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www.postmagazine.com 18 POST JAN/FEB 2023 OSCAR CONTENDERS A look at this year's nominees, with insight from the filmmakers who made them BY IAIN BLAIR T he 95th Academy Awards are almost here (March 12th), and the nominations are in. Of course, there are the usual shocks and surprises. One of the biggest surprises was the Oscar love for multiverse adventure Everything Everywhere All at Once, which scored a whopping 11 nominations, including Best Picture, where it's up against a diverse list of strong competitors that includes All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness and Women Talking. It also racked up a Best Directing nomination for The Daniels — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — who join nominees The Banshees of Inisherin's Martin McDonagh, The Fabelmans' Steven Spielberg, Tár's Todd Field and Triangle of Sadness' Ruben Östlund — the latter another big surprise, as Avatar: The Way of Water's James Cameron and Elvis' Baz Luhrmann were left out, along with Top Gun's Joe Kosinski. The other big surprise? Streamers have lost steam. Last year they scored nearly 40 nomina- tions and CODA became the first streamer to win Best Picture. This year, it was half that number and Netflix's All Quiet On The Western Front is the only streamer nominee in the top category. With all that in mind, we now present our annual look at some of the nominees. BEST PICTURE/ BEST DIRECTOR Inspired by films like The Matrix and Fight Club, the Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once is a head-turning sci-fi action adventure ostensibly Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the film's genre is not easily defined. Everything Everywhere All at Once was honored with 11 nominations.