It’s a historic list for women and rookie Academy Award nominees including Lily Gladstone, the first Native American to make the cut for best actress.
We can’t deny it’s been a bumpy road for the world of movies in recent years, from theaters shuttering for an extended stretch during the COVID pandemic to the writers and actors strikes to the continued proliferation and dominance of the streaming giants, giving moviegoers more at-home choices than ever before.
But hope lives when we take a look at the 10 films nominated for the Academy Award for best picture of 2023:
“American Fiction”
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“Barbie”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Oppenheimer”
“Past Lives”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
That is not a list of good films. That is a list of great and nearly great works, covering genres from sly satire to genre commentary to showbiz biopic to World War II stories to historical drama to resonant films told primarily in a language other than English.
Christopher Nolan’s profound and magnificent “Oppenheimer” remains the heavy favorite to win best picture, but there’s not a single title in the Top 10 that would be frowned upon in the years and decades to come. If you haven’t seen some of these films, you’d be doing yourself a favor by catching up between now and March 10, when the 96th annual Academy Awards will air live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel returning to host, marking his fourth time,
It’s Nomination Coverage Law that we must include the term “snubs & surprises” in any article, so let’s take a look at this year’s S&S candidates, as well as some other notable developments from the nominations, which (in typical and inexplicable Academy-mandated fashion) were rattled off-in the pre-dawn time of 5:30 a.
