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The big question on every movie fan’s mind is which film will be crowned the next Best Picture winner in this year’s Oscars.
The front-runners for Best Picture include two successful box office movies: “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water.” Indie projects such as “Tàr,” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once” are also in the running for Best Picture.
Brendan Fraser and Paul Mescal received their first Oscar nominations for Best Actor. Fraser got his from his role in “The Whale” and Mescal for his role in the A24 film “Aftersun.” Ke Huy Quan, who struggled to find work in Hollywood for the past 30-plus years, found success with “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and his nomination for Best Supporting Actor, his first-ever Oscar nod.
Nominees for best actress include Cate Blanchett for “Tar,” Michelle Williams for “The Fabelmans,” Andrea Riseborough for “To Leslie,” Ana de Armas for “Blonde,” and Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Marvel Cinematic Universe fans will be excited that Angela Bassett was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Basset starred in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which was released in November. If you didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters, it is now streaming on Disney+. Fans of DC Comics will be ecstatic to see that “The Batman” scored several nominations, which include Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup and Styling, and Best Sound. The Academy seems to favor DC over Marvel.
Steven Spielberg strikes again, receiving nominations for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. Spielberg’s latest film “The Fabelmans” is a semi-autobiographical piece. Best Actress nominee Williams portrayed Spielberg’s mom.
The films that collected the most nominations were “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “All…