Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards Announced

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has released the nomination list for the 94th Academy Awards honoring the films of 2021, which will place at the Dolby Theatre.

The nominations were announced everywhere from the Oscar website to the Academy Awards social media pages. Girlfriend actor Tracee Ellis Ross and Will & Grace actor Leslie Jones had a chance to get in on the action.

Some nominated films include The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, West Side Story, Dune, and King Richard. Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are up for an award in the original song category for their song “No Time To Die” featured in the new James Bond movie sharing the same title. Both Encanto and Raya and the Last Dragon are nominated for the best-animated feature film. Several actors are up for nominations, including Will Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Stewart, Denzel Washington, and Andrew Garfield.

Will Smith expressed his excitement via Instagram.

Congratulations to Andrew Garfield with his first Academy Award 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 https://t.co/jNE55nT01a

— Zack Snyder’s Yet Another Devoted Fan (@ZSYADF) February 8, 2022

AND THAT’S KRISTEN STEWART ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE FOR YALL pic.twitter.com/7XPX2FbNis

— clara | kristen stewart oscars era (@hoborobsten) February 8, 2022

tick tick boom is the greatest movie get yo academy award mr. garfield

— manic juulia (@juulia1025) February 9, 2022

Two time Academy Award Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch everyone! 😃🥰 Congrats! pic.twitter.com/Z9AiVhULDQ

— WestRebekka (@westrebekka) February 8, 2022

The 94th Academy Award will air on March 27 on ABC Live, the red carpet premiere will start at 6:30 p.m. ET/ 3:30 p.m. PT, and the ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT. The complete list of categories and their nominees is available down below.

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 

Best Actor/Actress:

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

Best Supporting Actor/Actress:

• Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
• Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
• Judi Dench (Belfast)
• Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
• Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
• Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
• Troy Kotsur (CODA)
• Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
• J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
• Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Best Director:

• Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
• Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
• Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
• Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Best Original Screenplay:

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

Adapted Screenplay:

• CODA (Sian Heder)
• Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
• Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
• The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
• The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

Animated Feature:

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

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)

Costume Design:

• Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
• Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran)
• Dune (Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan)
• Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
• West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

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 (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Ahmir  “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)
• Writing with Fire (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)

Documentary (Short Subject)

• Audible (Matt 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)

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)

International Film Feature

• Drive My Car (Japan)
• Flee (Denmark)
• The Hand of God (Italy)
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
• The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

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)

Music (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)

Music (Original Song)

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

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)

Short Film (Animated)

• 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)

Short Film (Live Action)

• 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)

Sound

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

Visual Effects

• Dune (Paul Lambert, Tristan 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)