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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2022 15:53:15 GMT
Oscar nominations 2022: Academy announces nominees LIVE | ABC News 9 waiting • Scheduled for Feb 8, 2022 • #Oscars #OscarNominations #Movies
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2022 19:34:06 GMT
As always, the 2022 Oscar race will come down to what 9,487 eligible Academy voters actually saw in this strange rollercoaster year. A record number voted for the nominations — from 82 countries — as voters attended live showings or watched at the Academy Screening Room (ASR), which also provided “Extras” such as conversations and panels. Below I make my final Oscar predictions for nominees in all 23 award categories, which will be announced on Tuesday, February 8. Finals voting begins March 17 ahead of the 94th Oscars ceremony on Sunday, March 27. There is nowhere to go but up for the Academy Awards this year, as the Steven Soderbergh pandemic Oscar show did not boast enough contenders with sizzle to pull in ratings. Last year’s big winner “Nomadland” handily scored its Picture, Director, and Actress trifecta without having cracked $1 million at the box office by the nominations announcement, with most stateside theaters closed. Most voters watched the movie at home on the ASR or Hulu, but the show missed the drumbeat of starry awards events that build anticipation. With a resurgent Covid and many events postponed or canceled (including the Globes kudocast), again the noise around Oscars is muted. Another factor changing the dynamics in 2022: For the first time since 2009 and 2010, the Academy ballot offers 10 ranked choices for 10 guaranteed Best Picture slots. That will create an unpredictable field of candidates. There could be a few surprises, but the list should align closely with the PGA nominees. These include far more popular movies than last year’s indie lineup, including Warners/HBO Max day-and-date releases “Dune” ($398.7 million worldwide), which was spectacular enough to lure moviegoers out of their homes, and the more intimate tennis biopic “King Richard” ($32 million worldwide), to Netflix’s end-of-the-world juggernaut “Don’t Look Up.” If James Bond BAFTA fave “No Time to Die” ($768 million worldwide) turns up on the list (as opposed to indie darlings “Flee,” “Summer of Soul,” and “Drive My Car”), ABC will be happy indeed. Nominations day could yield a bounty for streamers. Netflix could land a studio record of three Best Picture contenders with Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” and Jane Campion’s festival and critical hit “The Power of the Dog” as well as rookie director Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical “Tick, Tick, Boom.” Amazon has a shot at landing Aaron Sorkin’s showbiz fable “Being the Ricardos” (see: “The Artist,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Birdman”) in the top 10 as well as “A Hero,” two-time Oscar-winner Asghar Farhadi’s fascinating portrait of a weak man, in Best International Feature. AppleTV+ will likely score its first Best Picture contender with “CODA,” Sian Heder’s Sundance crowdpleaser about a hearing girl in a deaf family, with Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” placing in a few categories. Among leading contenders it’s a close race. “CODA,” Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard,” and Kenneth Branagh’s 1969 memoir “Belfast” are heart-tugging portraits of families as they face disruptive change. “Dune” is hugely popular and will lead the crafts categories (composer Hans Zimmer could win his second Oscar), but like other sci-fi/fantasy entries such as “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the space epic isn’t scoring with actors. With international Oscar voters behind it, Bong Joon Ho’s comedy thriller “Parasite” whizzed past the barriers of language and genre to win four Oscars including Best Picture without any acting nods (but SAG wins revealed thespian support). Also impeccably mounted, artful noir western “The Power of the Dog” is strong with the crafts, actors, writers, and directors as well as overseas voters, but may be divisive among the Academy’s more mainstream factions. The one category it is most likely to win: Best Director for Campion, who was the second woman nominated back in 1994 for “The Piano” (she won only Best Original Screenplay) and would be the third woman director to win, following Kathryn Bigelow and last year’s Chloe Zhao.
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