GOOD AS GOLD
The Post’s movie critic predicts who will win big at the Oscars
OSCARS night is here, and the award-season behemoth “Everything Everywhere All At Once” looks like a shoo-in for Best Picture — but everything everywhere else this year is anybody’s guess. Here, Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win and who should win at the 2023 Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12, at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.
BEST PICTURE Will Win: “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
The popular, innovative and genre-bending film from A24 has won the top prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards and Writers Guild Awards. Whew. Only four other films in history have swept that imon portant quartet and all of them went to win Best Picture. Should Win :“The Fabelmans” Steven Spielberg’s touching look back on his childhood went from early frontrunner to having next-to-no shot at winning. For me, though, it was the emotional highlight of the year.
BEST DIRECTOR
Will Win: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” With these two smart, young filmmakers (Kwan at left), the word “visionary” has been thrown around a lot — for good reason. They won both the Directors Guild Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Director. Should Win: Todd Field, “Tár” Frankly, I’d give it to James Cameron for “Avatar: Way of Water,” but he’s not nominated. Field, though, created a painstakingly detailed, piercingly relevant thriller that was hard not to talk about (if you saw it, anyway).
BEST ACTRESS
Will Win, Should Win: Cate Blanchett, “Tár” Yes, she’s already won twice. But — dammit — Blanchett is doing her best work ever as a brilliant-butcomplicated conductor.
BEST ACTOR
Will Win, Should Win: Austin Butler, “Elvis” Nominee Brendan Fraser’s comeback in “The Whale” reacclaim, ceived well-deserved but Butler’s Presley is simply a marvel. Spanning decades without showboating, his movie is much more popular across the board than closest rival Fraser’s. And he’s been charming voters all over the world.