The Power Of The Dog, Dune lead the complete list of nominees for the 2022 Oscars
Other big contenders include Flee, Coda, Licorice Pizza, and West Side Story
Aux News the 2022 Oscars
This morning the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences unveiled the nominees for this year’s Oscar awards. The films that pulled in the most nominations are Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog with 12 nominations and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune with 10 nominations. Belfast and West Side Story both scored 7 nominations each.
The 10 films nominated for Best Picture category are: Belfast, Coda, Don’t Look Up, Dune, Licorice Pizza, The Power Of The Dog, Drive My Car, King Richard, Nightmare Alley, and West Side Story.
Some pleasant surprises come in the acting categories, with Jessie Buckley receiving a nomination for her supporting performance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter; Olivia Colman was nominated in the Best Actress category for the same film.
Additionally, Kristen Stewart has received a first-time nomination in the lead actress category for her performance as Princess Diana in Pablo Larrain’s Spencer (That’s right, it’s now Oscar-nominated actor Kristen Stewart to you).
In one of the few nominations for Joel Coen’s adaptation of The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Denzel Washington has received a Best Actor nomination for his lead performance.
With Jane Campion’s nomination in the Best Director category, she becomes the only woman to be nominated twice in Oscars history. She previously nominated for best director with her 1993 film The Piano, and won the award for original screenplay that year.
The animated documentary Flee continues to garner acclaim with its nominations this morning. The Riz Ahmed-produced feature has broken a strange record by nabbing nominations in the Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature categories, making it the first film to do so.
The 94th annual Academy Awards will be on March 27 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre with a live telecast on ABC. For the first time in three years, the Oscars will have a host in 2022. However, host has been announced yet.
Here’s the complete list of 2022 Oscar nominees:
Best Picture
Belfast
Coda
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power Of The Dog
Drive My Car
King Richard
West Side Story
Best Actor
Javier Bardem, Being The Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power Of The Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being The Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Jesse Plemons, The Power Of The Dog
Troy Kotsur, Coda
J.K. Simmons, Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power Of The Dog
Best Director
Belfast, Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Power Of The Dog, Jane Campion
West Side Story, Steven Spielberg
Best Adapted Screenplay
Coda
Dune
Drive My Car
The Lost Daughter
The Power Of The Dog
Best Original Screenplay
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Best Animated Feature
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
Best International Feature
Drive My Car
Flee
Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom
The Worst Person In The World
Best Original Score
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power Of The Dog
Best Sound
Belfast
Dune
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
Costume Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Animated Short
“Affairs Of The Art”
“Bestia”
“Boxballet”
“Robin Robin”
“The Windshield Wiper”
Live Action Short
“Ala Kachuu—Take And Run”
“The Dress”
“The Long Goodbye”
“On My Mind”
“Please Hold”
Film Editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power Of The Dog
Tick, Tick… Boom!
Makeup & Hairstyling
Coming To America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
Original Song
“Be Alive,” King Richard
“Dos Oruguitas,” Encanto
“Down To Joy,” Belfast
“No Time To Die,” No Time To Die
“Somehow You Do,” Four Good Days
Documentary Short
“Audible”
“Lead Me Home”
“The Queen Of Basketball”
“Three Songs For Benazir”
“When We Were Bullies”
Documentary Feature
Ascension
Flee
Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
Visual Effects
Dune
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings
Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power Of The Dog
The Tragedy Of Macbeth
West Side Story
Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power Of Dog
The Tragedy Of Macbeth
West Side Story
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I rewatched Dune the other day and thought it really deserved a shot at best picture so am pleasantly surprised to see it nominated. I doubt it’ll win thanks to the academy’s anti-genre bias but you never know, especially with such a light year. Kind of surprised Macbeth didn’t get the nod as it’s the kind of thing they usually go for but it definitely deserves it for cinematography. Speaking of A24, Green Knight really deserved something too, at least for costume design or cinematography, but maybe A24 put all their weight behind Macbeth.I hope Nightmare Alley doesn’t win. I like del Toro but that was a mediocre movie.
