2023 (96th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2023 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Oppenheimer. (USA, UK) Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer. (USA, UK)

Actress in a Leading Role

Emma Stone in Poor Things. (Ireland, UK, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Downey, Jr. in Oppenheimer. (USA, UK)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers.

Directing

Oppenheimer. (USA, UK) Christopher Nolan.

Animated Feature Film

The Boy and the Heron. (Japan) Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki.

Cinematography

Oppenheimer. (USA, UK) Hoyte van Hoytema.

Costume Design

Poor Things. (Ireland, UK, USA) Holly Waddington.

Documentary

(Feature Film)

20 Days in Mariupol. (Ukraine) Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath.

(Short Film)

The Last Repair Shop. Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers.

Film Editing

Oppenheimer. (USA, UK) Jennifer Lame.

International Feature Film

The Zone of Interest. (USA, UK, Poland)

Makeup and Hairstyling

Poor Things. (Ireland, UK, USA) Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston.

Music

(Original Score)

Oppenheimer. (USA, UK) Ludwig Göransson.

(Original Song)

What Was I Made For? from Barbie. (USA, UK) Music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell.

Production Design

Poor Things. (Ireland, UK, USA) Production design by James Price and Shona Heath; set decoration by Zsuzsa Mihalek.

Short Films

(Animated)

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko. Dave Mullins and Brad Booker.

(Live Action)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. (UK, USA) Wes Anderson and Steven Rales.

Sound

The Zone of Interest. (USA, UK, Poland) Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn.

Visual Effects

Godzilla Minus One. (Japan) Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima.

Writing

(Adapted Screenplay)

American Fiction. Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson.

(Original Screenplay)

Anatomy of a Fall. (France) Screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

A pillar of the independent film community, Michelle Satter has played a vital role in the careers of countless filmmakers around the world.

Honorary Award

Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. [Statuette]

Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment. [Statuette]

Carol Littleton’s career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her. [Statuette]

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Charles Q. Robinson, Nicolas Tsingos, Christophe Chabanne, Mark Vinton and the team of software, hardware and implementation engineers of the Cinema Audio Group at Dolby Laboratories for the creation of the Dolby Atmos Cinema Sound System. Dolby Atmos has become an industry standard for object-based cinema audio content creation and presents a premier immersive audio experience for theatrical audiences.

To Steve Read and Barry Silverstein for their contributions to the design and development of the IMAX Prismless Laser Projector. Utilizing a novel optical mirror system, the IMAX Prismless Laser Projector removes prisms from the laser light path to create the high brightness and contrast required for IMAX theatrical presentation.

To Peter Janssens, Goran Stojmenovik and Wouter D’Oosterlinck for the design and development of the Barco RGB Laser Projector. The Barco RGB Laser Projector’s novel and modular design with an internally integrated laser light source produces flicker-free uniform image fields with improved contrast and brightness, enabling a widely adopted upgrade path from xenon to laser presentation without the need for alteration to screen or projection booth layout of existing theaters.

To Michael Perkins, Gerwin Damberg, Trevor Davies and Martin J. Richards for the design and development of the Christie E3LH Dolby Vision Cinema Projection System, implemented in collaboration between Dolby Cinema and Christie Digital engineering teams. The Christie E3LH Dolby Vision Cinema Projection System utilizes a novel dual modulation technique that employs cascaded DLP chips along with an improved laser optical path, enabling high dynamic range theatrical presentation.

To Ken Museth, Peter Cucka and Mihai Aldén for the creation of OpenVDB and its ongoing impact within the motion picture industry. For over a decade, OpenVDB’s core voxel data structures, programming interface, file format and rich tools for data manipulation continue to be the standard for efficiently representing complex volumetric effects, such as water, fire and smoke.

To Jaden Oh for the concept and development of the Marvelous Designer clothing creation system. Marvelous Designer introduced a pattern-based approach to digital costume construction, unifying design and visualization and providing a virtual analogy to physical tailoring. Under Jaden Oh’s guidance, the team of engineers, UX designers and 3D designers at CLO Virtual Fashion has helped to raise the quality of appearance and motion in digital wardrobe creations.

To F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin and Jeremy Cowles for the design and engineering of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD). USD is the first open-source scene description framework capable of accommodating the full scope of the production workflow across a variety of studio pipelines. Its robust engineering and mature design are exemplified by its versatile layering system and the highly performant crate file format. USD’s wide adoption has made it a de facto interchange format of 3D scenes, enabling alignment and collaboration across the motion picture industry.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Bill Beck for his pioneering utilization of semiconductor lasers for theatrical laser projection systems. Bill Beck’s advocacy and education to the cinema industry while at Laser Light Engines contributed to the transition to laser projection in theatrical exhibition.

To Gregory T. Niven for his pioneering work in using laser diodes for theatrical laser projection systems. At Novalux and Necsel, Gregory T. Niven demonstrated and refined specifications for laser light sources for theatrical exhibition, leading the industry’s transition to laser cinema projection technology.

To Yoshitaka Nakatsu, Yoji Nagao, Tsuyoshi Hirao, Tomonori Morizumi and Kazuma Kozuru for their development of laser diodes for theatrical laser projection systems. Yoshitaka Nakatsu, Yoji Nagao, Tsuyoshi Hirao, Tomonori Morizumi and Kazuma Kozuru collaborated closely with cinema professionals and manufacturers while at Nichia Corporation Laser Diode Division, leading to the development and industry-wide adoption of blue and green laser modules producing wavelengths and power levels matching the specific needs of the cinema market.

To Arnold Peterson and Elia P. Popov for their ongoing design and engineering, and to John Frazier for the initial concept of the Blind Driver Roof Pod. The roof pod improves the safety, speed and range of stunt driving, extending the options for camera placement while acquiring picture car footage with talent in the vehicle, leading to rapid adoption across the industry.

To Jon G. Belyeu for the design and engineering of Movie Works Cable Cutter devices. The unique and resilient design of this suite of pyrotechnic cable cutters has made them the preferred method for safe, precise and reliable release of suspension cables for over three decades in motion picture production.

To James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd for the design, implementation and integration of the High-Density Encoding (HDE) lossless compression algorithm within the Codex recording toolset. The HDE codec allows productions to leverage familiar and proven camera raw workflows more efficiently by reducing the storage and bandwidth needed for the increased amounts of data from high-photosite-count cameras.

To Jeff Lait, Dan Bailey and Nick Avramoussis for the continued evolution and expansion of the feature set of OpenVDB. Core engineering developments contributed by OpenVDB’s open-source community have led to its ongoing success as an enabling platform for representing and manipulating volumetric data for natural phenomena. These additions have helped solidify OpenVDB as an industry standard that drives continued innovation in visual effects.

To Oliver Castle and Marcus Schoo for the design and engineering of Atlas, and to Keith Lackey for the prototype creation and early development of Atlas. Atlas’s scene description and evaluation framework enables the integration of multiple digital content creation tools into a coherent production pipeline. Its plug-in architecture and efficient evaluation engine provide a consistent representation from virtual production through to lighting.

To Lucas Miller, Christopher Jon Horvath, Steve LaVietes and Joe Ardent for the creation of the Alembic Caching and Interchange system. Alembic’s algorithms for storing and retrieving baked, time-sampled data enable high-efficiency caching across the digital production pipeline and sharing of scenes between facilities. As an open-source interchange library, Alembic has seen widespread adoption by major software vendors and production studios.