The nominations for the much-anticipated 94th Academy Awards were revealed this evening. The event was hosted by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan, who announced the nominations across all 23 award categories. The ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on March 27 at 5:30 pm PT (6:30 am IST on March 28 in India). Originally scheduled on February 27, it was postponed due to the Omicron surge.
Notably, Writing With Fire, an Indian documentary by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category. The film had earlier won the Special Jury (Impact For Change) and Audience awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Jane Campion became the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director as her film, The Power Of The Dog, bagged 12 nominations, while Denis Villeneuve's epic Dune received 10.
The eligibility window for this year's Oscars was films releasing between March 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 since the previous edition allowed a two-month extension of eligibility through the end of February 2021. The modified eligibility criteria from the 93rd Academy Awards were continued, thereby, not limiting the nominated films to the ones with theatrical runs.
The complete list of 2022 Oscar categories with their nominations is below.
Belfast
CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
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)
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)
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchell vs The Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
Dune (Greig Fraser)
Nightmare Alley (Dan Laustsen)
Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)
Ciaran 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)
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Dame Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
Dune (Jacqueline West)
Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Don't Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power Of The Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
Belfast
Dune
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
Sian Hedur (CODA)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe (Drive My Car)
Dennis Villenuve, Jon Spaihts, Eric Roth (Dune)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)
Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Adam McKay (Don't Look Up)
Zach Baylin (King Richard)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt (The Worst Person In The World)
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs For Benazir
When We Were Bullies
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)
Drive My Car (Japan)
Flee (Denmark)
Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom (Bhutan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
"Be Alive" – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & 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)
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Dune
Free Guy
No Time To Die
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider Man: No Way Home