The 95th Academy Awards, with “Everything Everywhere All At Once” leading the nominations, will feature actresses, actors and directors such as Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser and Austin Butler, and Steven Spielberg and Todd Field, among others
On the night of March 12th, the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles will announce the winners of the 95th edition of the Oscars, with “Everything Everywhere All At Once” leading the way with 11 nominations. Closely followed by “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Nothing New in the West” with nine each. While we wait for the red carpet to roll out and the winners to be announced, these are the nominees in some of the main categories.
Ten films are nominated for this year’s best film: “Everything, Everywhere at Once”, “The Banshees of Inisherin”, “Nothing New on the West”, “Elvis”, “The Fabelmans”, “Tár”, “Triangle of Sadness” , Women Talking, Top Gun: Maverick, and Avatar: The Way of Water. The experts at Goldderby, an American price prediction site, name “Everything Everywhere All At Once” as a favorite.
The film, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schneinert, was not Oscar fodder a priori and would more closely resemble an indie work. Despite this, this sci-fi story full of action, kung fu and humor, romance, family drama and social message has received the most nominations.
Evelyn, played by Michelle Yeoh, is a laundromat co-owner with a battered marriage and an IRS audit. And she is also a superhero, the only person capable of saving the universe, hers and all universes in which she lives a different version of herself and her life. The Daniels, as the directing duo is also known, released a post on their Twitter account following the nominations, using an animated image from the film showing Evelyn wondering what’s going on. . “Everything Everywhere” was one of the discoveries and surprises of 2022.
BEST ACTRESS, A HARD FIGHT.
In the Best Actress category, which features Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Ana de Armas, Adrea Riseborough and Michelle Williams, the fight sits between the top two, at least among the Gold Derby pundits, with Blanchett coming out on top. The actress brings to life a musician and conductor named Lydia Tàr in the drama Tàr. “I’ve never seen a story like this before. Or a character like that. She lived in my dreams,” the actress, who has been nominated eight times and won twice, told The Guardian.
For her part, it is Yeoh’s first nomination and if she wins it, she would be the first Asian woman to win the award. “I think that’s too much for me,” Yeoh told The Hollywood Reporter about his candidacy. “He represents so many who expected to be seen, to sit at the table, to say: I’m worth it too, I have to be seen too.”
In the men’s category, the faces will be Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Austin Butler, Paul Mescal and Bill Nighy. Favorites include the top three for their respective work on The Banshees of Inisherin, The Whale and Elvis. Austin won the Golden Globe, considered the prelude to the Oscars, for his portrayal of the King of Rock. “I was trying to process it and figure out whether I was dreaming or not,” the actor told USA Today of the nomination.
For his part, Brendan Fraser was recognized for his work in Darren Aronofski’s The Whale, in which he played an overweight math teacher. This is the first time Fraser, who rose to fame in the 1990s, has been nominated for an Oscar. “Shock, wonder, happiness, hope and humility, because even the nomination is the achievement of a claim that any actor would scarcely admit they ever hoped to dare,” he said of his feelings, according to Variety.
There are no women in the Best Director category in this edition. The directors waiting to hear their names are Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schneinert, Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans; Martin MdDonagh with “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Todd Field for “Tár” and Ruben Ostlund for “The Triangle of Sadness”.
The directors of “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” which recently won the Directors Guild award, are the gold derby pundits’ favorites, joined by veteran of the ceremonies, Spielberg. With more than twenty nominations behind him, the director won the first two of his three statuettes for best film and best director in 1994 with “Schindler’s List”.