Oscar Nominations 2022

[Daniel]

Nominees are out!

BEST PICTURE
Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers
Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

BEST 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

BEST 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

BEST DIRECTING
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 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

BEST 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

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 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 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 – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

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 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 ORIGINAL SONG
Be Alive from King Richard
Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Dos Oruguitas from Encanto
Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Down To Joy from Belfast
Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
No Time To Die from No Time to Die
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
Somehow You Do from Four Good Days
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

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 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 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

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 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 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 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 ANIMATED SHORT
Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
Boxballet – Anton Dyakov
Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible – Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot
Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

Go Luca! Although it would not surprise me with Raya and Encanto nominated they cancel each other out and The Mitchells vs. the Machines pulls out a win.

[Farerb]

It could go to The Mitchells vs. the Machines for its unique animation, story wise it should go to Luca, but Encanto is what hyped right now.

Encanto is also nominated for Best Original Score, the first WDAS film since Mulan, though I'd say that I think its score was nothing more than fine. As much as I didn't care for Raya and the Last Dragon, its score was superior, and if we go with Disney films from previous years - Tangled, Moana and Frozen II had better scores than Encanto and they weren't nominated.

What's really shocking here though is that Denis Villeneuve was snubbed in the Best Director category, I personally really liked Dune and thought it was the kind of film that you only see once a decade, but of course they'll give it to the most obscure film that no one has seen or cares about.

I wasn't impressed with the new West Side Story and at this point it feels like they just give it to Spielberg by default.

[Daniel]

Surprised Lady Gaga was snubbed!

I'm thinking West Side Story won't win Best pic as it wasn't even nominated for editing.

[James]

Go Luca! Although it would not surprise me with Raya and Encanto nominated they cancel each other out and The Mitchells vs. the Machines pulls out a win.

Forgot to add comments to the story! Fixed now!

[gaastra]

Poor belle. Also first time a animated film gets a best doc nod. No time to die over gvk and eternals for fx? Huh? Also as disney didn't submit it the academy does not talk about bruno for best song!

[Ben]

The best song needs to be submitted long before time, and at that point there was no indication that Bruno was going to be the standout hit from the movie. They have to make a guess on what will be the breakout, along with discussion from the songwriter and filmmakers. Guess they just picked the wrong track, and shows there’s no way of knowing these things.

[Farerb]

They could have submitted two songs.

[Farerb]

When can we guess who's going to win?

[James]

They could have submitted two songs.

I think you can actually submit more, but only two can be nominated.

When can we guess who's going to win?

Since they’re moved the show back to late march, the contest will probably start the beginning of march. This month look for the readers choice poll for best film of 2021.

[James]

Kenneth Branagh is the first person to be nominated in seven individual Oscar categories, surpassing George Clooney, Alfonso Cuarón and Walt Disney, who were recognized in six.

Picture (Belfast)
Director (Henry V, Belfast)
Actor (Henry V)
Supporting Actor (My Week With Marilyn)
Original Screenplay (Belfast)
Adapted Acreenplay (Hamlet)
Live-Action Short (Swan Song)

https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/ ... 235172548/

[Bill1978]

They could have submitted two songs.

I think you can actually submit more, but only two can be nominated.

The new rules are a movie can only submit a maximum of 5 songs for consideration and only a maximum of 2 songs from one movie can be nominated.

Disney got the sh*ts when Enchanted didn't go home with a little man after it's 3 song nomination and then decided to really have a fit when The Princess and The Frog didn't win a little man with its 2 song nomination so they basically made an unwritten rule that they will only submit one song for consideration because they felt they were dividing the vote and preventing a win. Disney seems to have forgotten that the following films all won for Best Song with multiple song nominations The Little Mermaid (2), Beauty and the Beast (3), Aladdin (2) and The Lion King (3). So perhaps its not the vote splitting but the fact the narrative the Academy wanted to tell didn't involve their movie that year.

Regarding Encanto, I actually really love the nominated track, it serves the movie really well and makes that scene even more emotional. I imagine the public would be scratching their head at the lack of a Bruno nomination not understanding how the submission process works. And to be fair to Disney when Encanto was in theatres Bruno was doing nothing, in fact the soundtrack really wasn't connecting with the public. It wasn't until it hit Disney+ that the public and in particular the TikTok community noticed the song. So to be fair to Disney Bruno wasn't even the breakout song with the public when it was in theatres unlike say something like Hakuna Matata.

This year could have been a great opportunity for Disney to submit more than 1 song and see a double nomination. Cause honestly, if Bruno was nominated I reckon it would have won just cause of the exposure. Although maybe we should be grateful it wasn't nominated cause if it was performed on stage maybe someone in Disney would have the terrible idea to rush Encanto to Broadway.

On a different note, I love the achievement of Flee and I honestly hope it walks away with something for its nomination - I'm guessing Documentary would be its strongest chance?

Also is it wrong to want The Power of The Dog to win so Stephen Spielberg can have a loser's tantrum over a Netflix distributed film winning the major prize?

[Ben]

Yes, because Power Of The Dog is a boring-ass movie about an unpleasant person where nothing happens. Belfast is my pick this year.

[Farerb]

The Power of the Dog will most likely win, I have no idea why the academy is so fixated on this film, but it's obvious it's their favorite since it's pretty much nominated for every category.

This might sound mean spirited but I hope West Side Story doesn't win anything (maybe perhaps except Best Supporting Actress).

[Ben]

It remains hilarious to me that Encanto is in there for score. Outside of the songs, hum me one bit of it…?

[Bill1978]

Honestly, I feel like it has been years since the Best Original Score category was dominated by hummable scores. It speaks volume that basically outside of the Avengers Theme (which I admit I am struggling to even recall right now), if you asked someone to hum a superhero theme they will go with Williams' Superman or Elfman's Batman.