Mavoy Movie Awards 2023 - nominations

 

As it happens every year, we're handing out our own film awards, just in time for Oscars, which, as you should all know by now, we don't really hold in high regard. This year is the year of action comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once. I talked about it at length on social media already, but just to sum it up quickly - it's not a bad film per se, but a puzzling choice for Best Picture and, after CODA, another proof of commercialization of these awards. But there were, as always, plenty of interesting films released this year. With every year, we're leaving Hollywood more and more behind, and this time, international movies are having a bigger role in nominations again, even if there are less of them in Best Film category.

The films and series eligible to the awards must have been released between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. After last year's experiment, I've decided to simplify the process and not to make specific exceptions when it comes to TV series. Just like last year, I'm introducing more than one new category and I'm hoping to continue them next year.

We are going to reveal our winners on Friday 10th March, in the evening of Central European Time. We'll be live tweeting the results on @MavoyOfficial and then, we'll share it here in a separate post.

Most Nominations

The Fabelmans 14

The Northman 14

Decision To Leave 12

Nope 12

The Banshees Of Inisherin 11

Saint Omer 10

The Batman 10

White Noise 10

Aftersun 9

Blonde 9

After Yang 7

Best Film

After Yang

Aftersun

Decision To Leave

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Nope

Saint Omer

The Batman

The Banshees Of Inisherin

The Fabelmans

White Noise

Best Director

Andrew Dominik – This Much I Know To Be True / Blonde

Alice Diop – Saint Omer

Audrey Diwan - Happening

Charlotte Wells - Aftersun

Jordan Peele - Nope

Kogonada – After Yang

Matt Reeves – The Batman

Park Chan-Wook – Decision To Leave

Robert Eggers – The Northman

Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Best Lead Actress

Ana De Armas - Blonde

Cate Blanchett - TÁR

Danielle Deadwyler – Till

Kayije Kagame – Saint Omer

Lina Arashi – My Small Land

Lucie Zhang – Paris, 13th District

Mia Goth - Pearl

Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tang Wei – Decision To Leave

Best Lead Actor

Adam Driver – White Noise

Alexander Skarsgard – The Northman

Bill Nighy - Living

Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Daniel Kaluuya - Nope

Colin Farrell – After Yang / Thirteen Lives / The Batman / The Banshees Of Inisherin

Ke Huay Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Paul Mescal - Aftersun

Park Hae-Il – Decision To Leave

Best Supporting Actor

Brian Keoghan – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway

Carlos Francisco – Mars One

David Lynch – The Fabelmans

Don Cheadle – White Noise

Judd Hirsh – The Fabelmans

Ralph Fiennes – The Menu

Seth Rogen – The Fabelmans

Steven Yeun - Nope

Willem Dafoe – The Northman

Best Supporting Actress

Anya Taylor-Joy – The Northman

Bjork – The Northman

Chloe East – The Fabelmans

Christina Brucato – The Menu

Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer

Hong Chau – The Menu / The Whale

Julianne Nicholson – Blonde

Kerry Condon – The Banshees Of Inisherin

Raffey Cassidy – White Noise

Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider

Best Child Actor or Actress

Catherine Clinch – The Quiet Girl

Elliot Rose – The Northman

Frankie Corio - Aftersun

Julia Butters – The Fabelmans

Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja - After Yang

May Nivola – White Noise

Xotichl Gomez - Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness

Yu-na - Pachinko

Best Breakout Leading Performance By An Actress (New Category) - There will be also a similar category for actors, but I think I don't have enough nominees so I'll just share a special award.

