The GateCrashers 95th Academy Awards Ballot

The 95th Academy Awards are nearly here, and as with last year we’ve gathered a bunch of our writers and editors together to cast votes on what they think will (or should) win the famed golden statues we call the Oscars. Of note with this year’s ballot; we’ve listed both our winners and immediate runners-up for all categories, there are a couple of ties and those are clearly listed, and lastly, our Best Picture ballot was calculated on a point-scale based on our contributors individual rankings of all 10 nominees. As you’ll see shortly, ended up coming down to a one point difference in determining the winner.

So without further ado, here are our picks for the 95th Academy Awards:

Best Picture

1. The Fabelmans (Krieger, Spielberg, and Kushner) – 88 Points
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once (Kwan, Scheinert, and  Wang) – 87 Points
3. The Banshees of Inisherin (Broadbent, Czernin, and McDonagh) – 83 Points
4. Tár (Field, Milchan, and Lambert) – 61 Points
5. Top Gun: Maverick (Cruise, McQuarrie, Ellison, and Bruckheimer) – 51 Points
6. Elvis (Lurhmann, Martin, Berman, McCormick, and Weiss) – 47 Points
7. All Quiet on the Western Front (Grunert) – 40 Points
8. Women Talking (Gardner, Kleiner, and McDormand) – 38 Points
9. Avatar: The Way of Water (Cameron and Landau) – 34 Points
10. Triangle of Sadness (Hemmendorff and Bober) – 22 Points

Best Director

• Winner: Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
• Runner-Up: Daniels (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Actor

• Winner: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
• Runner-Up: Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Actress

• Winner: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
• Runner-Up: Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Best Supporting Actor

• Winner: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
• Runner-Up: Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Supporting Actress

• Winner: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) / Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) – TIE
• Runner-Up: Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Original Screenplay

• Winner: The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
• Runner-Up: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Winner: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
• Runner-Up: Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Winner: Pinocchio (dir. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson)
• Runner-Up: Turning Red (dir. Domee Shie)

Best International Feature Film

• Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Edward Berger)
• Runner-Up: Argentina, 1985 (dir. Santiago Mitre) / EO (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski) – TIE

Best Documentary Feature

• Winner: Fire of Love (dir. Sara Dosa)
• Runner-Up: All That Breathes (dir. Shaunak Sen) / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (dir. Lauren Poitras) / Navalny (dir. Daniel Roher) – TIE

Best Documentary Short Feature

• Winner: Haulout (dir. Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia Arbugaev)
• Runner-Up: Stranger at the Gate (dir. Joshua Seftel)

Best Live Action Short Film

• Winner: An Irish Goodbye (dir. Tom Berkeley and Ross White)
• Runner-Up: Night Ride (dir. Erik Tveiten)

Best Animated Short Film

• Winner: My Year of Dicks (dir. Sara Gunnarsdóttir)
• Runner-Up: The Bear, The Mole, The Fox and the Horses (dir. Peter Baynton and Charlie Mackesy)

Best Original Score

• Winner: Babylon (Justin Hurwitz)
• Runner-Up: The Banshees of Inisherin (Carter Burwell)

Best Original Song

• Winner: “Naatu Naatu” (RRR)
• Runner-Up: “This is a Life” (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Sound

• Winner: Top Gun: Maverick (Weingarten, Mather, Nelson, Burdon, and Taylor)
• Runner-Up: All Quiet on the Western Front (Práṥil, Kruse, Stemler, Ginzel, and Korte)

Best Production Design

• Winner: Elvis (Martin, Murphy, and Dunn)
• Runner-Up: Babylon (Martin and Carlino)

Best Cinematography

• Winner: Tár (Florian Hoffmeister)
• Runner-Up: All Quiet on the Western Front (James Friend) / Elvis (Mandy Walker) – TIE

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Winner: The Batman (Donne, Marino, and Fontaine)
• Runner-Up: The Whale (Morot, Chin, and Bradley)

Best Costume Design

• Winner: Elvis (Catherine Martin)
• Runner-Up: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Shirley Kurata)

Best Film Editing

• Winner: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Paul Rogers)
• Runner-Up: Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton)

Best Visual Effects

• Winner: Avatar: The Way of Water (Letteri, Baneham, Saindon, and Barrett)
• Runner-Up: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Baumann, Hammack, White, and Sudick)

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And there we have it, the GateCrashers ballot for the 95th Academy Awards. If you’re interested in seeing our contributors’ individual ballots, make sure to check out the GateCrashers Twitter in the lead up to the Oscars Ceremony this Sunday!