The nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, which take place on 12 March, have now been revealed.
Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the Oscars2023 race with 11 nominations, while blockbusters including the Top Gun and Avatar sequels are also nominated, and Ana de Armas, Colin Farrell, Bill Nighy and Cate Blanchett are among the acting nominees.
You can read our full story on the stars and movies leading the pack here – and scroll down for the full list of which actors and what films are up for each prize.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Image: Paul Mescal plays a young father to Frankie Corio’s Sophie in Aftersun. Pic: MUBI
Austin Butler – Elvis Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin Brendan Fraser – The Whale Paul Mescal – Aftersun Bill Nighy – Living
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Image: The Banshees Of Inisherin stars Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan (pictured) are both nominated, along with co-star Brendan Gleeson. Pic: 20th Century Studios
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees Of Inisherin Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans Barry Keoghan – The Banshees Of Inisherin Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Image: Ana de Armas portrays Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. Pic: Netflix
Cate Blanchett – Tar Ana de Armas – Blonde Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once
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ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Image: Everything Everywhere All At Once stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu (pictured) are all nominated in the acting categories, as is co-star Jamie Lee Curtis. Pic: A24
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Hong Chau – The Whale Kerry Condon – The Banshees Of Inisherin Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All At Once Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Image: Turning Red features Rosalie Chiang as the voice of Mei Lee and Sandra Oh as the voice of Ming. Pic: Disney/Pixar
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – 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
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Image: Olivia Colman and Colin Firth in Empire Of Light. Pic: Parisa Taghizadeh/Searchlight Pictures/20th Century Studios
All Quiet On The Western Front – James Friend Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths – Darius Khondji Elvis – Mandy Walker Empire Of Light – Roger Deakins Tar – Florian Hoffmeister
COSTUME DESIGN
Image: Lesley Manville stars in Mrs Harris Goes To Paris. Pic: Liam Daniel/Ada Films Ltd/Harris Squared Kft
Babylon – Mary Zophres Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter Elvis – Catherine Martin Everything Everywhere All At Once – Shirley Kurata Mrs Harris Goes To Paris – Jenny Beavan
DIRECTING
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg Tar – Todd Field Triangle Of Sadness – Ruben Ostlund
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
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 – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
The Elephant Whisperers – 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
FILM EDITING
The Banshees of Inisherin – Mikkel EG Nielsen Elvis –Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers Tar – Monika Willi Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front – Germany Argentina, 1985 – Argentina Close – Belgium EO – Poland The Quiet Girl – Ireland
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front – Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerova 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 – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
All Quiet on the Western Front – Volker Bertelmann Babylon – Justin Hurwitz The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell Everything Everywhere All At Once – Son Lux The Fabelmans – John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
Image: NT Rama Rao Jr and Ram Charan Teja in RRR. Pic: DVV Entertainment
Applause from Tell It like A Woman – music and lyrics by Diane Warren Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick – music and lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop Lift Me Up from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler Naatu Naatu from “RRR – music by MM Keeravaani; lyrics by Chandrabose This Is A Life from Everything Everywhere All At Once – music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; lyrics by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
BEST FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron and Jon Landau The Banshees Of Inisherin – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh Elvis – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang The Fabelmans – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner Tar – Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert Top Gun: Maverick – Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer Triangle Of Sadness – Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober Women Talking – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand
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
SOUND
All Quiet On The Western Front – Viktor Prasil, 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 – Mark Weingarten, James H Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet On The Western Front – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar Avatar: The Way of Water – 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
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Image: Daniel Craig returned as Detective Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Pic: Netflix
All Quiet On The Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson Living – 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 – Sarah Polley
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Banshees Of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner Tar – Todd Field Triangle Of Sadness – Ruben Ostlund
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse – Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud The Flying Sailor – Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Ice Merchants – Joao Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano My Year Of D**** – Sara Gunnarsdottir 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 -Tom Berkeley and Ross White Ivalu – Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan Le Pupille – Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuaron Night Ride – Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen The Red Suitcase – Cyrus Neshvad
The second instalment of the sixth series of The Crown is set for release on 14 December.
Seven years on from its initial release, the programme has been a smash hit for Netflix and has seen some of the UK’s greatest acting talent – including the three queens Claire Foy, Olivia Colman and Imelda Staunton – take on the challenge of portraying some of the most recognisable people in the world.
Behind the glitzy multimillion-pound production is a vast production team working on the finest of details to capture each decade of the Royal Family precisely.
Martin Childs, a production designer, and Alison Harvey, a set decorator, have worked on all six seasons of the show and produced almost 2,500 sets in that time.
Image: Alison Harvey and Martin Childs, set and production designers on The Crown
The pair say the “luxury of time and money and people” that the Netflix production affords allows the detailed and spectacular sets we see on our screens.
“We did go through the schedule quite quickly,” Harvey said.
“We did have people devoted to certain things like drapes. [I’m] on a job at the moment – we’ve got no people and no money and no time. So we’re very lucky to have those facilities available to us on such a great well-received project.”
The abundance of resources allows Childs and Harvey to capture not just the familiar castles and regal settings – they were excited to capture the royals’ private interiors as well.
“It’s a kind of a slightly imagined film version,” Harvey said.
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“We research and research and research until the research runs out,” Childs said.
“I think it might be Peter Morgan who coined this phrase ‘informed imagination’ – and it’s one I like very much because it helps describe what we finish up having to do,” he added.
The first four episodes of the sixth season were released on 16 November and captured the last eight weeks of Princess Diana’s life.
While many of the scenes from the 1997 crash and its aftermath are seared into the public’s imagination, Childs was averse to recreating many of them.
