One of the biggest nights in entertainment, the 95th Academy Awards is just months away on March 12, 2023. Each year the Academy announces Shortlists ahead of nominations, and on Wednesday, they revealed 10 categories.
As noted by Deadline, Netflix’s All Quiet, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are tied, leading the list with five categories. The German entry for International Feature Film was nominated in every category it could have been eligible.
Each shortlists is determined by members of that corresponding branch, except for International Feature Film, where members from all branches, are invited to participate with eligibility guidelines. The final Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2023. Until then, check out the Shortlists below.
Documentary Feature Film
15 films advance in the Documentary Feature Film category. 144 films were eligible in the category.
- All That Breathes
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Bad Axe
- Children of the Mist
- Descendant
- Fire of Love
- Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song
- Hidden Letters
- A House Made of Splinters
- The Janes
- Last Flight Home
- Moonage Daydream
- Navalny
- Retrograde
- The Territory
Documentary Short Film
15 films advance in the Documentary Short Film. 98 films qualified in the category.
- American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton
- Anastasia
- Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison
- As Far as They Can Run
- The Elephant Whisperers
- The Flagmakers
- Happiness Is £4 Million
- Haulout
- Holding Moses
- How Do You Measure a Year?
- The Martha Mitchell Effect
- Nuisance Bear
- Shut Up and Paint
- Stranger at the Gate
- 38 at the Garden
International Feature Film
15 films will advance to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category. Films from 92 countries and regions were eligible in the category. Academy members from all branches were invited to participate in the preliminary round of voting and had to meet a minimum viewing requirement in order to be eligible.
- Argentina, Argentina, 1985
- Austria, Corsage
- Belgium, Close
- Cambodia, Return to Seoul
- Denmark, Holy Spider
- France, Saint Omer
- Germany, All Quiet on the Western Front
- India, Last Film Show
- Ireland, The Quiet Girl
- Mexico, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
- Morocco, The Blue Caftan
- Pakistan, Joyland
- Poland, EO
- South Korea, Decision to Leave
- Sweden, Cairo Conspiracy
Makeup and Hairstyling
10 films advance in the Makeup and Hairstyling category.
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Amsterdam
- Babylon
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Blonde
- Crimes of the Future
- Elvis
- Emancipation
- The Whale