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2023 Oscar Nominees
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The Banshees of Inisherin
2022Get this itemNominated for 9 Oscar nominations such as Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Director. Writer/director Martin McDonagh’s brilliantly crafted film is a dark tragicomedy about two best friends who have ended their friendship. The screenplay weaves melancholic rumination and observation while delivering humorous dialogue. If Samuel Beckett ever wrote and directed a movie, this would be the result. -- Rummanah
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022Get this itemPerhaps the biggest surprise hit of the season. It's a whacky, absurd, mind-blowing yet sentimental, sci-fi action comedy, taking the multiverse narrative to a whole new level of meaningful weirdness and enjoyment. It has 11 Oscar noms: Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, two for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume Design, and Best FIlm Editing. -- Sharon
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Tar
2022Get this itemNominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Director. The Todd Field film centers on the meteoric rise and fall of a fictional female classical music conductor Lydia Tár, played by the electric and phenomenal Cate Blanchett. The movie has timely discussions of art, canceled culture, exploitation, obsession, and power. -- Rummanah
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Elvis
2022Get this itemNominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, This epic, musical biopic explores the life and music of Elvis Presley and his complex working relationship with manager "Colonel" Tom Parker. This is the first theatrical biographical film about Elvis Presley, as others were made for television. This is also director Baz Luhrmann's first biographical film. -- Rummanah
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The Fabelmans
2023Get this itemSteven Spielberg digs into his family history and memories for this semi-autobiographical film. He focuses on the fictional Sammy Fabelman, who becomes fascinated with movies at a young age. Through his home films, he uncovers a staggering family secret, and Sammy comes to understand the power of moviemaking to tell stories. Nominated for Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Production Design. -- Sharon
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Women Talking
2023Get this itemNominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture, Sarah Polley tackles numerous social dynamics among a group of religious women who have been abused by a group of men in their community and have gathered to discuss their future: whether to stay, fight, or flee. Though her film takes place In 2010, it addresses many contemporary themes including women’s roles in society, religious freedom, sexual liberation, and even gender identity. This movie is based on the novel by Miriam Toews. -- Rummanah
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Black Panther, Wakanda Forever
2023Get this itemPart of the Marvel Universe, this is the sequel to the 2018 blockbuster movie Black Panther, which quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Sadly we lost its star, Chadwick Boseman, in 2020. The characters and viewers mourn the loss of beloved King T'Challa and the screenplay moves the storyline into a new direction. This earned Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Song, Best Visual Effects, and Best Supporting Actress. -- Sharon
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Top Gun: Maverick
2022Get this itemFor the breathtaking aerial shots alone, this long-awaited sequel is a worthy watch. Plus, Tom Cruise knows exactly how to deliver on action. It’s the best popcorn movie of the year. It earned Oscar nominations for Best Film Editing, Best Original Song, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture, and Best Adapted Screenplay. --Sharon
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
2022Get this itemNominated for Best Costume Design. Lesley Manville plays the incredibly lovable Mrs. Harris, who falls in love with a Dior designer dress and sets out to buy one for herself. Costume designer Jenny Beavan used Dior's historical archives, which contained the designer's original sketchbooks, workbooks, and patterns, to recreate the Dior dresses seen in the movie. Some were vintage pieces borrowed from the house of Dior, while others were replicas or styled in the Dior tradition. -- Rummanah
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Triangle of Sadness (DVD)
2023Get this itemFrom Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure and The Square), a twisty satirical black comedy that examines gender roles and privilege. The movie got an eight-minute standing ovation and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It also received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director. -- Sharon
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The Whale
2023Get this itemBrendan Fraser’s career was revitalized by his portrayal of a reclusive 600 pound man, who knows that he's running out of time and wants to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Hong Chau gives a heartfelt performance as his only friend, a nurse who looks after him as best she can. Nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. -- Sharon
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2023Get this itemThe long-awaited sequel to the 2011 Puss in Boots, this delivers for creative, enjoyable storytelling, and it’s sure to please viewers of all ages. The animation is gorgeous, the knockout voice cast includes Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek Pinaultfor, and Harvey Guillén. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. -- Sharon
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Turning Red
2022Get this itemNominated for Best Animated Feature Film. In her first feature-length film, director Domee Shi creates a coming-of-age story of tween Mei Lee as she navigates her Chinese culture, identity, puberty, and her complex relationship with her mother. Shi took inspiration from four extremely popular Japanese animes: Fruits Basket (2001), Ranma ½ (1989), Sailor Moon (1992), and Inuyasha (2000). -- Rummanah
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Babylon
2023Get this itemShowing the film industry as it makes the transition from silent cinema to talkies, Damien Chazelle’s tribute to 1920's Hollywood is intentionally divisive. There’s the movie magic, glitz, and glory, as well as scandals, hedonism, and misery. Nominated for Best Production Design, Best Original Score, and Best Costume Design. -- Sharon
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The Batman
2022Get this itemA reboot of the Batman franchise, it is very noir and gritty, with a strong detective story vibe. Gotham City is a character unto itself, shadowing and nightmarish. Nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects. -- Sharon
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Empire of Light
2023Get this itemFrom filmmaker Sam Mendes, this very personal story centers on the employees of an old majestic movie theater, located in a small English coastal town in the early 1980s, their relationships, connections, and struggles. It got nominated for Best Cinematography. Thank you Roger Deakins for a gorgeous movie. -- Sharon
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Living (DVD)
2023Get this itemAcclaimed author Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the screenplay, adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 movie Ikiru, which in turn was inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Set in 1953 London, veteran actor Bill Nighy plays a long-time civil servant who makes changes to his life after he receives a devastating medical diagnosis. It got two Oscar nominations: Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. -- Sharon
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Close (DVD)
2023Get this itemA beautifully made movie from Belgium, it focuses on the intensely close friendship between two 13-year-old boys, which changes when they start a new year at school and begin to pull apart. There is an unforeseen and tragic outcome. Writer/director Lukas Dhont says, “it's that moment of when the conscious becomes presence.” Emotional and impactful, this picked up a nod for Best International Feature Film. -- Sharon
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All Quiet on the Western Front (DVD)
2023Get this itemBased on the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, filmmaker Edward Berger did not pull punches bringing this story to the big screen. A stunning anti-war drama that graphically shows the brutality and futility of war, it received 9 Academy Award nominations: Best International Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Best Sound, Best Achievement in Visual Effects, Best Motion Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Cinematography, and Best Achievement in Production Design. -- Sharon
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