Power of the Dog Leads 94th Oscar Nominations

Source: Oscars.org

The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were made this morning in a video announcement hosted by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross.

Jane Campion’s Power of the Dog led the nominations with 12, which includes nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actor for both Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee, Best Supporting Actress of Kirsten Dunst, and Best Director for Campion. The runner-up for this year’s Oscars is Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. The two frontrunners of followed by Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Steven Speilberg’s remake of West Side Story, which both have 7 nominations, including Best Picture. The remaining films nominated for Best Picture are CODA (3 nominations), Don’t Look Up (4 nominations), Drive My Car (4 nominations), King Richard (6 nominations), Licorice Pizza (3 nominations), and Nightmare Alley (4 nominations).

The acceptance of Internation Feature Films at the Oscars continue this year as Drive My Car, the arguable front runner in the category, also got nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the film Flee made a hat-trick of sorts getting nominated in the Best International Feature, Best Documentary, and Best Animated Film categories.

Films to get attention in the other major categories includes:

• Being the Ricardos – Best Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Actress (Nicole Kidman), Best Supporting Actor (J.K. Simmons)
• tick, tick…BOOM! – Best Actor (Andrew Garfield)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Best Actor (Denzel Washington)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Best Actress (Jessica Chastain)
• The Lost Daughter – Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Jessie Buckley), Best Adapted Screenplay
• Parallel Mothers – Best Actress (Penélope Cruz)
• Spencer – Best Actress (Kristen Stewart)
• The Worst Person in the World – Best Original Screenplay

The 94th Oscars will take place on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® in Hollywood