The 2023 Sibleys

My would-be awards ballot for last year.

They’ve got to get back to ending the season earlier than goddamn March before it breaks all of our brains. Granted, the slightly longer deadline for getting this post up meant I had chance to fit in Saint Omer and EO as part of 2022 catch-up — though one admittedly doesn’t feature below — but the point still stands, especially if it means that Steven Spielberg can premiere one of his best in September, have zero momentum in the race six months down the road.

As for this post, yes, there were still shortlists that were oh so tough to cut the last couple from, but I won’t prognosticate for too long considering my above complaint. So, here’s the ballots:

Best Picture

• After Yang
• Armageddon Time
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Crimes of the Future
• Il Buco
• In Front of Your Face
• Nope
• The Eternal Daughter
• The Fabelmans
• Women Talking

Best Director

• James Cameron for Avatar: The Way of Water
• David Cronenberg for Crimes of the Future
• Alice Diop for Saint Omer
• Michelangelo Frammartino for Il Buco
• Joanna Hogg for The Eternal Daughter
• Kogonada for After Yang
• Jordan Peele for Nope
• Sarah Polley for Women Talking
• Hong Sang-soo for In Front of Your Face
• Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans

Best Actor

• Adeel Akhtar for Ali & Ava
• Adam Driver for White Noise
• Colin Farrell for After Yang
• Daniel Kaluuya for Nope
• Gabriel Labelle for The Fabelmans
• Jack Lowden for Benediction
• Paul Mescal for Aftersun
• VIggo Mortensen for Crimes of the Future
• Robert Pattinson for The Batman
• Pablo Schils for Tori and Lokita

Best Actress

• Anne Hathaway for Armageddon Time
• Lee Hye-young for In Front of Your Face
• Kayije Kagame for Saint Omer
• Vicky Krieps for Hold Me Tight
• Joley Mbundu for Tori and Lokita
• Keke Palmer for Nope
• Margaret Qualley for Stars at Noon
• Rooney Mara for Women Talking
• Lea Seydoux for One Fine Morning
• Tilda Swinton for The Eternal Daughter
• Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans

Best Supporting Actor

• Don Cheadle for White Noise
• Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch & Seth Rogen for The Fabelmans
• Jake Gyllenhaal for Ambulance
• Anthony Hopkins for Armageddon Time
• Justin H. Min for After Yang
• Mark Rylance for Bones and All
• Brian Tyree Henry for Causeway
• Steven Yeun for Nope

Best Supporting Actress

• Jessie Buckley for Women Talking
• Kerry Condon for The Banshees of Inisherin
• Carly-Sophia Davies for The Eternal Daughter
• Chloe East for The Fabelmans
• Guslagie Malanda for Saint Omer
• Billie Piper for Catherine Called Birdy
• Haley Lu Richardson for After Yang
• Kristen Stewart for Crimes of the Future
• Sigourney Weaver for Avatar: The Way of Water
• Cho Yun-Hee for In Front of Your Face

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Mathieu Amalric for Hold Me Tight
• Noah Baumbach for White Noise
• James Cameron, Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver for Avatar: The Way of Water
• Claire Denis & Léa Mysius & Andrew Litvack for Stars at Noon
• Lena Dunham for Catherine Called Birdy
• Joanna Hogg for The Eternal Daugher
• Rian Johnson for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Kogonada for After Yang
• Sarah Polley for Women Talking
• Matt Reeves & Peter Craig for The Batman

Best Original Screenplay

• David Cronenberg for Crimes of the Future
• Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Tori and Lokita
• Terence Davies for Benediction
• James Gray for Armageddon Time
• “Asghar Farhadi” for A Hero
• Mia Hansen-Løve for One Fine Morning
• Richard Linklater for Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans
• Jordan Peele for Nope
• Hong Sang-soo for In Front of Your Face

Best Cinematography

• Renato Berta for Il Buco
• Russell Carpenter for Avatar: The Way of Water
• Roberto De Angelis for Ambulance
• Greig Fraser for The Batman
• Éric Gautier for Stars at Noon
• Janusz Kamiński for The Fabelmans
• Claire Mathon for Saint Omer
• Luc Montpellier for Women Talking
• Ed Rutherford for The Eternal Daughter
• Hoyte van Hoytema for Nope

Best Costume Design

• Jacqueline Durran for The Batman
• Gersha Phillips for The Woman King
• Deborah L. Scott for Avatar: The Way of Water
• Neil Simon for Inspector Ike
• Mayou Trikerioti for Crimes of the Future

Best Feature Documentary

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Descendant
• Fire of Love
• Riotsville, U.S.A.
• The People You’re Paying to Be In Shorts

Best Editing

• Helle le Fevre for The Eternal Daughter
• Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar for The Fabelmans
• Alex Mackie for Benediction
• Pietro Scalia, Calvin Wimmer & Doug Brandt for Ambulance
• Steven Soderbergh for Kimi

Best Foreign Language Film

• Hold Me TIght
• Il Buco
• In Front of Your Face
• Stars at Noon
• Tori & Lokita

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

• Louisa Anthony, Bablawa Mtshiselwa & Jamika Wilson for The Woman King
• Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine for The Batman
• Terri Farmer & Lesley Vanderwalt for Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Marese Langan for Catherine Called Birdy
• Heba Thorisdottir & Jamie Leigh McIntosh for Babylon

Best Original Score

• Michael Giacchino for The Batman
• Hildur Guðnadóttir for Women Talking
• Justin Hurwitz for Babylon
• Howard Shore for Crimes of the Future
• John Williams for The Fabelmans

Best Original Song

• “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun Maverick by Lady Gaga & BloodPop
• “Naatu Naatu” from RRR by M. M. Keeravani & Chandrabose
• “New Body Rhumba” from White Noise by LCD Soundsystem
• “Stars at Noon” from Stars at Noon by Tindersticks
• “(You Made It Feel) Like Home” from Bones & All by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Live-Action Short

• Black Narcissus: Passion of the Swamp
• Nest
• Nosferasta: First Bite
• The Night
• Train Again

Best Production Design

• Stéphane Collonge & Naomi Reed for The Eternal Daughter
• Ruth De Jong & Gene Serdena for Nope
• Rick Heinrichs & Elli Griff for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Alexandra Schaller & JoAnne Ling for After Yang
• Carol Spier for Crimes of the Future

Best Sound

• Benni Atria, Paolo Benvenuti, Florian Holzner & Simone Paolo Oliver for Il Buco
• Johnnie Burn & Jose Antonio Garcia for Nope
• Felix Bussmann, Balthasar Jucker and Denis Séchaud for The Girl and the Spider
• David Giles & Jovan Ajder for The Eternal Daughter
• Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon & Mark Taylor for Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects

• Christa Tazzeo Morson & Tony Turnbull for Crimes of the Future
• Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy for The Batman
• Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett for Avatar: The Way of Water
• Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan and Scott R. Fisher for Nope
• Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher for Top Gun: Maverick