The ceremony is coming back to the Dolby Theatre. The 2022 Academy Awards are just over a month away, and while the night is sure to be unforgettable with surprises and snubs, one thing will not be in the cards: COVID-19 vaccinations. We’ve made it out of 2021, but we still have yet to celebrate the movies of 2021 with the 94th annual Academy Awards. To make way for the Winter Olympics, it’s another late year for the Oscars, which means the campaigns will keep chugging along into the spring. Now that the 2022 Oscar nominations have been announced, let’s break down everything else we know about this year’s big night for Hollywood.
When are the 2022 Oscars?
Sunday, March 27 at 8 pm ET.
How can I watch the Oscars?
ABC, per usual. The network has had the right to the ceremony since 1976. If you don’t have a local ABC station hookup or cable, you can stream it with live TV add-ons through Hulu, YouTube TV, or Fubo.
Where are they taking place?
After last year’s event, which scrapped the normal stage setup for a more intimate affair at Los Angeles’ Union Station to make do during that height of COVID, the Oscars are planning a grand return to their usual home: The Dolby Theatre.
Who will host the 2022 Oscars?
In a surprise turn since going host-less following the Kevin Hart debacle in 2019, ABC president Craig Erwich announced at the Television Critics Association Press tour in January 2022 that there will indeed be an emcee for the 94th Oscars. Well, multiple emcees, it turns out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy is having three hosts, each of which will be responsible for one act over the three-hour ceremony.
We don’t know who they will be yet, though one candidate that has been floated is Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland. There has been constant speculation among Oscar watchers about how the ceremony will acknowledge the biggest box-office hit of the year, Spider-Man: No Way Home—not exactly your typical Oscar fare—and one option that’s popped up is to have Holland, a talented entertainer, take on hosting duties. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s into the idea. Still, according to Variety, it’s “massively unlikely” that Holland will host alongside his co-star/girlfriend Zendaya. Even wilder yet, Page Six reported that Pete Davidson was talking to producers about the gig to “reset” the “normally stodgy show” and attract a younger audience. More likely? The Only Murders in the Building trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. The show, after all, is a Hulu production, which means it’s a Disney production. So are the Oscars. Corporate synergy!
How are they handling COVID?
In a controversial decision, the Academy will apparently not be requiring attendees to be vaccinated, The Hollywood Reporter revealed. The report set off a wave of speculation as to just which celebrities had not gotten their shots, spurred on by what is essentially a blind item in THR saying “at least one of last year’s acting winners and prominent members of the casts of multiple best picture nominees, as well as nominees in other categories” could not attend if vaccination was a requirement. The Oscars’ decision to let stars go unvaxxed is counter to other awards shows like SAG and the Critics Choice Awards, which are requiring guests to show their cards. That said, the big ceremony will require negative PCR and antigen tests.
What movies and actors have been nominated?
Now that they’ve have been announced, you can read up on the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, International Feature, and Best Documentary categories.
Here are all the nominees for the main categories. Winners will be announced on March 27:
Best picture
Belfast –
CODA
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
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
Best actor
Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…BOOM!
Will Smith – King Richard
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best director
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Original screenplay
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
Adapted screenplay
CODA
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Emilia Jones, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, and Daniel Durant star in the film, CODA [Business Wire via AP]Best supporting actor
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA
JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Best supporting actress
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Costume design
Cruella
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Film editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
tick, tick…BOOM!
The Power of the Dog
Documentary feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
The Norwegian film, The World’s Worst Man, was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best foreign film [Javad Parsa/NTB via Reuters]Original song
Be Alive from King Richard, music and lyric by DIXSON and Beyonce Knowles-Carter
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
Somehow You Do from Four Good Days, music and lyric by Diane Warren
Best international film
Drive My Car – Japan
Flee – Denmark
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom – Bhutan
The Hand of God – Italy
The Worst Person in the World – Norway
Best animated feature
Encanto
Flee
Luca
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Best animated short film
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
Score
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Nightmare Alley directed by Guillermo del Toro is one the nominees for best picture [Searchlight Pictures via AP]Live action short
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
Please Hold
Documentary
Audible
Lead Me Home
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Production design
Dune
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Rachel Zegler made her film debut as Maria Vasquez in West Side Story [File: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters]Makeup and hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
02/08/2022 by AlizeLaVie and New Agencies
