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# Who Got Nominated For An Oscar?
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- Published: 2022-02-08T17:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-08T17:26:31.000Z
- Description: Mostly, it's who you think! Except when it isn't!
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, 2022 Oscars, Oscars, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:18

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It's finally here: The morning of the year where every single media outlet has a story up that uses the word "snub" in the headline. Because it's never that other people simply got more votes! No! No, it's an active SNUB. Which is "buns" backward, which we can probably connect to Oscar turning his naked backside to them. Or just use it as an excuse to send the disappointed folks some really nice bread?

**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*

I mean... it's your standard list of Movies That Don't Really Excite Anyone, with a couple exceptions. *West Side Story* is lovely. *King Richard* is good, but did feel more like it should have been an HBO series. I haven't seen *CODA* or *Belfast*, but I'm planning to, and I guess I should watch *Drive My Car* because it did really well. I won't watch *Nightmare Alley* because it's not my movie, but I've heard it's good, so congrats to Guillermo del Toro. Y'all know that *Licorice Pizza* was my own personal nightmare alley. We did finally watch *The Power of the Dog*, which ticked all the Oscar boxes: slow, a bummer, stark, cruel, drinking, accents, sexual secrets, passive-aggressive use of a banjo. If you put me in a hole and forced me to pick either that or *Lost Daughter* to watch on a loop, I would pick it, I guess? *Tick, Tick...Boom!* is still my favorite of the season by a pretty decent margin, so I'm sad it didn't make it in here and I can't quite figure out why. Also off the list: anything animated, *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (a longshot hope, I think), *House of Gucci* (unwatchable), *Cyrano* (really terrible, honestly, and Peter Dinklage was shockingly bad in it?), and Wes Anderson's *The French Dispatch*. Perhaps the Academy simply forgot it existed. I did. And they passed on *Passing*. And *Macbeth*.

**Best Director**  
Kenneth Branagh, *Belfast*  
Ryúsuke Hamaguchi, *Drive My Car*  
Paul Thomas Anderson, *Licorice Pizza*  
Jane Campion, *The Power of the Dog*  
Steven Spielberg, *West Side Story*

No Denis Villenueve. Sorry, *Dune*! And no Joel Coen for Macbeth, though that movie has all the buzz of a dust mote. I assume this is Jane Campion's to lose, although I thought Steven Spielberg did an incredible job with *West Side Story* and would give it to him.

**Best Actress in a Leading Role**  
Jessica Chastain, *The Eyes of Tammy Faye*  
Olivia Colman, *The Lost Daughter*  
Penélope Cruz, *Parallel Mothers*  
Nicole Kidman, *Being the Ricardos*  
Kristen Stewart, *Spencer*

Everyone is clutching their pearls over the lack of Lady Gaga, but I do not think she deserved a nomination, although I'm sad we won't get to see what she picked out to wear. I also think it's possible the Academy was so tired of hearing her talk about her Process -- it gets more and more pretentious as she goes -- that it voted in other people just so her press tour would stop. Kristen Stewart and Penelope Cruz edged in, leaving out Jennifer Hudson. And I guess Frances McDormand? I thought she was a presumptive choice simply because she's Frances McDormand and they love her, but no. I assume this one goes to Colman.

**Best Actor in a Leading Role**  
Javier Bardem, *Being the Ricardos*  
Bristlebrush Cactusbranch, *The Power of the Dog*  
Andrew Garfield, *Tick, Tick... Boom!*  
Will Smith, *King Richard*  
Denzel Washington, *The Tragedy of Macbeth*

Man, the academy is hot for Aaron Sorkin's movies. I'm surprised Bardem got in here, although is it just me, or does it feel like they're having a hard time filling a couple of these? They were correct to leave out everyone from *Don't Look Up*, and Cooper Hoffman (*smarm* and *charm* are not the same thing, *Licorice Pizza*!), and Peter Dinklage. Mahershala Ali from *Swan Song* made this category at the Globes, but the movie dropped off everyone's radars. I'm sure it's Cactusbranch's to lose, although I would absolutely vote for Andrew Garfield, and fully expect Will Smith to put up a fight. UNLESS they give it to Denzel as an apology for the fact that he lost for *Fences* (the win went to Casey Affleck for *Shit Is Sad and Everyone Cries in Boston Accents*).

**Best Actress in a Supporting Role**  
Jessie Buckley, *The Lost Daughter*  
Ariana DeBose, *West Side Story*  
Judi Dench, *Belfast*  
Kirsten Dunst, *The Power of the Dog*  
Aunjanue Ellis, *King Richard*

I am delighted that Aunjanue Ellis continues to get credit for a wonderful anchoring performance. Y'all know I hated *The Lost Daughter*, but even so, Colman and Buckley were both excellent in it. Ariana DeBose is on a deserved roll. Kirsten Dunst is precious to me, and she really is fantastic in that movie -- you feel the hope being sucked out of her, slowly, without her noticing until she's too weak to fight it. But man, I feel for Ruth Negga and Caitriona Balfe. They're the top names on The Snub List this year, and I feel like even the great Dame Judi Dench is like, "Wait, what? I am in *Belfast*, too? And they picked ME?"

