Who won Best Actor 2023? Brendan Fraser wins the best actor Oscar for The Whale

Oscars 2023 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) held the 95th Academy Awards ceremony on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, to recognize outstanding films released in 2022. The event was produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, with Weiss also serving as director, and was broadcast in the U.S. by ABC. Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the third time, following his hosting duties at the 89th and 90th editions of the awards in 2017 and 2018. The film Everything Everywhere All at Once dominated the ceremony, receiving seven awards, including Best Picture, and garnering the most nominations of any film with eleven. Other notable winners included All Quiet on the Western Front, which received four awards, and The Whale, which took home two awards.

Who won Best Actor 2023?

Brendan Fraser won the Best Actor award at the 2023 Oscars for his performance in Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale." The 54-year-old actor, who is known for his role in "The Mummy" trilogy, played a reclusive but kind-hearted English teacher weighing 270 kg in the film. Fraser was up against two other first-time nominees in the category, Austin Butler for "Elvis" and Colin Farrell for "The Banshees of Inisherin."

Did Brendan Fraser win an Oscar?

Brendan Fraser won the coveted best actor Oscar at the 2023 Academy Awards in Los Angeles for his role in "The Whale." Directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted by Samuel D Hunter from his own play, the film features Fraser as a morbidly obese English teacher. Fraser emerged victorious over strong competition from other first-time Oscar nominees, Austin Butler and Colin Farrell, who were both nominated for their roles in "Elvis" and "The Banshees of Inisherin," respectively. Fraser has already won the best actor awards at the Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice awards, in addition to being nominated for best actor at the Baftas and Golden Globes for film drama. However, he chose not to attend the latter event, as he alleged that the Golden Globes' former president, Philip Berk, had sexually assaulted him in 2003. Although an internal investigation concluded that Berk had "inappropriately touched" Fraser, it deemed Berk's action to be intended as a joke rather than a sexual advance, while Berk himself denied the allegation. Fraser was visibly moved as he took the stage, exclaiming, "So this is what the multiverse looks like!" He proceeded to express his gratitude to the film's director, Darren Aronofsky, and writer Samuel Hunter, acknowledging the emotional depth they brought to the project. "You laid your whale-sized hearts bare so we could see into your souls," he said. Fraser concluded his speech by reflecting on his early struggles in the industry, noting that he didn't fully appreciate his own talents until they were tested. "I started in this business 30 years ago," he said. "Things didn't come easily to me, but there was a facility I didn't appreciate at the time until it stopped." He ended on a personal note, thanking his three sons and his wife Afton Smith, whom he referred to as his "first mate."

Oscar 2023: Nominees 

Here is the full list of winners:

• Best Picture: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Actor: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
• Best Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Original Song: “Naatu Naatu,” “RRR”
• Best Documentary Feature: “Navalny”
• Best Adapted Screenplay: “Women Talking”
• Best Original Screenplay: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Costume Design: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• Best International Feature: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Animated Feature: “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio”
• Best Visual Effects: “Avatar: The Way of Water”
• Best Cinematography: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Film Editing: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Best Score: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Best Sound: “Top Gun: Maverick”
• Best Production Design: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling: “The Whale”
• Best: Documentary (Short Subject): “The Elephant Whisperers”
• Best Short (Animated): “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse”
• Best Short Film (Live Action): “An Irish Goodbye”

Best Picture

And the winner is... “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Also nominated:

“All Quiet on the Western Front”

“Avatar: The Way of Water”

“The Banshees of Inisherin”

“Elvis”

“The Fabelmans”

“Tar”

“Top Gun: Maverick”

“Triangle of Sadness”

“Women Talking”

Best Actress

• And the winner is... Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated:
• Cate Blanchett, “Tar”
• Ana De Armas, “Blonde”
• Andrea Riseborough, “To Leslie”
• Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans”

Best Actor

• And the winner is ... Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
• Also nominated
• Austin Butler, “Elvis”
• Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
• Bill Nighy, “Living”

Best Director

• And the winner is... Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka Daniels), “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated:
• Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
• Todd Field, “Tar”
• Ruben Ostlund, “Triangle of Sadness”

Best Film Editing

• And the winner is... “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated:
• “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• “Elvis”
• “Tar”
• “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Song.

• And the winner is... “Naatu Naatu,” “RRR”
• Also nominated:
• “Applause,” “Tell it Like a Woman”
• “Hold My Hand,” “Top Gun: Maverick”
• “Lift Me Up,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• “This is a Life,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Sound

• And the winner is... “Top Gun: Maverick”
• Also nominated:
• “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• “Avatar: The Way of Water”
• “The Batman”
• “Elvis”

Best Adapted Screenplay

• And the winner is... “Women Talking”
• Also nominated:
• “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
• “Living”
• “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Original Screenplay

• And the winner is... “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated:
• “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• “The Fabelmans”
• “Tar”
• “Triangle of Sadness”

Best Visual Effects

• And the winner is... “Avatar: The Way of Water”
• Best Visual Effects
• “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• “The Batman”
• “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Score

• And the winner is... “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Also nominated:
• “Babylon”
• “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• “The Fabelmans”

Best Production Design

• And the winner is... “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Also nominated:
• “Avatar: The Way of Water”
• “Babylon”
• “Elvis”
• “The Fabelmans”

Short Film (Animated)

• And the winner is... “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
• Also nominated:
• “The Flying Sailor”
• “Ice Merchants”
• “My Year of Dicks”
• “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”

Best Documentary Short

• And the winner is... “The Elephant Whisperers”
• Also nominated:
• “Haulout”
• “How Do You Measure a Year?”
• “The Martha Mitchell Effect”
• “Stranger at the Gate”

Best International Feature

• And the winner is... “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Also nominated:
• “Argentina, 1985”
• “Close”
• “EO”
• “The Quiet Girl”

Best Costume Design

• And the winner is... “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• Also nominated:
• “Babylon”
• “Elvis”
• “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• And the winner is... “The Whale”
• Also nominated:
• “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• “The Batman”
• “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• “Elvis”

Best Cinematography

• And the winner is... “All Quiet on the Western Front”
• Also nominated:
• “Bardo”
• “Elvis”
• “Empire of Light”
• “Tar”

Short Film (Live Action)

• And the winner is... “An Irish Goodbye”
• Also nominated:
• “Ivalu”
• “Le Pupille”
• “Night Ride”
• “The Red Suitcase”

Best Documentary Feature

• And the winner is... “Navalny”
• Also nominated
• “All That Breathes”
• “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
• “Fire of Love”
• “A House Made of Splinters”

Best Supporting Actress

• And the winner is... Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated
• Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
• Hong Chau, “The Whale”
• Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actor

• And the winner is... Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Also nominated:
• Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”
• Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”
• Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Best Animated Feature

• And the winner is... “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.
• Also nominated:
• “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
• “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
• “The Sea Beast”
• “Turning Red”

Best director nominees are also up for best screenplay

• This year marks the first time that all five nominees for best director were also nominated for writing or co-writing for their film’s screenplay.
• Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka Daniels), “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
• Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
• Todd Field, “Tar”
• Ruben Ostlund, “Triangle of Sadness”

All best actors are first-time nominees

• This year’s Oscars marks the first time in 88 years that all of the best actor nominees are first-time nominees.
• Austin Butler, “Elvis”
• Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
• Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
• Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”
• Bill Nighy, “Living”

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