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Academy members have nominated 2022's best films for Oscars awards.
The list revealed Everything Everywhere All At Once landed a leading 11 Oscar nominations, while Cate Blanchett will look to win her third Oscar after she was nominated for her leading role in Tár.
Some films have only just been released in Australia and others are yet to come to cinemas.
You've got until March 13 to catch up if you want to check out the films before the Oscars.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front follows the terrifying experiences of a young German soldier on the western front during World War 1.
Here's what New York Times film critic Ben Kenigsberg says about the movie:
"Edward Berger's German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's novel aims to rattle you with its relentless brutality," Mr Kenigsberg says.
You can watch the movie on Netflix.
It's nominated in nine categories at the Oscars, including best picture, cinematography, international feature film, makeup and hairstyling, music (original score), production design, sound, visual effects and adapted screenplay.
Avatar The Way of Water
It's been 13 years since the original Avatar movie was released, and now the sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, is the first in a proposed series of four sequels.
It follows the journey of Jake Sully, who is living with his new-found family on Pandora before a familiar threat returns.
In an ABC Arts film review, Luke Goodsell says the Avatar: The Way of Water's creatures, lush sea world and 3D visuals upstage filmmaker James Cameron's story.
"The first time you see The Way of Water's undersea effects, it's pretty cool; five or six repetitious scenes later and it begins to feel like you're watching one of those old IMAX movies designed to show off the size and scope of the screen," he says.
Avatar: The Way of Water is in cinemas, and is yet to hit streaming services. But when it does, it'll likely be on Disney+.
It's up for five Oscars this year, including best picture, cinematography, production design, sound and visual effects.
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin follows two lifelong friends who find themselves at an impasse when one of them abruptly ends their relationship.
When Keva York reviewed this film for ABC Arts, she described it as a " darkly comic allegory for Irish Civil War".
"It's true that the violence in [filmmaker Martin] McDonagh's work is most often shown to be senseless — innocent victims are inevitably struck down in the quest for vengeance; elaborate heists come to naught, but leave a trail of bodies in their wake," she says.
This film has been released in cinemas and exclusively online on Disney+.
The Banshees of Inisherin has nine Oscars nominations, for best picture, director, leading actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, film editing, music (original score) and original screenplay.
Elvis
This biopic depicts the life of American music icon Elvis Presley from his childhood to his rise to stardom.
While it earnt seven Oscars nominations, director Baz Lurhmann was snubbed from the best director category.
In a review of the film from ABC Arts mid-last year, Keva York says Lurhmann's signature pop style is obvious in the film.
"No one will be surprised to hear that Luhrmann's Elvis isn't a nostalgia show [...] — after all, the film is stamped with the golden insignia of the man who dressed Romeo in an aloha shirt and had a fin de siècle French courtesan sing Elton John," she says.
This film is available to digitally buy or rent but it's not on any streaming services yet.
Elvis is nominated for best picture, leading actor, cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, production design and sound at the Oscars.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once details the journey of a middle-aged Chinese woman who is swept into an adventure where she must explore other universes to save existence.
Luke Goodsell, who reviewed this film for ABC Arts, described it as "an existential sci-fi thriller, a kung fu throwdown, a tender immigrant story, a loving tribute to one screen icon and a heroic resuscitation of another, and a warp-speed ride through a half-century of cinema sprinkled with scatological, 00s internet humour".
You can stream Everything Everywhere All at Once on Binge and Prime Video.
This film leads nominations, with 11 categories.
It's up for best picture, director, leading actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, costume design, film editing, music (original score), music (original song), production design and original screenplay.
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans is a loosely-autobiographical film by Steven Spielberg about a young boy growing up in a post-World-War-II era in the US who aspires to be a filmmaker.
In a film review for ABC Arts, Luke Goodsell says it's a "warm, witty, wonderfully moving fable of family and filmmaking".
"The Fabelmans digs deep into Spielberg's complicated relationship with his mother and father, and into the career tensions they embodied between art and science, embracing their faults and contradictions as essential to the filmmaker he would become," he says.
