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Before she even turned 18, Malala Yousafzai had become one of the leading advocates for women’s education in Pakistan; she survived a Taliban murder attempt; and won a Nobel Peace Prize. She’s one of the most heroic, inspirational and impactful humans on the planet.
So, of course, at the 2023 Oscars, host Jimmy Kimmel had to force her to weigh in on one of last year’s stupidest nontroversies: Did Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine during the Venice Film Festival premiere of Don’t Worry, Darling?
“As the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history, do you think Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine?” Kimmel asked Yousafzai with a completely straight face. Without missing a beat, she simply replied, “I only talk about peace.”
“That’s why you’re Malala,” Kimmel said. “That’s a great answer.”
Yousafzai is an executive producer on the short movie Stranger at the Gate, which was nominated in the best documentary short subject category at the 2023 Oscars, ultimately losing to The Elephant Whisperers.
#SpitGate became a favorite Internet debate topic last fall after a video surfaced that appeared to show the “As It Was” singer and Billboard Hot 100 topper leaning over Pine and spitting on him. A rep for Pine soon explained it was merely an “odd online illusion” in the clip.
Just a few weeks ago, Pine explained in greater detail what happened. “He leaned down, and I think he said, ‘It’s just words, isn’t it?’” Pine shared. “‘Cause we had this little joke. We’re all jet-lagged, we’re all trying to answer these questions. Sometimes when you’re doing these press things, your brain gets befuddled and you start speaking gibberish. And we had a joke: ‘It’s just words, man.’”
As Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel made clear during his 2023 Oscars opening monologue, Rihanna was in the building (as was her nine-month-old son, who Kimmel also said had pooped backstage during rehearsals).
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Thanks to the stunning ballad “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the superstar scored her first Oscar nomination alongside Tems, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson. For the song’s live debut, Rihanna — whom actress Danai Gurira introduced as “royalty in her own right” — delivered a soaring performance.
Surrounded by a full band, string section and backup vocalists “Lift Me Up” came to life as Rih sang with palpable passion to honor the late Chadwick Boseman. Standing on a center platform draped in diamonds, when she declared “Lift me up… I need love” the stage obliged, elevating her a few inches into the air (nothing compared to her sky-high Super Bowl performance).
“Lift Me Up” marked Rihanna’s long-awaited return to music and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. As Göransson previously told Billboard, speaking of the film’s final scene in which the song plays: “When you hear her voice and the lyrics, that’s the point where you finally take it all in. You can see what a great filmmaker [director] Ryan [Coogler] is because in the scene right before you hear the song, it’s absolute silence. You see all these flashbacks, all these memories, and then you interrupt that [with] a song honoring Chadwick and [his character], T’Challa.”
The performance was celebrated with a standing ovation while the camera panned to A$AP Rocky, who lifted his champagne flute to the sky.
Composer Volker Bertelmann won the Academy Award for best score at the 2023 Oscars, for his musical accompaniment to the war film remake All Quiet on the Western Front.
Bertelmann’s win marks the second consecutive year that the award has gone to a German composer, following Hans Zimmer’s 2022 win for Dune. Movie and TV stars John Cho and Mindy Kaling presented the award, prompting the house orchestra in performing musical illustrations of some of the emotions from the five nominees.
“Thanks to the Academy for this huge recognition,” Bertelmann began his acceptance speech. “When I was working on the film, I was thinking a couple of times of my mom, because she was telling me every now and then — when you want to change humanity and empathy in the world, you have to start by yourself and your own surroundings. Because you learn by that, and you can show actually… how we all can live together. So by working on a film like that, you always are deeply touched.”
Bertelmann then went on to thank his wife, his kids, his collaborators and his fellow nominees, and “last but not least… all of you for this wonderful evening.”
All Quiet on the Western Front is nominated for nine Academy Awards at the 2023 ceremonies, including best picture, best visual effects and best adapted screenplay. The win for best score was already the film’s fourth on the evening, following earlier victories in the best international film, best cinematography and best production design categories.
Lady Gaga took the stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night (March 12) to perform her hit best song nominee “Hold My Hand,” from the blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick.
“I wrote this song with my friend BloodPop for the film Top Gun: Maverick in my studio basement,” she began her performance. “It’s deeply personal for me, and I think that we all need each other. We need a lot of love to walk through this life, and we all need a hero sometimes. There’s heroes all around us, in unassuming places, but you might find that you can be your own hero even if you feel broken inside.”
