The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 2022 Academy Awards. What made the cut and what was snubbed?
Jane Campion’s western The Power of the Dog walked away with the most nominations, at 12. Next up was Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune, which snagged 10. Belfast and West Side Story got seven nominations each.
Let’s get detailed:
Full list of 2022 Oscar nominees
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 DIRECTOR
- Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
- Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
- Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
- Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
- Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
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 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 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)
- Troy Kotsur (CODA)
- Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
- J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
- Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Props to Game of Thrones veteran Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder) for scoring an Oscar nom.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
- Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran)
- Dune (Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan)
- Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
- West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)
BEST SOUND
- Belfast (Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri)
- Dune (Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett)
- No Time to Die (Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor)
- The Power of the Dog (Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb)
- West Side Story (Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy)
BEST 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)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- CODA (Screenplay by Siân Heder)
- Drive My Car (Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa
Oe) - Dune (Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve
and Eric Roth) - The Lost Daughter (Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal)
- The Power of the Dog (Written by Jane Campion)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Belfast (Written by Kenneth Branagh)
- Don’t Look Up (Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota)
- King Richard (Written by Zach Baylin)
- Licorice Pizza (Written by Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Worst Person in the World (Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
- Affairs of the Art
- Bestia
- Boxballet
- Robin Robin
- The Windshield Wiper
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
- Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
- The Dress
- The Long Goodbye
- On My Mind
- Please Hold
BEST 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)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
- Coming 2 America (Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer)
- Cruella (Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon)
- Dune (Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr)
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh)
- House of Gucci (Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- 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)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Ascension
- Attica
- Flee
- Summer of Soul
- Writing With Fire
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
- Audible
- Lead Me Home
- The Queen of Basketball
- Three Songs for Benazir
- When We Were Bullies
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- “Be Alive” — Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (King Richard)
- “Dos Oruguitas” — Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
- “Down to Joy” — Music and Lyric by Van Morrison (Belfast)
- “No Time to Die” — Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
- “Somehow You Do” — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Dune (Greig Fraser)
- Nightmare Alley (Dan Laustsen)
- The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
- West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
- 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)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Dune (Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos)
- Nightmare Alley (Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau)
- The Power of the Dog (Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh)
- West Side Story (Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Dune (Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer)
- Free Guy (Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick)
- No Time to Die (Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home (Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick)
And that’s who stands to win. Now let’s talk about who’s been ignored.
Spider-Man: No Way Home shut out of most Oscar categories
There are notable snubs here. For instance, although Dune crops up a lot on this list, Denis Villeneuve doesn’t get a nod for Best Director, although he is up for Best Screenplay. Other notable absences include Aaron Sorkin not getting a Best Screenplay nod for Being the Ricardos, Frances McDormand going unacknowledged for her work in The Tragedy of MacBeth, and Lady Gaga getting no respect for House of Gucci.
All that said, easily the biggest snub here is Spider-Man: No Way Home, which released to rave reviews and is on its way to becoming one of the most successful movies in history. It got exactly one nomination in the main show, for Best Visual Effects. It didn’t even place in other technically oriented categories like editing, sound, or production design, to say nothing of getting a Best Picture nod.
This probably won’t help the Oscars recover from the perception that they’re out of touch with the tastes of the general movie-going public, but I’m sure Disney and Sony will be comforted by their piles of money.
The Oscars will air on ABC on Sunday, March 27.
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