The 2022 Academy Awards (aka The Oscars) will be the 94th time the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the movies made in the previous year.
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films released between March 1 and December 31, 2021, and is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, on March 27, 2022.
For the first time in four years the ceremony will have official hosts. And for the first time since 2011, there will be multiple co-hosts: Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall will share the role.
Last week saw the nominations being announced and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leads the field with an amazing 12 nominations. It’s the first film directed by a woman to receive more than ten nominations and its director, Jane Campion, is now the only woman to receive more than one Academy Award nomination for Best Director - this is her second after 1993’s The Piano nomination.
The Power of the Dog is currently streaming on Netflix.
The only other movie to score double digit nominations this year is Dune with 10 Oscar shots. Kenneth Branagh’s ode to his Irish roots, Belfast and Steven Spielberg’s retelling of the classic West Side Story follow with 7 nominations apiece.
Below are the nominees in the main categories. I thought it would be a bit of fun to put the top 10 awards into polls to see how good our Oscar Predictions are. You’ll have until midnight SAST on Sunday, 27 March to cast your votes, with the ceremony schedule to start at 3 in the morning on Monday, 28 March.
- Belfast
- CODA
- Don’t Look Up
- Drive My Car
- Dune
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
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- Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
- Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
- Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
- Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
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- Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
- Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
- Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom! as Jonathan Larson
- Will Smith – King Richard as Richard Williams
- Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth
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- Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker
- Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
- Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers as Janis Martínez Moreno
- Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
- Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales
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- Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as Pop
- Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
- Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog as George Burbank
- J. K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos as William Frawley
- Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon
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- Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter as Young Leda Caruso
- Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
- Judi Dench – Belfast as Granny
- Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
- Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene “Brandy” Price
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- Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
- Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay and David Sirota
- King Richard – Zach Baylin
- Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Worst Person in the World – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
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- CODA – Sian Heder; based on the original motion picture screenplay La Famille Bélier written by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau
- Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe; based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
- Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth; based on the novel by Frank Herbert
- The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal; based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
- The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion; based on the novel by Thomas Savage
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- Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer
- Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
- Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht
- Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho
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- Drive My Car (Japan) in Japanese – directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Flee (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
- The Hand of God (Italy) in Italian – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
- Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan) in Dzongkha – directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji
- The Worst Person in the World (Norway) in Norwegian – directed by Joachim Trier
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Know More:
Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Oscars 2022 | 94th Academy Awards (abc.com)
Oscars - YouTube
Oscar Nominations 2022 List: Nominees by Category - Oscars 2022 News | 94th Academy Awards (abc.com)
