The Oscar nominations for 2022 are lastly right here. With the Golden Globes’s non-public ceremony and the Grammys’ postponement as a result of COVID-19 Omicron surge, award season has appeared… just a little completely different this 12 months. However the present should go on, and it is almost time to have a good time the most effective in movie.
The 94th Academy Awards nominees have been introduced on February 8 by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan in an internet livestream, and the official ceremony is scheduled to happen in-person on March 27, 2022, on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
New adjustments to this 12 months’s ceremony embrace three appointed co-hosts (Regina Corridor, Wanda Sykes, and Amy Schumer) — the Oscars haven’t had a bunch since 2018 — and the extension of nominees for the Finest Image class. Traditionally, a sliding vary of 5 to 10 movies have been nominated for the night time’s greatest award — this 12 months, there can be an official whole of 10 nominees.
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Lots of the most buzz-worthy movies of 2021 have been nominated for Finest Image, like sci-fi epic Dune, controversial coming-of-age interval piece Licorice Pizza, Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story, Netflix satire Don’t Look Up, and the Williams sisters’ biopic King Richard.
In line with early Oscar predictions, anticipated frontrunners for the prize are Western Energy of the Canine, directed by this 12 months’s solely feminine Finest Director nominee Jane Campion, CODA, the coming-of-age drama about a youngster who’s the one listening to individual in her deaf household, and Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical movie Belfast, a couple of working class household in Northern Eire within the late Nineteen Sixties.
Notable nominations this 12 months embrace Andrew Garfield, who scored his second Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick… Growth!, and first-time nominees Kristen Stewart for Spencer, Ariana DeBose for West Aspect Story, and megastar Beyoncé for her unique tune “Be Alive” for King Richard.
Beyoncé can be acting at this 12 months’s present, alongside different nominees for Unique Track, just like the forged of Disney’s Encanto — who’re set to debut their first-ever reside efficiency of “We Do not Speak About Bruno” — “No Time to Die” scribes Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, and extra.
The Oscars 2022 ceremony will start reside at 8 p.m. ET on March 27, and can be accessible to look at on-line through reside stream and on TV.
Beneath, take a look at the whole checklist of Oscar nominations for 2022.
Finest Image
Belfast
Coda
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Automobile
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Energy of the Canine
West Aspect Story
Actor In A Lead Position
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Energy of the Canine
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick… Growth!
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Actress In A Lead Position
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye