Road To The Oscars – The 94th Academy Award Nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dropped their nominations for the 94th Oscars, representing films from 2021. Check out the complete list below!

Best Picture

Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger
Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto
Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter
King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith
Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson
Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper
The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger

Best Director

Best Actor

Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank
Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… Boom! as Jonathan Larson
Will Smith – King Richard as Richard Williams
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers as Janis Martínez Moreno
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Supporting Actor

Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as “Pop”
Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog as George Burbank
J. K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos as William Frawley
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
Judi Dench – Belfast as “Granny”
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of The Dog as Rose Gordon
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene “Brandy” Price

Best Original Screenplay

Belfast – Written by Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay and 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 and Joachim Trier

Best Adapted Screenplay

CODA – Screenplay by Sian Heder; based on the film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau
Drive My Car – Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe; based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
Dune – Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth; based on the novel by Frank Herbert
The Lost Daughter – Screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal; based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
The Power of the Dog – Screenplay Jane Campion; based on the novel by Thomas Savage

Best Animated Feature Film

Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht
Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

Best International Feature Film

Drive My Car (Japan) in Japanese – directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Flee (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
The Hand of God (Italy) in Italian – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan) in Dzongkha – directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji
The Worst Person in the World (Norway) in Norwegian – directed by Joachim Trier

Best Documentary Feature

Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
Summer of Soul – Questlove, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Best Documentary Short Subject

Audible – Matthew Ogens and Geoff McLean
Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot
Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt

Best Live Action Short Film

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

Best Animated Short Film

Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
BoxBallet – Anton Dyakov
Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez

Best 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

Best Original Song

“Be Alive” from King Richard – Music and lyrics by Beyoncé and DIXSON
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto – Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down to Joy” from Belfast – Music and lyrics by Van Morrison
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die – Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren

Best Sound

Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather, Niv Adiri
Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett
No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor
The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie, Tara Webb
West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, Shawn Murphy

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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

Best Costume Design

Cruella – Jenny Beavan
Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini
Dune – Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan
Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
West Side Story – Paul Tazewell

Best 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

Best Visual Effects

Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristen 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

Who wrote this?

Rodney Twelftree

If you’re reading this, you’ve now learned that Rodney loves movies and will continue to write about them until he falls over dead. And even then he’ll have some content scheduled post-mortem.

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