“My consideration [for] all the scenes that led up to [the crash] was not to have any prior knowledge of it, because the audience does. So I didn’t want to load it with 20-20 hindsight.
“People know what happened. People are familiar with the footage so we didn’t really want to recreate much of that.”
Portraying Diana faithfully was also a major consideration for hair and makeup artists Cate Hall and Emilie Yong. It took around 30 hours to transform Elizabeth Debicki into the late princess.
Image: Hair and makeup artists on The Crown Cate Hall (left) and Emilie Yong
“It starts with this very archaic wrapping of their head in clingfilm and sellotape and marking the headline with a sharpie. The wig maker we work with is very, very detailed in terms of hairlines, crowns,” Hall said.
“The hair is all knotted hair by hair, we will go through thousands of different colours to find the four or five colours we’re going to use in a wig. Then once the wig is made, we start cutting.
“Then the wig comes off the head and is set and dried, put back on again, cut, highlighted, roots shaded in. And then the makeup fittings start.”
Image: Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana and a young Will and Kate in The Crown Pic: Netflix
Like the production designers, the pair said they “live and die by” getting the details right.
“Otherwise what you get is something that feels sort of generally in the region of [the decade] but not necessarily robust.
“The whole point when you’re recreating period television is trying to create this world that the viewer can watch and really immerse themselves in. The last thing you want to do is bring them out of that.
“So for me, if I’m watching a TV show and the textures are really modern and chemically sophisticated and illuminated, things like that immediately take me out of the show. So it’s those kinds of details.
“One way of saying we’re in the 1960s [is] about the textures and what was available to the people at the time. Glitter was not. We have every foundation colour under the sun now. But in 1960 you were probably dealing with four different shades if you’re lucky. It’s about sophistication that helps you tell the story,” Hall said.
So the actors have undergone their transformations into their characters and the stage is set but something’s missing.
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Alongside a historical research team, the actors spend a significant amount of time preparing with movement coach Polly Bennett to prepare for filming.
“When you meet new actors playing the characters, it becomes about actually trying to throw all of that information [from past seasons] away and starting again.
“The best thing about working with the team this time around was that we’d already done season five, so they kind of lived in their bodies,” she said.
Image: The Crown’s movement coach Polly Bennett
“I think the biggest thing physically that I had to consider was that they had been around being famous. Being famous was a new idea.
“The sort of thing that Diana was experiencing is a very particular physical change in her body. So that was the major preoccupation I had.”
A huge body of research, like the production designers and hair and make-up artists, informs Bennetts’s work.
She describes working with 21-year-old Meg Bellamy who is playing a young Kate Middleton as she attends university with Prince William.
“A lot of our first sessions were just providing the space to go – who is this person? What has she been around? What has she grown up around? What clothes is she regularly wearing? What food does she eat? What are her relationships? Who has she seen growing up?
“We look at footage that we have, we look at photographs, and put it together in the kind of private investigator type way,” Bennett said.
“And suddenly when you start looking at different pictures, you notice little things that Kate does in her life, like she wears a handbag always on the same side of her body and she clutches it. Now, that’s something that then became an inpoint for Meg.
“The idea that they’ve got something very practical, but they’re keeping it close to them and then you can take that feeling into their whole life. Whether or not that’s actually what Kate Middleton is doing, that becomes gold dust as a practical idea for an actor to play.”
The wait is almost over for fans of one of the biggest game franchises of all time – the trailer for the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto will finally be released next week.
In a post on social media, Rockstar, the makers of the games, simply said: “Trailer 1, Tuesday, December 5, 9am ET” – 9am eastern time is 2pm GMT.
Since being posted on X on Friday afternoon, the announcement has been viewed more than 50 million times.
While it does not mention the game it will be showing, it is widely assumed to be the sixth instalment of Grand Theft Auto.
GTA V launched in 2013, and saw Michael, Trevor and Franklin’s exploits in Los Santos (modelled around Los Angeles), with players taking part in activities such as driving and shopping, all the way up to heists and assassinations.
Previous settings in the series included the Miami-inspired Vice City and New York-inspired Liberty City.
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Image: Michael, Franklin and Trevor in GTA V. Pic: Rockstar
GTA V is the fastest entertainment product in history to make $1bn (£792m), and the most profitable ever made, and has since sold an astonishing 185 million copies – earning publisher Take-Two a reported $8bn (£6.4bn) in revenue.
They released 90 minutes of footage after threatening the developer, which showed some of the locations the new game will feature and the two protagonists.
Rockstar Games said on social media at the time: “We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorised third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto.
“At this time, we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects.
“We are extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you all in this way.”
Actress Brigit Forsyth – who starred in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? – has died at the age of 83, her agent has said.
Forsyth played Thelma Ferris, the long-suffering wife of Rodney Bewes’s character Bob, in the cult 1970s BBC sitcom.
Her agent Mark Pemberton confirmed she died “peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family” in the early hours of Friday morning.
He said in a statement: “Brigit had a varied and notable career in stage, screen and radio. Best known for her roles in television as Thelma in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?, Francine Pratt in Playing The Field and Madge in Still Open All Hours.”
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Following the final episode of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? in 1974, Forsyth appeared in shows such as Poirot and Casualty.
She also appeared in Coronation Street – playing one of Ken Barlow’s escort clients.
In 2000, she returned to screens as the social climbing snob Francine Pratt, who was married to businessman Jim Pratt played by Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson, in the BBC’s footballing drama Playing The Field.
Forsyth also won plaudits for her stage roles which included playing an American in The Glass Menagerie and a Polish doctor in a production at the National Theatre.
She also appeared in radio plays on the BBC over the years and featured in the Radio 4 sitcom Ed Reardon’s Week.