Oscars 2022: every nominee and winner, category by category
The full list of 2022 Oscar nominees from the 94th Academy Awards, with CODA, Dune, The Power of the Dog and every winner marked.
The 94th Academy Awards took place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre, hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. Dune won six Oscars, but CODA took Best Picture, the first film from a streaming service to do so.
The ten Best Picture nominees of 2022
1. CODA (2021) · Winner
The only hearing member of a deaf family dreams of singing.
- Director: Siân Heder
- Genre: Drama, Music
Worth it if: you want a warm family story that makes you cry.
Oscars: Winner: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
2. Belfast (2021)
A boy grows up amid the conflict in Belfast in 1969.
- Director: Kenneth Branagh
- Genre: Drama, History
Worth it if: you like delicate black-and-white memories.
Oscars: Winner: Best Original Screenplay · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song, Best Sound
3. Don't Look Up (2021)
Two astronomers warn the world about a comet heading for Earth, and nobody listens.
- Director: Adam McKay
- Genre: Comedy, Science fiction
Worth it if: you want a comedy that is scary because it feels true.
Oscars: Nominated: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing
4. Drive My Car (2021)
A grieving theater director forms a bond with the young woman who drives his car in Hiroshima.
- Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- Genre: Drama
Worth it if: you have time for a long, quiet and beautiful drama.
Oscars: Winner: Best International Feature Film · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay
5. Dune (2021)
Paul Atreides travels to the desert planet Arrakis, where his family is betrayed.
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Genre: Science fiction, Adventure
Worth it if: you want epic sci-fi on the biggest screen.
Oscars: Winner: Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design
6. King Richard (2021)
Richard Williams plans the tennis careers of his daughters Venus and Serena.
- Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green
- Genre: Biography, Drama
Worth it if: you love inspiring true stories about sports.
Oscars: Winner: Best Actor · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Film Editing
7. Licorice Pizza (2021)
A teen actor and a young woman drift through 1973 in the San Fernando Valley.
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
Worth it if: you like nostalgic and loose coming-of-age stories.
Oscars: Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay
8. Nightmare Alley (2021)
An ambitious carny becomes a fake mentalist in 1940s America, and it all goes wrong.
- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
Worth it if: you want a dark, elegant noir.
Oscars: Nominated: Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design
9. The Power of the Dog (2021)
A cruel Montana rancher torments his brother's new wife and her son in 1925.
- Director: Jane Campion
- Genre: Drama
Worth it if: you want a slow, tense western with a sting.
Oscars: Winner: Best Director · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing
10. West Side Story (2021)
A new version of the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks in 1950s New York.
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Genre: Musical, Drama
Worth it if: you love big musicals with a modern touch.
Oscars: Winner: Best Supporting Actress · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design
Best Director
- Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog · Winner
- Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
- Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Best Actor
- Will Smith, King Richard · Winner
- Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
- Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... BOOM!
- Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
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 Supporting Actor
- Troy Kotsur, CODA · Winner
- Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
- Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
- J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
- Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress
- Ariana DeBose, West Side Story · Winner
- Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
- Judi Dench, Belfast
- Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
- Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Best Original Screenplay
- Belfast · Winner
- Don't Look Up
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- The Worst Person in the World
Best Adapted Screenplay
- CODA · Winner
- Drive My Car
- Dune
- The Lost Daughter
- The Power of the Dog
Best Animated Feature
- Encanto · Winner
- Flee
- Luca
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- Raya and the Last Dragon
Best 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)
Best Documentary Feature
- Summer of Soul · Winner
- Ascension
- Attica
- Flee
- Writing with Fire
Best Documentary Short
- The Queen of Basketball · Winner
- Audible
- Lead Me Home
- Three Songs for Benazir
- When We Were Bullies
Best Live Action Short
- The Long Goodbye · Winner
- Ala Kachuu - Take and Run
- The Dress
- On My Mind
- Please Hold
Best Animated Short
- The Windshield Wiper · Winner
- Affairs of the Art
- Bestia
- Boxballet
- Robin Robin
Best Original Score
- Dune · Winner
- Don't Look Up
- Encanto
- Parallel Mothers
- The Power of the Dog
Best Original Song
- "No Time to Die", No Time to Die · Winner
- "Be Alive", King Richard
- "Dos Oruguitas", Encanto
- "Down to Joy", Belfast
- "Somehow You Do", Four Good Days
Best Sound
- Dune · Winner
- Belfast
- No Time to Die
- The Power of the Dog
- West Side Story
Best Production Design
- Dune · Winner
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power of the Dog
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- West Side Story
Best Cinematography
- Dune · Winner
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power of the Dog
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- West Side Story
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye · Winner
- Coming 2 America
- Cruella
- Dune
- House of Gucci
Best Costume Design
- Cruella · Winner
- Cyrano
- Dune
- Nightmare Alley
- West Side Story
Best Film Editing
- Dune · Winner
- Don't Look Up
- King Richard
- The Power of the Dog
- tick, tick... BOOM!
Best Visual Effects
- Dune · Winner
- Free Guy
- No Time to Die
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
What won Best Picture at the 2022 Oscars?
CODA, directed by Siân Heder, won Best Picture, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur.
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