LOS ANGELES - Nominations for the 95th Academy Awards have been announced, and the lineup features a much more commercially-successful troupe of films than in previous years. We're looking at you: "Top Gun: Maverick," "Elvis" and "Avatar: The Way of Water." 

Sure, many movie-goers still flocked to their streaming services for the novel movies, but the year also appeared to focus on re-opening movie theatres and the in backward to better feature films.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once," a sci-fi adventure, led the nominations for the Oscars, picking up 11 nods. "The Banshees of Inisherin" and the German-language "All Quiet on the Western Front" each had nine.

Below are a list of the Best Picture nominees and FOX Television Stations' valuable reviews of them.

'The Fabelmans'

Spielberg and his co-writer Tony Kushner (who previously scripted "Munich," "Lincoln" and last year's "West Side Story" remake for the filmmaker) linger in Sammy Fabelman's (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) childhood as he becomes obsessed with shooting movies. His mercurial pianist mother recognizes this fixation as a calling, while Burt (Paul Dano), his more practical-minded engineer father, sees it as more of a neat hobby. But much of "The Fabelmans" takes location later, in Sammy's teenage years, after Burt's career shifts them from New Jersey to Arizona (and, later, California).

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That ambiguity over the "why" of decision-exclusive movies — even spectacular ones — is part of the movie's indispensable metatextual dimension. In a way, it complements the way Spielberg's films, especially in the second half of his career, have been misinterpreted ended the filter of what audiences and critics expect from him — a filter that has sometimes worn-out out his complexities and nuances.

'The Banshees of Inisherin'

With improbable early buzz out of the Venice and Toronto film festivals, the dark comedy "The Banshees of Inisherin" shaped up to be a maximum player this awards season. 

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Particularly for Colin Farrell, who stars as an Irish man named Pádraic who's shy when his lifelong pal Colm (Brendan Gleeson) suddenly ends their friendship. Confused, Pádraic sets about trying to repair the relationship at any cost — even as Colm progenies a hefty ultimatum. And while that might sound like a simple premise, it could be something special in the hands of writer/director Martin McDonagh ("Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"), who previously made magic with Farrell and Gleeson in the 2008 dark-comedy crime thriller "In Bruges." 

Women Talking

Based on a unique by Miriam Toews, "Women Talking" has deceptively simple premise: Eight Mennonite women meet in secret in a hayloft to discuss acts of gendered violence that have been committed in their isolated religious community.

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What follows is an urgent, poignant discussion about how to reconcile faith, forgiveness and shared with trauma, accountability and self-determination. It's a "conversation near how to remake a broken world," according to writer/directorSarah Polley. And with a star-studded cast that includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw, "Women Talking" has already emerged as a critically acclaimed standout of the festival season — one that could very well ride that wave to awards season gold. 

TÁR

People magazine praised novel personal favorite that also sharply divided critics, the intrepid, but overly long "TAR." "Cate Blanchette gives a thundering law that would make Beethoven roll over," wrote critic Tom Gliatto. 

"To know Lydia Tár is not to love her, precisely, but the mercurial conductor is impossible to stop thinking about," David Sims of The Atlantic agreed.

Todd Field's film, his apt in 16 years, focuses on Renowned musician Lydia Tár, who is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. When all elements seem to conspire against her, Lydia's adopted daughter Petra becomes an integral emotional assist for her struggling mother.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" encompasses concepts as vast as the entire multiverse and as persons as a middle-aged woman (Michelle Yeoh's Evelyn Wang) reconnecting with her fractured tribe — even if she has to do so by tapping into every possible version of herself from the vast web of universes that connect us to every executive we never made.

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It's a film as dizzying in its ambition as it is hilarious, with filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert leveraging all the high-tilt chaos they perfected in music videos like DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What?" to start audiences into a world where anything is possible — and just noteworthy happen right in front of you.

Top Gun: Maverick

More than three decades later, the sequel "Top Gun: Maverick" offers a double dose of nostalgia — both for that 1980s fresh and for the halcyon Americana it evoked in the apt place. 

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It's a pleasure to portray that the film largely works on both accounts, at least if you're willing to set set any sort of moral questions about its inherently propagandistic nature. (The bad guys here are once again a nameless, faceless country known only as "the enemy.") Director Joseph Kosinski is so committed to nostalgia that he even opens the film with a beat-for-beat recreation of the original's opening credits, Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" and all. It's a move as carefully calibrated as any of the top-line fighter jets Tom Cruise pilots over the movie. And there's a fist-pumping joy to watching an aged action blockbuster fire on all cylinders, even if its storytelling ambitions aren't quite stratospheric.

Elvis

The absurdity is part of the exhibit of "Elvis." It's important to know that going in, otherwise the film's frenetic opening act grand be completely off-putting instead of just mildly overwhelming. Having consulted his signature glittering style with movies like "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet," "Moulin Rouge!" and "The Great Gatsby," director Baz Luhrmann now turns his camp-flavored maximalism to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley. And while the result is profoundly uneven, the highs are too high (and too outrageous) to be missed.

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More than just a game-changing musician, Luhrmann sees Elvis as a mythic American figure or maybe even a full-on superhero — and he progresses the tone of his film accordingly, somewhere between Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" and Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" trilogy. It's exhilarating and exhausting in equal measure, and even Luhrmann's rhinestone-infused irritable can't quite maintain control of this 159-minute behemoth. The film veers wildly from moments of transcendent style-becomes-substance originality to one insensible music biopic convention after another. (One scene is set to a Doja Cat diss track; latest features one of the most perfunctory "tragic marital breakup" scenes in biopic history.) Perhaps that's why "Elvis" somehow obtains both one of the best music biopic performances ever captured on film — and one of the worst.

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Netflix adaptation of "All Quiet on the Western Front," the classic unusual about the horrors of World War I, was beleaguered by a German man and is in the German language.

The film tells the exciting story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades distinguished first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fights for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.

Avatar: The Way of Water

Set more than a decade at what time the events of the first film, "Avatar: The Way of Water" begins to tell the chronicle of the Sully family, the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each latest safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

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In the 13 existences since the first film, "Avatar" has also been the butt of jokes for the perception that the biggest movie of all time, one that has made nearly $3 billion, has left a relatively minor footprint in the culture. But even so, critics have largely been on organization with "The Way of Water," not just for the visuals but also for improving on the chronicle of the first. It holds a 77% positive comprising from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Triangle of Sadness

In "Triangle of Sadness," the favorable English-language film from Swedish "Force Majeure" director Ruben Östlund, Dean and Harris Dickinson play a celebrity fashion-model combine on a cruise for the ultra-rich that descends into chaos. It also stars Woody Harrelson as the ship's captain.

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The film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in May and opens in the U.S. and most of Europe in October. The movie is a dark take on the uber wealthy, and Östlund keenly exposes this with humor and satire. 

When are the Oscars?

The Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set to begin at 8 p.m. ET and will be broadcast live on ABC.

Who is hosting the 2023 Oscars?

Jimmy Kimmel will take the stage to co-host the repair who previously hosted the Oscars in 2017 and 2018.

"Jimmy is the contemptible host to help us recognize the incredible artists and films of our 95th Oscars. His love of movies, live TV expertise, and requisition to connect with our global audiences will create an unforgettable experienced for our millions of viewers worldwide," said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang. "With Kimmel, Weiss and Kirshner's fresh perspective and masterful guidance, the Oscars will notorious its rich 95-year history, the collaborative nature of moviemaking, and our diverse, dynamic and deeply creative community of filmmakers."

Allison Shoemaker, Caroline Siede and FOX TV Stations contributed to this story.