Gaga then delivered a stripped-down version of the Maverick power ballad, with just a piano for accompaniment for the first verse and chorus, before being joined by drums and bass for the remainder of the performance. It was an appropriate raw and intimate-feeling version of the song, given its emotional introduction.
“Hold My Hand” hit No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022 — one of two Hot 100 hits from Maverick, along with OneRepublic’s “I Ain’t Worried.” Lady Gaga previously won the Oscar for best original song at the 2019 Academy Awards, for her Hot 100-topping Bradley Cooper duet “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.
Top Gun: Maverick is nominated for six total categories at this year’s Academy Awards, also including best editing, best adapted screenplay and best picture. It is one of two box office-besting sequels to be nominated for best picture this year, along with Avatar: The Way of Water.
The official trailer for Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, has arrived. It was introduced by Bailey and co-star Melissa McCarthy during the 2023 Oscars on Sunday night (March 12).
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Bailey stars as Ariel in the reimagining of the Disney animated classic, with an ensemble including McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton and Jonah Hauer-King as Eric.
Following a recent 30-second teaser and a clip focused on Bailey’s beautiful rendition of “Part of Your World” from D23, this extended preview — with a runtime of two minutes and twenty seconds — gives viewers a cinematic look at Ariel’s world and the characters that surround her, from life under the sea to life newly on land.
The Little Mermaid hits theaters on May 26.
Watch the trailer for the The Little Mermaid below.
Son Lux, Stephanie Hsu and David Byrne performed best song nominee “This Is a Life,” from the acclaimed Everyone Everywhere All at Once, at the 2023 Oscars in Los Angeles on Sunday night (March 12).
Dressed in all white — along with a throng of similarly costumed backing dancers — the performers delivered a deliberately choreographed version of the soundtrack song, in front of a backing band and video clips of the film’s Raccacoonie character. It ended with Hsu and Byrne at center stage, Byrne showing off his elongated fingers — a la the hot dog fingers displayed in one of the film’s many alternate universes.
Acclaimed indie rock singer-songwriter Mitski co-performed the original “This Is a Life” with Talking Heads frontman Byrne, but was not present for the performance. Hsu, who pulled double acting duty in Everyone Everywhere All at Once as daughter Joy Wong and villain Jobu Tapaki, filled in for Mitski for the brief “Life” rendition.
David Byrne is a prior Oscar winner, having co-composed the score for 1988 best picture winner The Last Emperor along with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su. Hsu was nominated for best supporting actress at this year’s awards, but lost to Jamie Lee Curtis for her performance in the same movie. Everyone Everywhere All at Once is the most-nominated movie on the evening, with 11 total nods, including for best picture.
“This Is a Life” faces stiff competition in the best original song category from the starry likes of Lady Gaga (for Top Gun: Maverick) and Rihanna (for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), as well as frequent nominee Dianne Warren.
Jimmy Kimmel returned as Oscars host for the third time on Sunday (March 12) at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. With discourse around Will Smith’s onstage slap of 2022 Oscars host Chris Rock (prior to winning best actor) being one of the biggest stories of last year, it was predictable but perhaps inevitable that Kimmel would wedge a joke about it into the 95th annual Academy Awards.
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In his opening monologue, 2023 Oscars host Kimmel made jokes about Rihanna’s nine-month-old pooping backstage during rehearsals, Elvis Presley still being alive and, of course, The Slap. “Most importantly – we want me to feel safe. We have strict policies in place. If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point during this show, you will be awarded the Oscar for best actor and permitted to give a 19-minute-long speech,” Kimmel said. Separately, Kimmel also jested that with five Irish actors nominated at the 2023 Oscars, “The odds of a fight on stage just went way up.”
Later in the show, Kimmel returned to the topic before the award for best documentary feature was given out. “You may recall this is where we had that little skirmish last year. Hopefully this time it goes off without a hitch – or at least without Hitch,” he said, referencing the 2005 Will Smith film. “Please put your hands together and then keep them to yourself.”
Nick Cannon’s brood of children got a shoutout during the show. Mentioning that Avatar: The Way of Water cost Disney two billion, he quipped, “Just to break even, all Nick Cannon’s kid had to see Avatar four times.”
“This is my favorite duo of the year: Steven Spielberg and Seth Rogen. What a pair,” Kimmel said of The Fabelmans duo. “The Joe and Hunter Biden of Hollywood. Seth, what are you on right now, be honest. Nothing? Mushrooms, right?” Noting that Spielberg has never done a drug in his life, Kimmel joked, “You mean to tell me you were sober when you made a movie about an alien who eats Reese’s Pieces all day and can’t remember how to phone home?”
