On Tuesday, January 24th, Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams will announce the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards. Beginning at 5:30 am PT/8:30 am ET, the presentation will be held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater and will be streamed live on Oscar.com and Oscar.org as well as the Academy Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The nominations will also air on ABC’s Good Morning America and ABC News Live.
Top contender for best picture, according to diversity is Awards Circuit including The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Tar and Top Gun: Maverick. After two women have won Best Director awards two years in a row, Jane Campion and Chloe Zhao, Aftersun director Charlotte Wells may be the only woman nominated. Several strong contenders such as Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking”, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King”, Chinonye Chukwu’s “Till” and Maria Schrader’s “She Said” were disqualified from the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
Ahmed won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short for The Long Goodbye, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in. Ahmed’s portfolio also includes Sound of Metal, Nightcrawler, The Night Of and upcoming sci-fi romance Fingernails. Williams starred in and executive produced the sci-fi horror film M3GAN, which is already in the pipeline for a sequel. She is also known for her work in Girls and Get Out.
The 95th Annual Academy Awards will be held at the Dolby Theater in Ovation Hollywood on Sunday March 12 with host Jimmy Kimmel. This is Kimmel’s third time hosting, following the 2017 and 2018 Oscars. White Cherry Entertainment’s Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner serve as executive producers and showrunners, with Weiss also directing the show for the eighth consecutive year. The awards can be viewed live on ABC and televised in over 200 countries worldwide.
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