List of Christopher McQuarrie
Oscar nominations
Posted: June 2025
List of Oscar nominations and wins for “McQ,” Christopher McQuarrie. Christopher McQuarrie has been nominated for 3 Academy Awards and won 1. Year indicates year/period for which films were eligible for awards consideration, not year of ceremony. Sources: Oscars.org, Internet Movie Database
2022: Top Gun: Maverick (Best Picture) (shared with Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Jerry Bruckheimer) — lost to Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang). Other nominees: Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss), The Banshees of Inisherin (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh), The Fabelmans (Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner), Tár (Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert), Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, Jon Landau), Women Talking (Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Frances McDormand), Triangle of Sadness (Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober), All Quiet on the Western Front (Malte Grunert)
2022: Top Gun: Maverick (Best Adapted Screenplay) (shared with Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Peter Craig, Justin Marks) — lost to Women Talking (Sarah Polley). Other nominees: Glass Onion (Rian Johnson), Living (Kazuo Ishiguro), All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell)
WON: 1995: The Usual Suspects (Best Original Screenplay) — Other nominees: Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen), Braveheart (Randall Wallace), Nixon (Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Oliver Stone), Toy Story (Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft)
