JASON'S BEST: If I Voted For The Oscars 2023 (Return to Jason's Best Main Page)


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Here's the detailed list of my Oscar choices for 2023, if I were allowed to vote -- my choice for the winner is in bold -- in addition, I have also included a few additional categories worth mentioning...


Oppenheimer, The Best Film of 2023

BEST PICTURE
American Fiction
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper in Maestro
Colman Domingo in Rustin
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening in Nyad
Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon
Greta Lee in Past Lives
Natalie Portman in May December
Emma Stone in Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe in Poor Things
Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling in Barbie
Charles Melton in May December
Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer
America Ferrera in Barbie
Jodie Foster in Nyad
Julianne Moore in May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers

BEST DIRECTOR
Greta Gerwig for Barbie
Bradley Cooper for Maestro
Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
Celine Song for Past Lives
Yorgos Lanthimos for Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for Barbie
David Hemingson for The Holdovers
Emerald Fennell for Saltburn
Celine Song for Past Lives
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer for Maestro

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Cord Jefferson for American Fiction
Tony McNamara for Poor Things
Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Hans Zimmer for The Creator
Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon
Anthony Willis for Saltburn
Ludwig Goransson for Oppenheimer
Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen for Past Lives
Jerskin Fendrix for Poor Things
John Williams for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"Addicted to Romance" from She Came To Me -- Performed by Bruce Springsteen
"I'm Just Ken" from Barbie -- Performed by Ryan Gosling
"I Am" from Origin -- Performed by Stan Walker
"It Never Went Away" from American Symphony -- Performed by Jon Batiste
"Road to Freedom" from Rustin -- Performed by Lenny Kravitz
"You Can't Wake Up if You Don't Fall Asleep" from Asteroid City -- Performed by Jarvis Cocker
"What Was I Made For?" from Barbie -- Performed by Billie Eilish

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn

BEST FILM EDITING
Barbie
Maestro
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Asteroid City
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Barbie
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

BEST SOUND
Maestro
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer

BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
American Fiction
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST SCENE OR SEQUENCE IN A 2023 MOTION PICTURE
Gloria's monologue explaining the tightrope that women have to walk in society in Barbie
The ending with the revelation of Einstein and Oppenheimer's conversation in Oppenheimer
Nora and Hae Sung standing and looking at each other with no words spoken before Hae Sung leaves and cries while her husband embraces her in Past Lives
Oliver running through Saltburn estate naked in Saltburn
Marion and Indy reunited and their dialogue about where it doesn't hurt in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
The silence as the bomb explodes during the Trinity Test followed by the sound reaching them in Oppenheimer
Leonard Bernstein conducting the 1976 performance of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony No.2 in the Cambridgeshire cathedral in Maestro
Bella getting up discovering dancing in Poor Things
The radio epilogue that ends Killers of the Flower Moon

BEST FILM QUOTE OF THE YEAR
"Let go of whatever was, and walk into what is." from Creed III
"You make my life so much bigger, and I'm wondering if I do the same thing for you." from Past Lives
"We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they have come." from Barbie
"Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." from Oppenheimer
"Embrace the light while it burns because it won't always last forever." from Elemental
"These scars we have make us who we are. We're not meant to go back and fix them." from The Flash
"When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that would destroy the world." "I remember it all. What of it?" "I believe we did." from Oppenheimer
"I find the world a bitter and complicated place, and it seems to feel the same way about me." from The Holdovers

BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
Poor Things
Barbie
Maestro

BEST MOVIE POSTER
Dream Scenario
May December
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon