Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Oscar Nominations for 2022

Okay.  It's year three of the pandemic and the Oscar nominations can't be stopped.  Here we go.

Best Picture
Licorice Pizza

No surprises here.  Pretty much the same list from the Critics' Choice and the Golden Globes.

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

So Lady Gaga got snubbed in favor of Kristen Stewart.  Interesting.  In fact, House of Gucci got shut out except for Makeup and Hairstyling.  That's gotta hurt.

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

Best Costume Design
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Sound
Belfast
Dune
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Original Score
Don't Look Up
Dune
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog

Best Adapted Screenplay
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay
Belfast
Don't Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World

Best Animated Short
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet

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
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick...Boom!

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Who saw Coming 2 America get a nomination?  Who remembered Coming 2 America came out last year?

Best Animated Feature
Encanto

Best Documentary Feature
Flee
Writing with Fire

Best Documentary Short
The Queen of Basketball
When We Were Bullies

Best 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

For some reason, the Academy likes to stick a random film in Best Original Song that is nominated nowhere else.  Never even heard of this one.

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

Best International Feature
Drive My Car - Japan
Flee - Denmark
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom - Bhutan
The Worst Person in the World - Norway

Look at Bhutan getting in the Oscar spirit!  

Best Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Visual Effects
Dune
No Time to Die

All right, ceremony is March 27.  You know the deal:  I try and watch as many of these as I can get my grubby paws on.  Clock starts now.

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