2022 Oscar nominations: The Power of the Dog leads awards shortlist as Lady Gaga snubbed
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Another year, another round of Oscar nominations.
The Oscars 2022 will be taking place next month, but before then, there was the small case of finding out the films that will be duking it out for the top awards, including Best Picture.
Following on from the impressive Bafta nominations, which were announced last week, all eyes were on the Academy to deliver the goods.
This year’s awards season has seen nominations for Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
Other films in contention at the Academy Awards include Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast.
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The Oscars 2022 will take place in Los Angeles on 27 March.
Another movie star some people are worried about? Andrew Garfield.
After much fanfare for her role of Princess Diana in Spencer, it’s looking like Kristen Stewart will be SNUBBED this year. Some people (including me) are not happy about this.
Otherwise, Best Actress could see anyone nominated from past winners (Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos/Penélope Cruz for Parallel Mothers) through to newcomers (Alana Haim for Licorice Pizza/Rachel Zegler for West Side Story).
Some other exciting suggestions below, which leads us nicely on to our next point:
Lady Gaga is the only potential Best Actress nominee to have been named by every main awards body over the past few months.
Time to delve into some acting predictions – but before then, let’s see what the people are saying.
Three films that need mentioning, for better or worse, are: Drive My Car*, CODA** and Don’t Look Up***.
*About four months ago, a nomination for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s incredible Japanese drama hadn’t even crossed my mind. But it’s gained serious momentum and now looks like a contender for Best Picture. Exciting!
**Apple TV+ paid a record sum for this at Sundance in 2021. It’s crowd-pleasing, sure, and is admirable for its depiction of a deaf family, using deaf actors, on-screen, but I personally thought the story surrounding these characters let the entire film down.
***All I’ll say is this is exactly the kind of film Academy voters like, and one of my colleagues has money on it not only being nominated, but winning the damn thing. After the Green Book fiasco, it’s possible – but what a backwards step it would be! The first 45 mins are enjoyable – the rest is the opposite of that. It doesn’t even deserve a nomination – but hey, the people (andf by people, I mean Hollywood) love Adam McKay.
I’m now gonna throw some films at you that should get Best Picture nominations, but will probably miss out.
C’mon C’mon, Mass, Identifying Features, Happening, Titane, Petite Maman, Shiva Baby, The World to Come, and, yes, I’m gonna say it, Spencer.
It would be nice to get another one of these, it has to be said.
Other deserving films that are essentially shoo-ins for Best Picture? Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza and Spielberg’s West Side Story.
Outside bets that could be named include The Lost Daughter, which was poised to earn Olivia Colman her third acting nomination until she was snubbed by the Baftas last week. It could happen, though, and if it does, she should celebrate by going on holiday and posing like this.
A bit of Jane Campion history: she last won an Oscar in 1994 It was Best Screenplay for The Piano, which ultimately lost Best Picture to Schindler’s List.
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