OSCARS 2022: FULL LIST OF WINNERS

The nominations for the 94th Annual Academy Awards are in! This year’s nominees were
announced by the internet’s favorites Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan on Tuesday,
February 8th.

By the pricking of my thumbs, some nominations this way come.

There were some snubs, firsts, surprises and some not-so-surprising but entirely welcomed
moments, like Denzel Washington dethroning himself as the most-nominated Black actor with
his 10th nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth.

The Power of the Dog leads with 12 Oscar nominations including Best Picture,
Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Adapted Screenplay and director Jane Campion makes
history as the first female director to be nominated for Best Director twice.
The Power of the Dog’s Cinematographer Ari Wegner could make history as the first woman to win Best Cinematography.

Coming in close second this year is Dune with 10 Oscar nominations
including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Visual
Effects. NYFA 3D Animation and VFX Alum Francesco Panzieri was the in-house compositor for
the adaptation of the Frank Herbert classic. In a Q&A with NYFA about the film, Panzieri
told NYFA that he had been tapped for the project long before it began production; the
in-house team at Wylie VFX sought his collaboration after Panzieri’s work on Terminator: Dark Fate.

Also nominated for Best Picture is NYFA Guest Speaker Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. NYFA Musical Theatre Alum Ilda Mason was casted as Luz, a member of the sharks in Spielberg’s remake, shortly after her run on Broadway in Ivo van Hove’s Broadway revival of West Side Story in 2020. The on-screen revival is also nominated for Best Cinematography making it the 7th Academy nomination for Spielberg’s long-time collaborator and NYFA Guest Speaker Janusz Kaminski. But perhaps most outstanding is Steven Spielberg’s nomination for Best Director; with this nomination, Spielberg became the first director to be nominated 11 times in the category, dethroning former record holder and cult-favorite, Martin Scorsese.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter has been all the rave since premiering last December
and the debut feature is not letting up. Gyllenhaal is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
for her adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s classic of the same title. The film is also
represented in the Best Actress category, with Olivia Colman nominated for her
outstanding performance in Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut alongside Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers), Nicole Kidman (Becoming the Ricardos), Kristen Stewart (Spencer), Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye). Also nominated for her work on The Lost Daughter is Jessie Buckley for Best Supporting Actress. The film’s producers Osnat Handelsmen – Keren and Talia Kleinhendler spoke at length with the Director of the NYFA Q&A-List Series, Tova Laiter, during a Q&A about the process (and difficulty) of securing the rights to adapt an Elena Ferrante novel and filming during a pandemic with closed borders and a mostly international cast and crew. It seems it was worth it in the end as the film continues to collect nominations this award season. Not too bad for a directorial debut.

Beloved animated film Luca brings in a nomination for Best Animated Film for Pixar Studios.
NYFA Alum Raquel Bordin is part of Pixar’s International Editorial Department, where she
worked for 11 weeks putting the final touches on the coming-of-age Italian film. More of
Bordin’s work is headed to the big screen. She recently confirmed with us that she is
working on the animated sci-fi feature, Lightyear, set to release this summer.

Also in the Best Animated Film category is NYFA Guest Speaker Amy Smeed who continues to
soar as Head of Animation at Walt Disney Animation Studio and co-head animator for
Raya and The Last Dragon which has been nominated for Best Animated Film. The animated Danish documentary, Flee, is also nominated and makes Oscar history as the first film to be nominated for Best Animated Film, Best International Feature and Best Documentary.

Nominated alongside Dune for Best Visual Effects is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Director Destin Daniel Cretton and actor Simu Liu spoke with NYFA during a Q&A curated and moderated by Tova Laiter about bringing the Marvel comic to life, representation and working with special effects.

Lastly, Drive My Car, adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story by the same name and
directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is the first Japanese film to be nominated for Best Picture
and the first Japanese film to be nominated in more than one category including
Best International Feature, Best Directing and Best Adapted Screenplay.

NYFA congratulates all the nominees, alumni and guest speakers for their nominations at the
94th Annual Academy Awards! We look forward to hearing the winners on March 27th, 2022 on
ABC.

Check out the complete list of nominees below: