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Oscars night is here, and award-season behemoth “Everything Everywhere All At Once” looks like a shoo-in for Best Picture — but everything everywhere else this year is anybody’s guess. Here, Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win and who should win at the 2023 Academy Awards Sunday March 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.Best Picture
The popular, innovative and genre-bending film from A24 has won the top prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards. Whew. Only four other films in history have swept that important quartet and all of them went onto win Best Picture.
Steven Spielberg’s touching look back on his childhood went from early frontrunner to having next-to-no shot at winning. For me, though, it was the emotional highlight of the year.
“All Quiet on the Western Front“
“Avatar: The Way of Water“
“The Banshees of Inisherin“
“Elvis“
“Tár“
“Top Gun: Maverick“
“Triangle of Sadness“
“Women Talking”Best Director
With these two smart, young filmmakers (below), the word “visionary” has been thrown around a lot — for good reason. They won both the Directors Guild Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Director.
Frankly, I’d give it to James Cameron for “Avatar: Way of Water,” but he’s not nominated. Field, though, created a painstakingly detailed, piercingly relevant thriller that was hard not to talk about (if you saw it, anyway).
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
Ruben Östlund, “Triangle of Sadness”Best Actress
Yes, she’s already won twice. But — dammit — Blanchett is doing her best work ever as a brilliant-but-complicated conductor.
