94th Oscars Nominees
Today, the wait is finally over. Finally, we know what films and shorts The Academy have nominated for the 94th Academy Awards. This year, there were tons of upsets and snubs. I’ll have reactions out by the time you’re reading this, tons of write-ups throughout the week, winner predictions, reviews and so much more in the lead-up to the ceremony on Sunday, March 27th, 2022, which will be televised on ABC at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific.
So, without further ado, here is what The Academy nominated. As with all nominees and winners articles, review links will be included.
Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos (Amazon Studios)
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Andrew Garfield in tick, tick…BOOM! (Netflix)
Will Smith in King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple Original Films/A24)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Ciarán Hinds in Belfast (Focus Features)
Troy Kotsur in CODA (Apple Original Films)
Jesse Plemons in The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
J.K. Simmons in Being the Ricardos (Amazon Studios)
Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)
Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter (Netflix)
Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Nicole Kidman in Being the Ricardos (Amazon Studios)
Kristen Stewart in Spencer (Neon/Topic Studios)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter (Netflix)
Ariana DeBose in West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Judi Dench in Belfast (Focus Features)
Kirsten Dunst in The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Aunjanue Ellis in King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Animated Feature Film
Encanto (Walt Disney)
Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, and Clark Spencer
Flee (Neon)
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Luca (Walt Disney)
Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Netflix)
Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht
Raya and the Last Dragon (Walt Disney)
Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho
Cinematography
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Greig Fraser
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
Dan Laustsen
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple Original Films/A24)
Bruno Delbonnel
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Janusz Kaminski
Costume Design
Cruella (Walt Disney)
Jenny Beavan
Cyrano (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Massimo Cantini Pariini and Jacqueline Durran
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
Luis Sequeira
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Paul Tazewell
Directing
Belfast (Focus Features)
Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Licorice Pizza (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Jane Campion
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Steven Spielberg
Documentary (Feature)
Ascension (MTV Documentary Films)
Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
Attica (Showtime)
Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
Flee (Neon)
Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Searchlight/Onyx Collective/Hulu)
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
Writing with Fire (Music Box Films)
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
Documentary (Short Subject)
Audible (Netflix)
Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
Lead Me Home (Netflix)
Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
The Queen of Basketball (The New York Times Op-Docs)
Ben Proudfoot
Three Songs for Benazir (Netflix)
Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
When We Were Bullies (Jay Rosenblatt Films)
Jay Rosenblatt
Film Editing
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Hank Corwin
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Joe Walker
King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Pamela Martin
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Peter Sciberras
tick, tick…BOOM! (Netflix)
Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
International Feature Films
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
Coming 2 America (Amazon Studios/Paramount/New Republic Pictures)
Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
Cruella (Walt Disney)
Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)
Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
House of Gucci (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Music (Original Score)
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Nicholas Britell
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Hans Zimmer
Encanto (Walt Disney)
Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Jonny Greenwood
Music (Original Song)
“Be Alive” from King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto (Walt Disney)
Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down to Joy” from Belfast (Focus Features)
Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days (Vertical Entertainment)
Music and Lyric by Dianne Warren
Best Picture
Belfast (Focus Features)
Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
CODA (Apple Original Films)
Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
Drive My Car (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers
Licorice Pizza (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Production Design
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Production Design: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
Production Design: Tamara Deverell
Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Production Design: Grant Major
Set Decoration: Amber Richard
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple Original Films/A24)
Production Design: Stefan Dechant
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen
Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo
Short Film (Animated)
Affairs of the Art (National Film Board of Canada)
Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
Bestia (Miyu Distribution)
Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Diaz
Boxballet (CTB Film Company)
Anton Dyakov
Robin Robin (Netflix)
Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
The Windshield Wiper
Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
Short Film (Live Action)
Ala Kachuu - Take and Run (Salaud Morrisset)
Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
The Dress (Salaud Morrisset)
Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesick
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
Sound
Belfast (Focus Features)
Denis Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
No Time to Die (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
West Side Story (Walt Disney)
Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
Visual Effects
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
Free Guy (Walt Disney)
Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
No Time to Die (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Walt Disney)
Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
Adapted Screenplay
CODA (Apple Original Films)
Screenplay by Siân Heder
Drive My Car (Sideshow and Janus Films)
Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter (Netflix)
Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog (Netflix)
Written by Jane Campion
Original Screenplay
Belfast (Focus Features)
Written by Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Screenplay by Adam McKay
Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
King Richard (Warner Bros.)
Written by Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing)
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World (Neon)
Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Films with Two or More Nominations
The Power of the Dog (Netflix) - 12 nominations
Dune: Part One (Warner Bros.) - 10 nominations
Belfast (Focus Features) - 7 nominations
West Side Story (Walt Disney) - 7 nominations
King Richard (Warner Bros.) - 6 nominations
Don’t Look Up (Netflix) - 4 nominations
Drive My Car (Sideshow and Janus Films) - 4 nominations
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight) - 4 nominations
Being the Ricardos (Amazon Studios) - 3 nominations
CODA (Apple Original Films) - 3 nominations
Encanto (Walt Disney) - 3 nominations
Flee (Neon) - 3 nominations
Licorice Pizza (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing) - 3 nominations
The Lost Daughter (Netflix) - 3 nominations
No Time to Die (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists Releasing) - 3 nominations
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Apple Original Films/A24) - 3 nominations
Cruella (Walt Disney) - 2 nominations
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight) - 2 nominations
Parallel Mothers (Sony Pictures Classics) - 2 nominations
tick, tick…BOOM! (Netflix) - 2 nominations
The Worst Person in the World (Neon) - 2 nominations
What do you think of the nominees? What have you seen? What haven't you seen? What do you think got snubbed? Let me know in the comments below or any of my social media platforms!
Until next time!
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