Anamaria Vartolomei - Happening

Bambi Naka - Dreams On Fire

Camilla Damião - Mars One

Joely Mbundu - Tori And Lokita

Kayije Kagame – Saint Omer

Lina Arashi – My Small Land

Lucie Zhang – Paris, 13th District

Yukino Kishii - One Day You Will Reach The Sea

Best Breakout Supporting Performance By An Actress (New Category)

Chloe East – The Fabelmans

Christina Brucato – The Menu

Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer

IU – Broker

Minami Hanabe - One Day You Will Reach The Sea

Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider

Best Acting In A Short Film

Adriano Luz - The Lone Wolf

Anton Krymski – Nakma

Aya Halal – The Right Words

James Martin – An Irish Goodbye

Mila Heilmann Kreutzmann - Ivalu

Nawelle Ewad – The Red Suitcase

Priscilla Vilela - Sideral

Seamus O’Hara – An Irish Goodbye

Best Original Screenplay

Alice Diop - Saint Omer

Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

David Cronenberg - Crimes Of The Future

Dean Fleischer Camp - Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Emma Kawawada - My Small Land

Jordan Peele - Nope

Martin McDonagh - The Banshees Of Inisherin

Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung - Decision To Leave

Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner - The Fabelmans

Todd Field - TÁR

Best Adapted Screenplay

Alexander Weinstein, Kogonada - After Yang

Andrew Dominik, Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell - All Quiet On The Western Front

Kazuo Ishiguro, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni – Living

Noah Baumbach, Don DeLillo - White Noise

Robert Eggers and Sjon – The Northman\

Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best First Film (New Category)

Aftersun

Barbarian

Farha

God’s Country

My Small Land

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Saint Omer

Best Comedy or Comedy-Drama

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Official Competition

The Banshees Of Inisherin

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent

White Noise

Best Genre Film

After Yang

Avatar: The Way Of The Water

Barbarian

Crimes Of The Future

Emily The Criminal

God’s Country

Nope

The Batman

The Menu

Watcher

Best Stunt Work

All Quiet On The Western Front

Avatar: The Way Of The Water

Nope

The Batman

The Northman

Top Gun Maverick

Best Casting In Film Or Television

Aftersun

The Banshees Of Inisherin

The Fabelmans

Decision To Leave

Gaslit

My Small Land

Saint Omer

The Batman

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

The Sandman

Best Live Action Short

An Irish Goodbye (Tom Berkeley, Ross White)

A Short Story (Bi Gan)

Goes By So Fast – A Mahal Film (Harry Israelson)

Ivalu (Anders Walter, Pipaluk K. Jørgensen)

Moshari (Nuhash Humayun)

Nakma

Sideral (Carlos Segundo)

The Lone Wolf (Filipe Melo)

The Red Suitcase (Cyrus Neshvad)

The Right Words (Adrian Moyse Dullin)

Best Animated Short

An Ostrich Told Me That The World Is Fake And I Think I Believe It (Lachlan Pendragon)

Black Slide (Uri Lotan)

It’s Nice In Here (Robert-Jonathan Koeyers)

Ice Merchants (João Gonzalez)

More Than I Want To Remember (Amy Bench)

New Moon (Jérémie Balais, Jeffig Le Bars)

Passenger (Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez)

Summer Ghost (Loundraw)

The Boy, The Mole and The Fox (Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy)

The Vandal (Eddie Alcazar)

Best Enhanced Cinematography

Autumn Durald Arkapaw - Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Greig Fraser - The Batman

Hoyte Van Hoytema - Nope

Russell Carpenter - Avatar: The Way Of The Water

Best Practical Cinematography

Ben Davis - The Banshees Of Inisherin

Chayse Irvin – Blonde

James Friend - All Quiet On The Western Front

Janusz Kamiński - The Fabelmans

Jarin Blaschke – The Northman

Joe Sadee - Broken Keys

Kim Ji-Yong - Decision To Leave

Lol Crawley - White Noise

Matias Boucard – Athena

Phuttiphong Aroonpheng - Anatomy Of Time

Best Editing

Adam Robinson – Blonde

Cherifi Akram Mohamed Yasser – Athena

Kim Sang-Beom - Decision To Leave

Louise Ford - The Northman

Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – Elvis

Nicholas Monsour – Nope

Sergei Loznitsa - The Natural History Of Destruction

Stephen Rivkin. David Brenner. John Refoua, James Cameron - Avatar: The Way Of The Water

