# 2023 95th Academy Awards Nominees are Out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, talk-variety-show\ **Created:** [January 24, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739 "2023-01-24T18:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/81 "2023-01-29T17:22:53Z")
Even before that, voters received free admission to screenings. Having friends in the industry, that’s how I saw most of the nominees in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, filmmakers didn’t want their films to be critically reviewed on the small screen. That seems to have changed with larger TVs and better formats (has anybody tried watching something on VHS, lately? Ugh!) ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/82 "2023-01-29T21:11:29Z")
Silence of the Lambs is not a slasher film by any definition. It is the only time a _horror_ has won however. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/83 "2023-01-30T05:23:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Sorry, CODA won because it (at the time) appeared to validate a streaming+theatrical release model and there were/are plenty of people who also want Apple to throw money at movies ala Netflix. I could make just as compelling an argument that CODA won because it contained “woke” subject matter in the year of wokeness. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/84 "2023-01-30T05:32:44Z")
I just saw Top Gun Maverick last week and can say with absolutely certainly that it was robbed in not winning the Oscar for Movie You Really Should Not Watch While You Are Actually In An Airplane And Don’t Want The Flight Scenes To Kind of Make You Nervous. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/85 "2023-01-31T01:50:52Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I could make just as compelling an argument that CODA won because … Personally, having just refreshed my memory of what else what up for Best Picture, the most compelling argument is that it was the Best Picture up for a nomination that year. Not a great year for movie releases. Understandably. That one though was pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/86 "2023-02-27T03:48:37Z")
With only a couple of weeks left until the ceremony, they’ve released theatrical packages of Short Film categories. I just got back from a local showing of the Animated and Live Action nominees. My takes: **Best Live Action Short Film** **An Irish Goodbye** - _Tom Berkely and Ross White_ A sweet, but not very groundbreaking entry. It got a fair amount of applause from the Westside audience (which contains a lot of the demographic of the Academy). **Ivalu** - _Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan_ Something of a downer, set among the indigenous population of Greenland. Somewhat schematic to fit in the time. **Le pupille** - _Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón_ Sort of a five finger exercise by two master directors, it’s an amusing shaggy dog story that engages you right through the credits. There was a big round of applause for this one. **Night Ride** - _Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen_ The little person (literally) gets to take the drivers seat. What starts as a funny light-rail hijack turns into a chance to step up and defend the helpless, with a clever twist on the ending. Not as much applause as _Le pupille_, but a lot of outright laughs during. **The Red Suitcase** - _Cyrus Neshvad_ If there was ever a traveler that needed someone to ask “Are you in trouble? Can I help you?” it’s the heroine of this little tale of what someone might be willing to give up to attain freedom. My bet? _Le pupille_, unless it’s Irish night at the Oscars, in which case _An Irish Goodby_ could sneak in. **Best Animated Short Film** **The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse** - _Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud_ This was the most endearing tale of the bunch. It’s an allegorical tale aimed squarely at children as an audience, but it gets to the adults as well. Maybe a little to on the nose, but it leaves you with a good taste in your mouth. **The Flying Sailor** - _Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis_ A somewhat surreal bit of animation based on actual incident in 1917. A little bit too abstract for its own good. **Ice Merchants** - _João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano_ I want to understand an economy in which someone can make a living selling a single box of ice cubes each day. Global warming may or may not be the core theme, but this feature is too muted to discern this. **My Year of Dicks** - _Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon_ This one lives up to the warning that precedes it to get children out of the room. Heartwarming and funny coming of age story that contains a lot of laughs. **An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It** - _Lachlan Pendragon_ Stop action films that provides a take on _The Truman Show_. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really add anything beyond this one note. If the Academy sticks to its usual path, _The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse_ will likely win. If the voters are willing to allow the title to be read during the telecast, _My Year of Dicks_ could win. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/87 "2023-02-27T04:11:31Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > **Le pupille** - _Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón_ Caught this on Disney+ and dug it. It’s a better allegory of Fascist Italy than _Banshees_ is of Civil War Ireland…and funnier, too. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/88 "2023-02-27T04:47:00Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > If the Academy sticks to its usual path, _The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse_ will likely win. Oh god I hope not. That was the _worst_ of the lot! So treacly. That got boos from the audience I saw it with! Someone afterwards joked that since **My Year of Dicks** had the content warning, this one should have had a similar warning of “Not suitable for adults.” It felt like reading platitudes from a self help book. I thought **The Red Suitcase** was so depressing. So now this 16-year-old girl is stuck hiding under a bus going who knows where without any possessions, literally only the clothes on her back, and just 2 euros in a country where she doesn’t speak the language? That is **not** a story that will end well. I saw all 15 of the shorts this weekend. My picks would be: Animation: **My Year of Dicks** (I also just want that title to be read on air!) Live Action: **An Irish Goodbye** Documentary: **The Elephant Whisperers** The Doc shorts were the strongest overall bunch this year. I also really enjoyed **How Do You** **Measure a Year** and **Stranger at the Gate.** ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/89 "2023-02-27T11:09:15Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > It felt like reading platitudes from a self help book. [About that…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy,_the_Mole,_the_Fox_and_the_Horse) It’s a bestseller. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/90 "2023-02-27T15:07:38Z")
Ok? It still felt like quotes from a self-help book. It was 30 mins of “Be kind” “You are loved” “Home isn’t always a place” “Asking for help isn’t giving up” etc etc. Great stuff to read to a child before bedtime, but it was the longest film of the five and got tiresome and repetitive after 15 mins. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/91 "2023-02-27T15:14:02Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Ok? Did you think I was disagreeing with you? It _is_ quotes from a self-help book (in that twee _Jonathan Livingstone Seagull_/_Tao of Poo_ kind of vein) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739/92 "2023-02-27T15:31:24Z")
While I agree that _My Year of Dicks_ is probably the most worthy of the **Animation Shorts** , I just don’t think the demographics of the Academy voters supports it as a winner. Once you eliminate it, sadly the best remaining nominee is probably _Jonathan Livingston Mole & Friends_. Plus, IIRC it’s an Apple-BBC co-production, which is going to pull some votes just on that fact. In the **Live Action** category, my favorite was _Night Ride_, but I can’t see that one winning. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2023-95th-academy-awards-nominees-are-out/978739.md?page=4)