2023 Oscar Predictions: SOUND (December)
All members of the sound branch vote on the 10 films that will make the Oscar shortlist on December 21 and then the five Academy Award nominees using a system of preferential voting.
The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) and Cinema Audio Society (CAS) will have their say with nominations on January 9 and January 10, respectively, ahead of Oscar nominations on January 24.
Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Sound for December.
Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry ♦
1. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
2. Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios)
3. Elvis (Warner Bros)
4. Babylon (Paramount Pictures) ↑
5. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) ↑
6. The Batman (Warner Bros)
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
8. The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures) ↓
9. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Walt Disney/Marvel Studios) ↓
10. Thirteen Lives (Amazon Studios) ↑
Other contenders (alphabetical)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Bardo, or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Netflix)
Emancipation (Apple Original Films)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Sony/TriStar Pictures)
Nope (Universal Pictures)
The Northman (Focus Features)
RRR (Variance Films)
TÁR (Focus Features)
The Woman King (Sony/TriStar Pictures) ↓
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