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The Big Picture · Discussion · Interview
The 2023 Oscar Nominations: Snubs, Surprises, and WTFs
January 24, 2023/ 104 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean and Amanda go through the 2023 Oscar nominations morning-of, then Sean sits down with Lukas Dhont about Close.
74 films across 9 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Best Picture: A Balanced Ballotthe ten nominees, category by category
Elvis 2022
the traditional biopic slot.
Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022
leads all nominations with 11; the Best Picture front-runner all season.
Tár 2022
Todd Field's third film, third Best Picture nod.
Triangle of Sadness 2022
Amanda called this one early.
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
came out of nowhere in the last two months to rack up nine nominations.
Women Talking 2022
The Fabelmans 2022
Spielberg's late-period Old Hollywood entry.
The Whale 2022
one of the two films they predicted for Best Picture that missed.
Babylon 2022
Amanda's wish-casting pick; it missed too.
Does the Nomination Leader Ever Win?Amanda's year-by-year rundown of the film with the most nominations
The Power of the Dog 2021
12 nominations, lost Best Picture to Coda.
CODA 2021
won Best Picture with just 3 nominations total.
Belfast 2021
7 nominations.
West Side Story 2021
also 7 nominations.
Nomadland 2020
skipped in the rundown as "the COVID year."
Joker 2019
led the year with 11 nominations.
The Irishman 2019
tied for second with 10, won nothing.
1917 2019
also 10 nominations.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
also 10 nominations.
Parasite 2019
won Best Picture with only 6 nominations.
The Favourite 2018
tied the year's lead with 10 nominations.
Roma 2018
also 10 nominations.
A Star Is Born 2018
8 nominations.
Vice 2018
also 8 nominations.
Black Panther 2018
7 nominations.
BlacKkKlansman 2018
6 nominations.
Green Book 2018
won Best Picture with just 5 nominations.
The Shape of Water 2017
led with 14 nominations, and won.
La La Land 2016
led with 14 nominations, lost Best Picture.
Moonlight 2016
won with 8 nominations.
Arrival 2016
tied Moonlight with 8 nominations.
Marriage Story 2019
named again later as one of that year's favorites.
Ford v Ferrari 2019
named again later as one of that year's favorites.
The Andrea Riseborough Campaignhow a grassroots push landed a Best Actress nomination
To Leslie 2022
barely released, but a two-week Twitter and screening campaign got Andrea Riseborough into Best Actress over higher-profile contenders.
Best Actress and Supporting Actor Snubs
The Woman King 2022
Viola Davis left out of Best Actress; the hosts call it a missed campaign, not a bad movie.
No Time to Die 2021
the Ana de Armas performance they'd been championing for years.
Blonde 2022
her actual Best Actress-nominated performance.
Causeway 2022
Brian Tyree Henry's Best Supporting Actor nomination, for a quiet, small-scale film.
Eileen 2023
Sean watched it the night before; Ottessa Moshfegh's second script with husband Luke Goebel.
The Menu and the Cinematography Category
The Menu 2022
Amanda argues Hong Chau's Best Supporting Actress nomination is really for this, even though it's credited to The Whale.
Empire of Light 2022
Roger Deakins' surprising Best Cinematography nod for a film they otherwise didn't care for.
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 2022
Darius Khondji's cinematography nomination for a movie that missed Best International Feature entirely.
M3GAN 2022
in passing, as a box-office comparison for Puss in Boots.
Animation, Song, and a Few Curiosities
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022
still packing kids into theaters in its fifth week.
The Sea Beast 2022
the Netflix animated nominee, loosely a Moby-Dick riff.
RRR 2022
"Naatu Naatu" landed a Best Song nomination; the film itself was shut out everywhere else.
Tell It Like a Woman 2022
Diane Warren's 14th Oscar nomination, for the song "Applause," from a film neither host had heard of.
Skinamarink 2022
Sean's been singing its lullaby to his son.
Nope and the Documentary Snubs
Nope 2022
shut out completely; they chalk it up to a slow-building reappraisal that came too late in the year.
A House Made of Splinters 2022
Best Documentary nominee neither host has seen.
Good Night Oppy 2022
not even shortlisted, seen as too crowd-pleasing for the doc branch.
All That Breathes 2022
Fire of Love 2022
Navalny 2022
Descendant 2022
Margaret Brown's Netflix film, snubbed.
Moonage Daydream 2022
Brett Morgen's film, snubbed.
Retrograde 2022
Matthew Heineman's film, snubbed despite Stanley Tucci's public advocacy.
Best International Feature and Closing Thoughts
The Quiet Girl 2022
Ireland's big morning; a film Amanda hasn't seen yet.
Close 2022
Belgian director Lukas Dhont's Best International Feature nominee, opening this week; sets up the interview.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022
five nominations, barely discussed on the show so far.
Aftersun 2022
a rewatch the hosts keep promising each other.
In Conversation With Lukas Dhonton Close, ahead of its Best International Feature nomination
Lukas Dhont
Close 2022
his second feature; about the intense, wordless friendship between two 13-year-old boys.
Lukas Dhont
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
Chantal Akerman's film, an influence on him in film school, later named the greatest film ever made by Sight and Sound.
Lukas Dhont
The Eight Mountains 2022
one of several 2022 films he sees as part of a wave about male friendship.
Lukas Dhont
Saint Omer 2022
his answer to "the last great thing you've seen," France's international submission.
Also mentioned raised along the way
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