LOS ANGELES ¨C In a year when moviegoers returned en masse to big-budget spectacles ¡ª and skipped nearly everything else ¡ª Oscar voters on Tuesday spread nominations remarkably far and wide.
The blockbuster sequels ¡°Top Gun: Maverick¡± and ¡°Avatar: The Way of Water,¡± with $3.5 billion in combined ticket sales worldwide, were recognized in the best picture category. ¡°Elvis,¡± an old-fashioned musical biopic (draped in Baz Luhrmann bling) heard its name called alongside the newfangled ¡°Everything Everywhere All at Once.¡± Additional nominations went to the ultrasophisticated ¡°T¨¢r,¡± which took in a scant $6 million in theaters; the German-language ¡°All Quiet on the Western Front,¡± a streaming-service entry; ¡°The Banshees of Inisherin,¡± a dark comedy about a frayed friendship; Steven Spielberg¡¯s memory piece, ¡°The Fabelmans¡±; the sexual assault drama ¡°Women Talking,¡± set in an isolated religious colony; and a satire about the superrich, ¡°Triangle of Sadness.¡±
Eight films received five or more nominations. ¡°Everything Everywhere¡± had the most, with 11. ¡°The Banshees of Inisherin¡± and ¡°All Quiet on the Western Front¡± each had nine.
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