It’s been a great year for Nigerian Afrobeats musician Temilade Openiyi popularly known as Tems.
The internationally recognized singer has been selected for the 95th Oscars.
Tems was nominated in the Music (Original Song) category for co-writing the song ‘Lift me’ on the Marvel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented the lists of nominees for the 2023 Oscars in 10 categories.
Documentary and international features and include documentary short subject, makeup and hair, original score, original song, animated short, live action short, and sound and visual effects.
Although the list differs from the official nominations, the official nominations will be announced on January 24, 2023.
The Academy Awards will then take place at the Dolby Theatre, Ovation Hollywood, USA on March 12, 2023.
This year, the 27-year-old artist also received songwriting credits on Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ album; he got another big one.
In November, he was nominated for the Grammy Awards at the 65th edition of the prestigious event. His performance with Wizkid on the song ‘Essence’ earned him the spot.

Full list of categories
Below is a complete list of the classified categories:
Documentary feature film
Everything that breathes
All Beauty and Bloodshed
Bad ax
Children of the Mist

the heir
The fire of love
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song
Hidden Letters
A house made of handkerchiefs
The Janes
Last Flight Home
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
backward
Territory
Documentary short film
American Justice in Trial: People v. Newton
Anastasia
Angola, can you hear us? the voices
Plantation Prison
Run as far as they can
Elephant Whisperers
Flag makers
Happiness is £4 million
Haulout
Holding Moses
How do you measure the year?
The Martha Mitchell effect
Bear harassment
Shut up and Paint
Stranger at the Door
38 In the garden
International Feature Film
Argentina—’Argentina, 1985′
Austria – ‘Corsage’
Belgium— ‘Closed’
Cambodia: ‘Back to Seoul’
Denmark – “Holy Spider”
France – ‘Saint Omer’
Germany— “All Quiet on the Western Front
India: “The Last Cinema Show”
Ireland— ‘The Quiet GirlMexico— ‘The Bard, A False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth’
Morocco – “Blue Caftan”
Pakistan – ‘Joyland’
Poland – ‘EO’
South Korea- ‘Decision to leave Sweden- ‘Cairo conspiracy’
Makeup and Hairdressing
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
the blonde
Future crimes
elvis
Emancipation
the whale
Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inishering
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Devotion
Don’t worry, darling
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
The Fabelmantars
Glass Onion: Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
no
He said
The royal woman
Women Speaking
Music (Original Song)
“Time” – Amsterdam
‘Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)’ — Avatar: The Way of Water
‘Lift Me Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
‘This is a life’ – Everything everywhere Everything at once
‘Ciao Papa’ – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
‘Til You’re Home’ – A Man Called Otto
‘Naatu Naatu’ – RRR
‘My Mind & Me’ – Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
‘Good afternoon’ – Encourage
“Applause”—Say it like a woman
‘Standing’— Art
‘Hold My Hand’—Top Gun: Maverick
‘Dust and Ashes’— The Voice of Dust and Ashes
‘Carolina’— Where Crawdads Sing
‘New Body Rhumba’— White Noise
Animated Short Film
Black Slide
Boy, Mole, Fox and Horse
The debutante
flying sailor
Garbage Man
Ice Merchants
It’s more pleasant than you’d like to remember
My Year of the Dick
new moon
An ostrich told me the world is F,AK, believe me
the traveler
Save Ralph
Sierra
Grill
Live Action Short Film
All Away
Almost at home
Goodbye Irish
Value
Students
Lone Wolf
Nakam
Night Walk
Plastic Killer
Red Suitcase
The Right Words
sidereal
Treatment
Tula
the workshop
Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets
Jurassic World Dominion
no
Thirteen Lives
Top Gun: Maverick
sound
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
elvis
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Moonage Daydream
Top Gun: Maverick
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