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  • Writer's pictureHunter Friesen

My Personal 2023 Academy Awards

The only true way to close out a year is by celebrating all the good things that came out of it. So, in order to close the books on a high note, I'm releasing my end-of-year awards!


Here are the nominees/winners in all categories:


BEST PICTURE

Babylon

After Yang

All Quiet on the Western Front

Broker

Decision to Leave

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Nitram

TÁR

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Fabelmans


BEST DIRECTOR

Damien Chazelle (Babylon)

Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Todd Field (TÁR)


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

Babylon (Damien Chazelle)

Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

TÁR (Todd Field)


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)

After Yang (Kogonada)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger & Lesley Patterson & Ian Stokell)

Blonde (Andrew Dominik)

White Noise (Noah Baumbach)


BEST ENSEMBLE

The Banshees of Inisherin

Babylon

Broker

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The Fabelmans


BEST LEAD ACTOR

Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram)

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Eden Dambrine (Close)

Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans)


BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett (TÁR)

Ana de Armas (Blonde)

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Tang Wei (Decision to Leave)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Brad Pitt (Babylon)

Ben Whishaw (Women Talking)

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Hong Chau (The Whale)

Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)

Lee Ji-eun (Broker)

Vanessa Kirby (The Son)


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

All Quiet on the Western Front

Babylon

Bardo

Blonde

The Batman


BEST FILM EDITING

Babylon

Decision to Leave

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The Fabelmans


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Babylon

Blonde

Close

The Batman

The Woman King


BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Cautionary Tale (Three Thousand Years of Longing)

Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick)

New Body Rhumba (White Noise)

(You Made It Feel Like) Home (Bones & All)


BEST SOUND

Top Gun: Maverick

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

Nope

The Batman


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Babylon

All Quiet on the Western Front

Crimes of the Future

Empire of Light

The Batman


BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Babylon

Blonde

The Batman

The Northman

The Woman King


BEST MAKEUP/HAIRSTYLING

The Whale

All Quiet on the Western Front

Babylon

Blonde

Crimes of the Future


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: The Way of Water

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Batman

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Top Gun: Maverick


BEST TRAILER

Babylon

TÁR

The Fabelmans

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Triangle of Sadness


BEST POSTER

Babylon

Decision to Leave

Everything Everywhere All at Once

TÁR

The Batman


NOMINATION LEADERS

Babylon (15)

All Quiet on the Western Front, The Batman (8)

Blonde (7)

The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans (6)

TÁR (5)

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