Sven Budelmann - All Quiet On The Western Front

William Hoy, Tyler Nelson - The Batman

Best Sound Design and Editing

Amelia Sai - Anatomy Of Time

Ben Barker - Men

Christopher Scarabosio - White Noise

Frank Kruse - All Quiet On The Western Front

James Harrison - The Northman

Johnnie Burn – Nope

Kim Suk-Won - Decision To Leave

Leslie Schatz - Blonde

Oliver Tarney - Thirteen Lives

Best Music

Gabriel Yared – Broken Keys

Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury - Men

Hildur Guonadottir – Women Talking

John Williams - The Fabelmans

Justin Hurwitz - Babylon

Jo Yeong-Wook - Decision To Leave

Michael Abels – Nope

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Blonde

Oliver Coates – Aftersun

Robin Carolan & Sebastian Gainsborough – The Northman

Best Song

Avatar The Way Of The Water: Zoe Saldana – The Songchord

Black Panther Wakanda Forever: Rihanna – Lift Me Up

Bullet Train: Alejandro Sanz – La Despedida, Avu-Chan – Stayin’ Alive

Till: Jazmine Sulivan – Stand Up

White Noise: LCD Soundsystem – New Body Rhumba

Production Design

Alexandra Schaller - After Yang

Ethan Tobman - The Menu

Hannah Beachler - Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Helen Scott - Living

Hideki Nakamura - Inu-Oh

James Chinlund - The Batman

Mark Tildesley - The Banshees Of Inisherin

Roger Ford - Three Thousand Years Of Longing

Ruth De Jong - Nope

Costumes

Jacqueline Durran - The Batman

Judith Devlin - The Banshees Of Inisherin

Jung Ae Kwak – Decision To Leave

Kym Barrett - Three Thousand Years Of Longing

Linda Muir - The Northman

Marci Rodgers – Till

Mark Bridges - The Fabelmans

Mary Zophres - Babylon

Retno Ratih Damayanti - Before Now & Then

Sandy Powell - Living

Makeup And Hairstyles

Alexandra Anger - Crimes Of The Future

Camille Friend, Victor Paz - Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Eba Sheba - Before Now & Then

Eva Moriegas Moore - Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness

Jaime Leigh McIntosh & Heba Thorisdotter - Babylon

Lesley Vanderwalt - Three Thousand Years Of Longing

Mandy Bisesti - The Whale

Nicole Stafford – Men

Stefania Pellegrini - The Northman

Tina Roesler Kerwin - Blonde

Best International Film:

Brazil – Mars One

France – Saint Omer

Germany – All Quiet On The Western Front

Iran – Holy Spider

Japan – My Small Land

Korea – Decision To Leave

Libya – Broken Keys

Palestine – Farha

Thailand – Anatomy Of Time

Ukraine - Reflection

Best Animated Film

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)

Cheap & Dale Rescue Rangers (Akiva Schaffer)

DC League Of Super Pets (Jared Stern)

Dozens Of Norths (Koji Yamamura)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

Inu-Oh (Masaaki Yuasa)

The House (Emma De Swaef, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Paloma Baeza, Marc James Roels)

Where Is Anne Frank (Ari Folman)

Best Documentary Short (New Category)

American Scar (Daniel Lombroso)

Angola Do You Hear Us (Cinque Northern)

I Didn’t Want To Make A War Film (Nadia Parfan)

Nuisance Bear (Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman)

The Elephant Whisperers (Kartiki Gonsalves)

The Flagmakers (Sharon Liese, Cynthia Wade)

Best Documentary

Free Chol Soo Lee (Julie Ha, Eugene Yi)

January 6th (Gédéon Naudet, Jules Naudet)

Navalny (Daniel Roher)

Satoshi Kon The Illusionist (Pascal-Alex Vincent)

The Fire Within (Werner Herzog)

The Natural History Of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa)

The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Johanna Hamilton & Yoruba Richen)

