2022 Oscars: ‘The Power of the Dog’ leads with 12 nominations

The nominees for the 2022 Oscars were announced on Tuesday 8 February by American actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan. Jane Campion’s Western drama, The Power of the Dog, leads the pack with 12 nominations. The film received nods in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories amongst others.

For the first time ever, the Oscars have chosen 10 feature films as part of the Best Picture category. American actress Kristen Stewart earned her first Oscar nomination for her performance as Princess Diana in Spencer while Will Smith has landed his third nomination at the Oscars.

The 2022 Oscars are set to take place on 26 March 2022.

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TAKE A LOOK AT THE 2022 OSCAR NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE 

• Belfast
• CODA
• Don’t Look Up
• Drive My Car
• Dune
• King Richard
• Licorice Pizza
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• West Side Story

BEST ACTOR 

• Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
• Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
• Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
• Will Smith (King Richard)
• Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST ACTRESS 

• Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
• Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
• Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
• Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
• Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

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

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 (King Richard)

BEST DIRECTOR 

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

BEST ORGINAL SCREENPLAY 

• Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
• Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
• Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• King Richard (Zach Baylin)
• The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• CODA (Sian Heder)
• Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
• Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
• The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
• The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 

• Drive My Car (Japan)
• Flee (Denmark)
• The Hand of God (Italy)
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
• The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

• Be Alive— Beyoncé and Darius Scott (King Richard)
• Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
• Down to Joy— Van Morrison (Belfast)
• No Time to Die — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
• Somehow You Do — Diane Warren (Four Good Days)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT 

• Affairs of the Art
• Bestia
• Boxballet
• Robin Robin
• The Windshield Wiper

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT 

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 

• Ascension
• Attica
• Flee
• Summer of Soul
• Writing With Fire

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 

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

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

• Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
• Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
• Dune (Jacqueline West)
• Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
• West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

• Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette)
• Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
• The Power of the Dog (Grant Major & Amber Richards)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)
• West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• House of Gucci
• Coming 2 America
• Cruella
• Dune

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

• Dune (Greig Fraser)
• Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
• The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
• West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)

BEST SOUND 

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

BEST FILM EDITING 

• Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
• Dune (Joe Walker)
• King Richard (Pamela Martin)
• The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
• Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 

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

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

• Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
• Dune (Hans Zimmer)
• Encanto (Germaine Franco)
• Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
• The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)