2023 Oscar nominations: “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” lead the Best Picture category

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” landed in Tuesday’s top 11 nominations, including Michelle Yeoh and comeback kid Ke Huy Quan.

The 10 films for best picture are: “Everything Everywhere at Once”, “The Banshees of Inisherin”, “The Fabelmans”, “Tár”, “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Avatar: The Way of Water”, “Elvis ‘, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, ‘Women Talking’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’.

The nominations were announced Tuesday at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California by Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams.

If last year’s Oscars were dominated by streaming — Apple TV+’s “CODA” won best picture and Netflix landed with 27 leading nominations — films that lured moviegoers to multiplexes after two years of the pandemic make up many of this year’s top contenders.

The nominees for Best Actress are: Ana de Armas, “Blonde”; Cate Blanchett, “Tar”; Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”; Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”; Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere at Once.”

Best Actor nominees: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”; Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Austin Butler, “Elvis”; Bill Nighy, “Life”; Paul Mescal, “After Sun”

The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are: Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”; Hong Chau, “The Whale”; Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere at Once”; Stephanie Hsu, “Everything everywhere at once.”

The nominees for Best Supporting Actor are: Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”; Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”; Brendan Gleeson, “Banshees on Inisherin”; Barry Keoghan, “Banshees of Inisherin”; Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere at Once”.

The nominees for International Film are: All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany); “Argentina, 1985” (Argentina); “Close” (Belgium); “EO” (Poland); “The Quiet Girl” (Ireland).

The Original Screenplay nominees are: Everything Everywhere All at Once; “The Banshees of Inisherin”; “The Fabelmans”; “Tar”; “Triangle of Sadness.”

Nominated for Best Original Score are: Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”; Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”; Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”; Son Lux, “Everything Everywhere at Once”; John Williams, The Fablemans.

The nominees for Best Animated Film are: “Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio”; “Marcel the Shell with shoes on”; “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”; “The Sea Monster”; “To redden.”

While last year’s Oscars were dominated by streaming — Apple TV+’s “CODA” won best picture and Netflix landed 27 nominations — movies that lured moviegoers into multiplexes make up many of this year’s top contenders.

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans has struggled to gain traction with audiences, but the director’s coming-of-age autobiographical story will earn Spielberg his 20th Academy Award nomination and his eighth Best Director nomination. John Williams, its longtime composer, extended his record for most Oscar nominations for a living person. Another nod for best score will earn Williams his 53rd nomination, a number short of only Walt Disney’s 59.

Last year’s show attracted 15.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen, up 56% from the record low of 10.5 million viewers for 2021’s pandemic-damaged show. This year, ABC is bringing back Jimmy Kimmel to host the March 12 ceremony, one that will surely be seen as a return to the place of the slap.

But there are bigger concerns in the movie business. Last year saw flashes of triumphant resurgence for cinemas, like the success of Top Gun: Maverick after two years of the pandemic. But partly due to a less steady stream of major releases, ticket sales for the year recovered to only about 70% of pre-pandemic business. Regal Cinemas, the country’s second largest chain, announced the closure of 39 cinemas this month.

At the same time, after years of what had once seemed limitless growth, storm clouds rolled into the flowing world. Stocks plummeted as Wall Street looked to streaming services for profit rather than just adding subscribers. A cut followed as the industry once again enters an uncertain chapter.

In stark contrast to last year’s Academy Awards, streaming titles may not be vying for the Oscars’ most coveted honor this year – although the final spots in the top 10 box office are still up for grabs. Netflix’s best shots come in other categories instead, notably with popular animated film Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio and German entry All Quiet on the Western Front.

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