Every movie is a genre movie, there is no anti-genre bias. If you are referring to the specific genre of sci-fi/fantasy, we had a movie just a few years ago where a lady fucked a fish. I love Dune, my most watched movie the last year (20+ times) but it is easily not the best movie in the category. It also has the issue of 90%+ of the dialogue being exposition, which is its greatest downfall.
I might agree with you in another year that Dune probably wasn’t the best of the year but most of the other nominees are terrible. Granted I have not seen the two that I have heard are fantastic (Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza) and some of the others like West Side but Don’t Look Up, Belfast, and Nightmare Alley are all incredibly weak nominees. And The Shape of Water may have been a fantasy movie but it was also a period piece about the overcoming power of love, pure Oscar bait. A better counter-example would’ve been Return of the King, imo, but it’s still a fact that fantasy/sci-fi movies have won only a couple of times at most.
What are you on about; King Richard, Drive My Car, and West Side Story are all easily better films, of the ones you have seen. The Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza are as well. Belfast, and Coda, are not terrible, they are okay, while i think Coda is too paint by numbers, it is a decent film. Belfast was an easy nomination. I would not have put Don’t Look Up, and Nightmare Alley in myself.Dune was a beautiful film, it had the epic feel, but in the end there is nothing behind the epic feeling and the scope. The story by way of dialogues among the worst of the 10. You are right, it s a fact that fantasy/sci-f have only won a couple of times, because they are not the best movies, mildly okay movies most of the time. That is also not say that the Academy gets it right all of the time, when they clearly don’t. As an overall standing on film, sci-fi and fantasy just need to be better is all. That is not bias.
I said that I had not seen West Side and some others (Coda and Drive My Car, both could be great but this is the first time I’ve really heard anyone talk about them). I hated King Richard which was overly schmaltzy biopic by numbers to me. And again, I thought Belfast was pretty bad as well. It’s okay to not agree, I’m just saying that I thought Dune was far better than those two. Do I necessarily think it deserves to win? No, I’m guessing PotD and Licorice are better, but I’m glad it was nominated and has a shot because I liked it more than the ones you mentioned. That’s all I’m saying.
What are you on about; King Richard, Drive My Car, and West Side Story are all easily better films, of the ones you have seen. The Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza are as well. Belfast, and Coda, are not terrible, they are okay, while i think Coda is too paint by numbers, it is a decent film. Belfast was an easy nomination. I would not have put Don’t Look Up, and Nightmare Alley in myself.Dune was a beautiful film, it had the epic feel, but in the end there is nothing behind the epic feeling and the scope. The story by way of dialogues among the worst of the 10. You are right, it s a fact that fantasy/sci-f have only won a couple of times, because they are not the best movies, mildly okay movies most of the time. That is also not say that the Academy gets it right all of the time, when they clearly don’t. As an overall standing on film, sci-fi and fantasy just need to be better is all. That is not bias.
Nightmare Alley was TEDIOUS and over the weekend, three different people agreed they could barely finish it. Guillermo must have strong lobbying powers in Hollywood even though his films — generally? — kind of suck.
Nightmare Alley was a period piece. It might win for costuming. I hate the Oscars for that, they usually go with boring period costuming while Cruella had me screaming because the fashions were amazing (when I finished the movie I went looking through YouTube for Vivienne Westwood runway shows) and Dune’s costumes were definitely inspiring as well.
Nightmare Alley needs to give all of its nominations to Pig. (Fine, they can keep the visual effects nom)
blazing take but i’ve aways found del toro to be incredibly overrated.
As I watched Nightmare Alley, I kept wishing they weren’t telling us his tricks because I think the question of “if he’s real or if he’s a fraud” was done better in The Illusionist. And then that got me thinking about how a movie can show its tricks and still work the con, as Nightmare Alley tries to do, and even there, that was done better in The Prestige. The point is, Nightmare Alley just had me thinking about better movies in the same vein
You just couldn’t help getting in a little sarcastic dig at Kristen Stewart, even in her moment of triumph, could ya?Glad you guys are failing….