**Best Actor in a Supporting Role**  
Ciarán Hinds, *Belfast*  
Troy Kotsur, *CODA*  
Jesse Plemons, *The Power of the Dog*  
J.K. Simmons, *Being the Ricardos*  
Kodi Smit-McPhee, *The Power of the Dog*

I love J.K. Simmons as a person, but did ANYONE have him on their short list, or even realize he's in the movie? And honestly, while Landry is ALSO precious to me, he disappears from that movie -- literally, he is not in very much of it -- and the role itself is paper-thin. I guess those are the spots that would have gone to Jared Leto (sorry not sorry) and Ben Affleck, who is in this category for *The Tender Bar* at other awards shows. I've said it before, but I'd have loved Robin de Jesus from *Tick, Tick... Boom!* in here, although I'm glad they left out Bradley Cooper's *Licorice Pizza* role, so I suppose that balances it out. It'd be cool to see Troy Kotsur take it.

**Best Original Screenplay**  
Kenneth Branagh, *Belfast*  
Adam McKay and David Sirota, *Don't Look Up*  
Zach Baylin, *King Richard*  
Paul Thomas Anderson, *Licorice Pizza*  
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, *The Worst Person in the World*

You love to see an unexpected arrival! Congrats to the team behind *The Worst Person in the World*, which, strangely, is not about me OR Carrie Bradshaw. I know some pundits hoped Renate Reinsve would sneak in the Best Actress category, but dropping in and delivering the boot to Aaron Sorkin must be satisfying. I truly thought a screenplay nod would be that movie's only consolation prize, but no, it's everywhere ELSE.

**Best Adapted Screenplay**  
Siân Heder, *CODA*  
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe, *Drive My Car*  
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth, *Dune*  
Maggie Gyllenhaal, *The Lost Daughter*  
Jane Campion, *The Power of the Dog*

Sure! But this would have been Tony Kushner's category, yes? He did a wonderful job with *West Side Story*.

**Best Cinematography**  
Greg Fraser, *Dune*  
Dan Lausten, *Nightmare Alley*  
Ari Wegner, *The Power of the Dog*  
Bruno Delbonnel, *The Tragedy of Macbeth*  
Janusz Kaminski, *West Side Story*

**Best Film Editing**  
Hank Corwin, *Don't Look Up*  
Joe Walker, *Dune*  
Pamela Martin, *King Richard*  
Peter Sciberras, *The Power of the Dog*  
Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum, *Tick, Tick... Boom!*

**Best Animated Feature Film**  
*Encanto* 
*Flee* 
*Luca* 
*The Mitchells vs. The Machine* 
*Raya and the Last Dragon*

**Best Animated Short Film**  
*Affairs of the Art* 
*Bestia* 
*Boxballet* 
*Robin Robin* 
*The Windshield Wiper*

**Best Live-Action Short Film**  
*Ala Kachuu — Take and Run* 
*The Dress* 
*The Long Goodbye* 
*On My Mind* 
*Please Hold*

**Best International Feature Film**  
*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)

I would ASSUME that the one movie that made it into regular Best Picture would win this, but you never know! Oscar voters can be chaos agents when they want to be.

**Best Documentary Feature**  
*Ascension* 
*Attica* 
*Flee* 
*Summer of Soul* 
*Writing with Fire*

**Best Documentary Short Subject**

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

**Best Original Score**  
Nicholas Britell, *Don't Look Up*  
Hans Zimmer, *Dune*  
Germaine Franco, *Encanto*  
Alberto Iglesias, *Parallel Mothers*  
Jonny Greenwood, *The Power of the Dog*

**Best Original Song**  
"Be Alive" from *King Richard —* Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter"Dos Oruguitas" from *Encanto* — Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda"Down to Joy" from *Belfast* — Music and Lyric by Van Morrison"No Time to Die" from *No Time to Die* — Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell"Somehow You Do" from *Four Good Days* — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

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

**Best Costume Design**  
Jenny Beavan, *Cruella*  
Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran, *Cyrano*  
Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan, *Dune*  
Luis Sequeira, *Nightmare Alley*  
Paul Tazewell, *West Side Story*

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

**Best Production Design**  
*Dune* — Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos  
*Nightmare Alley* — Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau  
*The Power of the Dog —* Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards  
*The Tragedy of Macbeth* — Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh  
*West Side Story* — Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo

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