justin Hurwitz, "Babylon"
• Carter Burwell, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• Son Lux, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
• John

Original song

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

Documentary feature

• "Navalny" — Winner
• "All That Breathes"
• "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"
• "Fire of Love"
• "A House Made of Splinters"

Documentary short subject

• "The Elephant Whisperers" — Winner
• "Haulout"
• "How Do You Measure a Year?"
• "The Martha Mitchell Effect"
• "Stranger at the Gate"

Sound

• "Top Gun: Maverick" — Winner
• "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• "Avatar: The Way of Water"
• "The Batman"
• "Elvis"

Original screenplay

• "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• "The Fabelmans"
• "Tár"
• "Triangle of Sadness"

Adapted Screenplay

• "Women Talking" — Winner
• "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"
• "Living"
• "Top Gun: Maverick"

Cinematography

• James Friend, "All Quiet on the Western Front" — Winner
• Darius Khondj, "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths"
• Mandy Walker, "Elvis"
• Roger Deakins, "Empire of Light"
• Florian Hoffmeister, "Tár"

Costume Design

• "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" — Winner
• "Babylon"
• "Elvis"
• "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
• "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris"

Picture credit: Kaitlyn Booth

Animated short

• "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" — Winner
• "The Flying Sailor"
• "Ice Merchants"
• "My Year of Dicks"
• "An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It"

Live action short

• "An Irish Goodbye" — Winner
• "Ivalu"
• "Le Pupille"
• "Night Ride"
• "The Red Suitcase"

Film editing

• "Everything Everywhere All at Once" — Winner
• "The Banshees of Inisherin"
• "Elvis"
• "Tár"
• "Top Gun: Maverick"

Production design

• "All Quiet on the Western Front" — Winner
• "Avatar: The Way of Water"
• "Babylon"
• "Elvis"
• "The Fabelmans"

Makeup and hairstyling

• "The Whale" — Winner
• "All Quiet on the Western Front"
• "The Batman"
• "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
• "Elvis"