Blackmagic brings to life ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars

The 2023 Oscar Best Picture winner ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, as well as many other nominated and winning entries in various categories, were created using Blackmagic Design solutions in both production and post-production.

These films, led by the Daniels‘ Everything Everywhere All At Once, join hundreds of others that have received awards and Oscar nominations over the past two decades and used a variety of Blackmagic Design digital cameras and DaVinci Resolve editing, colour grading, VFX, audio post-production and other products.

The 2023 nominations include more than 20 films that made use of Blackmagic Design products and span a variety of genres, including technical, documentary, short film, international feature film and animated film.

Films with Blackmagic Design products

• Argentina, 1985 DIT Martin Bendersky used DaVinci Resolve Studio for on set grading;
• Avatar: The Way of Water completed production using Teranex AV, Smart Videohub 12G 40×40, DeckLink 8K Pro, UltraStudio 4K Extreme 3 and ATEM 4 M/E Broadcast Studio 4K;
• The Banshees of Inisherin DP Ben Davis, BSC used Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K for select shots; and
• Everything Everywhere All at Once DIT Mathew Conrad used DaVinci Resolve Studio for on set grading.

Nominees that used DaVinci Resolve Studio during post-production

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed graded by Nat Jencks of PostWorks New York;
• Argentina, 1985 graded by Luisa Cavanagh of Quanta Post;
• Avatar: The Way of Water graded by Tashi Trieu of Lightstorm Entertainment;
• Babylon graded by Matt Wallach of Company 3;
• Babylon Assistant Editor Ryan Chavez used DaVinci Resolve Studio for title treatment and early color passes for select sequences. The editorial team also used the UltraStudio 4K Mini for on set projection and editorial work;
• The Banshees of Inisherin graded by Adam Glasman and onlined by Guilhem Coulibaly at Goldcrest Post with on set work and dailies color by Cinelab Film and Digital;
• The Batman graded by Philip Beckner of Fotokem;
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever graded by Tom Poole of Company 3;
• Elvis graded by Colorists Kim Rene Bjørge and Kali Bateman and Supervising Colorist Brett Manson;
• Empire of Light graded by James Slattery of Company 3;
• Everything Everywhere All at Once graded by Alex Bickel of Color Collective;
• Fire of Love graded by Steven Mercier of Post Moderne;
• How Do You Measure a Year graded by Robert Arnold of RDAcolor;
• Living graded by Joseph Bicknell of Company 3;
• Navalny graded by Luke Cahill of Different by Design;
• Stranger at the Gate graded by Kath Raisch of Company 3;
• TÁR graded by Tim Masick of Company 3;
• Top Gun: Maverick graded by Stefan Sonnenfeld and Adam Nazarenko, second colorist, both of Company 3;
• Triangle of Sadness graded by Oskar Larsson of Tint;
• The Whale graded by Timothy Stipan of Company 3; and
• Women Talking graded by Mark Kueper of Picture Shop.