Catch Up on these Award Winners & Nominees
We’re thick into awards season, with the Golden Globes now behind us and the Oscars still ahead. Before Hollywood’s biggest night on March 12, make sure you’ve watched the main Academy Award contenders. Here are the 10 Best Picture nominees:
All Quiet on the Western Front – The only foreign-language film to be nominated for Best Picture, this new adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel brought its crew to tears with its depiction of the brutality German soldiers faced in World War II.
Avatar: The Way of Water – The long-awaited to sequel to James Cameron’s epic 2009 film, Avatar, continues to push technological and filmmaking boundaries with its astounding underwater scenes and lifelike CGI.
The Banshees of Inisherin – In this dark Irish comedy, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play best friends who suddenly … aren’t. Both Farrell and Gleeson are up for individual Oscars as well!
Elvis – Austin Butler is favored to win Best Actor in this music-infused Baz Luhrmann biopic about the life of Elvis Presley. Tom Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s longtime manager. (Remember when Hanks was the first celebrity to get COVID while filming this movie in Australia?)
Everything Everywhere All At Once – You’ll never forget this inventive tale of a laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh, favored to win Best Actress) who must summon her other selves across the multiverse to help save the world.
The Fabelmans – Loosely based on Steven Spielberg’s formative years, we see what positive and negative experiences and people shaped one of the world’s greatest film directors.
Tár – Cate Blanchett so utterly inhabits the role of problematic conductor Lydia Tár, you’ll think Tár was a real person.
Top Gun: Maverick – Some may be surprised to see a crowd-pleasing blockbuster—and a sequel, no less—on this list. But hey, it’s the only movie I’ve watched multiple times this year…
Triangle of Sadness – Now this is the movie I was shocked made the cut because so much of it was extremely nasty and gross. Think barf-o-rama on a yacht, followed by a bunch of rich people being stranded on an island with only a cleaning woman (Dolly de Leon) to save them.
Women Talking – And finally, in this chilling drama inspired by true events, Mennonite women (played by Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley, among others) debate whether or not to leave the only community they’ve ever known in order to stop a cycle of abuse.