Here’s everything you need to know about the 2022 Oscars
The biggest night in Hollywood will be held at the Dolby Theatre on March 27
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After months of “razzle dazzle” and hullabaloo, the 2022 Oscars ceremony is now only days away. It’s time to finally see who will land at the top of the acting categories, and which film will take home the top prize for Best Picture.
Ahead of the big night, The A.V. Club has created a guide to answer all your Oscars related questions, like “Who’s hosting?” and “How you can watch the awards ceremony at home?”
When are the Oscars?
The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 27, at the Dolby Theatre in L.A.
Who are this year’s hosts?
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes are hosting this year’s Oscars. This is the first time in three years that the ceremony will have a host. Each emcee will helm the ceremony for one hour before passing the baton to the next host. This year, Oscars producer Will Packer plans on keeping the show to a tight three-hour time slot.
Who will hand out the awards?
The long list of presenters includes: Elliot Page, Jennifer Garner, Tiffany Haddish, Bill Murray, Stephanie Beatriz, DJ Khaled, H.E.R., Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater, Shaun White, Rachel Zegler, Halle Bailey, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Lily James, Zoë Kravitz, Mila Kunis, Lady Gaga, John Leguizamo, Simu Liu, Shawn Mendes, Rosie Perez, Tyler Perry, Chris Rock, Tracee Ellis Ross, Naomi Scott, Wesley Snipes, Uma Thurman, and John Travolta.
Previous Oscar winners who have been invited back to present this year’s awards include: Ruth E. Carter, Kevin Costner, Anthony Hopkins, Daniel Kaluuya, Rami Malek, Lupita Nyong’o, and Youn Yuh-Jung.
Who will perform throughout the evening?
Beyonce has graciously made an opening in her schedule to perform “Be Alive” from King Richard for the Academy Awards. Billie Eilish and Finneas, Reba McEntire, and Sebastián Yatra will also perform during the ceremony, with songs from No Time To Die, Four Good Days, and Encanto, respectively. Each of these artists are nominated for Best Original Song.
Who are the top Oscar nominees?
Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leads the nominations with 12, followed by Dune with 10, with both of these features competing in the Best Picture category. The rest of the Best Picture nominees are CODA, Belfast, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up, Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, and King Richard.
There’s a lot of crossover with the Best Director category, with Kenneth Branagh (Belfast), Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car), Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza), Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog), and Steven Spielberg (West Side Story) receiving nominations.
In the Best Actor category, the night will feature a showdown between Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos), Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… Boom!), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power Of The Dog), Denzel Washington (The Tragedy Of Macbeth), and Will Smith (King Richard).
For Best Actress, Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye), Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter), Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos), and Kristen Stewart (Spencer) are all nominated.
You can view the entire list of nominees here.
How can you watch the Oscars?
The ceremony will commence at 8 P.M. ET/5 P.M. PT with a live broadcast on ABC. If you have a subscription to Hulu + Live TV, Sling, YouTube TV, or Fubo TV, you will be able to watch the live broadcast on ABC without cable.
You can also check out our predictions on who will win this year’s top awards, as well as the biggest nomination snubs and surprises. In addition we have a guide for how to watch all of the nominated films before the big night, including links to all of our reviews.
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King Richard felt like a after school special. Is Will going to win? It’s not even in his top five performances.
The safe money is on Will Smith. Setting aside the quality of the performance (because let’s be real, the quality of the work is seldom the sole or even primary consideration when it comes to awarding Oscar gold), Smith has a few things going for him: 1) He’s genuinely well liked by his peers and in the industry, which makes it easy to vote for him.2) There are more than a few who feel he deserved to win for Ali, and see this film as a chance to make up for that. The Oscar can just as often be a symbol of righting past oversights, like how giving Henry Fonda the award for “On Golden Pond” was seen as finally correcting the oversight of not awarding him for “The Grapes of Wrath.”3) The Academy has a lot of egg on its face from last year’s debacle where they assumed, and planned the ceremony around, the posthumous awarding of Chadwick Boseman, only for it to go to a white guy who wasn’t even there to accept the award. Awarding Smith would be a way to correct that.
I feel like at least half the time this is how it works especially for the more veteran actors. They’ll hit their apex in a year they don’t win, time will further prove that it was an iconic performance and there’s a strong argument they should have won, and they end up winning for a good but probably lesser performance as an apology by the Academy. That’s how I would read a Smith win this year, too. His win sounds to be pretty guaranteed, but they could still surprise us.As for the movie, I know it’s supposed to be good, but it doesn’t look like my jam, as are most biopics. Many tend to be conventional, including this one. I’m pretty sure I’ll live just fine without seeing it.
Depressingly (and this is not aimed at you, you’re just making an observation), none of this has anything to do with the actual quality of the performance relative to the others.In the case of Anthony Hopkins, I heard Chadwick Boseman’s performance is very good but so was his too.
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This guy gets it
But are you his dad?
Will it being boring?It’s the Oscars, so of course it willWill you watch?No, of course not. No one watches this three hour circle jerk put on by a bunch of mostly old white dudes who we somehow have decided are the arbiters on what movies were “good” last year. Do you care who wins any of these awards?Probably not but you will still look in the morning tomorrow and see if you saw the best picture winner so you can brag to people about how you watch “real” movies. That was a few months ago and you fell asleep half way through it but you wont mention that or that last weekend your well refined taste in media led you to binge watching the entire first season of the Netflix hit “Is it cake?”