Ukraine - Mother’s War (Molly Hunter)

Best Documentary About Music

Disintegration Loops (David Wexler)

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine)

Meet Me In The Bathroom (Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern, Andrew Cross)

Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)

Patti Smith Electric Poet (Anne Cutaia, Sophie Peyrard)

This Much I Know to Be True (Andrew Dominik)

TELEVISION

Best Drama Series

Andor

Dark Winds

Gaslit

Moon Knight

Pachinko

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

The Sandman

Westworld

We Own This City

Best Comedy Series

Atlanta

Avenue 5

Barry

Reservation Dogs

The Bear

The Boys

Wednesday

What We Do In The Shadows

Best Television Directing

Bill Hader – Barry

Blackhorse Lowe – Reservation Dogs

Christopher Storer – The Bear

Hiro Murai – Atlanta

Lars Von Trier – The Kingdom

Kogonada – Pachinko

Mairzee Almas – The Sandman

Reinaldo Marcus Green – We Own This City

Sterlin Harjo – Reservation Dogs

Tim Burton - Wednesday

Best Actress In A Leading Drama Role

Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld

Genevieve O’Reilly - Andor

Jessica Matten – Dark Winds

Julia Roberts – Gaslit

Morfydd Clark – Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

Youn Yuh-jung - Pachinko

Wunmi Mosaku – We Own This City

Best Actress In A Supporting Drama Role

Aurora Perrineau - Westworld

Jenna Louise Coleman – The Sandman

Kirby Howell-Baptiste – The Sandman

Kyo Ra – The Sandman

Markella Kavenagh – Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

May Calamawy – Moon Knight

Olivia Cooke – Slow Horses

Sophia Nomvete – Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

Tessa Thompson – Westworld

Thandiwe Newton – Westworld

Best Actress In A Leading Comedy Role

Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs

Jenna Ortega - Wednesday

Nastasia Demetriou – What We Do In The Shadows

Paulina Alexis – Reservation Dogs

Sarah Goldberg - Barry

Zazie Beetz – Atlanta

Best Actress In A Supporting Comedy Role

Amber Midthunder – Reservation Dogs

Ayo Edebiri – The Bear

Emmy Myers - Wednesday

Karen Fukuhara – The Boys

Leila Farzad – Avenue 5

Lenora Crichlow – Avenue 5

Lily Gladstone – Reservation Dogs

Rebecca Front – Avenue 5

Sarah Podemski – Reservation Dogs

Best Actor In A Leading Drama Role

Diego Luna – Andor

Jin Ha - Pachinko

Jon Bernthal – We Own This City / The Bear

Oscar Isaac – Moon Knight

Tom Sturridge – The Sandman

Zahn McClarnon – Dark Winds

Best Actor In A Supporting Drama Role

Boyd Holbrook – The Sandman

Dan Stevens – Gaslit

David Thewlis – The Sandman

Ed Harris – Westworld

Ethan Hawke – Moon Knight

Ismael Cruz Cordova – The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

Jeffrey Wright - Westworld

Joseph Mawle – The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power

Shea Whigham – Gaslit

Stellan Skarsgard - Andor

Best Actor In A Leading Comedy Role

Anthony Starr – The Boys

Bill Hader - Barry

Brian Tyree Henry – Atlanta

Donald Glover – Atlanta

D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai – Reservation Dogs

Hugh Laurie – Avenue 5

Jeremy Allan White – The Bear

Kayvan Novak – What We Do In The Shadows

Lane Factor – Reservation Dogs

Matt Berry – What We Do In The Shadows

Best Actor In A Supporting Comedy Role

Anoop Desai – What We Do In The Shadows

Anthony Carrigan – Barry

Dallas Goldtooth – Reservation Dogs

Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear

Ethan Phillips – Avenue 5

Gary Farmer – Reservation Dogs

Henry Winkler- Barry

Lakeith Stanfield – Atlanta

Robert Wisdom – Barry

Zach Woods – Avenue 5