Can ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ & ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Save The Oscars From A Ratings Slump?

The highest grossing movie of 2022 at the domestic B.O. in pure calendar days and second highest grossing worldwide, Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick ($718.3M U.S., $1.488 billion) has been named the best movie of last year by Rotten Tomatoes.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins will team with Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell in Locked, a remake of the Argentinian action thriller 4X4, for ZQ Entertainment and Raimi Productions. David Yarovesky is set to direct. He and Sam Raimi collaborated recently on Nightbooks. Michael Arlen Ross (Oracle) wrote the script. The original was written and directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (Official Competition).

American Cinemas Editors has cut together the nominees for its 73rd annual ACE Eddie Awards, which will be handed out next month. See the list for all 14 categories below.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical):All Quiet on the Western FrontElvisTárTop Gun: MaverickThe Woman KingBEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Comedy, Theatrical):The Banshees of InisherinEverything Everywhere All at OnceGlass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryThe MenuTriangle of SadnessBEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM (Theatrical or Non-Theatrical):The Bad GuysGuillermo del Toro’s PinocchioMarcel the Shell with Shoes OnPuss in Boots: The Last WishTurning RedBEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Theatrical):All the Beauty and the BloodshedFire of LoveGood Night OppyMoonage DaydreamNavalnyBEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Non-Theatrical):The Andy Warhol Diaries: “Collab: Andy & Basquiat“George Carlin’s American DreamThe Last Movie Stars: “Luck is an Art”Luci and DesiPelosi in the HouseBEST EDITED MULTI-CAMERA COMEDY SERIES:The Conners: “Of Missing Minds and Missing Fries“How I Met Your Father: “Timing is Everything”The Neighborhood: “Welcome to the Art of Negotiation”BEST EDITED SINGLE CAMERA COMEDY SERIES:Atlanta: “Andrew Wyeth.

Paramount’s newly minted Oscar Best Picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick won Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, held Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

The WGA has written out the film nominations for its 2023 Writers Guild Awards, spanning original, adapted and documentary screenplays. See the full list below.

You have won the Nobel Prize and a Booker Prize (in 1989 for “The Remains of the Day”) but how does being an Oscar nominee compare in terms of your excitement?Well, obviously, it was great to get the Nobel Prize and the Booker, but that’s my day job. This, the Academy Award nomination, is something different. To get a Oscar nomination is — well, it’s just ridiculously exciting.

Top Gun: Maverick scored six Oscar nominations this morning including best picture, along with adapted screenplay by Ehren Kruger & Eric Warren Singer, sound, film editing, visual effects and original song for the Lady Gaga tune Hold My Hand. The film’s emergence as a best picture threat might have seemed an impossible mission, in that a summer movie that grosses nearly $1.5 billion worldwide moves popcorn, not Oscar voters. This Paramount Pictures film has proven to be the exception and one big reason is this: if Tom Cruise didn’t rescue the theatrical box office business following the Covid pandemic, he certainly pulled it out of a nosedive. While Cruise did not get nominated for best actor, he is squarely in the mix as producer, alongside first time Oscar nominee and hitmaking stalwart Jerry Bruckheimer, Christopher McQuarrie (a double nominee counting the adapted screenplay category) and Skydance principal David Ellison.

Six months ago you would have got sky-high odds on the BAFTA nominations being dominated by a German-language film and movies by heavyweights Spielberg, James Cameron and Iñárritu only garnering a handful of nominations between them.

Film finalists:Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins for “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” based on the fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo CollodiKazuo Ishiguro for “Living” based on the novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo TolstoyRebecca Lenkiewicz for “She Said” based on the nonfiction book “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyPeter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren for “Top Gun: Maverick” based on characters from the 1983 “California” magazine article “Top Guns” by Ehud YonayScreenwriter Sarah Polley and novelist Miriam Toews for “Women Talking”Television finalistsPeter Morgan, for the episode “Couple 31,” from “The Crown,” based on his stage play “The Audience”Taffy Brodesser-Akner for the episode “The Liver,” from “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” based on her book of the same nameWill Smith for the episode “Failure’s Contagious,” from “Slow Horses,” based on the novel by Mick HerronJ. T.

