The Oscars will return for its second post-quarantine year next month, and the list of nominees for the 94th annual ceremony is officially here. This year’s list includes Belfast, Dune, Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza, The Power Of The Dog, The Lost Daughter, and King Richard, among others.
The Power Of The Dog and Dune lead the list with 12 nominations and 10 nominations respectively. Belfast and West Side Story are next up with seven nominations each.
Spencer didn’t nab a nomination for Best Picture, but Kristen Stewart did score her very first Oscars nomination for her role in the film. Kirsten Dunst also landed herself a first-time nomination for The Power Of The Dog, and Jane Campion’s Best Director nomination has made her the first woman to be nominated in the category twice.
Last year, the awards ceremony was moved from its usual home at the luxe Dolby Theatre to Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. At the time, the move was a way to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This year, though, the Oscars will return to Hollywood Blvd.
Though the Oscars ceremony is returning to normalcy in some ways, there are still a couple of big changes to expect that night. This year, there are 10 films nominated for Best Picture. In past years, there have been about eight or nine Best Picture nominees.
The other change? Well, though the annual ceremony has been without a host the last few years, the Academy has promised the return of emcees this time around. However, no official host has been announced yet.
This year, the Oscars nominees were announced at an event led by Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan. The 94th Academy Awards ceremony will air on ABC on March 27 at 8 p.m. ET. The list of nominees is below and the complete list can be found here.
The nominees for the 2022 Oscars are:
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 Adapted Screenplay
Dune
Drive My Car
The Lost Daughter
The Power Of The Dog
Best Original Screenplay
Belfast
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Jesse Plemons, The Power Of The Dog
Troy Kotsur, Coda
J.K. Simmons, Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smit- McPhee, The Power Of The Dog
Best Animated Feature
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
Best International Feature
Drive My Car
Flee
Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom
The Worst Person In The World
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 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 Director
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 Picture
Belfast
Coda
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power Of The Dog
Drive My Car
King Richard
West Side Story