​Tonight is the 95th Academy Awards ceremony, which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents for the best cinematic achievements of 2022. The venue for the ceremony is the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

The producer and director of the show is Glenn Weiss in cooperation with Ricky Kirchner, writes Agerpres. The role of host belongs to the comedian and actor Jimmy Kimmel, who holds this position for the third time after the Oscar ceremony in 2017 and 2018.

On January 24, 2023, actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams announced the nominees in 23 categories.

The largest number of nominations – 11 – the comedy drama “Everything Everywhere and At Once” directed and produced by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. In second place are the films “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Banshee of Inishreen”, each with 9 nominations, and then “Elvis” with one less.

What this year’s premiere brings

The nomination stage brought with it numerous records and awards. This is the first time that two sequels, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Top Gun: Maverick, have competed in the Best Picture category at the same Oscar. For the first time, none of the five contenders for the title of best actor has previously been nominated for this category. Composer John Williams, 90, became the oldest Oscar nominee and also became the living person with the most Oscar nominations at 53.

Steven Spielberg became the first director to be nominated for Best Director in six decades. After 43 years, Judd Hirsch received his second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Actress Angela Bassett made history at the Academy Awards by becoming the first star from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be nominated for an Academy Award in the acting category for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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Who is running for Oscar 2023?

The best film will be chosen from the following ten films: All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Path of Water, The Banshee of Inishreen, Elvis, Everything Everywhere at Once, The Fabelmans, Tár, ” Top Gun: Maverick”, “Triangle of Sadness”, “Women Talking”.

In the Best Director category, the nominees are: Martin McDonagh for “Banshee of Inishreen”; Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – “Everything everywhere and at once”; Steven Spielberg – “Fablemen”; Todd Field – “Tar” and Ruben Ostlund – “Triangle of Sadness”.

Five nominees in the “Best Actor” category: Austin Butler for the role of Elvis Presley in the movie “Elvis”; Colin Farrell as Padraic Suileabhain in Banshee of Inishrein; Brendan Fraser as Charlie in The Whale; Paul Mescal as Calum Paterson in After the Sun and Bill Nighy as Rodney Williams in Live.

Five nominations in the “Best Actress” category: Cate Blanchett for the role of Lydia Tarr in the film “Tarr”; Ana de Armas as Norma Jean Mortensen / Marilyn Monroe in the movie “Blonde”; Andrea Riseborough as Leslie Rowlands in To Leslie; Michelle Williams as Mitzi Schildkraut-Fabelman in The Fablemans and Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere and At Once.

Honorary Oscars will go to director and producer Eugene Palsey, composer Diane Warren and director Peter Weir, while actor and director Michael J. Fox will receive the Jean Gersholt Humanitarian Award.

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Winners of previous editions

The previous Oscar gala ceremony took place on March 27, 2022. The feature film “CODE” won the “Oscar” as the best film. In 2022, the film, directed by Sean Heder, has already received awards from the Screen Actors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America. Jessica Chastain won the Best Actress category for her role in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, while Will Smith won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in King Richard.

In 2021, the ceremony took place on April 25 after being postponed by two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The big winner of the gala concert was the feature film Nomad, which triumphed in the categories of Best Film, Best Director (Chloe Zhao) and Best Actress (Frances McDormand).

Almost a century of Oscar

The first Academy Awards, later called the Oscars, were presented on May 16, 1929, according to oscar.go.com, and the ceremony took place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

After that first edition, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador and Biltmore hotels, but as the event grew grander, the rooms in which it was held became too large. That’s why it has been moved to different locations, and since 2002, the Oscars have been held at the Dolby Theater, which was originally called the Kodak Theater, according to oscars.org.

The statuette given to the winners represents a knight with a sword standing on a roll of five-frame film representing the Academy’s original categories: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers and Technicians. The coveted statuette of Oscar has a size of 34 cm. It was born in the late 1920s after the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (American Motion Picture Academy) in 1927 by the owner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Louis Mayer. It was designed by art director Cedric Gibbons and worked on by sculptor George Stanley.

The statuette, officially named “Oscar of Merit”, remained known as “Oscar”. Originally used as a nickname, the origin of this name is still unclear. However, it was apparently first used by Margaret Herrick, the Academy’s librarian and later executive director, who thought the statuette resembled her uncle Oscar. The Academy did not make the name official until 1939, although it was already widely used, according to oscars.org.

The statuettes are made of bronze covered with 24 carat gold and weigh almost 4 kg.

The films with the most Oscars in history remain Ben-Hur (1959), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and Titanic (1997), each with 11 successes. They are followed by the musical “West Side Story” (1961) with 10 Oscars. The man with the most Oscars is Walt Disney, with 22 competitive trophies and 4 honorary.

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