It’s a wrap! The 95th Academy Awards are over and out. While the stars are left nursing hangovers and rifling through their $196,000 goody bags – including a three-night stay on an Italian island, liposuction and a plot of land in Australia – Muddy recaps on the the stars and films that won big this year.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

• AUSTIN BUTLER – Elvis
• COLIN FARRELL – The Banshees of Inisherin 
• BRENDAN FRASER – The Whale                      
• PAUL MESCAL – Aftersun                                
• BILL NIGHY – Living                                            

And the Oscar goes to: Brendan Fraser, The Whale.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• BRENDAN GLEESON – The Banshees of Inisherin 
• BRIAN TYREE HENRY – Causeway
• JUDD HIRSCH – The Fabelmans 
• BARRY KEOGHAN – The Banshees of Inisherin
• KE HUY QUAN – Everything Everywhere All at Once                 

And the Oscar goes to: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

• CATE BLANCHETT – Tár     
• ANA DE ARMAS – Blonde
• ANDREA RISEBOROUGH – To Leslie
• MICHELLE WILLIAMS – The Fabelmans
• MICHELLE YEOH – Everything Everywhere All at Once

And the Oscar goes to: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• ANGELA BASSETT – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever   
• HONG CHAU – The Whale
• KERRY CONDON – The Banshees of Inisherin
• JAMIE LEE CURTIS – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• STEPHANIE HSU – Everything Everywhere All at Once              

And the Oscar goes to: Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
• BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
• ELVIS
• EMPIRE OF LIGHT      
• TÁR

And the Oscar goes to: All Quiet On The Western Front

 DIRECTING

• THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Martin McDonagh
• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 
• THE FABELMANS – Steven Spielberg                                                                                                                                                       
• TÁR – Todd Field                                                                                
• TRIANGLE OF SADNESS – Ruben Östlund

And the Oscar goes to: Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

BEST PICTURE

• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
• AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
• THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
• ELVIS
• EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE   
• THE FABELMANS
• TÁR
• TOP GUN: MAVERICK
• TRIANGLE OF SADNESS   
• WOMEN TALKING

And the Oscar goes to: Everything Everywhere All At Once

CATCH UP ON THIS YEAR’S OSCAR NOMINATED FILMS

Everything, Everywhere All At Once

Oscar noms: Leading the charge for gold statues with 11 nominations. Four stars make the shortlist: Best actress nom for Michelle Yeoh, supporting actress for Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu and supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan. Plus best picture, director (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), original screenplay film editing, original song, original score and costume design.

What you need to know: A twisty sci-fi adventure with Michelle Yeoh (Killing Eve) playing an unassuming launderette owner who is trying to complete her tax audit, throw a party to impress her father (James Hong), navigate a possible divorce and avoid alienating daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu). She’s also the last hope of the multiverse, tapping into alternative versions of herself, in order to save the world. Messy, glorious and genre anarchy. Yeoh’s character Evelyn reads a vital piece of advice: “PS Don’t forget to breathe.” It’s a necessary heads-up for audiences to buckle up.

Where to watch it? It’s included with Amazon Prime Video, or can be rented from on-demand stores including Curzon, YouTube and Apple TV.

The Banshee of Inisherin

Oscar noms: 9 – Best actor nomination for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan compete in the supporting actor category, while Kerry Condon has supporting actress nod. Plus best picture, director (Martin McDonagh), original screenplay, film editing and original score.

What you need to know: A darkly comic film holding a magnifying glass up to a friendship gone sour. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell reunite in this tragic tale set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. It’s essentially a breakup movie that’s hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking in equal measure.

Where to watch it? Disney+ and some cinemas.

All Quiet On The Western Front

Oscar noms: 9 – Best picture, adapted screenplay, international feature, original score, cinematography, visual effects, sound, production design, and make-up and hairstyling.

What you need to know: In recent years, the Academy has gone misty eyed over films that need subtitle for the masses. But All Quiet On The Western Front has many other Oscar-worthy attributes. It’s an epic war film, beautifully shot and based on Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war literary classic and its first German-language adaptation for the screen. This is powerful cinema at its finest from director and co-writer Edward Berger. Newcomer Felix Kammerer plays Paul, an idealistic young German soldier who is confronted with the increasingly brutal realities of World War One.

Where to watch it? Netflix, baby, and some cinemas.

Tár

Oscar noms: 6 – Best actress for Cate Blanchett, picture, director, original screenplay, cinematography and film editing.

What you need to know: Wow! In a performance tipping her for Oscar success again, Blanchett plays musical prodigy, Lydia Tár in a psychological drama that depicts Tár’s rags to riches tale and the extreme pressures of success. Directed by the extraordinary Todd Field (his first movie in a whopping 16 years), TÁR has certainly been worth the wait. Complex, classy and digs into the all-too familiar theme of cancel culture.

Where to watch it? In cinemas.

Elvis

Oscar noms: 8 – Best actor for Austin Butler, picture, cinematography, film editing, sound, costume design, production design and make-up and hairstyling.

