94th Academy Awards – 2022 Oscars Winners

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The Oscars returned in full to the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood for the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday 27th March 2022, and proved to be just as noteworthy as ever.

Hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, the 2022 Oscars awarded 23 golden statues to the films and filmmakers that the nine-thousand-plus members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences selected as the very best of cinema from 2021.

Controversially, eight Academy Awards were handed out in the hour that preceded the 2022 Oscars’ live broadcast. The move, which is the first of its kind for the Academy Awards, sought to reduce the show’s runtime and make the Oscars more palatable for casual audiences. It was a risk that doesn’t seem to have paid off, the decision being met with a backlash on social media from avid film-watchers and Oscars enthusiasts, but more tellingly creating confusion amongst the casual audiences it sought to appease. Perhaps most vitally as regards the future of the ceremony’s formatting, the pre-show coverage of the red carpet was noticeably dampened once almost every Hollywood name invited to the ceremony made their way into the venue ahead of the first pre-broadcast award, leaving an empty red carpet for channels such as the E! Network to cover in the hour leading up to the ceremony, losing momentum for the Oscars but also dropping interest (and likely ratings, and thus advertising dollars) for the Academy’s partners.

Surprisingly, the omission of these eight categories was not the most controversial part of the ceremony, with that honour going to Will Smith and his apparent assault on presenter Chris Rock. You can see the clip below [warning: physical violence, bad language].

Considered by some at the time to be nothing more than well-performed comedy hijinks, Chris Rock’s clearly rattled expression and the manner in which he was unable to successfully read the rest of his category introduction, matched with Smith’s own bitter scowl, sent social media into a spiral. Smith was heard shouting “keep my wife’s name out of your f*cking mouth” in some ceremony broadcasts. This moment was kept from the broadcast on ABC in the United States.

Will Smith later accepted the award for Actor in a Leading Role for his part in King Richard – in which he played the father of Venus and Serena Williams, Richard Williams – and spoke teary-eyed of being protective over those he loves, crying as he wished for the Academy to invite him back in the future, seemingly confirming the severity of the altercation from earlier in the night.

The rest of the broadcast proved to be a bitty affair, with awards and skits seemingly lacking any functional relation to one another, some strange song-to-video segments compacting the broadcast’s issues as comedians openly mocked the very premise of the awards. New categories, such as those selected by the public as “popular choice” were intersected in between large categories, reducing their impact to those who care and highlighting their needlessness to those who never did.

The awards themselves made a lot of history, CODA supporting actor Troy Kotsur becoming only the 2nd deaf actor to win an acting award. The Power of the Dog director Jane Campion also made history, becoming the first woman to ever succeed another female Best Director winner.

Ultimately it was Denis Villeneuve’s Warner Bros blockbuster Dune that came away from the 2022 Oscars with the most Academy Awards, the otherworldly sci-fi earning six wins and proving particularly successful across the technical categories such as production design and visual effects. Drive My Car’s award for International Feature was the only one won by a film not in the English language.

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The winners of the 94th Academy Awards (Oscars) are as follows:

BEST PICTURE – CODA
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

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INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM – DRIVE MY CAR
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM – ENCANTO
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

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DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – SUMMER OF SOUL (… OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Writing with Fire

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE – JESSICA CHASTAIN (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – WILL SMITH (KING RICHARD)
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom!)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)



ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – ARIANA DEBOSE (WEST SIDE STORY)
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Troy Kotsur is only the 2nd deaf actor to win an Academy Award.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE – TROY KOTSUR (CODA)
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
JK Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

DIRECTING – JANE CAMPION (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

CINEMATOGRAPHY – GREIG FRASER (DUNE)
Dan Laustsen (Nightmare Alley)
Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog)
Bruno Delbonnel (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
Janusz Kamiński (West Side Story)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – KENNETH BRANAGH (BELFAST)
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person In the World

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – SIAN HEDER (CODA)
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

FILM EDITING – JOE WALKER (DUNE)
Hank Corwin (Don’t Look Up)
Pamela Martin (King Richard)
Peter Sciberras (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Weisblum, Myron I. Kerstein (Tick, Tick… Boom!)

PRODUCTION DESIGN – DUNE
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

COSTUME DESIGN – CRUELLA
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING – THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
House of Gucci

VISUAL EFFECTS – DUNE
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

ORIGINAL SCORE – HANS ZIMMER (DUNE)
Nicholas Britell (Don’t Look Up)
Germaine Franco (Encanto)
Alberto Iglesias (Parallel Mothers)
Jonny Greenwood (The Power of the Dog)

ORIGINAL SONG – “NO TIME TO DIE” (NO TIME TO DIE)
“Be Alive” (King Richard)
“Dos Orunguitas” (Encanto)
“Down To Joy” (Belfast)
“Somehow You Do” (Four Good Days)

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND – DUNE
Belfast
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM – THE LONG GOODBYE
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
On My Mind
Please Hold

ANIMATED SHORT FILM – THE WINDSHIELD WIPER
Affairs of the Heart
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT – THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL
Audible
Lead Me Home
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies

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2022 Oscar-winning films by total number of wins:

6 – Dune
3 – CODA
2 – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
1 – Belfast; Cruella; Drive My Car; Encanto; King Richard; The Long Goodbye; No Time to Die; The Power of the Dog; The Queen of Basketball; Summer of Soul; West Side Story; The Windshield Wiper

 



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