2023 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (November)

The American Cinema Editors nominations don’t come out until February 1, pretty far into the season, and until then we’ll have a smattering of critics groups (including Critics’ Choice and Hollywood Critics Association) that will help guide us but history has showed us the connection between Film Editing and Best Picture more recently Film Editing and Sound. Last year, CODA sidestepped all rules to miss both and still win Best Picture but that’s the exception, not the rule.

The last nine years in a row has given us the eventual film editing winner also winning sound (or a sound award before the merged once again) and all were also nominated for Best Picture. Even 2012’s Best Picture winner Argo, which also won film editing, was at nominated in sound. But we’re just at the pre-nomination stage, with Oscar noms not for more than two months, January 24.

Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Film Editing for November.

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

1. Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures)
2. The Fabelmans – Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn (Universal Pictures)
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers (A24)
4. Women Talking – Christopher Donaldson and Roslyn Kalloo (UAR/Orion Pictures)
5. The Banshees of Inisherin – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (Searchlight Pictures) ↑

6. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bob Ducsay (Netflix)
7. Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Netflix)
8. All Quiet on the Western Front – Sven Budelmann (Netflix) ↓
9. Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund and Mikel Cee Karlsson (NEON)
10. Elvis – Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa (Warner Bros)

Other contenders (alphabetical)

Avatar: The Way of Water – David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin and Ian Silverstein (20th Century Studios)
Babylon – Tom Cross (Paramount Pictures)
The Batman – William Joy and Tyler Nelson (Warner Bros)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Michael. P. Shawver (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios)
Emancipation – Conrad Buff IV (Apple Original Films) ♦
Empire of Light – Lee Smith (Searchlight Pictures)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Holly Klein and Ken Schretzmann (Netflix)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody – Daysha Broadway (Sony/TriStar Pictures)
RRR – A. Sreeker Prasad (Variance Films)
She Said – Hansjörg Weißbrich (Universal Pictures)
TÁR – Monika Will (Focus Features)
The Whale – Andrew Weisblum (A24)
The Woman King – Terilyn A. Shropshire (Sony/TriStar Pictures)