Oscar Nominations 2022: The Power of the Dog, Dune lead the race; Here's the full list of nominees

The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. Jane Campion’s westerner The Power of the Dog (TPOTD) received the highest number of nods, with its total count standing at 12, including Best Picture and Best Director for Jane. History was made as she became the first female director to receive a second nomination (she received her first for the 1993 film, The Piano). TPOTD gained an edge over the science-fiction epic Dune--another crowd favourite--with its nominations in the acting categories, including for Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst in the Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories, respectively.

Dune came a close second with 10 nominations, including Best Picture and recognition in technical categories such as Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Denis Villeneuve’s absence in the Best Director category, however, is a surprise, considering how well the film has done in this year’s nominations. 

Other films in the Best Picture category that scored multiple nominations include West Side Story, King Richard, and Belfast with six nominations each, and Nightmare Alley, Licorice Pizza, Drive My Car, and Don’t Look up, which earned four nominations. The Japanese drama Drive My Car’s entry into the Best Picture category came across as a welcoming surprise, with filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi also earning a Best Director nomination. It is the first Japanese film in the Oscars history to earn the Best Picture nomination.

While Spencer and Tick Tick… Boom! didn’t leave a mark in other categories, the lead actors who essayed real life personalities, Andrew Garfield (Jonathan Larson) and Kristen Stewart (Princess Diana) made the cut in acting categories. Among actors, Troy Kotsur became the first deaf male actor to get an Oscar nomination for performance as an affable father in CODA. The film is incidentally the first to feature a predominantly deaf cast and earn a Best Picture nomination. 

Steven Spielberg earned his eighth directing nomination for West Side Story while his fellow nominee Kenneth Branagh broke the Oscar record as well with, now, a total of seven nominations in seven different categories. 

The Indian connection with the Oscars this year is strong with Writing with Fire—directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh—getting nominated under the Best Documentary Feature category. However, the much-vaunted Tamil film Jai Bhim bowed out of contention from the Best Picture category.

The Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 27.

Here's the full list of nominations: 

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 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, (King Richard)

Denzel Washington, (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Olivia Colman, (The Lost Daughter)

Penelope 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 Adapted Screenplay

CODA, Sian Heder

Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe

Dune, Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth

The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion

Best Original Screenplay

Belfast, Kenneth Branagh

Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay, Story by McKay and David Sirota

King Richard, Zack Baylin

Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson

The Worst Person in the World, Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier

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 Cinematography

Dune

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

The Tragedy of Macbeth

West Side Story

Best Costume Design

Cruella

Cyrano

Dune

Nightmare Alley

West Side Story

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 Editing

Don’t Look Up

Dune

King Richard

The Power of the Dog

Tick, Tick, Boom

Best International Feature Film

Drive My Car

Flee

The Hand of God

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

The Worst Person in the World

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Coming 2 America

Cruella

Dune

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

House of Gucci

Best Production Design

Dune

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

The Tragedy of Macbeth

West Side Story

Best Original Score

Don’t Look Up

Dune

Encanto

Parallel Mothers

The Power of the Dog

Best Original Song

Be Alive from King Richard

Dos Oruguitas from Encanto

Down to Joy from Belfast

No Time to Die from No Time to Die

Somehow You Do from Four Good Days

Best Sound

Belfast

Dune

No Time to Die

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

Best Visual Effects

Dune

Free Guy

No Time to Die

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Spider-Man: No Way Home