Oscar nominations 2023: Top Gun leads sequels surge

Nominations for the 2023 Oscars volition beryllium announced later, and it is apt that respective Academy records volition beryllium broken.

More sequels than ever could beryllium nominated for champion picture, acknowledgment to caller iterations of Top Gun, Avatar and Black Panther, among others.

There volition apt beryllium a peculiarly beardown showing for Irish films and actors, portion Marvel could unafraid its archetypal ever acting nomination.

Jimmy Kimmel volition big this year's ceremony, acceptable to beryllium held connected 12 March.

Given their occurrence astatine precursor events, Everything Everywhere All At Once and The Banshees of Inisherin are apt to diagnostic heavy erstwhile the nominations are unveiled from 13:30 GMT connected Tuesday.

Elvis, Tár, The Fabelmans, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Whale are besides apt to amusement up. Here are a fewer things to look retired for up of the nominations:

The 2023 shortlist could spot the largest fig of sequels ever nominated for champion representation successful a azygous year.

The contenders see Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and perchance adjacent Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. That's a batch of colons.

Only 2 of those would person to beryllium nominated to interruption the grounds for astir sequels successful a azygous year. However, that's partially due to the fact that the champion representation class is bigger than it utilized to beryllium - with 10 slots available.

Just 8 sequels person been nominated for champion representation before, and nary 2 successful a azygous year. Those which person antecedently made the chopped see follow-ups to the Godfather and Lord of the Rings, arsenic good arsenic Toy Story 3 and Mad Max: Fury Road.

A champion supporting histrion information for Angela Bassett's show successful Wakanda Forever would people the archetypal ever acting motion for a Marvel film.

The archetypal Black Panther movie was nominated for champion representation successful 2019, and actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe person been shortlisted for their performances successful different films - but not for those successful the superhero franchise.

In total, Marvel films person antecedently scored 19 nominations - but whitethorn of these were successful method categories. For example, the archetypal Black Panther won champion costume design, accumulation plan and archetypal score.

There could beryllium a peculiarly beardown showing for Irish actors this year. The Banshees of Inisherin unsocial could nutrient 4 acting nominees: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon.

The movie follows 2 friends connected an land disconnected the westbound seashore of Ireland who autumn out, and has performed good astatine precursor ceremonies.

Other Irish actors who could beryllium nominated see Paul Mescal for Aftersun and Jessie Buckley for Women Talking.

And determination could beryllium a information successful the champion planetary movie class for The Quiet Girl - an fantabulous movie astir a shy young miss who goes to enactment with her distant relatives for the summer.

There could beryllium a fewer Brits successful contention for the acting prizes too. Bill Nighy is precise apt to beryllium nominated for his widely-praised show successful Living, which sees him play an ageing civilian servant who decides to alteration his manner aft receiving a terminal diagnosis.

Other British actors thought to beryllium successful the moving see Eddie Redmayne, for his portrayal of serial slayer Charles Cullen successful The Good Nurse.

Olivia Colman's show successful Empire of Light arsenic a cinema idiosyncratic who suffers from intelligence wellness issues could besides beryllium recognised, but her information is not a dead-cert.

Other imaginable but little apt British nominations see Ben Whishaw for Women Talking and Emma Thompson for Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

All Quiet On The Western Front dominated the Bafta nominations past week, and the World War One epic volition apt person a likewise beardown showing astatine the Oscars.

A champion representation information would marque it lone the 2nd publication ever to beryllium adapted doubly into a champion representation nominee (a erstwhile Oscar-winning adaptation was released successful 1930.

The inventive multiverse escapade Everything Everywhere All At Once could beryllium recognised some for champion representation and for its stars Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.

Meanwhile, the acting frontrunners include Brendan Fraser, who spot a morbidly obese prof successful The Whale, Austin Butler, who portrayed Elvis Presley successful Baz Luhrmann's caller biopic and Cate Blanchett, who plays a disgraced orchestra conductor successful Tár.

There has been overmuch statement successful awards circles this twelvemonth implicit Michelle Williams' imaginable information for Steven Spielberg's autobiographical play The Fabelmans.

She plays the protagonist's parent successful the drama, but contempt not being the main character, Williams decided to taxable herself successful the starring histrion class alternatively than supporting, with the enactment of the movie studio.

This led to a statement successful Hollywood astir whether mothering roles are traditionally overlooked for starring categories, contempt specified characters often having a ample magnitude of surface time.

However, Oscar rules authorities the Academy tin nominate immoderate histrion successful whichever class they spot fit. So if capable members determine Williams' quality was a supporting role, she could amusement up determination anyhow contempt her ain efforts to upgrade.

The champion archetypal opus class is often starrier than the acting categories, acknowledgment to the ample fig of popular stars who inactive grounds tracks for movie soundtracks.

The astir apt nominee present is Rihanna, for Wake Me Up from Wakanda Forever. Lady Gaga whitethorn besides beryllium nominated for Hold My Hand, which plays implicit the credits of Top Gun: Maverick.

A information for Taylor Swift's fantabulous Carolina is uncertain but it could beryllium a bully mode for the Academy to recognise Where The Crawdads Sing - which was palmy astatine the container bureau but is improbable to amusement up successful different categories.

But the class won't beryllium arsenic starry arsenic it mightiness person been - due to the fact that the opus Billie Eilish and her member Finneas O'Connell contributed to the Turning Red soundtrack was not adjacent longlisted.

All of the nominees for champion manager are apt to beryllium antheral this year. They could see Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans), Todd Field (Tár), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Baz Luhrmann (Elvis), and Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick).

There whitethorn besides beryllium a information for antheral duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - known jointly arsenic Daniels - for Everything Everywhere All At Once.

That could mean pistillate directors specified arsenic Charlotte Wells (Aftersun), Sarah Polley (Women Talking) and Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King) are unopen out.

However, the Oscars has been doing overmuch amended connected this beforehand recently. The 2 astir caller winners of the class were women - Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland successful 2021, and Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog successful 2022.

Elsewhere, a little-known movie which reportedly lone made $27,000 (£21,800) astatine the container bureau has made a precise precocious interruption for it successful the champion histrion race.

British prima Andrea Riseborough could outpouring a astonishment motion aft respective Hollywood A-listers, including Courteney Cox, Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, and Gwyneth Paltrow got down the movie and championed her performance.

Many tweeted their emotion for the movie, portion others hosted their ain screenings oregon gave the movie a shout-out astatine different ceremonies, each successful an effort to effort and get the movie connected the Academy's radar.

Riseborough is fantabulous successful To Leslie, which follows an alcoholic parent who wins the lottery but squanders the money, but her awards momentum has lone materialised successful the past fortnight.

The movie premiered past March astatine South By Southwest - which, dissimilar Toronto, Venice oregon Cannes, is not 1 of the movie festivals considered a cardinal portion of the awards race. Riseborough's information would beryllium a astonishment - but besides marque the contention overmuch much exciting.