Oscars 2022: all about the March 27 ceremony

In 2022, the seventh art will be able to be celebrated as it should be. After two years of pandemic and a virtual edition in 2021, the Oscars ceremony will take place this year, with some new features. The list of nominees, unveiled on Tuesday February 8, 2022, lifts a first part of the mystery of this evening eagerly awaited by the Hollywood elite.

And if the health situation allows it, the ceremony should even take place with the public and the historic return of the red carpet.

New this year, however. Some prizes will be awarded before the TV broadcast. A decision taken by the organizers of the ceremony to energize the evening and leave more time for musical, humorous and tribute performances.

New to the chain

This 94th edition should take place at Dolby Theater in Hollywood, and for the first time since 2018, with a master of ceremonies. The president of ABC Entertainment thus revealed on Tuesday January 11: “I can confirm that the Oscars will have a host this year”.

Craig Erwich did not immediately reveal which personality would embody this privileged task. The last two years, 2017 and 2018, comedian Jimmy Kimmel took on this role.

A place still to take? In any case, actor Tom Holland said he was quite ready for this challenge. After indicating to HollywoodReporter Having no time this year, he quickly backtracked: “What f***ing idiot wouldn’t want to host the Oscars? Yeah, if they ask me, I’ll take it and it would be super fun. J ‘would love’.

But this year, it’s not one, nor two, but three mistresses of ceremonies to liven up the evening. We thus find the actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. It’s the first time since 1987 that the Oscars will have three hosts.

Another special novelty for 2022: an audience prize which will reward the most popular film of the year. It will be awarded following a vote organized on Twitter.

Regarding the prizes, some will be awarded outside the ceremony. More precisely, 8 statuettes will be given “during the hour preceding the start of the television broadcast”, explains the president of the Academy of Oscars, David Rubin, in an e-mail addressed to its members and to the candidates, quoted by FranceInfo. The sequences will then be edited and “inserted into the show broadcast live”.

The categories concerned are: make-up, sound, short documentary, short fiction, animated short, sets, editing and original score. A decision that is not unanimous. On Twitter, several Internet users have denounced the invisibilization of technical professions for the benefit of big stars.

It’s hardly a surprise anymore, alongside American productions, streaming platforms are interfering in the nominees. Netflix collects several nominations with The Power of the Dog (12 nominations), Don’t Look Up (3 nominations), The Lost Daughter (3 nominations) and Tick, Tick… Boom! (1 nomination).

Amazon is also in the race for the Oscars with its film spencer where actress Kristen Stewart is nominated in the “best actress” category. Being the Ricardos also garners 3 nominations.

In 2021, Netflix had won seven statuettes, while disney+ and Amazon had won two awards each.

At the top of the nominations for this year 2022, we find in particular Duneswith 10 nominations or even Belfast with 7 nominations.

Oscars 2022, the nominees are:

The best movie

• Belfast
• CODA
• Don’t Look Up
• Drive My Car
• Dunes
• The Williams Method
• Licorice Pizza
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

The Best Achievement:

• Jane Campion- The Power of the Dog
• Kenneth Branagh- Belfast
• Paul Thomas Anderson- Licorice Pizza
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi- Drive My Car
• Steven Spielberg- West Side Story

Best Actress:

• Jessica Chastain- In the eyes of Tammy Faye
• Kristen Stewart- spencer
• Nicole Kidman- Being the Ricardos
• Olivia Colman- The Lost Daughter
• Penelope Cruz – Madres Paralelas

Best Actor:

• Andrew Garfield- Tick, Tick… Boom!
• Benedict Cumberbatch- The Power of the Dog
• Denzel Washington- The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
• Will Smith- The Williams Method

Best Supporting Actress:

• Ariana DeBose- West Side Story
• Kirsten Dunst- The Power of the Dog
• Aunjanue Ellis – The Williams Method
• Jessie Buckley- The Lost Daughter
• Judi Dench – Belfast

Best Supporting Actor:

• Ciaran Hinds- Belfast
• Troy Kotsur- CODA
• Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
• Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
• JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos

Best Music:

• Hans Zimmer – Dunes
• Germaine Franco- Encanto
• Nicholas Britell- Dont’ Look Up
• Alberto Iglesias – Parallel Mothers
• Johnny Greenwood- The Power of the Dog

The Best Sound:

• Dunes
• West Side Story
• No Time to Die
• The Power of the Dog
• Belfast

Best Song:

• Be Alive – The Williams Method – Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles Carter
• No Time To Die – No Time To Die
• Dos Oruguitas – Encanto – Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Down to Joy – Belfast – Van Morrison
• Somehow You Do – Four Good Days

Best Photography:

• Greig Fraser- Dunes
• Dan Lautsen – Nightmare Alley
• Bruno Delbonnel- The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Ari Wegner- The Power of the Dog
• Janusz Kaminski – West Side Story

Best Editing:

• The Williams Method
• Don’t Look Up
• Dunes
• The Power of the Dog
• Tick, Tick… Boom!

The Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

• Coming 2 America
• cruella
• Dunes
• House of Gucci
• In the eyes of Tammy Faye

The Best Decorations:

• Dunes
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story
• The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Costume:

• Dunes- Jacqueline West, Bob Morgan
• Cruella- Jenny Beavan
• Nightmare Alley- Luis Sequeira
• West Side Story- Paul Tazewell
• Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini, Jacqueline Durran

Best Animated Film:

• Encanto
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Flee
• Raya and the Last Dragon
• Luke

The Best International Film:

• Drive My Car
• Flee
• The Worst Person in the World
• The Hand of God
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Best Documentary:

• summer of soul
• Flee
• Attica
• Writing With Fire
• Ascent

Best Visual Effects:

• Dunes
• Free Guy
• No Time To Die
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

The Best Short Film:

• The Long Goodbye
• The Dress
• Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
• On My Mind
• Please Hold

Best Documentary Short Film:

• Audible
• The Queen of Basketball
• Lead Me Home
• Three Songs for Benazir
• When We Were Bullies

The Best Animated Short Film:

• Affairs of the Art
• Ruby fallen from the nest
• Bestia
• Boxballet
• The Windshield Wiper