Oscars 2022 Nominations & Predictions
Well it's Oscar season and the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards have finally been revealed.
Despite my general lack of interest for the award ceremony and my distaste for various aspects of it (see earlier blog post), I still love the movies themselves and so I thought that it might be fun to at least take a guess at how things'll turn out on the night.
Seeing as my favorites and what the Academy will likely choose are two different things, I will color code them differently. My favorites being in green, the projected winners being in red with links to full reviews of the films in question when applicable.
BEST PICTURE
Dune
Drive My Car
Belfast
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
King Richard
CODA
BEST ACTOR
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick... BOOM!)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power Of The Dog)
Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy Of Macbeth)
Will Smith (King Richard)
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Flee
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Raya And The Last Dragon
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
No Time To Die (Billie Eilish, FINNEAS)
Dos Oruguitas (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Somehow You Do (Diane Warren)
Be Alive (Beyoncé, DIXSON)
Down To Joy (Van Morrison)
BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryosuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Flee
Drive My Car
Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom
The Hand Of God
The Worst Person In The World
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kirsten Dunst (The Power Of The Dog)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Don't Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)
The Power Of The Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power Of The Dog)
J.K. Simmons (Being The Ricardos)
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Jesse Plemons (The Power Of The Dog)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Writing With Fire
Flee
Attica
Summer Of Soul
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The Long Goodbye
Ala Kachuu - Take And Run
Please Hold
On My Mind
The Dress
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
Affairs Of The Art
Boxballet
Beast
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Lost Daughter
Dune
Drive My Car
The Power Of The Dog
CODA
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nightmare Alley
Dune
The Power Of The Dog
The Tragedy Of Macbeth
West Side Story
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay, David Sirota)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Worst Person In The World (Joachin Trier, Eskil Vogt)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shan-Chi and the Legend Of The Ten Rings
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Nightmare Alley
Dune
Cruella
Cyrano
West Side Story
BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
When We Were Bullies
Audible
The Queen Of Basketball
Lead Me Home
Three Songs For Benazir
BEST FILM EDITING
Don't Look Up (Hank Corwin)
Dune (Joe Walker)
tick, tick... BOOM! (Andrew Weisblum, Myron I. Kerstein)
The Power Of The Dog (Peter Sciberras)
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
Look out for another Oscar-themed blog post after the ceremony where I will expose myself as either a genius who understands the Oscars more than anyone else and should, in fact, receive an Oscar just for that OR so far off the mark that I should go to jail for crimes against... knowing things.
See y'all soon!
