Hello, Oscars 2022 have arrived and you’re in for a treat!
Welcome to the 94th Academy Awards 2022 – a prestigious evening of honoring the finest accomplishments which moviegoers everywhere eagerly anticipate every year.
There’s always a lot of excitement surrounding the Oscars ceremony, and 2022 was no exception. The incredibly talented artists, who delight us year-round through their fantastic art and on-screen performances, eagerly await their nominations and hope to be rewarded for their efforts.
No doubt we all admire this lush, glitzy, glamorous evening and secretly wish for our favorites to win and take the golden award home.
The Dolby Theatre welcomed the ceremony back and rolled out an actual red carpet (yep, no more virtual zoom parties, duh!) with glamour dripping and sky-high anticipation. CODA aced the awards by taking the trophy for the most prestigious award of the night, “Best Picture.” Jane Campion was named best director; whilst Jessica Chastain, Will Smith, Ariana DeBose, and Troy Kotsur won best acting awards in their respective categories.
Check out the full list of the winners for the Oscars 2022 below:
BEST PICTURE
CODA – WINNER
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTOR
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) – WINNER
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
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 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 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 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 COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella (Jenny Beavan) – WINNER
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
BEST SOUND
Dune (Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett) – WINNER
Belfast
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dune (Hans Zimmer) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA (Siân Heder) – WINNER
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Worst Person in the World (Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Windshield Wiper – WINNER
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Long Goodbye – WINNER
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
On My Mind
Please Hold
BEST FILM EDITING
Dune (Joe Walker) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
Tick, Tick … Boom! (Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
House of Gucci
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Encanto – WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
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 ORIGINAL SONG
“No Time to Die” (Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell) – WINNER
“Be Alive” (DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter)
“Dos Oruguitas” (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
“Down to Joy” (Van Morrison)
“Somehow You Do” (Diane Warren)
BEST 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)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
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 PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune – WINNER
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
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