Oscars 2023 HIGHLIGHTS: RRR’s Naatu Naatu, The Elephant Whisperers’ wins make India PROUD
The 2023 Oscars had some exciting highlights, including the historic win of the RRR song “Naatu Naatu” in the Best Original Song category. The live performance of the song also received a standing ovation. Additionally, the Indian documentary short film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ won the award for Best Documentary Short Film. To catch all the highlights, be sure to check out the coverage of the Oscars.
The 95th Academy Awards, which recognizes the best talents in the cinema world, has taken place. The RRR team, including Ram Charan, Jr NTR, SS Rajamouli, and Keeravani, won the award for their song ‘Naatu Naatu,’ creating history. Guneet Monga’s ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ also made India proud by winning the award for Best Documentary Short Film. However, Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’ lost to Navalny.
Jimmy Kimmel returned as the host after two years without one, having previously hosted the show in 2017 and 2018. The awards ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, and was another significant milestone in the academy’s history. For all the highlights from the event, be sure to check out the coverage.
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front
Malte Grunert, Producer
Avatar: The Way of Water
James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
The Banshees of Inisherin
Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
Elvis
Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once-WINNER
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
The Fabelmans
Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
Tár
Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Triangle of Sadness
Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
Women Talking
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser in The Whale- WINNER
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Bill Nighy in Living
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once- WINNER
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Tár
Ana de Armas in Blonde
Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau in The Whale
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once- WINNER
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio- WINNER
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
The Sea Beast
Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
Turning Red
Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins
Best Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front
James Friend- WINNER
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Darius Khondji
Elvis
Mandy Walker
Empire of Light
Roger Deakins
Tár
Florian Hoffmeister
Best Costume Design
Babylon
Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Ruth Carter- WINNER
Elvis
Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Shirley Kurata
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Jenny Beavan
Best Directing
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once- WINNER
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness
Best Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
Fire of Love
Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
A House Made of Splinters
Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
Navalny- WINNER
Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
Best Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers- WINNER
Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Haulout
Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
How Do You Measure a Year?
Jay Rosenblatt
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
Stranger at the Gate
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Best Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Elvis
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
Everything Everywhere All at Once- WINNER
Paul Rogers
Tár
Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick
Eddie Hamilton
Best International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front- WINNER
Germany
Argentina, 1985
Argentina
Close
Belgium
EO
Poland
The Quiet Girl
Ireland
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet on the Western Front
Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
The Batman
Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
Elvis
Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
The Whale- WINNER
Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Annemarie Bradley
Best Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front- WINNER
Volker Bertelmann
Babylon
Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin
Carter Burwell
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Son Lux
The Fabelmans
John Williams
Best Music (Original Song)
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose – WINNER
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Best Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front
Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
Avatar: The Way of Water
Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
Babylon
Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Elvis
Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
The Fabelmans
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara
Best Animated Short Film
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse- WINNER
Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
My Year of Dicks
Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Lachlan Pendragon
Best Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye- WINNER
Tom Berkeley and Ross White
Ivalu
Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
Le Pupille
Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
Night Ride
Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
The Red Suitcase
Cyrus Neshvad
Best Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
Avatar: The Way of Water
Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
The Batman
Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
Elvis
David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
Top Gun: Maverick- WINNER
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
Best Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
Avatar: The Way of Water- WINNER
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
The Batman
Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
Top Gun: Maverick
Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Written by Rian Johnson
Living
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick
Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Women Talking- WINNER
Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Banshees of Inisherin
Written by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once- WINNER
Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
The Fabelmans
Written by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner
Tár
Written by Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness
Written by Ruben Östlund