The 95th Academy Awards took over the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday (March 12), airing live on ABC. Jimmy Kimmel returned as Oscars host this year, marking the third time the late-night show host helmed the Academy Awards.
Some of music’s biggest stars were present and accounted for, including Lady Gaga and Rihanna (both nominated in the best original song category) and Janelle Monáe and Halle Bailey. The pop queens — both of whom have headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show — are performers during the 2023 Oscars broadcast.
Lenny Kravitz – who performs the In Memoriam segment during the 2023 telecast – also walked the carpet, in addition to Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, who was nominated alongside Ryan Lott and Mitski in the best original song category for “This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, which earned 11 nods, is the most-nominated film this year. “All of our mothers are sometimes overlooked, and it was time to show that all of our moms are superheroes,” said best actress nominee Michelle Yeoh on the champagne carpet ahead of the show.
Baz Luhrmann’s biopic on 20th century icon Elvis Presley, Elvis, was nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture; it also earned a best actor nomination for Austin Butler, who portrayed the King of Rock & Roll. “It feels like a dream come true,” said Butler of the nomination during the pre-show. “That’s like choosing your favorite kid – I can’t choose one,” Butler said when asked to name a favorite song from Presley.
Austin Butler
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Austin Butler at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Halle Bailey
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Halle Bailey at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
David Byrne & Mala Gaonkar
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David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Valentina Paloma Pinault, Salma Hayek, Pedro Pascal & Javiera Balmaceda
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Valentina Paloma Pinault, Salma Hayek, Pedro Pascal and Javiera Balmaceda at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Lady Gaga
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Lady Gaga at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Cara Delevingne
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Cara Delevingne at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Troy Kotsur & Questlove
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Troy Kotsur and Questlove at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Laverne Cox
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Laverne Cox at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Vanessa Hudgens at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Lenny Kravitz
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Lenny Kravitz at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Zoe Saldana
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Zoe Saldana at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Allison Williams
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Allison Williams at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Harry Shum Jr.
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Harry Shum Jr. at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Janelle Monáe
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Janelle Monáe at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Sofia Carson
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Sofia Carson at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Florence Pugh
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Florence Pugh at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Mindy Kaling
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Mindy Kaling at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Fan Bingbing
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Fan Bingbing at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Khaby Lame
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Khaby Lame at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Sandra Oh
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Sandra Oh at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Angela Bassett
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Angela Bassett at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Questlove
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Questlove at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Stephanie Hsu
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Stephanie Hsu at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Olsen
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Elizabeth Olsen at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Gustave De Waele, Lukas Dhont & Eden Dambrine
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Gustave De Waele, Lukas Dhont, and Eden Dambrine at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Jay Ellis
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Jay Ellis at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Ashley Graham
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Ashley Graham at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
James Hong
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James Hong at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Winnie Harlow
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Winnie Harlow at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Deanne Bray & Troy Kotsur
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Deanne Bray and Troy Kotsur at the 95th Annual Academy Awards held at Ovation Hollywood on March 12, 2023 in Los Angeles.
The 95th Academy Awards take place on Sunday (March 12) at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and air live on ABC, with Jimmy Kimmel returning as Oscars host for the third time.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once, which earned 11 nods, is the most-nominated film this year. One of those 11 nominations is for best original song (David Byrne, Ryan Lott and Mitski’s “This Is A Life”). They’re competing against Lady Gaga and BloodPop for “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick), Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson for “Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Diane Warren for “Applause” (Tell It Like a Woman) and M.M. Keeravaani and Chandrabose for “Naatu Naatu” (RRR). This is Warren’s 14th nomination, with no wins so far. Gaga previously won this category for co-writing “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.
Baz Luhrmann’s biopic on 20th century icon Elvis Presley, Elvis, was nominated for eight Oscars, including best picture; it also earned a best actor nomination for Austin Butler, who portrayed the King of Rock & Roll.
