The Official 2023 Oscar Discussion/Contest Thread

[fernandito]

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once


Best Directing

Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert


Best Actor in a Leading Role

Brendan Fraser - The Whale


Best Actress in a Leading Role

Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once


Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once


Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once


Best Costume Design

Elvis

Best Sound

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Score

All Quiet on the Western Front


Best Adapted Screenplay

Women Talking


Best Original Screenplay

Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert


Best Live-Action Short Film

Le Pupille



Best Animated Short Film

My Year of Dicks


Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio


Best Original Song

“Naatu Naatu” from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose



Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany


Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Elvis


Best Production Design

Elvis


Best Cinematography

All Quiet on the Western Front


Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water


Best Documentary Feature

Navalny

Best Documentary Short Subject

Stranger at the Gate

Best Film Editing

Everything Everywhere All at Once



TIE BREAKER: EEAAO with 6 Wins.

[mae]

Very good show! Some amazing fashion. I cheered for Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh. Also, Babylon was robbed of that Best Score Oscar, that was one of the best scores in a long time, not just this year. The music was so important to the genius of that movie and I’ve listened to the score over and over since seeing the film. Not sure how I did overall but happy that I called the seven Oscars for EEAAO!

[Still Servant]

Thank you to everyone for participating. I appreciate it. There were some big scores this year. We had a 2 way tie this year!

Mae and T-Dogz both tied with an impressive score of 18. They both correctly guess that Everything Everywhere All at Once would win 7 Oscars. Since Mae submitted her form yesterday, she is the 2023 winner! Please check my work. It's late.

Mae - 18 (Winner by second tiebreaker)
T-Dogz - 18
Feev - 17
Lurker - 16
Servant - 15
Rodney - 15
Matt - 11
RF - 11
Stocker - 7

[Mattrick]

11 ain't bad considering the only films I've seen are Top Gun, The Whale, and Avatar 2. I haven't paid any attention to awards season at all either.

[Lurker]

Congrats to Mae!

[mae]

[Stockerlone]

I'm getting worse every year.....

[Heather19]

Heather! Come back to the Oscar Contest! You were once a queen.

I'm so out of the movie loop these days I didn't even know the Oscar's were on last night until I saw a post on fb by you about the contest I tuned into the beginning, but only watched the first couple of awards. It's so hard to watch when you're not familiar with any of the films, most I haven't even heard of. Hopefully this will be the year I get back into movies.

I was happy to hear that Sarah Polley won for Women Talking. I've been of fan of her since her Avonlea days.

[webstar1000]

I just cared that Short Round won... Goonies never die. The rest I could call less about...

[mae]

[Randall Flagg]

11 ain't bad considering the only films I've seen are Top Gun, The Whale, and Avatar 2. I haven't paid any attention to awards season at all either.

You saw two more than I did, and I also got 11.

[mae]

By the way, lots of awards pundits had Cate winning for the longest time and some or most switched to Michelle right at the end, but I was always confident she would win ever since the nominations were announced. Couldn't be happier for such a well-deserved role and career.

[fernandito]

Mae - 18 (Winner by second tiebreaker)
T-Dogz - 18
Feev - 17
Lurker - 16
Servant - 15
Rodney - 15
Matt - 11
RF - 11
Stocker - 7

I submitted my form yesterday hungover af and not knowing pretty much anything about the current Oscar race. Next year I'll actually try, I swear!

The show itself was cool. He gets a lot of hate but I always think Kimmel does a great job. He's funny and he knows just how pompous the whole event is anyway.

So glad EEAAO won. It was the best film of last year and I love seeing creativity & originality on that scale get rewarded. Lmao @ the Cocaine Bear too.


And Congrats Mae!

[mae]

Yeah it's not often that Best Picture goes to my personal #1 movie of the year, but it's happened now twice recently with EEAAO and Parasite.

Oh and thank you for the congrats, everyone, but T-Dogz did great as well!

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Yeah it's not often that Best Picture goes to my personal #1 movie of the year, but it's happened now twice recently with EEAAO and Parasite.