Out in cinemas, The Fabelmans is available to digitally rent or buy from February 21.
The Fabelmans is nominated for best picture, director, leading actress, supporting actor, music, production design and original screenplay.
Tár
Psychodrama Tár has just been released in Australia, featuring Cate Blanchett playing a celebrity conductor accused of sexual abuse.
Keva York describes Tár in an ABC Arts film review as an attack on cancel culture.
"Tár is a bravura portrait of a celebrity conductor-composer — the eponymous Lydia Tár, a role custom-built for Cate Blanchett — coming undone, and it has appeared much as a reveille from a swoop of its maestro's conducting wand, cutting the silence suddenly and with unquestionable clarity of purpose," she says.
Tár has been released in cinemas, and it hasn't made it to streaming services yet.
Alongside its best picture nomination, Tár is also up for an Oscar for best director, leading actress, cinematography, film editing and original screenplay.
Triangle of Sadness
Triangle of Sadness is about a celebrity couple who join a cruise for the mega-rich.
Jasin Di Rosso's ABC Arts film review for The Screen Show says the movie "satisfyingly skewers the filthy rich and privileged".
"From The Poseidon Adventure to Titanic, a ship in a movie is a great leveller of class and other social distinctions, as long as something bad happens," he says.
This film has been released in cinemas but is not on streaming services yet.
Triangle of Sadness is nominated for best picture, director, and original screenplay.
Top Gun Maverick
The Top Gun sequel sees Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, leading a class of elite naval aviator graduates on an incredibly dangerous mission.
In a film review for ABC Arts, Luke Goodsell says while the film has an "unwillingness to engage with anything beyond its feel-good vacuum", there are some exciting sequences.
"Whenever the movie is in the air, it's rousing, genuinely exhilarating stuff. The aerial sequences, filmed, at Cruise's insistence, without digital effects and using real planes — the actors trained for g-force conditions, and in many instances operated the cockpit cameras themselves — quicken the pulse in ways that most contemporary blockbusters could never approach," he says.
You can stream Top Gun: Maverick on Binge and Paramount+.
Top Gun: Maverick is nominated for best picture, film editing, music (original song), sound, visual effects and adapted screenplay.
Women Talking
Based on a novel by Miriam Toews that was inspired by true events, Women Talking tells the story of a group of women living in an isolated religious community where there has been a series of vicious sexual assaults.
Here's what film critic Richard Brody writes for The New Yorker:
"Women Talking is both horrifying and thrilling, infuriating and inspiring — a story of survivors of atrocities giving voice to their experiences and taking action to protect themselves. But it's also a film at odds with itself," Brody says.
You can watch Women Talking in cinemas. It's not available for streaming yet.
Women Talking is nominated for best picture and adapted screenplay.
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The Whale
The Whale depicts a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher, played by Brendan Fraser, who attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
There have been mixed reviews for this film. Here's how Luke Goodsell put it for an ABC Arts review:
"It's hard to buy into the film's gestures toward empathy when it flails to wring pathos from every moment — when its protagonist is mumbling lines like "this book made me think about my life" while sculling from a two-litre soda, an exposed, serial-killer light bulb swinging menacingly above his head; or, where every time an actor seems to be reaching a moment of emotional honesty, the moaning, mawkish score rises up like a leviathan to menace them," he says.
The Whale can be seen in cinemas, but it's not yet available for streaming.
The Whale is nominated for best leading actor, supporting actress and makeup and hairstyling.
Aftersun
Aftersun follows a girl reflecting on a holiday she took with her father 20 years earlier. Her memories fill the gaps as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
In an ABC Arts review by Jason Di Rosso for The Screen Show, he described Aftersun as "a strikingly perceptive, subtly queer, coming-of-age film".
"It contrasts the seemingly innocuous — and at times joyous — experiences of this summer holiday with the deeper undertow of desperation that Calum tries to hide from his daughter," he says.
It's in cinemas now, but Aftersun can't be found on streaming services yet.