I’m all for this place failing, but … “that’s Oscar-nominated Kristen Stewart to you” is neither sarcasm nor a dig.
But it doesn’t say “That’s Oscar Nominated Kristen Stewart to you”.It says “That’s right, it’s Oscar Nominated Kristen Stewart to you”.The “That’s right [comma] it’s….” is doing a LOT of smartass work that maybe you’re not getting, and makes the “to you” at the end of the sentence sound a lot more dismissive than if the sentence started with just “That’s”. Remember, these people get paid to write and edit. There was no need for that parenthetic aside in a short summary post like this one. It was written, and not removed, because the writer and the editor are just so SASSY they can’t stop with the “Kristen Stewart is bad acting person, lol” crap.
I … guess? *backs away slowly*
That’s more of a dig at schlubs like me who spent years refusing to acknowledge that she could actually act.
Great to see DUNE nominated. Sci-Fi represented! But it sucks they snubbed Denis Villeneuve for Best Director.
If Licorice Pizza wins best picture that will be strange. It will be like Private Lessons winning best picture. The speech would be cringe worthy.
“If Licorice Pizza wins best picture that will be strange. It will be like Private Lessons winning best picture.” Really, Retro? Really? 😀 😀 Was it— really necessary to link in the trailer for that one too? 😀 😀 😀
Spencer wasn’t great, and she’s largely doing her patented “smell the fart and frown” method of acting, but it’s a far more interesting and riveting movie than Dune or Power of the Dog or Nightmare Alley or Being the Shitardos.
I think I know why they snubbed, Ruth Negga. Her last name.
I know what you’re thinking…NEGGA PLEASE! Come on now lol. Imagine a white actor announcing her as the winner and they pronounce her last name and it sounds like the N word. If I was her agent the first thing I would have done is tell her to change her last name.
Her and Carrie Coon
OMG, that’s a real name too? What were they thinking?
and Alice Poon?
I regularly giggle that Imogen Poots is a real person
and so, so Poot-able.
“Cringe worthy,” eh…?
Academy Award nominee, Rich Whiteman!
I doubt any white people would get offended by Whiteman lol
Animated Short “Affairs Of The Art” “Bestia” “Boxballet” “Robin Robin” “The Windshield Wiper” Desert Hearts New Mexico regional airliner the airplanes are old the maintenance technicians are on meth the airplane parts are counterfeit the pilots are drunks or inexperienced beautiful day straight off the end of the runway into a desert rainstorm hundred and two people (I’m a good guesser passengers pilots cabin crew regional airliner) no survivors one notable fatality
Christ, what a shit list. Dune is BORING, beyond slow and has no ending; Power of the Dog is meanspirited, the opposite of fun and irritating as shit. Nightmare Alley is barely even a movie, it sucks so hard. Javier Bardem for best actor for Being the Ricardos—did anyone at the academy actually watch that movie? It sucks, and he’s one of the worst parts.I’m no Marvel stan, but Spiderman was easily superior to Dune, Dog, Alley and Ricarodoes. EASILY. Watching Donald Trump take a shit is better than those movies.And ultimately: nothing for Red Rocket?!? Simon Rex easily put in one of the best performances of the year, and Suzanna Song 100% should be in best supporting actress. It’s the realest, most fun, most invigorating movie of the year by a longshot, I’d rather watch it 100 times in a row than sit through Dune even once more.
Somewhere in Italy right now Patrizia Gucci is enjoying a nice glass of wine and cackling with delight over Gaga’s Oscar snub. Sure she had been able to drive Gaga out of the country by sending swarms of flies to harass her, but her curse to get Gaga nominated for all four major precursor awards and then nothing from the Academy? Masterful!
