The 94th Academy Award nominations were announced on February 8, 2022. The Academy Awards were announced March 27, 2022. The awards did not do a live presentation of Best Short Documentary, Best Film Editing, Best Make-Up and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short, or Best Sound. An physical incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock was also noted as a point of contention during the airing.
Links to the BasementRejects Reviews for the films can be found under the pictures.
Best Picture:
Belfast
WINNER: CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson—Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh—Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi—Drive My Car
WINNER: Jane Campion—The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg—West Side Story
Best Actor:
Javier Bardem—Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch—The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield—tick. tick. BOOM!
WINNER: Will Smith—King Richard
Denzel Washington—The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Actress:
WINNER: Jessica Chastain—The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman—The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz—Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman—Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart—Spencer
Best Supporting Actor:
Ciaran Hines—Belfast
WINNER: Troy Kotsur—CODA
Jesse Plemson—The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons—Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee—The Power of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress:
Jessie Buckley—The Lost Daughter
WINNER: Ariana DeBosse—West Side Story
Judi Dench—Belfast
Kirsten Dunst—The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis—King Richard
Best Writing—Original Screenplay:
WINNER: Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
Best Writing—Adapted Screenplay:
WINNER: CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Best Animated Feature:
WINNER: Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Foreign Language Film:
WINNER: Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
Best Documentary—Feature:
Ascension
Attica
Flee
WINNER: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing with Fire
Best Documentary—Short Subject:
Audible
Lead Me Home
WINNER: The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Best Live Action Short:
The Dress
WINNER: The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Take and Run
Best Animated Short:
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
WINNER: The Windshield Wiper
Best Original Score:
Don’t Look Up
WINNER: Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Best Original Song:
“Be Alive”—King Richard
“Dos Oruguitas”—Encanto
“Down to Joy”—Belfast
WINNER: “No Time to Die”—No Time to Die
“Somehow You Do”—Four Good Days
Best Sound:
Belfast
WINNER: Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Production Design:
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Cinematography:
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Make-Up and Hairstyling:
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
WINNER: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Best Costume Design:
WINNER: Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Best Film Editing:
Don’t Look Up
WINNER: Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
Best Visual Effects:
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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