Here Are Your Oscar Nominations

'Power of the Dog' leads the way with 12
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Feb 8, 2022 8:18 AM CST
Here Are Your Oscar Nominations
This image released by Netflix shows Jesse Plemons, left, and Kirsten Dunst in a scene from "The Power of the Dog."   (Kirsty Griffin/Netflix via AP)

This year's Oscar nominations are out: Jane Campion’s gothic western The Power of the Dog landed a leading 12 nominations, including nods for best picture, best director, and all of its top actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, per the AP. Campion, a nominee for 1993's The Piano, became the first woman to ever be nominated twice for best director. Denis Villeneuve’s majestic sci-fi epic Dune followed closely behind with 10 nominations. The awards will be handed out March 27. Here, the list of the bigger awards:

  • Best picture: Belfast; CODA; Don’t Look Up; Drive My Car; Dune; King Richard; Licorice Pizza; Nightmare Alley; The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story.
  • Best director: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza; Kenneth Branagh, Belfast; Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog; Steven Spielberg, West Side Story; and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car.
  • Best actress: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter; Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers; Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos; and Kristen Stewart, Spencer.
  • Best actor: Will Smith, King Richard; Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos; Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog; Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick … Boom!; and Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth.
  • Supporting actress: Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter; Ariana DeBose, West Side Story; Judi Dench, Belfast; Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog; and Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard.
  • Supporting actor: Ciarán Hinds, Belfast; Troy Kotsur, CODA; Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog; Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog; and JK Simmons, Being the Ricardos.
  • Best animated feature: Encanto; Flee; Luca; The Mitchells vs. the Machines; and Raya and the Last Dragon.
  • Documentary feature: Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised); Flee; Attica; Ascension; Writing With Fire.
  • Original screenplay: Belfast; Don’t Look Up; King Richard; Licorice Pizza; and The Worst Person in the World.
  • Adapted screenplay: CODA; Drive My Car; Dune; The Lost Daughter; and The Power of the Dog.
(More Oscars stories.)

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