By Abb Jones
The Reelness

The Power of the Dog, director Jane Campion’s neo-Western set in 1925 Montana, leads the field of nominations for the 2022 Oscars, with 12 nominations. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi blockbuster Dune was close behind during Tuesday’s announcement, with 10 nominations. The biggest change in this year’s voting process is that the Academy offered 10 ranked choices for Best Picture, guaranteeing 10 films in the running for the night’s biggest prize. Here is the the list, along with the snubs in key categories. As always, click on the films highlighted in bold for our reviews of them.

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

Snubs:
Tick, Tick … Boom!
The Tragedy of Macbeth

DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

Snub:
Denis Villeneuve, Dune

ACTOR

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

Snub:
Bradley Cooper, Nightmare Alley

ACTRESS

Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Snub:
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
JK Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Snubs:
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Jamie Dornan, Belfast

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jesse Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Snubs:
Caitriona Balfe, Belfast
Marlee Matlin, CODA
Ruth Negga, Passing

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CODA, Siân Heder
Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Belfast, Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up, Adam McKay, David Sirota
King Richard, Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World, Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World

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

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Dune, Patrice Vermette (production designer), Zsuzsanna Sipos (set decorator)
Nightmare Alley, Tamara Deverell (production designer), Shane Vieau (set decorator)
The Power of the Dog, Grant Major (production designer), Amber Richards (set decorator)
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Stefan Dechant (production designer), Nancy Haigh (set decorator)
West Side Story, Adam Stockhausen (production designer), Rena DeAngelo (set decorator)

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, Andrew Wishlum

COSTUME DESIGN

Cruella, Jenny Beavan
Cyrano, Massimo Cantini Parrini & Jacqueline Durran
Dune, Jacqueline West, Robert Morgan
Nightmare Alley, Luis Sequeira
West Side Story, Paul Tazewell

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Coming 2 America, Mike Marino, Stacey Morris, Carla Farmer
Cruella, Nadia Stacey, Carolyn Cousins
Dune, Donald Mowat, Love Larson, Eva von Bahr
The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
House of Gucci, Jana Carboni, Giuliano Mariano, Göran Lundström

SCORE

Don’t Look Up, Nicholas Britell
Dune, Hans Zimmer
Encanto, Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers, Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog, Jonny Greenwood

ORIGINAL SONG

“Down to Joy,” Belfast
“Dos Oruguitas,” Encanto
“Somehow You Do,” Four Good Days
“Be Alive,” King Richard
“No Time to Die,” No Time to Die

Snubs:
“Just Look Up,” Don’t Look Up
“Beyond the Shore,” CODA