These are the 2022 Oscar winners
People love to hate on the Oscars favourites winning, but that was not the case in 2022 with a number of surprises taking home the biggest awards of the night.
Lauren Heskin
28th Mar 2022
28th Mar 2022
Jessica Chastain accepts the Oscar® for Actress in a Leading Role as Sir Anthony Hopkins (left) watches onstage during the live ABC telecast of the 94th Oscars®
After an incredibly lacklustre Golden Globes, the heavy hitters like the Grammys, Emmys and Oscars all finally coming to the fore, having postponed in the hopes of hosting in-person events.
The Oscars took place last night and while *that slap* was the main thing heard around the world, there were actually some very worthy winners.
Surprises
As expected, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Netflix’s The Power of the Dog were the nominated top contenders but failed on the night to win any of the major award, aside from Jane Campion’s Best Director win (only the second woman to ever take home the coveted trophy.
Meanwhile Dune, which was larger left out of the main group, ended up being the top prize winner of the night going home with six Oscars and Kristen Stewart was the biggest snub of the night, with Jessica Chastain’s campaign coming in late but hot to win the Best Actress gong instead.
Streaming dominance continued and escalated this year. Not only were there nominations for Javier Bardem, Nicole Kidman and JK Simmons in Amazon Prime’s Being the Ricardos, but Apple TV’s CODA came from under-the-radar to sweep the biggest award of the night – Best Picture – the first streaming film to ever win the award, as well as seeing Troy Kotsur become the first deaf actor to win Best Supporting Actor statue.
In the equivalent female category meanwhile, Ariana DeBose became the first openly queer woman and second-ever woman of colour to take the Oscar, following in the footsteps of Halle Berry who won for Monster’s Ball.
Considering it was a hot contender early on, Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci was shut out of all the major categories, including the absence of a nod for Lady Gaga’s method acting ways as Patrizia Gucci. So too for Don’t Look Up, it got a Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay nods, but nothing for its talent-packed cast.
Me to the Oscars after they snubbed Lady Gaga pic.twitter.com/5nEgXhUuR1
— Joey Nolfi (@joeynolfi) February 8, 2022
Indie flick Licorice Pizza came in with seven overall nominations, including Best Picture, but sadly went home empty-handed. Drive My Car, the first Japanese film ever nominated in the most prestigious award of the night, though had to be content to go home with Best International instead.
Irish showing
While there were no Irish winners, there was plenty of Irish talent on show with Ciarán Hinds getting a nod for best supporting actor in Belfast and Jessi Buckley nominated for her supporting role in The Lost Daughter.
Interestingly there’s nothing for Belfast leads Caitriona Balke for Jamie Dornan, which likely hurt their chances in the other categories, only going home with Best Original Screenplay for Kenneth Branagh. Nor was there anything for Ruth Negga or her Netflix film Passing. Considering she’s been nominated for her role as Clare by Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and SAG Awards, her absence is certainly a surprise.
Here are the winners and nominees for the 2022 Oscars
The Nominees
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Best Picture
A surprising but worthy winner in CODA considering it looked like a two-horse race between Belfast and Netflix’s The Power of the Dog.
Belfast
WINNER: CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Director
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
WINNER: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Best Actress
Kristen Stewart looked like a lock for this but Jessica Chastain joined the race late for her transformation into American televangelist Tammy Faye, presumably piping early favourite Lady Gaga out of the last spot. Another argument for a late-blooming Oscars campaign.
WINNER: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Best Actor
Will Smith was hotly tipped to pick this up but it sadly got overshadowed by that incident with Chris Rock.
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick…Boom!
WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Supporting Actress
Dunst was favourite but Steve Speilberg’s musical came home with one award at least for DeBose.
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
WINNER: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Best Supporting Actor
Amazing first-time nomination for Ciarán Hinds in Belfast.
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
WINNER: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
JK Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Best Production Design
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Cinematographer
Ari Wegner could make history here as the first woman to win an Oscar for cinematography.
WINNER: Greig Fraser, Dune
Dan Laustsen, Nightmare Alley
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Janusz Kaminski, West Side Story
Best Animated Feature Film
Considering its undying popularity amongst the little ones and how often I’ve seen its songs sung on Instagram and TikTok, Encanto was a shoo-in here.
WINNER: Encanto
Luca
Flee
The Mitchells vs the Machine
Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Original Song
“Be Alive” from King Richard
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto
“Down to Joy” from Belfast
WINNER: “No Time to Die” from No Time to Die
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days
International Feature Film
The Worst Person in the World was an outside contender for a Best Picture nod and might have thought this one was coming their way but it was won by Drive My Car instead, which was nominated in the Best Picture category.
WINNER: Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
Best Documentary Feature Film
Ascension
Attica
Flee
WINNER: Summer of Soul
Riding with Fire
Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
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