Okay, let’s get this out of the way. Yes, Chris Rock told a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith that was a tad bit sensitive… and yes, Will Smith walked on stage and not only slapped him, he also screamed from his seat “Keep my wife’s name out of your F&^KING mouth!!” … TWICE. Yes, that DID happen. And then Will won the Best Actor Oscar. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, the 2022 Academy Awards were held Sunday night on ABC, and below you can see the full list of nominees, along with our picks to win, and notation of who actually did win. We missed quite a few of the bigger categories this year, but it was wonderful seeing CODA win Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture, plus Best Adapted Screenplay. DUNE took home quite a few technical awards, and newcomer Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for her work in Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY. Most of what was here was to be expected, but there were some glaring omissions in the actresses categories, such as both Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson for PASSING, and Caitriona Balfe for BELFAST, and PASSING really did deserve a Best Picture nomination too. I also find it odd that Rachel Zegler didn’t get a Best Actress nom for WEST SIDE STORY… or even a seat to watch the show, but The Academy did what they could to make it right and had her as a presenter… she even made a pretty sharp joke about it when she took the stage. We had another good year for films even if people still aren’t quite ready to head back to theaters just yet…. were you surprised by the films that won? Think some got snubbed big time? Sound off in the comments below. ABC broadcast the show live on Sunday, March 27, 2022.

I always note, for what it’s worth, the picks defined below of what we think will win are not necessarily what we think should win, rather what we expect will win…

Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog – our pick to WIN!
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard – WINNER!
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth

Actor in a Supporting Role
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA – WINNER!
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog – our pick to WIN!

Actress in a Leading Role
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 – our pick to WIN!

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER!
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog – our pick to WIN!
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

Animated Feature Film
Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht
Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

Cinematography
Dune – Greig Fraser – WINNER!
Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen
The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel
West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski – our pick to WIN!

Costume Design
Cruella – Jenny Beavan – WINNER!
Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
Dune – Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
West Side Story – Paul Tazewell – our pick to WIN!

Directing
Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg

Documentary (Feature)
Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)- Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Documentary (Short Subject)
Audible – Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt

Film Editing
Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin – our pick to WIN!
Dune – Joe Walker – WINNER!
King Richard – Pamela Martin
The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras
tick, tick…BOOM! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

International Feature Film
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 – our pick to WIN!

Makeup and Hairstyling
Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
House of Gucci – Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

Music (Original Score)
Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell
Dune – Hans Zimmer – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Encanto – Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood

Music (Original Song)
Be Alive – from King Richard; Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Dos Oruguitas – from Encanto; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda – our pick to WIN!
Down To Joy – from Belfast; Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
No Time To Die – from No Time to Die; Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell – WINNER!
Somehow You Do – from Four Good Days; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Best Picture
Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers – our pick to WIN!
CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers – WINNER!
Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers
Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

Production Design
Dune – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos – WINNER!
Nightmare Alley – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
The Power of the Dog – Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
West Side Story – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo – our pick to WIN!

Short Film (Animated)
Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
Boxballet – Anton Dyakov – our pick to WIN!
Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez – WINNER!

Short Film (Live Action)
Ala Kachuu: Take and Run – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

Sound
Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

Visual Effects
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CODA – Screenplay by Siân Heder – WINNER!
Drive My Car – Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune – Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter – Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog – Written by Jane Campion – our pick to WIN!

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Belfast – Written by Kenneth Branagh – our pick to WIN! – WINNER!
Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
King Richard – Written by Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza – Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World – Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

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