The USC Libraries on Wednesday unveiled nominees for its 35th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors the screenwriters of the year’s best film and episodic series adaptations, along with the writers of the works on which they are based.

Into the danger zone again? A Top Gun: Maverick sequel hasn’t yet been announced, but fans are clamoring for one — and so are some of the blockbuster film’s cast and crew members.

The Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for the 2023 PGA Awards and, as usual, there were surprises that will impact the Best Picture race and an Emmys campaign that will begin sooner than you think. As expected “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,” “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once” made the prestigious Darryl F.

It is a blockbuster morning as far as the Producers Guild of America is concerned as it revealed film and TV nominations Thursday for its 34th annual PGA Awards.

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures* Avatar: The Way of Water* The Banshees of Inisherin* Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* Elvis* Everything Everywhere All At Once* The Fabelmans* Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery* Tár* Top Gun: Maverick* The WhaleAward for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures* Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio* Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* Minions: The Rise of Gru* Puss in Boots: The Last Wish* Turning RedNorman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama* Andor * Better Call Saul * Ozark * Severance * The White Lotus Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy* Abbott Elementary * Barry * The Bear * Hacks * Only Murders in the Building David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television* DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story* The Dropout * Inventing Anna * Obi-Wan Kenobi * Pam & Tommy Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures* Fire Island* Hocus Pocus 2* Pinocchio* Prey* Weird: The Al Yankovic StoryAward for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television* 30 for 30* 60 Minutes * George Carlin’s American Dream * Lucy and Desi* Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television* The Daily Show with Trevor Noah * Jimmy Kimmel Live! * Last Week Tonight with John Oliver * The Late Show with Stephen Colbert * Saturday Night Live Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television* The Amazing Race * Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls * RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars * Top Chef * The Voice 

Tom really didn’t want to make another Top Gun and [director Tony Scott’s suicide] made it even less likely. I’m sure for him, that’s probably another reason why he wouldn’t ever consider going back. But I pitched the idea of this story being a reconciliation between him and Rooster set against this mission that would take Rooster into this very dangerous situation, that they’d end up together across enemy lines, having to resolve their differences and work together to get back home. As soon as I pitched that idea, I could just see the wheels in Tom’s head start to turn and all of a sudden, he had a very emotional reason, a hook back into this character, and a reason to come back, because I think in his mind it was like a one in a million shot that we would be able to get it right. He kept saying, “Joe, we got to hit a bullet with a bullet.” And that was his line on this movie. And so, I certainly heard that in my head every day as we were making the film. I think everyone who worked on this film felt like the bar was very high because we all were fans of the original.

The ICG Publicists Guild today revealed the six nominees for its 2023 Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity Campaigns, which include the teams behind last year’s two biggest movies.

The International Cinematographers Guild announced six nominees for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Picture Publicity, to be recognized at the 60th Annual ICG Publicists Awards.Nominees include the publicity teams responsible for the following campaigns:“The outstanding nominations this year shine a bright light not only on the diversity of the films submitted but also the individual challenges the publicity teams faced in this highly competitive field,” said Sheryl Main, who along with fellow ICG Publicists Awards Chair Tim Menke, made the announcement Thursday.According to the organization, the Maxwell Weinberg Award “honors active members working on motion pictures whose achievements in publicity and promotion during the previous calendar year are deemed outstanding.”Nominees are selected by the Publicists Awards Committee from qualified submitted presentations with the final recipient selected via an online vote of the publicists membership. Voting will be held from Jan.

The Costume Designers Guild has unwrapped the nominees for its 25th anniversary CDG Awards next month. See the full list below.

Coyote’s crew! Greg Tarzan Davis played one of the standout recruits in Top Gun: Maverick, and he had the sweetest time filming the action sequel with his A-List group of costars.