2023 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY (December)

Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Cinematography for December.

Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry ♦

1. Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter (20th Century Studios) ↑ – CCA
2. Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda (Paramount Pictures) ↑ – CCA
3. The Fabelmans – Janusz Kamiński (Universal Pictures) ↓ – CCA
4. Empire of Light – Roger Deakins (Searchlight Pictures) ↓ – CCA
5. All Quiet on the Western Front – James Friend (Netflix)

6. Babylon – Linus Sandgren (Paramount Pictures) ↑ – CCA
7. Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) – Darius Khondji (Netflix) ↓
8. TÁR – Florian Hoffmeister (Focus Features) ↑ – CCA
9. Elvis – Mandy Walker (Warner Bros) ↑
10. Everything Everywhere All at Once – Larkin Seiple (A24) ↑

Other contenders (alphabetical)

The Banshees of Inisherin – Ben Davis (Searchlight Pictures)
The Batman – Greig Fraser (Warner Bros) ↓
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios)
Blonde – Chayse Irvin (Netflix)
Decision to Leave – Kim Ji-yong (MUBI)
Devotion – Erik Messerschmidt (Sony Pictures)
Emancipation – Robert Richardson (Apple Original Films
EO – Michal Dymek (Janus Films) ♦
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Steve Yedlin (Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Frank Passingham (Netflix)
Nope – Hoyte van Hoytema (Universal Pictures)
RRR – K.K. Senthil Kumar (Variance Films)
Triangle of Sadness – Fredrik Wenzel (NEON)
White Noise – Lol Crawley (Netflix)
The Wonder – Ari Wegner (Netflix)
The Woman King – Polly Morgan (Sony/Tristar Pictures)
Women Talking – Luc Montpellier (UAR/Orion Pictures)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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