The 95th Acadamy Awards nominations were announced this morning by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams. The Oscars are America’s most prestigious awards for outstanding cinematic achievements. Assessing both artistic and technical merit, The Oscars honors the year’s most exceptional, innovative films.

Viewership of The Oscars has declined year by year as movie theaters have struggled to stay open and streaming services have risen in prominence. But this year, things feel different. The awards are filled with major blockbuster successes like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water, as well as inspiring comeback stories from Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan who have both been out of the limelight for many years. The pop-culture community has rallied behind these incredible stories told in 2022, making me believe a resurgence in viewership is bound to happen in 2023.

Every year at The Oscars there are standout performances, surprising nominations, and movies that were outright snubbed. 2023 is no exception. The mind-bending multiversal adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once led the pack with 11 nominations (tied for the second most of all-time beside The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), followed closely by All Quiet on the Western Front, a tragic anti-war film set in World War I (based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque), and The Banshees of Inisherin, a tale of two lifelong friends falling out of friendship amidst the Irish Civil War.

Jimmy Kimmel will be returning as host of the award show for the third time. The awards can be watched live on ABC on Sunday, March 12th at 8:00 pm EST. If you subscribe to one of the major live TV networks (Spectrum, Xfinity, Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, etc.) you can watch on ABC.com and with the ABC app by linking your provider.

Take a look at the complete list of nominations to see which of your favorite movies of the year earned the recognition they deserve. Stick around to the end of the article for our reaction to the nominations and which actors we think were snubbed of a nomination this year.

BEST PICTURE

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Produced by Malte Grunert)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (Produced by James Cameron and Jon Landau)
• The Banshees of Inisherin (Produced by Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin Mcdonagh)
• Elvis (Produced by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick Mccormick, and Schuyler Weiss)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Produced by Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang)
• The Fabelmans (Produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner)
• TÁR (Produced by Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, and Scott Lambert)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Produced by Tom Cruise, Christopher Mcquarrie, David Ellison, and Jerry Bruckheimer)
• Triangle of Sadness (Produced by Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober)
• Women Talking (Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Frances McDormand)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

• Austin Butler (Elvis)
• Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
• Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
• Bill Nighy (Living)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
• Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)
• Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

• Cate Blanchett (TÁR)
• Ana De Armas (Blonde)
• Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
• Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
• Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

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

BEST DIRECTOR

• Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
• Todd Field (TÁR)
• Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness)

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)

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)

COSTUME DESIGN

• Babylon (Mary Zophres)
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ruth Carter)
• Elvis (Catherine Martin)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Shirley Kurata)
• Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (Jenny Beavan)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

• 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)
• Navalny (Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris)

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)

FILM EDITING

• The Banshees of Inisherin (Mikkel E.G. Nielsen)
• Elvis (Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers)
• TÁR (Monika Willi)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

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

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• 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)
• The Whale (Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley)

MUSIC (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)

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

• “Applause” from Tell It Like A Woman (Music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
• “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick (Music and lyrics by Lady Gaga And Bloodpop)
• “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson; lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler)
• “Naatu Naatu” from RRR (Music by M.M. Keeravaani; lyrics by Chandrabose)
• “This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All At Once (Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski; lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Christian M. Goldbeck; set decoration by Ernestine Hipper)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; set decoration by Vanessa Cole)
• Babylon (Florencia Martin; set decoration by Anthony Carlino)
• Elvis (Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; set decoration by Bev Dunn)
• The Fabelmans (Rick Carter; set decoration by Karen O'hara)

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

• 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)

SHORT FILM (LIVE-ACTION)

• 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 SOUND

• 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)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor)

VISUAL EFFECTS

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank, and Kamil Jafar)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett)
• 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)

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

• 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 (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher Mcquarrie; story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks)
• Women Talking (Sarah Polley)

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

• The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin Mcdonagh)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)
• The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner)
• TÁR (Todd Field)
• Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)

There you have it! That is every nomination for The Oscars in 2023. If you want to add any of these shows or movies to your watchlist, check out our complete list here: The Oscars Nominations 2023.

What a year for cinema! It’s great to see Paul Mescal receive the recognition he deserves as one of Hollywood's most captivating new stars. After his role in Normal People, I became an instant fan. It’s also genuinely shocking that Decision to Leave did not receive a nomination for Best International Feature. In my opinion, Decision to Leave was a clear winner in nearly every technical aspect of filmmaking (cinematography, directing, editing, sound design, etc.) and it’s a shame that Park Chan-wook didn’t get a nod, especially after winning Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

On the other end of the spectrum, it’s surprising to see Ana de Armas receive a nomination for Blonde considering how many people genuinely hated that movie. In fact, Blonde was just nominated for eight Razzies—the parody award show dedicated to highlighting the worst films of the year…

A film that was also snubbed of praise is Jordan Peele’s newest alien thriller movie Nope. Despite Peele’s first two films receiving praise from critics and fans, there was quite a bit of contention surrounding the strength of his newest film. While I loved Nope and think both Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer deserved an Oscar nomination, I can see how this unorthodox approach to an alien story might not resonate with all viewers.

How to watch The Oscars in 2023

The 2023 Oscars award ceremony will be available live on ABC at 8:00 pm EST on Sunday, March 12th. To stream online, link your TV provider (Spectrum, Xfinity, Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, etc.) to ABC.com or via the ABC app.