Showbiz Desk: Renowned actress and host Daniel Kaluuya, Mila Kunis, Lupita Nyong’o, Naomi Scott, Wesley Snipes and John Travolta hosted the star-studded Oscars Awards 2022, where several other celebrities graced the red carpet with their stunning fashion statements. This year’s awards honored achievements in Best Pictures, Best Actor, Best Actor and other award categories. Here is the list of winners and all the nominees at the 94th Academy Awards.
Best Picture
Winner: Coda
Nominees: The Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Belfast, Dune, Licorice Pizza, King Richard, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, and Nightmare Alley.
Best Actress
Winner: Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Nominees: Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter, Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos, Kristen Stewart – Spencer, and Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers.
Best Actor
Winner: Will Smith – King Richard
Nominees: Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom!, Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos.
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Nominees: Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog, Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard, Dame Judi Dench – Belfast, and Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter.
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Troy Kotsur – Coda
Nominees: Kodi Smit – McPhee – The Power of the Dog, Ciarán Hinds – Belfast, Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog and JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos.
Best Director
Winner: Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Nominees: Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza, Steven Spielberg – West Side Story, Sir Kenneth Branagh – Belfast and Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car.
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Belfast – Sir Kenneth Branagh
Nominees: Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson, King Richard – Zach Baylin, Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay (story by McKay and David Sirota) and The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Coda – Sian Heder
Nominees: The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth and Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe.
Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Encanto
Nominees: Luca, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Flee, and Raya and the Last Dragon.
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: Summer of Soul
Nominees: Flee, Ascension, Attica, and Writing with Fire.
Best International Feature
Winner: Drive My Car (Japan)
Nominees: The Worst Person in the World (Norway), Flee (Denmark), The Hand of God (Italy), and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan).
Best Original Song
Winner: No Time to Die – No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
Nominees: Dos Oruguitas – Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda), Be Alive – King Richard (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Dixson), Belfast – Down to Joy (Van Morrison) and Somehow You Do – Four Good Days (Diane Warren).
Best Original Score
Winner: Dune – Hans Zimmer
Nominees: The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood, Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell, Encanto – Germaine Franco, and Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias.
Best Cinematography
Winner: Dune – Greig Fraser
Nominees: The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner, The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel, Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen and West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski.
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer
Nominees: Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Dan Sudick, Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver, and No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, Chris Corbould.
Best Film Editing
Winner: Dune – Joe Walker
Nominees: The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras?, Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin, King Richard – Pamela Martin, and Tick, Tick… Boom! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum.
Best Costume Design
Winner: Cruella – Jenny Beavan
Nominees: Dune – Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan, West Side Story – Paul Tazewell Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira, and Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran.
Best sound
Winner: Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
Nominees: West Side Story – Tod A Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy, No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor, Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri, and The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb.
Best Production Design
Winner: Dune – Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos
Nominees: Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo, The Tragedy of Macbeth – Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh and The Power of the Dog – Grant Major and Amber Richards.
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Winner: The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
Nominees: Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon, Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer, and House of Gucci – Goran Lundstrom, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras.
Best live Action Short
Winner: The Long Goodbye
Nominees: Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, The Dress, On My Mind and Please Hold.
Best Animated Short
Winner: The Windshield Wiper
Nominees: Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet and Robin Robin.
Best Documentary Short
Winner: The Queen of Basketball
Nominees: Audible, Lead Me Home, Three Songs for Benazir and When We Were Bullies.
