Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi has once again made the country proud with a historic 2023 Oscar nomination for her songwriting contribution to ‘Lift Me Up’, one of the soundtracks for Marvel’s ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.
Tems co-wrote “Lift Me Up” with global singer Rihanna; music producer, Ludwig Göransson; and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler.
The full list of nominations was released on Tuesday with the multi-genre sci-fi smash, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” leading the list with 11 nominations.
Then the dark Irish comedy, “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and the First World War film, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” at nine.
Here are the nominees in the major categories for the 95th Academy Awards, which will be handed out on March 12 in Los Angeles.
– Best Picture –
“Quiet on the Western Front”
“Avatar: The Path of Water”
“The Banshees of Inishering”
“Elvis”
“Everything everywhere everything at the same time”
“Fabelmans”
“Tar”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Triangle of Sadness”
“Women Speak”
– Best Director –
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere, At Once”
Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
Todd Field, “Tar”
Ruben Ostlund, “The Triangle of Sadness”
– Best Actor –
Austin Butler, “Elvis”
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
Bill Nighy, “Living”
– Best Actor –
Cate Blanchett, “Tar”
Ana de Armas, “Blonde”
Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything everywhere, at once”
– Best Supporting Actor –
Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”
Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything everywhere everything at once”
– Best Supporting Actor –
Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Hong Chau, “The Whale”
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everything Everything All Once”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere, At Once”
– Best International Feature Film –
“Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
“Close” (Belgium)
“EO” (Poland)
“The Quiet Girl” (Ireland)
Music (Original Song)
– Best Animated Film –
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Marcel with shell shoes”
“Tossed Cat: The Last Wish”
“Sea Beast”
“turning red”
– Best Documentary –
“Everything That Breathes”
“All Beauty and Bloodshed”
“Fire of Love”
“Home Made Home”
“Navalny”
– Films with seven or more nominations –
“Everything everywhere everything at the same time” – 11
“All Quiet on the Western Front” – 9
“Banshees of Inishering” –
“Elvis” – 8
“The Fabelmans” – 7
