Oscars 2022 Nominations: After 19 Years, India Gets Nominated

The 94th Academy awards are all set to take place. Read ahead to find the complete list of nominations for this year’s Oscars awards.

On Tuesday, the 94th academy awards’ nominations were announced. The announcement of the nominations was made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a live stream. The announcements of the same were hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross, an American actress, singer, television host, producer, and director, and Leslie Jordan, who is an American actor, writer, and singer, across all the 23 categories.

With a whopping 12 nominations, ‘The Power of the Dog’ leads this year’s Oscars. Amidst such desperate times of medical crisis, the Oscars are here to lift people’s spirits.

Amid this, there is good news for the nation. India made it onto the nominees’ list for the ‘Best Documentary Feature category. The documentary ‘Writing with Fire’ by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, based in the country’s National Capital, has been nominated for the aforementioned category. That is not all. This documentary has been screened at multiple film festivals and has already won 28 awards.

At the renowned Sundance Film Festival, held in the United States in 2021, ‘Writing with Fire’ won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change and the World Cinema Documentary Competition Audience Award. Apart from this, the documentary is a recipient of 6 audience awards and 11 Best Documentary awards, among those 28 awards.

This Indian Feature has caught the film industry’s eye across the globe and is continuing to make the country proud.

Here is a complete list of nominations for this year’s Oscars. Read to find out.

1. Best Picture

1. Belfast
2. CODA
3. Don’t Look Up
4. Drive My Car
5. Dune
6. King Richard
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Nightmare Alley
9. The Power of the Dog
10. West Side Story

2. Directing

1. Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
2. Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
3. Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
4. The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion
5. West Side Story – Steven Spielberg

3. Actress in a Leading Role

1. Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
2. Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
3. Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
4. Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
5. Kristen Stewart – Spencer

4. Actor in a Leading Role

1. Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
2. Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
3. Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom!
4.  Will Smith – King Richard
5. Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

5. Actress in a Supporting role

1. Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
2. Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
3. Judi Dench – Belfast
4. Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
5. Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

6. Actor in a Supporting role

1. Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
2. Troy Kotsur – CODA
3. esse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
4. JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos
5. Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

7. INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

1. Drive My Car- Japan
2. Flee- Denmark
3. The Hand of God- Italy
4. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom- Bhutan
5. The Worst Person in the World- Norway

8. Costume Design

1. Cruella- Jenny Beavan
2. Cyrano- Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
3. Dune- Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
4. Nightmare Alley- Luis Sequeira
5. West Side Story- Paul Tazewell

9. Best Director

1. Kenneth Branagh- Belfast
2. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi- Drive My Car
3. Paul Thomas Anderson- Licorice Pizza
4. Jane Campion- The Power of the Dog
5. Steven Spielberg- West Side Story

10. Best Adapted Screenplay

1. CODA- screenplay by Siân Heder
2. Drive My Car- screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
3. Dune- screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
4. The Lost Daughter- written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
5. The Power of the Dog- written by Jane Campion

11. Best Original Screenplay

1. 1. Belfast- written by Kenneth Branagh
2. Don’t Look Up- screenplay by Adam McKay; story by Adam McKay and David Sirota
3. King Richard- written by Zach Baylin
4. Licorice Pizza- written by Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Worst Person in the World- written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

12. Best Cinematography

1. Dune- Greig Fraser
2. Nightmare Alley- Dan Laustsen
3. The Power of the Dog- Ari Wegner
4. The Tragedy of Macbeth- Bruno Delbonnel
5. West Side Story- Janusz Kaminski

13. Best Animated Feature Film

1.  Encanto-Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino, and Clark Spencer
2. Flee- Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
3. Luca- Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
4. The Mitchells vs. the Machines- Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Kurt Albrecht
5. Raya and the Last Dragon- Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

14. Best Animated Short Film

1. Affairs of the Art- Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
2. Bestia- Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
3. Boxballet- Anton Dyakov
4. Robin Robin- Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
5. The Windshield Wiper- Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez

15. Best Original Score

1. Don’t Look Up- Nicholas Britell
2. Dune- Hans Zimmer
3. Encanto- Germaine Franco
4. Parallel Mothers- Alberto Iglesias
5. The Power of the Dog- Jonny Greenwood

16. Best Sound

1. Belfast- Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather, and Niv Adiri
2. Dune- Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett
3. No Time to Die- Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey, and Mark Taylor
4. The Power of the Dog- Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie, and Tara Webb
5. West Side Story- Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, and Shawn Murphy

17. Best Original Song

1. Be Alive: from King Richard- music and lyric by Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
2. Dos Oruguitas: from Encanto- music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
3. Down To Joy: from Belfast- music, and lyric by Van Morrison
4. No Time to Die: from No Time to Die- music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
5. Somehow You Do: from Four Good Days: music and lyrics by Diane Warren

18. Best Documentary Short Subject

1. Audible- Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
2. Lead Me Home- Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
3. The Queen of Basketball- Ben Proudfoot
4. Three Songs for Benazir- Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
5. When We Were Bullies- Jay Rosenblatt

19. Best Film Editing

1. Don’t Look Up- Hank Corwin
2. Dune- Joe Walker
3. King Richard- Pamela Martin
4. The Power of the Dog- Peter Sciberras
5. Tick, Tick…Boom! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

20. Best Makeup and Hairstyling

1. Coming 2 America- Mike Marino, Stacey Morris, and Carla Farmer
2. Cruella- Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne, and Julia Vernon
3. Dune- Donald Mowat, Love Larson, and Eva von Bahr
4. The Eyes of Tammy Faye- Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, and Justin Raleigh
5. House of Gucci- Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

21. Best Production Design

1. Dune- production design: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
2. Nightmare Alley- production design: Tamara Deverell; set decoration: Shane Vieau
3. The Power of the Dog- production design: Grant Major; set decoration: Amber Richards
4. The Tragedy of Macbeth- production design: Stefan Dechant; set decoration: Nancy Haigh
5. West Side Story- production design: Adam Stockhausen; set decoration: Rena DeAngelo

22. Best Visual Effects

1. Dune- Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer
2. Free Guy- Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
3. No Time to Die- Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, and Chris Corbould
4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings- Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker, and Dan Oliver
5. Spider-Man: No Way Home- Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

23. Best Live Action Short Film

1. Ala Kachuu – Take and Run- Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
2. The Dress- Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
3. The Long Goodbye- Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
4. On My Mind- Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
5. Please Hold- K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

Edited By- Subbuthai padma

Published By- Bharat Anand