Oscar Predictions — 2023 (As of 9–15–22)

Justin Horowitz
4 min readSep 10, 2022

Best Picture

  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • She Said
  • TÁR
  • Till
  • The Whale
  • Women Talking

Best Director

  • The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
  • Decision to Leave — Park Chan-wook
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Daniels
  • The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg
  • Women Talking — Sarah Polley

Best Actor

  • The Banshees of Inisherin — Colin Farrell
  • Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Daniel Giménez Cacho
  • Elvis — Austin Butler
  • The Son — Hugh Jackman
  • The Whale — Brendan Fraser

Best Actress

  • Blonde — Ana de Armas
  • Empire of Light — Olivia Colman
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — Michelle Yeoh
  • TÁR — Cate Blanchett
  • Till — Danielle Deadwyler

Best Supporting Actor

  • Babylon — Brad Pitt
  • The Banshees of Inisherin — Brendan Gleeson
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — Ke Huy Quan
  • The Fabelmans — Paul Dano
  • Women Talking — Ben Whishaw

Best Supporting Actress

  • The Fabelmans — Michelle Williams
  • She Said — Samantha Morton
  • The Son — Laura Dern
  • Women Talking — Jessie Buckley
  • Women Talking — Claire Foy

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Daniels
  • The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
  • TÁR — Todd Field
  • Till — Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Rian Johnson
  • Living — Kazuo Ishiguro
  • She Said — Rebecca Lenkiewicz
  • The Whale — Samuel D. Hunter
  • Women Talking — Sara Polley

Best Editing

  • The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — Paul Rogers
  • TÁR — Monika Willi
  • Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton
  • Women Talking — Roslyn Kalloo

Best Production Design

  • Babylon — Florencia Martin (production design), Anthony Carlino (set decoration)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Hannah Beachler (production design), Lisa K. Sessions (set decorator)
  • Elvis — Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy (production designers), Shaun Barry, Beverly Dunn and Daniel Reader (set decorators)
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — Jason Kisvarday (production design), Kelsi Ephraim (set decoration)
  • Women Talking — Peter Cosco (production design), Friday Meyers (set decorator)

Best Music, Original Score

  • Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
  • The Batman — Michael Giacchino
  • The Fabelmans — John Williams
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Alexandre Desplat
  • TÁR— Hildur Guðnadóttir

Best Cinematography

  • Babylon — Linus Sandgren
  • Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths —Darius Khondji
  • The Batman — Greig Fraser
  • Empire of Light — Roger Deakins
  • Top Gun: Maverick — Claudio Miranda

Best Costume Design

  • Babylon — Mary Zophres
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth E. Carter
  • Blonde — Jennifer Johnson
  • Elvis — Catherine Martin
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once — Shirley Kurata

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

  • The Batman
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Blonde
  • Elvis
  • The Whale

Best Sound

  • Babylon
  • The Batman
  • Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects

  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Nope
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • The Whale

Best International Feature

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Decision to Leave
  • Holy Spider
  • RRR

Best Animated Film

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • My Father’s Dragon
  • Strange World
  • Turning Red
  • Wendell & Wild

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Justin Horowitz

I write movie reviews because I like sounding like a Rotten Tomatoes status. Also I write scripts and try to make films. This is one of them: https://vimeo.com/