Oscars 2022: CODA crowned best film, Jane Campion best director [palmarès]

Will Smith received the Oscar for best actor after hitting Chris Rock!

5 years after the misunderstanding Moonlight/La La Land (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had announced the wrong winner), the Oscars were marked by a new incident that will go down in the annals of the ceremony. While the duel CODA/The Power of the Dog ended with a sharing of the two main trophies (Oscar for best film for the remake of The Aries Family and Best Direction for Jane Campion), Will Smith won him the Oscar for Best Actor for The Williams Method after hitting Chris Rock (!) who had just made a bad joke about the alopecia of his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

During his speech, Will Smith, with tears in his eyes, explained that he was under pressure and apologized to The Academy (“I hope to be invited back“). One “damage control” full of emotions. Nevertheless, the scene will leave traces. She clearly threw a chill on the evening, spoiling a bit the tribute to Godfather which followed, with the reunion of Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino and Robert de Niro on stage. It also risks eclipsing the prize list in the media. Too bad for CODA, the beautiful story of its 2022 Oscars, which won three awards in total with the best film, which French producers Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet and Patrick Wachsberger came to receive, the adapted screenplay for Sian Heder (also a director) and the best actor in a supporting role for Troy Kotsur. Three awards that were greeted with (silent) applause in sign language from the audience.

Overall, the latest predictions turned out to be correct. Jessica Chastain was crowned best actress for In the eyes of Tammy Faye. Ariana DeBose won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story by Spielberg, 60 years after that of Rita Moreno who played the same role in the original film by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. Dunes walked away (among others) with the best cinematography and the best special effects, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, the best foreign film for Drive my Car and Encanto, the best animated film. We expected less, on the other hand, than Kenneth Branagh wins the best original screenplay for Belfasthis very first Oscar!

The ceremony will also have been a success in terms of musical sequences. Beyoncé got the ball rolling epically performing the song “Be Alive” of The Williams Method live from the Compton tennis courts where the Williams sisters trained. The two songs ofEncanto set fire, especially “Let’s not talk about Bruno”and Billie Eilish delivered a vibrant performance of “No Time to Die”which won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

On the presentation side, the trio formed by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes delivered, with some seriously funny moments, but ultimately the best jokes came from the crowd-chosen Oscars. Area where Zack Snyder did a double whammy with the Flash scene in Justice League leading the #OscarsCheerMoment votes and Army of the Dead who did the hair Spider-Man: No Way Home at the post for the #Oscarsfanfavorite. Not sure that the Academy will renew the experience…

BEST FILM

CODA (WINNER)
Belfast
Don’t Look Up – Cosmic Denial
Drive My Car
Dunes
The Williams Method
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST ACHIEVEMENT

Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog (WINNER)
Kenneth Branagh for Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi for Drive my Car
Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza
Steven Spielberg for West Side Story

BEST ACTOR

Will Smith in The Williams Method (WINNER)
Javier Bardem in Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield in Tick, Tick… Boom!
Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)
Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz for Madres Paralelas
Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart for spencer

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Troy Kotsur for Coda (WINNER)
Ciaran Hinds for Belfast
Jesse Plemons for The Power of the Dog
JK Simmons for Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power of the Dog

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ariana DeBose for West Side Story (WINNER)
Jessie Buckley for The Lost Daughter
Judi Dench for Belfast
Kirsten Dunst for The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis for The Williams Method

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

Greig Fraser for Dunes (WINNER)
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCENARIO

Kenneth Branagh for Belfast (WINNER)
Adam McKay and David Sirota for Don’t Look Up
Zach Baylin for The Williams Method
Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for Julie (in 12 chapters)

BEST ADAPTED SCENARIO

Sian Heder for Coda (WINNER)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takama Oe for Drive my Car
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth for Dunes
Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Lost Daughter
Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog

BEST FOREIGN FILM

Drive my Car (Japan) – WINNER
Flee (Denmark)
God’s hand (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
Julie (in 12 chapters) (Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Encanto (WINNER)
Flee
Luke
The Michells vs. The Machines
Raya and the last dragon

BEST DOCUMENTARY

summer of soul (WINNER)
Ascent
Attica
Flee
Writing with Fir

BEST SHORT FILM

The Long Goodbye (WINNER)
Ala Kachuu – Take the Run
The Dress
On My Mind
please hold

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

The Windshield Wiper (WINNER)
Bestia
BoxBallet
robin robin
Affairs of the Art

BEST COSTUMES

JEnny Beavan for cruella (WINNER)
Cyrano
Dunes
Nigtmare Alley
West Side Story

BEST EDITING

Dune (WINNER)
Don’t Look Up
The Williams Method
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick… Boom

BEST SOUND

Dune (WINNER)
Belfast
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Dunes (WINNER)
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

BEST SET

Dune (WINNER)
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLES

In the eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)
A prince in New York
cruella
Dunes
House of Gucci

BEST SOUNDTRACK

Dune (WINNER)
Don’t Look Up
Encanto
Madres Paralelas
The Power of the Dog

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“No Time to Die” of No Time to Die (WINNER)
“Be Alive” of The Williams Method
“Dos Oruguitas” ofEncanto
“Down to Joy” of Belfast
“Somehow You Do” of Four Good Days