2023 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN (December)

Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Production Design for December.

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

1. Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, production designers; Shaun Barry, Beverly Dunn, Daniel Reader, set decorators (Warner Bros) – CCA
2. The Fabelmans – Rick Carter, production designer; Karen O’Hara, set decorator (Universal) – CCA
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Hannah Beachler: production designer; Lisa K. Sessions, set decorator (Marvel Studios) – CCA
4. Babylon – Florencia Martin, production designer; Anthony Carlino, set decorator (Paramount Pictures) – CCA
5. Avatar: The Way of Water – Dylan Cole & Ben Procter, production designers; Vanessa Cole, set decorator (20th Century Studios) ↑ – CCA

6. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rick Heinrichs, production designer; Elli Griff, set decorator (Netflix)
7. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guy Davis, Curt Enderle, production designers (Netflix)
8. Bardo, or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Eugenio Caballero, production designer; Daniela Rojas, set decorator (Netflix) ↓
9. White Noise – Jess Gonchor, production designer; Claire Kaufman, set decorator (Netflix) ↓
10. The Batman – James Chinlund, production designer; Laura Ng, Lee Sandales, set decorators (Warner Bros) ↑

Other contenders (alphabetical)

All Quiet on the Western Front – Christian M. Goldbeck, production designer; Ernestine Hipper, set decorator (Netflix) ↓
Amsterdam – Judy Becker, production designer; Patricia Cuccia, Erin Fite, set decorators (20th Century Studios)
Armageddon Time – Happy Massee, production designer (Focus Features)
The Banshees of Inisherin – Mark Tildesley, production designer; Michael Standish, set decorator (Searchlight Pictures)
Blonde – Florencia Martin, production designer; Erin Fite, set decorator (Netflix)
Don’t Worry Darling – Katie Byron, production designer; Rachael Ferrara, set decorator (Warner Bros)
Emancipation – Naomi Shohan, production designer; Cynthia La Jeunesse, set decorator (Apple Original Films)
Empire of Light – Mark Tidlesley, production designer; Kamlan Man, set decorator (Searchlight Pictures)
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Jason Isvarday, production designer; Kelsi Ephraim, set decorator (A24) – CCA
Living – Helen Scott, production designer; Sarah Kane, set decorator (Sony Pictures Classics)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Liz Toonkel, production designer; Ahmed Delgado, set decorator (A24)
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – Luciana Arrighi, production designer; Istvan Margit, Nóra Talmaier, set decorators (Focus Features)
Nope – Ruth De Jong, production designer; Gene Serdena, set decorator (Universal Pictures)
The Northman – Craig Lathrop, production designer; Robert Cowper, Paul Ghirardani, set decorators (Focus Features)
RRR – Sabu Cyril, production designer (Variance Films)
Thirteen Lives – Molly Hughes, production designer; Emma Rudkin, set decorator (Amazon Studios)
Till – Curt Beech, production designer; Cassaundra Marie, set decorator (UAR/Orion Pictures)
Triangle of Sadness – Josefin Åsberg, production designer (NEON)
The Whale – Mark Friedberg, production designer; Lisa Scoppa, set decorator (A24)
The Woman King – Akin McKenzie, production designer; Renee Filipova, set decorator (Tri-Star)
Women Talking – Peter Cosco, production designer; Friday Myers, set decorator (UAR)
The Wonder – Grant Montgomery, production designer; Margot Cullen, set decorator (Netflix)

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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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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