Aftersun's Paul Mescal is nominated for best leading actor.
Living
Living is set in 1950s London and is based around a civil servant, played by Bill Nighy, who takes some time off work to experience life after he learns he doesn't have much time left.
Justin Chang, a film critic with the Los Angeles Times, has described the movie:
"In the movie's best moments, Nighy lures you into the impression that he's sharing a private joke with you, a glimmer of comic insight into an unbearably sad situation," Chang says.
Living is coming to cinemas on March 16. It's not available for streaming yet.
It's nominated for best leading actor and adapted screenplay.
Blonde
This biopic captures the professional and love life of US actress Marilyn Monroe, played by Ana De Armas.
In an ABC Arts film review, Keva York says the movie featured moments of intimacy and "awful indignities".
"Blonde's near 3-hour run time — from its star's childhood to her deathbed, punctuated by a barrage of flashbacks and forwards —accommodates plenty of nudity, sex, and sexual violence," she says.
You can watch Blonde on Netflix.
Blonde is nominated for best leading actress.
To Leslie
To Leslie is about a Texas woman who wins the lottery and spends all of the money just as fast, leaving a world of heartbreak.
It's inspired by true events and details her fight to rebuild her life.
Film Critic Beandrea July reviewed To Leslie for the New York Times:
"The director, Michael Morris, knows from the start what movie he's making: one that robs us of our easy assumptions about who Leslie is," July says.
It's coming to cinemas on March 16 and is not available for streaming yet.
To Leslie's Andrea Riseborough is nominated for best leading actress.
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Black Panther Wakanda Forever
The Black Panther sequel sees the people of Wakanda mourn the death of King T'Challa as they fight to protect their home from intervening powers.
Keva York reviewed the film for ABC Arts.
[... ] It is noteworthy that this film sees the once-hidden kingdom of Wakanda prised a little further open, and so further integrated into the sprawling, omnidirectional tapestry of the multiverse," she says.
You can watch it on Disney +.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is nominated for best supporting actress, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, music (original score), music (original song), and visual effects.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
It's a story familiar to many, a father's wish magically brings a wooden boy to life giving him the opportunity to care for the child.
In an ABC Arts film review, Luke Goodsell says this adaptation of Pinocchio "certainly lives up to its name".
"It's a handsomely crafted, stop-motion animated take on Carlo Collodi's 19th-century picaresque, marking a distinct, ostensibly dark departure from the Disney version that has long dominated the public imagination," he says.
You can watch Pinocchio on Netflix.
Pinocchio is nominated for best animated feature film.
Babylon
Babylon traces the rise and fall of multiple characters making their way through a decadent early Hollywood.
In an ABC Arts film review, Keva York describes the film:
"[...] Babylon unfolds at the crossroads of silent and sound cinema, as the effects of the pivot to talkies (precipitated by The Jazz Singer, released in 1927) reverberate through the industry, with careers being launched and terminated on a dime," she says.
Babylon is in cinemas, but not streaming yet.
Babylon was nominated for best costume design, music (original score) and production design.
RRR
RRR tells a fictionalised account of two real-life Indian revolutionaries who fought against the British Raj.
Steve Rose reviewed the film for the Guardian, where he says RRR was told in "massive strokes".
"Nothing about RRR is small: the size of the crowd scenes, the scale of the battles, the sadistic villainy of the British, the three-hour running time," Mr Rose says.
You can watch it on Netflix.
RRR was nominated for best music (original song).
Glass Onion A Knives Out Mystery
The Knives Out sequel follows detective Benoit Blanc on his latest case, where he travels to Greece alongside a tech billionaire and his group of friends.
Film critic Alison Willmore reviewed the sequel for Vulture and here's what she says about it:
"Glass Onion is bigger and more precisely designed than Knives Out, but what makes it a more satisfying movie is that it sits with its characters more rather than immediately showing off their decay," Ms Willmore says.
You can watch it on Netflix.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was nominated for best adapted screenplay,