The world is still grappling with variants of COVID and the cinematic output may be a shadow of its usual self, but the Academy Awards will still be going ahead – so the nominations were announced early Tuesday morning.
There are some interesting choices and some prominent talent still managing to be notably absent, but at this point – given that few people will have seen the full range on offer – it’s hard to be sure what the eventual winners will be on 27th March…
The main categories and contenders are…
BEST PICTURE:
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
King Richard
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Nightmare Alley
BEST ACTRESS:
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
BEST ACTOR:
Will Smith – King Richard
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom!
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
BEST ACTRESS:
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Dame Judi Dench – Belfast
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – Coda
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos
BEST DIRECTOR:
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Sir Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
Belfast – Sir Kenneth Branagh
King Richard – Zach Baylin
Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay (story by McKay and David Sirota)
The Worst Person in the World – Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion
The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal
CODA – Sian Heder
Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
Encanto
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
Flee
Raya and the Last Dragon
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Summer of Soul
Flee
Ascension
Attica
Writing with Fire
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE:
Drive My Car (Japan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)
Flee (Denmark)
The Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
No Time to Die – No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
Dos Oruguitas – Encanto (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
Be Alive – King Richard (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Dixson)
Belfast – Down to Joy (Van Morrison)
Somehow You Do – Four Good Days (Diane Warren)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
Dune – Hans Zimmer
Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell
Encanto – Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Dune – Greig Fraser
The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel
Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen
West Side Story – Janusz Kaminski
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer
Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Dan Sudick
Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, Chris Corbould
BEST FILM EDITING:
Dune – Joe Walker
The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras
Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin
King Richard – Pamela Martin
Tick, Tick… Boom! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Cruella – Jenny Beavan
Dune – Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan
West Side Story – Paul Tazewell
Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
BEST SOUND:
Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
West Side Story – Tod A Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Dune – Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos
Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau
West Side Story – Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh
The Power of the Dog – Grant Major and Amber Richards
BEST MAKE-UP/HAIRSTYLING:
The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
House of Gucci – Goran Lundstrom, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT:
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
BEST ANIMATED SHORT:
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
