OSCAR NOMINATIONS

Wednesday January 25th, 2023

On Tuesday, the list of films competing for this year’s Oscar® statuette was released. The EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022 Golden, Silver and Bronze Frog winners in the Main Competition and the recipients of the Special Festival Director’s Awards were among the nominees not only for Best Cinematography, but also in many other categories of the prestigious American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) awards!

As organizers of a film event, we were delighted to see that as many as 21 titles honored by the Academy were productions included in the last year's EnergaCAMERIMAGE program, led by the winners of the Festival's main awards. The Golden Frog winner, Tár (cin. Florian Hoffmeister, dir. Todd Field), was honored with six Oscar® nominations. The Silver Frog Award-winning film Bardo: A False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (cin. Darius Khondji, dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu) received one nomination, while the Bronze Frog-honored Living (cin. Jamie Ramsay, dir. Oliver Hermanus) will compete for an Oscar® statuette in two independent categories. The Special Award laureates Elvis (cin. Mandy Walker, dir. Baz Luhrmann) and Top Gun: Maverick (cin. Claudio Miranda, dir. Joseph Kosinski) are up for eight and six Academy Awards®, respectively.

Florian Hoffmeister, cinematographer of Tár

Golden Frog Laureate at EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022

(photo by Ewelina Kamińska ©CAMERIMAGE)

During the 30^th edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE, we had also the opportunity to see the following acclaimed features: All Quiet on the Western Front (cin. James Friend, dir. Edward Berger), The Banshees of Inisherin (cin. Ben Davis, dir. Martin McDonagh), Empire of Light (cin. Roger Deakins, dir. Sam Mendes), The Fabelmans (cin. Janusz Kamiński, dir. Steven Spielberg), Blonde (cin. Chayse Irvin, dir. Andrew Dominik), The Whale (cin. Matthew Libatique, dir. Darren Aronofsky), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (cin. Autumn Durald Arkapaw, dir. Ryan Coogler), Women Talking (cin. Luc Montpellier, dir. Sarah Polley), Glass Onion (cin. Steve Yedlin, dir. Rian Johnson), The Batman (cin. Greig Fraser, dir. Matt Reeves), Argentina, 1985 (cin. Javier Julia, dir. Santiago Mitre), The Quiet Girl (cin. Kate McCullough, dir. Colm Bairéad), EO (cin. Michał Dymek, dir. Jerzy Skolimowski); as well as the documentaries: Fire of Love (cin. Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, dir. Sara Dosa), How Do You Measure a Year? (cin. Jay Rosenblatt, dir. Jay Rosenblatt), and All That Breathes (cin. Ben Bernhard, Saumyananda Sahi, Riju Das, dir. Shaunak Sen). Altogether, the movies won as many as 70 nominations.

We are particularly pleased that all the motion pictures qualified for the EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022 Main Competition received their Oscar® nominations in the most significant category for us – Best Cinematography.

Our congratulations go to James Friend (All Quiet on the Western Front), Darius Khondji (Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Roger Deakins (Empire of Light), Florian Hoffmeister (Tár) and the third female nominee in this category in history, Mandy Walker (Elvis). We are keeping our fingers crossed for all of them!

Director Baz Luhrmann and cinematographer Mandy Walker, authors of Elvis

Laureates of Festival Director’s Special Award at EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022

(photo by Maria Kowalska ©CAMERIMAGE)

The great news, however, would not be complete if we did not to mention the wonderful distinction for Jerzy Skolimowski – the EO director. The movie received a nomination in the Best International Feature Film category, representing Poland.

From the very beginning, we actively recommended EO to the members of the Academy present in Toruń at EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022, who had the opportunity to watch this incredible film as a special screening. We congratulate Jerzy Skolimowski on this well-deserved honour and wish him good luck!

The 95^th Academy Awards® will take place on the night of March 12-13 (CET), at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. While waiting for the final results, have a look at the full list of nominees.