As someone who enjoys watching movies, one of my favorite nights of the year is coming up soon with the 94th Academy Awards taking place on March 27, 2022. Sadly, this year, the awards for Documentary Short, Film Editing, Hair and Makeup, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, and Sound will not be presented live on-air. Instead, they'll be edited into a telecast. The reasoning for this is because apparently viewership of the Oscars is down and they think this will fix the problem. I highly doubt it myself. It is a slap in the face to those who were nominated in those categories if you ask me.
I was fortunate to see many of the nominated films this year, including all the moving nominated for Best Picture. Below are my predictions. If bold, it means I think they will be the winner. If in italics, it means I think they should be the winner but don't expect them to win.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
JAVIER BARDEM -Being the Ricardos
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH - The Power of the Dog
ANDREW GARFIELD - tick, tick...BOOM!
WILL SMITH - King Richard
DENZEL WASHINGTON -The Tragedy of Macbeth
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
CIARÁN HINDS -Belfast
TROY KOTSUR - CODA
JESSE PLEMONS -The Power of the Dog
J.K. SIMMONS - Being the Ricardos
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE -The Power of the Dog
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
JESSICA CHASTAIN - The Eyes of Tammy Faye
OLIVIA COLMAN -The Lost Daughter
PENÉLOPE CRUZ - Parallel Mothers
NICOLE KIDMAN - Being the Ricardos
KRISTEN STEWART - Spencer
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
JESSIE BUCKLEY - The Lost Daughter
ARIANA DEBOSE - West Side Story
JUDI DENCH - Belfast
KIRSTEN DUNST - The Power of the Dog
AUNJANUE ELLIS - King Richard
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ENCANTO
FLEE
LUCA
THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON
CINEMATOGRAPHY
DUNE - Greig Fraser
NIGHTMARE ALLEY -Dan Laustsen
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Ari Wegner
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH - Bruno Delbonnel
WEST SIDE STORY - Janusz Kaminski
COSTUME DESIGN
CRUELLA -Jenny Beavan
CYRANO -Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
DUNE -Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
NIGHTMARE ALLEY - Luis Sequeira
WEST SIDE STORY -Paul Tazewell
DIRECTING
BELFAST -Kenneth Branagh
DRIVE MY CAR -Ryusuke Hamaguchi
LICORICE PIZZA -Paul Thomas Anderson
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Jane Campion
WEST SIDE STORY -Steven Spielberg
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
ASCENSION
ATTICA
FLEE
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
WRITING WITH FIRE
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
AUDIBLE
LEAD ME HOME
THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL
THREE SONGS FOR BENAZIR
WHEN WE WERE BULLIES
FILM EDITING
DON'T LOOK UP -Hank Corwin
DUNE - Joe Walker
KING RICHARD - Pamela Martin
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Peter Sciberras
TICK, TICK...BOOM! - Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
DRIVE MY CAR - Japan
FLEE - Denmark
THE HAND OF GOD - Italy
LUNANA: A YAK IN THE CLASSROOM - Bhutan
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD - Norway
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
COMING 2 AMERICA - Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
CRUELLA - Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
DUNE - Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
HOUSE OF GUCCI - Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
DON'T LOOK UP - Nicholas Britell
DUNE - Hans Zimmer
ENCANTO - Germaine Franco
PARALLEL MOTHERS - Alberto Iglesias
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Jonny Greenwood
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
BE ALIVE - from King Richard; Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
DOS ORUGUITAS - from Encanto; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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 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
PRODUCTION DESIGN
DUNE - Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
NIGHTMARE ALLEY - Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH - Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
WEST SIDE STORY - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
AFFAIRS OF THE ART
BESTIA
BOXBALLET
ROBIN ROBIN
THE WINDSHIELD WIPER
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
ALA KACHUU - TAKE AND RUN
THE DRESS
THE LONG GOODBYE
ON MY MIND
PLEASE HOLD
SOUND
BELFAST - Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
DUNE - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
NO TIME TO DIE - Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
WEST SIDE STORY - Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
VISUAL EFFECTS
DUNE - Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
FREE GUY - Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
NO TIME TO DIE - Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS -Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME - Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
CODA - Screenplay by Siân Heder
DRIVE MY CAR - Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
DUNE - Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
THE LOST DAUGHTER - Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Written by Jane Campion
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
BELFAST -Written by Kenneth Branagh
DON'T LOOK UP - Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
KING RICHARD -Written by Zach Baylin
LICORICE PIZZA -Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD -Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
