95th Oscars Awards 2023: 10 categories with considerations into the Oscars 2023

The 95th Academy Awards Event will start on Sunday, March 12, 2023. The excitement for 95th Oscars Awards 2023 is building up and the Academy on Tuesday unveiled its shortlists for the 2023 Oscars in 10 categories. including documentary and international features as well as a documentary short subject among others.

The international features in consideration are from 92 countries including RRR and The Last Film Show from India.

15 films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 95th Academy Awards. 144 films were eligible in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

95th Oscars Awards 2023

The academy released the 2023 Oscars shortlists in 10 categories on Wednesday, December 21. The hopefuls in a wide range of races found out if they remain in contention for the 95th annual Academy Awards.

Among these are the marquee categories for Best International Feature Film (which was pared down to 10 films from the 92 submitted) and Best Documentary Feature (which went from 144 to 15).

95th Oscars Awards 2023: Both music awards – Best Original Song and Best Original Score — were winnowed down to just 15 contenders from 81 and 147 submissions respectively. Likewise for the three awards for shorts – animated, documentary, and live-action.

The Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects races were culled from dozens of entries to 10 apiece.

Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga enter the Oscars 2023 shortlist

As the shortlist for the Best Original song has also been revealed. 15 songs have been named which also includes Rihanna’s track for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Lift Me Up. Also, Lady Gaga has bagged a nomination for Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick.  Taylor Swift has also entered the Oscars Original Song race with Carolina from Where the Crawdads Sing.

Indian films shortlisted for Oscars 2023

RRR which has been one of India’s biggest films since 2022 advanced for Oscars 2023 consideration only in one category. The track Naatu Naatu from SS Rajamouli’s RRR has been shortlisted in the Best Original Song Category.

As for the 95th Oscars Awards 2023 International Feature Film Category, India’s Last Film Show has advanced further and competes alongside films such as South Korea’s Decision to Leave, Pakistan’s Joyland and more.

10 categories with considerations into the Oscars 2023

Complete list of categories and film considerations that have advanced ahead for 95th Oscars Awards 2023. 

oscar 2023 shortlist

International Feature Film

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

Documentary Feature Film

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

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

Makeup and Hairstyling

All Quiet on the Western Front
Amsterdam
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Blonde
Crimes of the Future
Elvis
Emancipation
The Whale

Music (Original Score)

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Devotion
Don’t Worry Darling
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Nope
She Said
The Woman King
Women Talking

Music (Original Song)

“Time” from Amsterdam
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“This Is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
“Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“My Mind & Me” from Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
“Good Afternoon” from Spirited
“Applause” from Tell It like a Woman
“Stand Up” from Till
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
“Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise

Animated Short Film

Black Slide
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
The Debutante
The Flying Sailor
The Garbage Man
Ice Merchants
It’s Nice in Here
More than I Want to Remember
My Year of Dicks
New Moon
An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Passenger
Save Ralph
Sierra
Steakhouse

Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Moonage Daydream
Top Gun: Maverick

Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Jurassic World Dominion
Nope
Thirteen Lives
Top Gun: Maverick

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