Wave Staff and Wire Reports
HOLLYWOOD — All signs are pointing to a big night for “Everywhere Everything All at Once,” when the 95th Academy Awards are handed out March 12 at the Dolby Theatre.
The time- and space-twisting sci-fi tale won the award for best edited comedy film March 5 from the American Cinema Editors a day after winning the award for best feature at the Independent Spirit Awards ceremony, honoring independent films.
Previously, the film has won top honors from the Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” captured a leading 11 Oscar nominations this year, including for best picture, Michelle Yeoh for best actress, Ke Huy Quan for best supporting actor and Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu for best supporting actress.
Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are nominated for best director and the film is also nominated for Oscars in costume design, film editing, original score, original song and original screenplay.
The World War I saga “All Quiet on the Western Front” and the Irish dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” each received nine nominations — including best picture for both.
The biopic “Elvis” was next with eight nominations, including best picture and best actor (Austin Butler), while “The Fabelmans” — Steven Spielberg’s largely autobiographical movie about a young boy who dreams of becoming a filmmaker — received seven nominations, including best picture, Michelle Williams for best actress and Judd Hirsch for best supporting actor.
Rounding out the 10 best picture nominees — the only category with 10 candidates — were the James Cameron blockbuster “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Triangle of Sadness,” “Tar,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Women Talking.”
The nomination for “The Fabelmans” marks Spielberg’s 12th career nomination for best picture, an Academy record for an individual producer. The nomination also ties Spielberg with William Wyler, with each having directed 13 films nominated for best picture.
In the major individual awards, also garnering best actor nominations were Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Brendan Fraser in “The Whale,” Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” and Bill Nighy in “Living.” The nominations were the first best-actor nominations for everyone in the category.
For best actress, in addition to Williams, nominations went to Cate Rounding out the 10 best picture nominees — the only category with 10 candidates — were the James Cameron blockbuster “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Triangle of Sadness,” and “Women Talking.”
The nomination for “The Fabelmans” marks Spielberg’s 12th career nomination for best picture, an Academy record for an individual producer. The nomination also ties Spielberg with William Wyler, with each having directed 13 films nominated for best picture.
In the major individual awards, also garnering best actor nominations were Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Brendan Fraser in “The Whale,” Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” and Bill Nighy in “Living.” The nominations were the first best-actor nominations for everyone in the category.
For best actress, in addition to Yeoh and Williams, nominations went to Cate Blanchett in “Tar,” Ana de Armas in “Blonde” and Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie.” Blanchett and Williams have both been nominated for best-actress before, and Blanchett won the prize for “Blue Jasmine.” Williams was nominated in the category for “Blue Valentine” and “My Week with Marilyn.”
In the best supporting actor category, Hirsch and Quan were joined by Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway,” and Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Best supporting actress nominations went to Curtis, Hsu, Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Hong Chau in “The Whale” and Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Spielberg — who took the best director trophy as well as best drama picture for “The Fabelmans” at the recent Golden Globe Awards — was joined in the Oscar best director category by Kwan and Scheinert, Martin McDonagh for “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Todd Field for “Tár” and Ruben Ostlund for “Triangle of Sadness.” The nominations are the first directing ones for everyone in the category except Spielberg, who has been nominated eight times previously — winning for “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan.”
Among the other nominations for “The Fablemans” was an original-score nomination for John Williams, who padded his record-setting number of nominations for music scoring at 48. Overall, Williams has 53 total career Oscar nominations, the most of any living person and second only to Walt Disney, who had 59. According to the Academy, Williams is also believed to be the oldest nominee in any competitive award category at age 90.
Comedian and talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel will return for a third hosting gig for the show, which airs on ABC7 starting at 5 p.m.
Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield and Nicole Kidman were among the A-listers added to the list of presenters for the ceremony along with Halle Bailey, Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, John Cho, Hugh Grant, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Florence Pugh, Sigourney Weaver, Emily Blunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Melissa McCarthy, Riz Ahmed, Glenn Close, Jennifer Connelly, Ariana DeBose, Michael B. Jordan, Troy Kotsur, Jonathan Majors, Janelle Monáe, Deepika Padukone, Questlove, Zoe Saldaña and Donnie Yen.
Musician Lenny Kravitz has been selected to deliver the In Memoriam presentation in which 200 filmmakers, artists and executives will be memorialized in an extended photo gallery on A.frame, the Academy’s digital magazine.
Kravitz, a Grammy award winning performer has appeared in films such as “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Lee Daniels,” “The Butler” and “Precious” during his three-decade long career in music and film.