Check out the complete winners list below, updating live throughout the show.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”Hong Chau in “The Whale”Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin”Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best 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
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
Best 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
Best Adapted Screenplay
“All Quiet on the Western Front” Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” Written by Rian Johnson“Living” Written by Kazuo Ishiguro“Top Gun: Maverick” Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks“Women Talking” Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Best Original Screenplay
“The Banshees of Inisherin” Written by Martin McDonagh“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert“The Fabelmans” Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner“Tár” Written by Todd Field“Triangle of Sadness” Written by Ruben Östlund
Best Live-Action Short Film
“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 Animated Short Film
“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
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin”Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway”Judd Hirsch in “The Fabelmans”Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin”Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Animated 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 Original Song
“Applause” from “Tell It like a Woman”; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR”; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose“This Is A Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once”; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Best International Feature Film
“All Quiet on the Western Front” Germany“Argentina, 1985” Argentina“Close” Belgium“EO” Poland“The Quiet Girl” Ireland
Best 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
Best Production Design
“All Quiet on the Western Front” Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper“Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole“Babylon” Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino“Elvis” Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn“The Fabelmans” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
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
Best 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
Best 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 Documentary Feature
“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
Best Documentary Short Subject
“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
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in “Elvis”Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin”Brendan Fraser in “The Whale”Paul Mescal in “Aftersun”Bill Nighy in “Living”
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in “Tár”Ana de Armas in “Blonde”Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie”Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans”Michelle Yeoh in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Directing
“The Banshees of Inisherin” Martin McDonagh“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert“The Fabelmans” Steven Spielberg“Tár” Todd Field“Triangle of Sadness” Ruben Östlund
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” Malte Grunert, Producer“Avatar: The Way of Water” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers“The Banshees of Inisherin” Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers“Elvis” Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers“Everything Everywhere All at Once” Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers“The Fabelmans” Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers“Tá”r Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers“Top Gun: Maverick” Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers“Triangle of Sadness” Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers“Women Talking” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Lady Gaga will perform “Hold My Hand” on the 2023 Oscars on Sunday (March 12) after all.
Variety first reported the surprise reversal. Oscars executive producer and showrunner Glenn Weiss stated that Gaga would not be performing during a press meeting with the Oscars creative team on March 8. He implied that the Oscars team and Gaga had mutually decided to pass because of the demands of her co-starring role in the Joker: Folie à Deux, which is currently shooting.
“We have a great relationship with Lady Gaga and her camp,” he said at the time. “She is in the middle of shooting a movie right now. Here, we are honoring the movie industry and what it takes to make a movie after a bunch of back and forth… It didn’t feel like she can get a performance to the caliber that we’re used to with her and that she is used to. So, she is not going to perform on the show,” Weiss said.
With Gaga now on the bill, all five of this year’s best original song nominees will be performed on the show. The other performers are Rihanna (“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Sofia Carson and Diane Warren (“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman), Stephanie Hsu, David Byrne and Son Lux (“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava (“Naatu Naatu” from RRR).
This will be the first Oscar telecast in three years to include performances of all five nominated songs.
Two years ago, all five songs were performed, but on a pre-show. That move was seen as disrespectful by many in the music community. Last year, Van Morrison declined to perform “Down to Joy” from Belfast, so only four of the nominated songs were performed on the telecast.
This will be Gaga’s fourth performance on the Oscars. In 2015, she performed a medley of four songs from The Sound of Music to honor that film on its 50th anniversary. In a memorable Oscar moment, Julie Andrews came out at the end of Gaga’s performance and the two stars embraced.
In 2016, Gaga sang the nominated song “Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground. In 2019, she and Bradley Cooper sang “Shallow” from A Star Is Born, which went on to win the award. The staging of “Shallow” was memorable, with Gaga and Cooper stepping up from their front-row seats to take the stage.
“Hold My Hand,” which Gaga co-wrote with BloodPop, has thus far peaked at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 (in June). The song may reach a new peak following the Oscars. Both of Gaga’s previous Oscar-nominated songs reached new peaks following the telecast. “Shallow” shot from No. 21 to No. 1 on the Hot 100 the week following the Oscars. It had previously peaked at No. 5. “Til It Happens to You” had failed to make the Hot 100 when it was first released, but entered the chart at No. 95 following the Oscars.
The most dramatic example of a televised performance reigniting a Gaga song came after she headlined the Super Bowl halftime show in In February 2017. “Million Reasons” re-entered the Hot 100 at a new peak, No. 4, following her performance. The song had previously peaked at No. 52.
It was a coup for the Oscars to book Rihanna and Gaga, two of the hottest singers on the planet, on the same show. But then, when Oscar calls, even the biggest stars usually say yes. Beyoncé opened last year’s show with a memorable performance of “Be Alive” from King Richard. Such other superstars as Adele, U2, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Sam Smith, Justin Timberlake, Sting, Elton John and Billie Eilish with Finneas have performed nominated songs on the Oscars in the past decade.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Oscars will be held Sunday (March 12) at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.