2023 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING (December)

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

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

1. Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures) – CCA
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers (A24) ↑ – CCA
3. The Fabelmans – Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn (Universal Pictures) ↓
4. The Banshees of Inisherin – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (Searchlight Pictures) ↑
5. Avatar: The Way of Water – David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin and Ian Silverstein (20th Century Studios) ↑ – CCA

6. TÁR – Monika Will (Focus Features) – CCA
7. Elvis – Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa (Warner Bros) – CCA
8. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bob Ducsay (Netflix) ↓
9. Women Talking – Christopher Donaldson and Roslyn Kalloo (UAR/Orion Pictures) ↓
10. Babylon – Tom Cross (Paramount Pictures) ↑ – CCA

Other contenders (alphabetical)

All Quiet on the Western Front – Sven Budelmann (Netflix) ↓
Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Netflix) ↓
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)
RRR – A. Sreeker Prasad (Variance Films)
She Said – Hansjörg Weißbrich (Universal Pictures)
Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund and Mikel Cee Karlsson (NEON) ↓
The Whale – Andrew Weisblum (A24)
The Woman King – Terilyn A. Shropshire (Sony/TriStar 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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