The 95th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories honoring films released in 2022. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, with Weiss also serving as director. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show for the third time, following the 89th ceremony in 2017 and the 90th ceremony in 2018.
In related events, the Academy held its 13th annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California, on November 19, 2022. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Simu Liu on February 24, 2023, in a ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards, The Whale with two, and Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Elephant Whisperers, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, An Irish Goodbye, Navalny, RRR, Top Gun: Maverick, and Women Talking with one. The telecast drew 18.75 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on January 24, 2023, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams. Everything Everywhere All at Once led all nominees with eleven nominations; All Quiet on the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin tied for second with nine nominations each.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 12, 2023. Everything Everywhere All at Once became the first science fiction film to win Best Picture,Multiple sources:
and became the third film, alongside A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Network (1976), to win three acting awards. Best Director winners Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert became the third pair of directors to win for the same film. For the first time since the 7th ceremony in 1935, all five Best Actor nominees were first-time nominees. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian winner for Best Actress and the second woman of color overall after Halle Berry, who won for her performance in Monster's Ball (2001).Multiple sources:
Furthermore, she became the first woman to identify as Asian to be nominated in that category. Ke Huy Quan became the first Vietnamese person to win an Oscar and the second Asian winner for Best Supporting Actor after Haing S. Ngor, who won for his role in The Killing Fields (1984).
The 42-year span between Judd Hirsch's first nomination, for his supporting role in Ordinary People (1980), and his second, for The Fabelmans, set the record for the longest gap between Oscar nominations. At age 90, Best Original Score nominee John Williams became the oldest person nominated competitively in Oscars history. Best Costume Design winner Ruth E. Carter became the first Black woman to win two Oscars.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
{| class="wikitable" role="presentation" | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang, producers 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 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans Todd Field – Tár Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Calum Patterson Bill Nighy – Living as Mr. Rodney Williams | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang Cate Blanchett – Tár as Lydia Tár Ana de Armas – Blonde as Norma Jeane Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie as Leslie Rowlands Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans as Mitzi Fabelman |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway as James Aucoin Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans as Uncle Boris Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda Hong Chau – The Whale as Liz Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner Tár – Todd Field Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Women Talking – Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell; based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson; based on characters created by Johnson and the film Knives Out Living – Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the original motion picture screenplay Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni Top Gun: Maverick – Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie; story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks; based on the film Top Gun written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) – directed by Edward Berger Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) – directed by Santiago Mitre Close (Belgium) – directed by Lukas Dhont EO (Poland) – directed by Jerzy Skolimowski The Quiet Girl (Ireland) – directed by Colm Bairéad |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Navalny – Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| An Irish Goodbye – 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse – 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| "Naatu Naatu" from RRR – Music by M. M. Keeravani; lyrics by Chandrabose "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 Göransson; lyrics by Tems and Ryan Coogler "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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor 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 | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| 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 Tár – Florian Hoffmeister | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Annemarie Bradley 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 |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter Babylon – Mary Zophres Elvis – Catherine Martin Everything Everywhere All at Once – Shirley Kurata Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Jenny Beavan | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers The Banshees of Inisherin – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen Elvis – Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond Tár – Monika Willi Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton |- | colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett''' All Quiet on the Western Front – Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank, and Kamil Jafar The Batman – Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, and Dominic Tuohy