Oh and thank you for the congrats, everyone, but T-Dogz did great as well!

It was an excellent show - I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Congratulations Mae! This was a fun and very close contest.

[Still Servant]

Heather! Come back to the Oscar Contest! You were once a queen.

I'm so out of the movie loop these days I didn't even know the Oscar's were on last night until I saw a post on fb by you about the contest I tuned into the beginning, but only watched the first couple of awards. It's so hard to watch when you're not familiar with any of the films, most I haven't even heard of. Hopefully this will be the year I get back into movies.

I was happy to hear that Sarah Polley won for Women Talking. I've been of fan of her since her Avonlea days.

I think I remember you mentioning that you haven't been to the theater in a while. Do you think that's why you're not as into movies in recent years?

I thought the show was really good. It moved along pretty smoothly. I thought Kimmel did a nice job with the monologue. The show wasn't overly political and the speeches were very strong. I loved the WB montage. I eat that shit up.

I'm so happy for Everything Everywhere All at Once. It's one of the best movie experiences I've had in years. I remember leaving the theater and thinking to myself, "Damn, that film was amazing. Now I'm going to have to work my ass off to convince people to watch it because it's destined to be a film that nobody ever sees." Boy, was I wrong!

Mae, I believe this is your second win. Both times have been on a 2nd tiebreaker, which is pretty cool.

[mae]

Mae, I believe this is your second win. Both times have been on a 2nd tiebreaker, which is pretty cool.

Cool or lucky?

[Mattrick]

Heather! Come back to the Oscar Contest! You were once a queen.

I'm so out of the movie loop these days I didn't even know the Oscar's were on last night until I saw a post on fb by you about the contest I tuned into the beginning, but only watched the first couple of awards. It's so hard to watch when you're not familiar with any of the films, most I haven't even heard of. Hopefully this will be the year I get back into movies.

I was happy to hear that Sarah Polley won for Women Talking. I've been of fan of her since her Avonlea days.

I think I remember you mentioning that you haven't been to the theater in a while. Do you think that's why you're not as into movies in recent years?

I thought the show was really good. It moved along pretty smoothly. I thought Kimmel did a nice job with the monologue. The show wasn't overly political and the speeches were very strong. I loved the WB montage. I eat that shit up.

I'm so happy for Everything Everywhere All at Once. It's one of the best movie experiences I've had in years. I remember leaving the theater and thinking to myself, "Damn, that film was amazing. Now I'm going to have to work my ass off to convince people to watch it because it's destined to be a film that nobody ever sees." Boy, was I wrong!

Mae, I believe this is your second win. Both times have been on a 2nd tiebreaker, which is pretty cool.

It was a pretty smooth show. That said, I didn't think it was all that entertaining of a show, either. None of the comedy bits really worked for me. Kimmel is just so milquetoast these days. He's not a bad host, but he's not a good one either.



For me the highlight of the show was the guy (I think he won for makeup) said "my mom is up there somewhere, I'm sure she'll scream" *SCREAMS* "there she is!"

[mae]

I don't really need comedy bits, or anything. Just do the awards.

[Still Servant]

Mae, I believe this is your second win. Both times have been on a 2nd tiebreaker, which is pretty cool.

Cool or lucky?

I'd say both!

[Ricky]

I don't really have any complaints about the show. It was fine. The speeches were the best part because it seemed that many of the winners were genuinely surprised, humbled, and grateful by their wins, which was nice to see. I like Kimmel both as a host and interviewer, but wish the Academy would branch out and get some fresh blood to host the show.

[Mattrick]

Malala looked extremely uncomfortable during that whole questions "comedy" bit.

[mae]

[fernandito]

Malala looked extremely uncomfortable during that whole questions "comedy" bit.

She totally did. "So do you think Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine?" LOL

[Mattrick]

Malala looked extremely uncomfortable during that whole questions "comedy" bit.

She totally did. "So do you think Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine?" LOL

She only wants to talk about peace!