So, in case you missed out on all the winners, grinners and also rans attended by the glitterati and glamourati at this years Oscar ceremony, below is a summary of the main categories :-
* Best Director : presented to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out Martin McDonagh for 'The Banshees of Inisherin', Steven Spielberg for 'The Fabelmans', Todd Field for 'Tar' and Ruben Ostlund for 'Triangle of Sadness'.
* Best Supporting Actor : presented to Ke Huy Quan for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out Breadan Gleeson for the 'Banshees of Inisherin', Brian Tyree Henry for 'Causeway', Judd Hirsch for 'The Fabelmans' and Barry Keoghan for 'The Banshees of Inisherin'.
* Best Supporting Actress : awarded to Jamie Lee Curtis for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out Angela Bassett for 'Black Panther : Wakanda Forever', Hong Chau for 'The Whale', Kerry Condon for 'The Banshees of Inisherin' and Stephanie Hsu for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'.
* Best Original Screenplay : awarded to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out 'The Banshees of Inisherin', 'The Fabelmans', 'Tar' and 'Triangle of Sadness'.
* Best Adapted Screenplay : presented to Sarah Polley for 'Women Talking', beating out 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'Glass Onion : A Knives Out Mystery', 'Living', and 'Top Gun : Maverick'.
* Best Documentary Feature : awarded to 'Navalny', beating out 'All That Breathes', 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed', 'Fire of Love' and 'A House Made of Splinters'.
* Best Original Score : presented to Volker Bertelmann for 'All Quiet on the Western Front', beating out 'Babylon', 'The Banshees of Inisherin', 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'The Fabelmans'.
* Best Production Design : awarded to Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper for 'All Quiet on the Western Front', beating out 'Avatar : The Way of Water', 'Babylon', 'Elvis' and 'The Fabelmans'.
* Best Cinematography : awarded to James Friend for 'All Quiet on the Western Front', beating out 'Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths', 'Elvis', 'Empire of Light' and 'Tar'.
* Best Make-Up and Hair Styling : presented to Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley for 'The Whale', beating out 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'The Batman', 'Black Panther : Wakanda Forever' and 'Elvis'.
* Best Film Editing : presented to Paul Rogers for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', beating out 'The Banshees of Inisherin', 'Elvis', 'Tar' and 'Top Gun : Maverick'.
* Best Visual Effects : awarded to Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett for 'Avatar : The Way of Water', beating out 'All Quiet on the Western Front', 'The Batman', 'Black Panther : Wakanda Forever' and 'Top Gun : Maverick'.
For the full run down of this years Oscar Ceremony, you can visit the official website at : https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023
'LIVING' (Rated PG) - is a British drama film Directed by the South African filmmaker and writer Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film 'Ikiru' Directed by Akira Kurosawa, which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy. Oliver Hermanus previous feature film offerings take in his 2009 'Shirley Adams', 'Beauty' in 2011, 'The Endless River' in 2015 and 'Moffie' in 2019. This film saw its World Premier screening at the Sundance Film Festival in late January 2022 before its release in the UK in early November and only now is it released here in Australia, having so far grossed US$10.5M at the Box Office and garnered universal acclaim. 
Overwhelmed at work and lonely at home, Rodney Williams (Bill Nighy) is a senior London County Council bureaucrat in 1953 London. His life, however, takes a heartbreaking turn when a medical diagnosis tells him his time is short. Influenced by a local decadent and a vibrant woman, Margaret Harris (Aimee Lou Wood), he continues to search for meaning until a simple revelation gives him a purpose to create a legacy for the next generation. The film has so far collected nine award wins and a further forty-six nominations including a Best Actor nod for Bill Nighy at this years Academy Awards.
'PEARL' (Rated MA15+) - with its subtitle 'An X-traordinary Origin Story' is a psychological horror film Written, Co-Produced, Directed and Edited by Ti West and serves as the prequel to 2022's 'X' also Written, Co-Produced, Directed and Co-Edited by Ti West and which returned US$15M from its US$1M budget outlay, and is the second offering in the 'X' film series, which continues with 'MaXXXine' which is currently in post-production awaiting a future release date. This film saw its World Premier showcasing at the Venice International Film Festival back in September last year and was released Stateside in mid-September, having so far grossed US$9.5M from its US$1M production budget and has garnered generally positive Critical reviews. Here then, trapped on her family's isolated farm in Texas with her German immigrant parents, Pearl (Mia Goth, who also Co-Writes here with Ti West) must tend to her ailing father (Matthew Sunderland) under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother Ruth (Tandi Wright). Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding.
'SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS' (Rated M) - is an American Superhero film Directed by David F. Sandberg and is based on the DC Comics character 'Shazam' which had his first DCEU outing in 2019 also Directed by Sandberg, grossing US$366M off the back of a production budget of about US$90M. This film serves as the twelfth instalment in the DCEU (DC Extended Universe) and was originally slated for release in April 2022 but was subsequently delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, giving rise to its release here in Australia and the US from this week. Billy Batson aka Shazam (Zachary Levi) and his foster siblings, who transform into superheroes by saying the word 'Shazam!', are forced to get back into action and fight the Daughters of Atlas - Anthea (Rachel Zegler), Kalypso (Lucy Liu) and Hespera (Hellen Mirren), who arrive on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Shazam and his allies get thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and they must stop them from using a weapon that could destroy the world. Also starring Asher Angel, Adam Brody, Meagan Good, Ross Butler and Djimon Hounsou. This instalment cost US$125M to produce.
'MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM' (Rated MA15+) - Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern whose previous feature documentary films are 'No Distance Left to Run' in 2010 and 'Shut Up and Play the Hits' in 2012, this film takes us on an immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000's, as a new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world. Featuring era defining bands including The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and Vampire Weekend, it is based on the 2017 book 'Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011' by music journalist Lizzy Goodman. The book and this film is named after the Strokes song of the same name from their 2003 album 'Room on Fire'. The film saw a limited cinema release in early November last year in the US before streaming from the end of that same month.
'PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN' (Rated CTC) - Directed by award-winning photographer Fabrizio Ferri based on the best-selling book 'Elisabetta II: Ritratto di Regina' by Paola Calvetti, this documentary centres around the image of one of the most iconic women of our time and her extraordinary relationship with photography - Queen Elizabeth II. Narrated by the British Actor Charles Dance with contributions from Emma Blau, Pierpaolo Piccioli, Isabella Rossellini and Susan Sarandon amongst others, the film offers an original portrayal of the story of The Queen from a totally new perspective - through the most intense, amazing, revealing photographic portraits of her, as shared by the extraordinary photographers who accompanied and often created the image of the British monarchy itself. Special focus is given to each of The Queen's most intense, intimate, faithful portraits, symbols of 20th century history, appraised by the photographers who portrayed Her Majesty - Brian Aris, Jason Bell, Julian Calder, Chris Levine, David Montgomery, and John Swannell.
Turning back to this weeks latest cinematic offerings, we kick off with a British drama set in 1950's London, where a humourless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. This is followed by a psychological horror film that is a prequel to a hugely successful and popular 2022 horror film that this time is set in 1918, where a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm. Next up is the twelfth offering in the DCEU that continues the story of teenage Billy Batson and his foster siblings who, upon reciting the magic word 'SHAZAM!' is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam, who this time must face off against the Daughters of Atlas to ultimately save the world. Then we turn to a doco that takes us on a transformative and immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000's that reverberated around the world; before closing out the week with an intimate look at the photographs and photographers that defined the image of Queen Elizabeth II during her reign.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the five latest release new films as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release or as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the coming week.
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