With one month to go until the nominations for the 95th Academy Awardsthe Academy has announced shortlists in 10 categories: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hair Styling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.
Each shortlist is determined by members of that corresponding branch, with the exception of International Feature Film. (Members from all industries are invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.)
The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, while the Oscars ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at the Dolby® Theater at Ovation Hollywood and will be broadcast live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
15 films will advance in the Documentary Feature category for the 95th Academy Awards. 144 films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
Everything that breathes
All the beauty and the bloodshed
Bad axe
Children of the Mist
Descendant
Fire of love
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song
Hidden letters
A house made of splinters
The Janes
Last flight home
Moonage daydream
Navalny
Retrograde
The territory
15 films will advance in the Documentary Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 98 films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton
Anastasia
Angola Do you hear us? Voices from a plantation prison
As far as they can run
The Elephant Whisperers
The Flagmakers
Happiness is £4 million
transportation
holding Moses
How do you measure a year?
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Tricky bear
Shut up and paint
Stranger at the gate
38 in the yard
15 films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. Films from 92 countries and regions were eligible for the category. Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category.
In the nomination round, Academy members from all industries are invited to participate and must see all 15 shortlisted films to vote.
The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:
Argentina, Argentina, 1985
Austria, Corsage
Belgium, Close to
Cambodia, Return to Seoul
Denmark, Holy spider
France, Saint Omer
Germany, No news from the Western Front
India, Last movie show
Ireland, The silent girl
Mexico, Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths
Morocco, The blue caftan
Pakistan, Joyland
Poland, EO
South Korea, Decide to leave
Sweden, Cairo conspiracy
10 films will advance in the Makeup and Hair Styling category for the 95th Academy Awards. All members of the Academy’s makeup artists and hair stylists arm are invited to watch clips and interviews with the performers from each of the shortlisted films on Sunday, January 15, 2023. Members of the industry will vote to nominate five films for the final Oscar® consideration.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
No news from the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
The batter
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Blonde
Crimes of the future
Elvis
Emancipation
The whale
15 scores will advance in the Original Score category for the 95th Academy Awards. 147 scores were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The scores, listed alphabetically by movie title, are:
No news from the Western Front
Avatar: The way of the water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Dedication
Don’t worry honey
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
The Fables
Glass Onion: A Mystery of the Blades
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
no
She said
The Queen of Women
Women talk
15 songs will advance in the Original Song category for the 95th Academy Awards. 81 songs were eligible in the category. Members of the Music Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The original songs, along with the movie each song appears in, are listed below in alphabetical order by movie title:
“Time” of Amsterdam
“Nothing is lost (you give me strength)” released Avatar: the way of the water
“lift me up”. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This is a Life”. Everything Everywhere Everything at once
“Ciao Papa” from Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
“Til You’re Home” by A man named Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My mind and me
“Good afternoon” from Witty
“Applause” from Tell it like a woman
“Get up” from Until
“Hold My Hand” from Top gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ashes” from The voice of dust and ashes
Carolina’s Where the crawfish sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White noise
15 films will advance in the Animated Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 81 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
Black slide
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
The debutant
The flying sailor
The garbage man
Ice merchants
It’s fun here
More than I want to remember
My year of cocks
New Moon
An ostrich told me the world is fake and I think I believe it
Passenger
Save Ralph
Sierra
steak House
15 films will advance in the Live Action Short Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 200 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation, Directors, Producers and Writers Branches vote to determine the shortlist and nominees.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
Everything in favor
Almost home
An Irish farewell
Ivalu
le pupil
The lone wolf
Nakam
Night ride
Plastic Killer
The red suitcase
The right words
Sideral
The treatment
Tula
Warsha
10 films will advance in the Sound category for the 95th Academy Awards. All eligible members of the Sound Branch vote to determine the shortlist and nominees. Academy members are invited to view clips of each of the shortlisted films beginning Thursday, January 12, 2023 in the San Francisco Bay Area, followed by New York, London, and Los Angeles. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
No news from the Western Front
Avatar: The way of the water
Babylon
The batter
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Moonage daydream
Top gun: Maverick
There are 10 more films in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 95th Academy Awards. The Executive Committee of the Visual Effects Department determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to watch clips and interviews with the performers from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 14, 2023. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
The films, listed alphabetically by title, are:
No news from the Western Front
Avatar: The way of the water
The batter
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness
Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets
Jurassic World Domination
no
Thirteen lives
Top gun: Maverick
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