Oscars 2022: the nominations

The Power of the Dog has been nominated for 11 awards including Best Picture and Best Film Editing, whilst blockbuster sci-fi Dune is in close second with 10 nominations, including in the Visual Effects, Cinematography and Best Picture categories. Kenneth Branagh’s personal childhood story, Belfast, joins them in the Best Picture category, collecting a total of 7 nominations.

Other productions in the Visual Effects category include No Time to Die and Spider-Man: No Way Home, whilst Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all up against Spielberg’s West Side Story for Best Cinematography.

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is in the running for Best Production Design, alongside Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.

Three Netflix films are up for awards in the Best Film Editing category- Tick, Tick BOOM!, Don’t Look Up and The Power of the Dog, along with Warner Bros. Pictures King Richard.

Other trending titles include the Netflix release The Lost Daughter, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza and Amazon Prime’s Being the Ricardos.

This years Best Picture features 10 guaranteed nominees for the first time since 2011.

The 94th Oscars awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles’  on 27 March. 

• Read more Behind the scenes: Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast

The Nominations:

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 Lead 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

• Read more Behind the scenes: Dune with cinematographer Grieg Fraser

Best Lead 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

• Ciaran 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

• Read more Behind the scenes: Licorice Pizza with editor Andy Jurgensen

Best Director

• Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
• Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
• Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
• Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
• Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Belfast
• Don’t Look Up
• King Richard
• Licorice Pizza
• The Worst Person in the World

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• CODA
• Drive My Car
• Dune
• The Lost Daughter
• The Power of the Dog

Best International Feature Film

• Drive My Car
• Flee
• The Hand of God
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
• The Worst Person in the World

 

• Read more Behind the scenes: Nightmare Alley

 

Best Animated Feature Film

• Encanto
• Flee
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs the Machines
• Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Documentary Feature

• Ascension
• Attica
• Flee
• Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
• Writing with Fire

Best Film Editing

• Don’t Look Up
• Dune
• King Richard
• The Power of the Dog
• tick, tick… BOOM!

Best Cinematography

• Dune
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• West Side Story

Best Music (Original Score)

• Don’t Look Up
• Dune
• Encanto
• Parallel Mothers
• The Power of the Dog

Best Music (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

Best Sound

• Belfast
• Dune
• No Time to Die
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

Best Visual Effects

• Dune
• Free Guy
• No Time to Die
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Production Design

• Dune
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• West Side Story

Best Costume Design

• Cruella
• Cyrano
• Dune
• Nightmare Alley
• West Side Story

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Coming 2 America
• Cruella
• Dune
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• House of Gucci

Best Animated Short Film

• Affairs of the Art
• Bestia
• Boxballet
• Robin Robin
• The Windshield Wiper

Best Live Action Short Film

• Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
• The Dress
• The Long Goodbye
• On My Mind
• Please Hold

Documentary Short Subject

• Audible
• Lead Me Home
• The Queen of Basketball