The Academy Awards are back for another year, during which the best films released in 2021 will be honored. The Power of the Dog, King Richard, and West Side Story appear to be frontrunners in the best picture competition, with a tiny chance for crowd favorite Don’t Look Up.
Nightmare Alley, Belfast, Licorice Pizza and Drive My Car were able to gain multiple Oscar nominations in 2022. When it comes to best actor awards, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kenneth Branagh, Jane Campion, Steven Spielberg and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi have a good shot.
Oscar Awards are known for their high-tech enthusiasm, and this year’s edition is no exception. movies including Dune, Cruella, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and No Time to Die have been nominated in the technical categories of costumes and special effects. In music categories, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Billie Eilish, Hans Zimmer, and Jonny Greenwood are among the people competing.
On Sunday, March 27, at 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET), the 2022 Oscars ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC. The 94th Academy Awards show may differ from last year’s opinion-splitting intimate event in a few ways: There will be a host this year (we don’t know who it’ll be yet), and new producers have taken over production duties. Streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV Plus, and Amazon Prime Video will certainly be involved in the competition, especially because the pandemic has disrupted many scheduled theatrical releases. The list of nominees was revealed Tuesday by Leslie Jordan, Tracee Ellis Ross, and a variety of healthcare workers, schoolkids, and other regular folks. The following is a list of Oscar nominations for 2022.
Oscar nominations 2022
Best picture
- Belfast
- CODA
- Don’t Look Up
- Drive My Car
- Dune
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
Best directing
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
- Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
- Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
- Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Actor in a leading role
- 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)
Actress in a leading role
- Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
- Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
- Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
- Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
- Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Actor in a supporting role
- Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
- Troy Kotsur (CODA)
- Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
- J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
- Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Actress in a supporting role
- Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
- Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
- Judi Dench (Belfast)
- Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
- Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Writing (Adapted screenplay)
- CODA (Sian Heder)
- Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe)
- Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve)
- The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
- The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Writing (Original screenplay)
- Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
- Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay and David Sirota)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- King Richard (Zach Baylin)
- The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Animated feature film
- Encanto
- Flee
- Luca
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- Raya and the Last Dragon
Animated short film
- Affairs of the Art
- Bestia
- Boxballet
- Robin Robin
- The Windshield Wiper
Costume design
- Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
- Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
- Dune (Jacqueline West)
- Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
- West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)
Live-action short film
- Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
- The Dress
- The Long Goodbye
- On My Mind
- Please Hold
Music (Original score)
- Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
- Dune (Hans Zimmer)
- Encanto (Germaine Franco)
- Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
- The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
Sound
- Belfast
- Dune
- No Time to Die
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
Cinematography
- Dune (Greig Fraser)
- Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
- The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
- West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)
Documentary feature
- Ascension
- Attica
- Flee
- Summer of Soul
- Writing With Fire
Documentary short subject
- Audible
- Lead Me Home
- The Queen of Basketball
- Three Songs for Benazir
- When We Were Bullies
Film editing
- Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
- Dune (Joe Walker)
- King Richard (Pamela Martin)
- The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
- Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)
International feature film
- Drive My Car (Japan)
- Flee (Denmark)
- The Hand of God (Italy)
- Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
- The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Makeup and hairstyling
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- House of Gucci
- Coming 2 America
- Cruella
- Dune
Music
- Be Alive — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Darius Scott (King Richard)
- Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
- Down to Joy — Van Morrison (Belfast)
- No Time to Die — Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
- Somehow You Do — Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
Production design
- Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos and Patrice Vermette)
- Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau)
- The Power of the Dog (Grant Major and Amber Richards)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh)
- West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo and Adam Stockhausen)
Visual effects
- Dune
- Free Guy
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- No Time to Die
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