#JusticeForPig
I prefer #WheresTheBacon
A decent list – not as outrageous as some past years, but really bummed to not see a nod to Nic Cage for Pig, or to the script. Also would have loved to see a Best Adapted for The Humans, or even a Best Supporting for Jane Houdyshell. Surprised there weren’t a more noms for French Dispatch, which I personally found a little soulless and dollhousey, but was well-made and the kind of whimsy that usually gets a nod – at least for Production Design!
Don’t Look Up was a fun idea for a movie, with a great cast, but it turned out to just…not be very good. It was flabby and unfocused; too worried about making a point to be funny and too worried about being funny to make a point. Surprised to see it in the Best Picture category.
Pig was 10x a better movie than Don’t Look Up.
I wonder if wining for a various serious role years ago is why this very good subdued serious role he did this time was overlooked. Now if he hadn’t won or been nominated, he would be on this year’s list. Just the way they seem to work sometimes. I loved the film but it didn’t get much release/exposure. I bought it fairly cheap online surprisingly.
I’m also sure the academy voters saw this scene and their egos couldn’t take the blunt truth.
There are a lot of things better than Don’t Look Up this year.
Amen – the power of telling a crisp focused human story over a sprawling overstuffed message movie.
This scene right here was probably the best written, directed and acted scene of 2021
100%“We don’t get a lot of things to really care about”
Taking this time to give a shout out to Minyan, which I highly recommend to anyone and everyone.Also, Bad Luck Banging, but that is an entirely different kind of movie.
I thought Bradley Cooper should have gotten a nomination for Nightmare Alley.
My two favorite films of last year were The Green Knight and The Card Counter, so… (frowny face)
So did Being The Ricardos just get noms for name recognition? I totally could have missed it but the general sense I got from early reviews and people that watched it was the movie ranged anywhere from “fine but meh” to “why did this get made?”
Ah yes, the ‘brilliant actors anchoring otherwise middling film’ nominations.
I see “Don’t Look Up” is getting the “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” Award for “Best Picture Nominee that Nobody Actually Liked.”
I’ll take a cue from AV Club’s “The Ballots”, breaking down my thoughts as such:Outlier: The Green Knight. I’m indifferent to this film, but it’s interesting this got snubbed, since I thought for sure critics would carry it to glory. Certainly, it could have gotten Makeup over Coming 2 America.Most Overrated: West Side Story. I surprise myself to even say so. I mean, liked it alright, and some of its updated ideas are pretty solid, but it’s just nowhere near as good as the classic to me. Most Underrated: tick, tick…Boom! Speaking of musicals, I probably would have thrown some more love its way. Glad for Acting and Editing, but its also clever with its script, and Robin De Jesus gives a really strong supporting performance.Biggest Disappointment: Nothing for The Last Duel. Ridley Scott basically guilted me into watching it, and now that I have, it is worthy of a few noms; In the Costume and Production Design departments in particular. “Confess!!”Most Welcome Surprise: Free Guy. One of the few I haven’t seen, so it raises an eyebrow. I didn’t love The Matrix Resurrections or anything, but surely that gets a VFX sympathy nod? Maybe The Suicide Squad. Nope. Free Guy! Guess I’ll check it out!
Yeah, I figured with a guaranteed ten Best Picture noms again, The Green Knight would grab one of the last ones. I guess Nightmare Alley scooped it up.
Seldom when both [ur] Favorite and [the] Best film(s) are the very same (even less so nominateds), but Campion’s neo-western is 2021’s 12 Years a Slave, Fury Road, You Were Never Really Here.
And You Know This∞ PENDING APPROVAL ∞
I supposed Waltz With Bashir was the last movie that could’ve potentially been nominated for Best Animated, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language/International. (It was up for the latter).
“Quick, what’s a movie everyone watched….uh…Don’t Look Up? Throw that in there.”
No “Godzilla vs. Kong” for Special Effects has to be some kind of sick joke.