What you need to know: A bittersweet moment following the recent death of Lisa Marie Presley. But Austin Butler could get his mitts on a statue if the Academy are feeling sentimental. Directed by Baz Lurhmann, this cradle-to-grave biopic of legendary singer Elvis Presley, who’s rubber legs and rock n roll changed the musical landscape for a generation. Uh-huh, thank you very much.

Where to watch it? Rent from on-demand stores including Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video.

Aftersun

Oscar noms: 1 – Best actor for Paul Mescal (and Connell’s chain).

What you need to know: Fans of Normal People rejoice! Paul Mescal’s struggling parent persona in Aftersun will be your next obsession. This touching family drama explores the relationship between Callum (Mescal) and his daughter Sophie, played by the equally wonderful Frankie Corio (it’s so hard to believe she’s only 12). Unravelling through some seriously nostalgic flashbacks of a holiday to Turkey circa 1990, you’ll be a hot mess after watching this, but that’s just the power of Mescal.

Where to watch it? Worth a free trial of Amazon’s MUBI channel or rent from on-demand stores.

To Leslie

Oscar noms: 3 – Best original score, production design and costume design.

Oscar noms: 1 – Best actress for Andrea Riseborough.

What you need to know: Up until a few weeks ago, most people had never heard of To Leslie, an indie film about a woman trying to rebuild her life while battling drug addiction and alcoholism. But a glossy posse of Hollywood stars – Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Courteney Cox, Edward Norton and Minnie Driver – got behind the film and, boom, the film’s star Andrea Riseborough is nominated for the Academy Award for best actress. Risborough could be the surprise win of the night.

Where to watch it?  Available to rent from on-demand stores including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, YouTube and Google Play

Babylon

Oscar noms: 3 – Best original score, production design and costume design.

What you need to know: Reuniting after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Big Short, Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt look set to add to their award-winning movie track record with Babylon. Not only are they supported by an amazing ensemble cast (Jean Smart, Diego Calva, Tobey Maguire, Olivia Wilde, Lin Jun Li and more), the film is epic and excessive and we love it! Set in 1920s LA, the film traces the extraordinary ambition, debauchery and rise and fall of the many characters hoping to become the next big thing.

Where to watch it? Grab your popcorn, it’s in cinemas now.

Living

Oscar noms: 2 – Best actor for Bill Nighy and adapted screenplay.

What you need to know: Set in 1950s London, a veteran civil servant receives a medical diagnosis that inspires him to move to the south coast and cram some fun into his remaining days. He meets a sunny young female colleague who seems to have the pep that had previously escaped him. Mr Williams is played by Bill Nighy, who is the master of gloomy restraint executed with a subtle emotional punch. Critics raved about Nighy’s performance. If he wins, will we get an acceptance speech in his birthday suit bar a pair of cowboy boots.

Where to watch it? Grab your popcorn, it’s in cinemas now.

Avatar: The Way of Water

Oscar noms: 4 – Best picture, visual effects, sound and production design.

What you need to know: It took just 13 years for the Avatar sequel and we’re prepared to brace the sub zero temperatures to watch it (we’ll be blue too…) Among those actors going full blue are Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet in her first collab with James Cameron since Titanic in 1997. The premise of this epic sees the Na’vi race having to protect the planet of Pandora once more from a very familiar threat. Settle yourselves comfortably (seriously though, the run time is over 3 hours) and prepare to be wowed.

Where to watch it? In cinemas now.

The Fabelmans

Oscar noms: 7 – Best actress for Michelle Williams, supporting actor for Judd Hirsch, picture, director for Steven Spielberg, original screenplay, original score and production design.

What you need to know: A movie about the movies, it’s the kind of backslapping Hollywood love-in that makes the Academy go weak at the knees. Written and directed by Stephen Spielberg, The Fabelmans is inspired by Spielberg’s own childhood. In the movie, young Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) loves making films, a passion supported by his artistic mother Mitzi (the amazing Michelle Williams). Over the years Sammy’s films become almost like a documentary of their family life – and one that isn’t actually as happy as it once seemed. Williams is outstanding and worthy of her fifth Oscar nomination. Bafta snubbed it in many of the big categories. We’ll let you be the judge.

Where to watch it? Race you to the multiplex, it open in cinemas 27 Jan.

Triangle of Sadness

Oscar noms: 2 – Best picture and adapted screenplay.

What you need to know: The Palme d’Or winner at this year’s Canne Film Festival, Triangle of Sadness is a satire of the ugly rich at play. The pan European 1% who join a luxury cruise (wot no superyacht?) with unhinged captain (Woody Harrelson) at the helm. Then the boat sinks, leaving the wealthy passengers fighting for survival on an island. What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically.

Where to watch it: Rent from on-demand stores or catch it in some cinemas.

Women Talking

Oscar noms: 2 – Best picture and adapted screenplay.

What you need to know: Based on Miriam Toews’ acclaimed book, Women Talking is a true story of a group of women – Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Judith Ivey, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, and Michelle McLeod – in an isolated Mennonite colony. After discovering many of the colony’s women have been raped by the men they share homes and families with, they debate what to do next.

Where to watch it: Not long to wait, it hits cinemas from 10 Feb.