Oscars 2022 Complete Winners List: ‘CODA’ Wins Best Picture, Jane Campion Is Best Director, ‘Dune’ Sweeps Technical Awards

The 94th Academy Awards, the biggest night in film, returned to corporeal form this year as the Oscars 2022, to be held at their original venue, the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony also marks a return to having a host, after going host-less post Jimmy Kimmel in 2018, but it wasn’t just one host. For the first time in history, three women—female comedians Wanda Sykes, Regina Hall, and Amy Schumer—would be hosting the Oscars. This year, the Best Picture nominees include 10 titles. The Power Of The Dog, directed by Jane Campion, leads with 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, both Best Supporting Actor categories and Best Actor. Dune, directed by Denis Villenueve, has 10 nominations, including Best Picture, and quite a few technical ones Editing has already won for Sound, Editing, and Original Score. And finally, Belfast, directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, and West Side Story, the musical by Steven Spielberg, have bagged seven nominations each.

A pre-taped ceremony, hosted by Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin, announced winners in eight out of the 23 Oscar categories. At the ceremony, presenters include the likes of Lady Gaga, Samuel L. Jackson, Shawn Mendes, Tyler Perry, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rachel Zegler, Halley Bailey, Zoë Kravitz, Simu Liu, Jacob Elordi, Tyler Perry, Lily James and more. The ceremony began with Venus and Serena Williams announcing the performance of “Be Alive” by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Darius Scott, a Best Original Song nominee from King Richard.  There was a special tribute montage for 60 years of James Bond, though for some reason, it didn’t end with a performance of ‘No Time To Die’, nominated for Best Original Song. Rather bizarre, no?

Here’s the 94th Academy Awards complete winners list:

BEST PICTURE

Belfast
CODA – WINNER
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

BEST ACTOR

Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick … Boom!
Will Smith – King Richard – WINNER
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi- Drive My Car

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jessie Buckley –  The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER
Judi Dench – Belfast 
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dune – Greig Fraser – WINNER
Nightmare Alley – Dan Lausten
The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel
West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard
The Worst Person in the World

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CODA – Sian Heder – WINNER
Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe
Dune – Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve
The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
House of Gucci
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell
Dune – Hans Zimmer – WINNER
Encanto – Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Dune – Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette – WINNER
Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau
The Power of the Dog – Grant Major & Amber Richards
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh
West Side Story – Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen

BEST FILM EDITING

Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin
Dune – Joe Walker – WINNER
King Richard – Pamela Martin
The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras
Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Encanto – WINNER
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  – WINNER

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye – WINNER
On My Mind
Please Hold

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul – WINNER
Writing With Fire

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

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

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Drive My Car (Japan) – WINNER
Flee (Denmark)
The Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“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) – WINNER
“Somehow You Do” — Diane Warren (Four Good Days)

BEST SOUND

Belfast
Dune – WINNER
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Dune – WINNER
Free Guy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
No Time to Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Cruella – Jenny Beavan – WINNER
Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini
Dune – Jacqueline West
Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
West Side Story – Paul Tazewell

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This year too, the awards were not without their share of controversies, what with its bid to increase viewership resulting in a rather ridiculous and highly snubbed decision of cutting eight categories out of its televised programming. 8 out of the 23 categories were presented in a ceremony hosted an hour before the show by Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin, and then the taping of the winners’ speeches was shown at intervals during the ceremony. These included the awards for Documentary (Short Subject), Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Production Design, Short Film (Animated), Short Film (Live Action) and Sound.

Another decision that has received backlash is the addition of an Oscars Fan Favourite category in a bid to democratize the awards *rolls eyes* The voting happened through Twitter, where fans voted on their favourite movie of 2021, regardless of whether it received an Oscar nomination.

At the Governor’s Awards held on March 25, 2022, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May, and Liv Ullmann were awarded Honorary Oscars for their contribution to the art. Meanwhile, Danny Glover received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

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