Oscars 2022: “The Power of the Dog” by Jane Campion, “Dune” and “West Side Story” lead the nominations

The Jane Campion-directed film released on Netflix leads the race in the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards, which will take place on March 27. No French film is in the running.

The pre-ceremony ceremony was on Tuesday. Actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross hosted, for half an hour, the announcement of the nominations for the Oscars ceremony which will take place on March 27, one month after the French Césars, with a date slightly delayed in because of the Winter Olympics.

Second nomination for Jane Campion, a historic first

The film that collects the most nominations is a film that was only released in France on Netflix: “The Power of the Dog”, directed by Jane Campion. This story adapted from Thomas Savage’s novel, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst, is nominated in 12 categories, including Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Actor for Cumberbatch, and Best Supporting Actor (Jesse Plemons) and female (Kirsten Dunst).

The film has already earned Jane Campion the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, and three Golden Globes. Twenty-eight years after “The Piano Lesson”, she is the first director to obtain a second nomination in this category.

Long-awaited, “Dune” by Denis Villeneuve is nominated ten times, but twice in the major categories (“best film” and “best adaptation”), the rest of the nominations going to technical categories (best cinematography , best sound, best costumes, etc.).

After Cannes, “Drive my car” in good place

Then come, tied, the remake of “West Side Story” by Steven Spielberg and Kenneth Brannagh’s film “Belfast”, a black and white fresco inspired by the filmmaker’s childhood in Northern Ireland, which is not yet released in France: the two films are respectively named seven times.

No French film has been nominated in the category of best foreign film. The French will have to be content with having inspired the script for the film “Coda”, an American adaptation of “La Famille Bélier”, nominated three times, including one for the category of best film.

Conversely, the Japanese film “Drive my car”, already awarded at Cannes, is also nominated for the best film and best director categories. Finally, the last notable fact, in the category “best animated film”, three of the six places are occupied by Disney cartoons: “Encanto”, “Luca”, and “Raya and the last dragon”.

The main appointments

– Best film –

• Belfast
• “CODA”
• “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 director –

• Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”
• Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”
• 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!”
• Will Smith, “The Williams Method”
• Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

– Best Actress –

• Jessica Chastain, “In the Eyes of Tammy Faye”
• Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”
• Penelope Cruz, “Madres Paralelas”
• Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”
• Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”

– Best Supporting Actor –

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

– Best Supporting Actress –

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

– Best International Film –

• “Drive My Car” (Japan)
• “Flee” (Denmark)
• “The Hand of God” (Italy)
• “The school at the end of the world” (Bhutan)
• “Julie (in 12 chapters)” (Norway)

– Best Animated Film –

• “Encanto: The Fantastic Madrigal Family”
• “Flee”
• “Luca”
• “The Mitchells vs. the Machines”
• “Raya and the Last Dragon”

– Best Documentary –

• “Ascent”
• “Attica”
• “Flee”
• “Summer of Soul”
• “Writing with Fire”

– Best Original Screenplay –

• Belfast
• “Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial”
• “The Williams Method”
• “Licorice Pizza”
• “Julie (in 12 chapters)”

Best Adapted Screenplay

• “CODA”
• “Drive My Car”
• “Dunes”
• “The Lost Daughter”
• “The Power of the Dog”