Yesterday, the Academy of Oscars revealed its list of nominees for the 95th statuette race to be held on March 15 in Los Angeles. As choosing is giving up, there are – like every year – surprises and disappointments, missing people, but also real shortcomings. Let’s recap. And the 2023 Oscar nominees are… The few celebrations Also to be seen on Konbini The real (and excellent) surprise is the nomination of Paul Mescal in the Best Actor category for his first leading role in the cinema in the magnificent first film by Charlotte Wells , Aftersun. Already nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Connell in the series Normal People, his very first screen appearance, the Irish actor is the real outsider of this ceremony, eclipsing Tom Cruise, who we imagined to be the favorite. In Cannes , the rise of Paul Mescal that we expected If France is conspicuous by its absence in these nominations, since the Academy did not retain the candidacy of Saint Omer by Alice Diop for the Oscar for best foreign film, the Ireland dominates the 2023 Oscars. Besides Paul Mescal’s nomination, Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl is the first-ever Irish and Gaelic-language film in the running for Best Foreign Language Film. We also note the presence of An Irish Goodbye in the Best Short Film category. nominations, including four for actors Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan and Brendan Gleeson, all Irish. , only ten years old, and which garnered 18 nominations for six films. While the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick was announced as the big favorite, it was their crazy comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, which left with the most nominations, eleven in total. Whale, Aftersun, Causeway, Close and Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, also distributed by A24, complete this impressive list of nominations. If Everything Everywhere, All at Once were to walk away with the Oscar for best film, it would be the first award of this magnitude for the studio since the crowning of Moonlight in 2017. Opposite, the giant Netflix leaves with 16 nominations for eight films , a score at the level of 2019, but with far fewer nominations in the main categories. Babylon, his insane Hollywood fresco of 3:08, very badly received by critics and the American public, receives only three technical nominations, Best decorations, Best original music and Best costumes. If Hollywood certainly did not appreciate the distorting mirror held up by Damien Chazelle, the Golden Globes were more generous than the Academy of Oscars with the film, offering him five nominations. More surprisingly, James Cameron does not appear in the category Best director, no more than Jordan Peele who nevertheless directed one of the most ambitious films of the year, Nope, a futuristic neo-western. His film does not appear in any category of these nominations while in 2018, Get Out, his first film, collected four nominations and won the statuette for best screenplay. DC fans (and not only) also expressed their dissatisfaction with to the meager harvest of The Batman, by Matt Reeves. Nominated in three categories — Best Sound, Best Hair and Makeup and Best Special Effects — compared to five for Black Panther 2, it is its absence in the Best Cinematography category that surprises, even revolts, those who liked this new version of adventures of batman. But the most damaging of these appointments remains the lack of parity. We are in 2023 and the Oscars, like the Caesars just after them, have once again decided to completely ignore female directors. After two years in a row where women have won the Oscar for best direction — Chloé Zhao in 2021 and Jane Campion in 2022 — they are totally absent from this category. Only Sarah Polley’s Women Talking is on the list of ten feature films competing for the Best Picture Oscar. announced as the most beautiful film of this year 2023.
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