This film received 6 Oscar nominations.

Cate Blanchett is favourite for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but Michelle Yeoh is closing in fast. There are also the outsiders: Ana de Armas, Michelle Williams and Andrea Riseborough.

Who will win?

. Best Picture 2023: Tár

. Best Director 2023: Todd Field

. Best Actress 2023: Cate Blanchett

. Best Original Screenplay 2023: Todd Field

. Best Cinematography 2023: Florian Hoffmeister

. Best Film Editing 2023: Monika Willi

... Excerpts from Tár might win Cate Blanchett her third Academy Award, but few have seen the psychological drama about a conductor coming undone:

Tár scored an impressive six Oscar nominations at today's announcement, including one for our very own Cate Blanchett — for the role that writer-director Todd Field (also nominated) created specifically for her.

But even though the movie was critically lauded when it was released in the US in October, it was a box office flop.

Will Cate Blanchett win an Oscar?

Earlier this month, Blanchett took home the Golden Globe for best actress in a movie drama, as well as best actress at the Critics' Choice Awards.

She used her Critic's Choice acceptance speech to describe awards ceremonies as a "televised horse race" and call for a celebration of women's achievements: "Why don't we just say there is a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another?"

Her call is unlikely to impact her Oscars chances. If she manages to beat out other Oscars frontrunner Michelle Yeoh (who won the Golden Globe for lead actress in a movie comedy for Everything Everywhere All at Once), this would be the 53-year-old's third Academy Award win after 2005 (The Aviator) and 2014 (Blue Jasmine). What other Academy Awards is the film in the running for?

Alongside Blanchett and Field for best actress and director, Tár is nominated in the big one: Best Picture.

It's also been nominated for cinematography, film editing and writing (original screenplay).

... Excerpts from Cate Blanchett secures eighth Oscar nomination for TÁR:

The 2023 Oscar nominations have been announced and Cate Blanchett has another to her name, this time for her performance in TÁR.

The film, in which Blanchett plays an orchestra conductor mired in scandal, has also secured nominations for director Todd Field, cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister and editor Monika Willi.

TÁR also competes in the Best Picture category against alongside Top Gun: Maverick, The Fabelmans, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Women Talking, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Triangle of Sadness, All Quiet on the Western Front and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Field is also nominated in the Best Screenplay category.

The Academy Award nomination for TÁR is Blanchett’s eighth. With it she joins an elite group of octo-nominees that includes Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon, Judi Dench, Geraldine Page, Peter O’Toole and Glenn Close.

Blanchett’s performance as Lydia Tár has already earned her a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award – wins that will undoubtedly smooth the path to another statuette. She already has two: a Best Actress Oscar for Blue Jasmine, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Aviator.

This year’s Best Actress category is a strong one, however, with Blanchett up against Ana de Armas (for Australian director Andrew Dominik’s Blonde), Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once), and Andrea Riseborough, whose performance in the low-budget drama To Leslie has been widely endorsed by industry figures including Blanchett.