Awards 2022

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It really speaks volumes about the ineptitude of the HFPA when they manage to fuck up a live tweeted ceremony so badly.

Here's the full winners list for those who want to reflect on likely how little bearing the Globes will have on the rest of awards season:
Best Motion Picture-Drama: The Power of the Dog
Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy: West Side Story
Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Best Actor-Drama: Will Smith, King Richard
Best Actress-Drama: Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Best Actor-Musical or Comedy: Andrew Garfield, tick, tick... boom!
Best Actress-Musical or Comedy: Rachel Zegler, West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Best Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Best Original Score: Hanes Zimmer, Dune
Best Original Song: "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish, No Time to Die
Best Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Non-English Film: Drive My Car

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I genuinely have no idea what will win the Oscar this year.

Originally I thought Belfast because it's so saccharine, but it has had zero audience impact or real buzz.
Power of the Dog is favourite but it's a strange one to win. A Netflix psychological drama Western?
Licorice Pizza is a feel-good romance but again there's no buzz.

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That's what makes this season so interesting. There's not a clear-cut favorite in the bunch and I don't think one will materialize until a few weeks out. It would be kind of hilarious if The Power of the Dog did end up winning, especially after there were so many pieces in the trades theorizing that the Academy would award a feel-good crowd-pleaser like Belfast or King Richard to combat the depressing state of the world right now.

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I can't see voters raving for a creepfest like Licorice Pizza.

And yeah, Belfast sank like a stone. Focus should have never released it as widely as they did right away. Same thing with Spencer, which went from potential favorite to also-ran in record time despite excellent reviews and the Academy's love for Latinx filmmakers.

The Power of the Dog seems like the safe pick and it will certainly win Best Director but a split is more likely to happen between that category and Best Picture. I don't think West Side Story wins as it, like Belfast, flopped at the box office. Dune seems like the other best option but it getting a Best Picture nomination and potentially winning would show just how terrible last year was for film. It would be like if The Force Awakens had gotten a Best Picture nom back in 2015.

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BAFTA Nominees aka yep, the Oscar field is still very cloudy. Tuesday morning is going to be fascinating.

Best Film:
Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog

Outstanding British Film:
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time to Die
Passing

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer:
After Love
Boiling Point
The Harder They Fall
Keyboard Fantasies
Passing

Film Not in the English Language:
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World

Documentary:
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Animated Film:
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Director:
AFTER LOVE Aleem Khan
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
HAPPENING Audrey Diwan
LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion
TITANE Julia Ducournau

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEING THE RICARDOS Aaron Sorkin
BELFAST Kenneth Branagh
DON’T LOOK UP Adam McKay
KING RICHARD Zach Baylin
LICORICE PIZZA Paul Thomas Anderson

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA Siân Heder
DRIVE MY CAR Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
DUNE Denis Villeneuve
THE LOST DAUGHTER Maggie Gyllenhaal
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jane Campion

LEADING ACTRESS
LADY GAGA House of Gucci
ALANA HAIM Licorice Pizza
EMILIA JONES CODA
RENATE REINSVE The Worst Person in the World
JOANNA SCANLAN After Love
TESSA THOMPSON Passing

LEADING ACTOR
ADEEL AKHTAR Ali & Ava
MAHERSHALA ALI Swan Song
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The Power of the Dog
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Don’t Look Up
STEPHEN GRAHAM Boiling Point
WILL SMITH King Richard

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
CAITRÍONA BALFE Belfast
JESSIE BUCKLEY The Lost Daughter
ARIANA DEBOSE West Side Story
ANN DOWD Mass
AUNJANUE ELLIS King Richard
RUTH NEGGA Passing

SUPPORTING ACTOR
MIKE FAIST West Side Story
CIARÁN HINDS Belfast
TROY KOTSUR CODA
WOODY NORMAN C’mon C’mon
JESSE PLEMONS The Power of the Dog
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE The Power of the Dog

ORIGINAL SCORE
BEING THE RICARDOS Daniel Pemberton
DON’T LOOK UP Nicholas Britell
DUNE Hans Zimmer
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Alexandre Desplat
THE POWER OF THE DOG Jonny Greenwood

CASTING
BOILING POINT Carolyn McLeod
DUNE Francine Maisler
THE HAND OF GOD Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco
KING RICHARD Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman
WEST SIDE STORY Cindy Tolan

CINEMATOGRAPHY
DUNE Greig Fraser
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Dan Laustsen
NO TIME TO DIE Linus Sandgren
THE POWER OF THE DOG Ari Wegner
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Bruno Delbonnel

EDITING
BELFAST Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
DUNE Joe Walker
LICORICE PIZZA Andy Jurgensen
NO TIME TO DIE Tom Cross, Elliot Graham
SUMMER OF SOUL (OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Joshua L. Pearson

PRODUCTION DESIGN
CYRANO Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
DUNE Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
WEST SIDE STORY Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo

COSTUME DESIGN
CRUELLA Jenny Beavan
CYRANO Massimo Cantini Parrini
DUNE Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West
THE FRENCH DISPATCH Milena Canonero
NIGHTMARE ALLEY Luis Sequeira

MAKE UP & HAIR
CRUELLA Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne
CYRANO Alessandro Bertolazzi, Siân Miller
DUNE Love Larson, Donald Mowat
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh
HOUSE OF GUCCI Frederic Aspiras, Jane Carboni, Giuliano Mariana, Sarah Nicole Tanno

SOUND
DUNE Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan
NO TIME TO DIE James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor
A QUIET PLACE PART II Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn
WEST SIDE STORY Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
DUNE Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer
FREE GUY Swen Gillberg, Brian Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick
GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Tom Debenham, Hew J Evans, Dan Glass, J. D. Schwaim
NO TIME TO DIE Mark Bokowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
AFFAIRS OF THE ART Joanna Quinn, Les Mills
DO NOT FEED THE PIGEONS Jordi Morera
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREAD Ida Melum, Danielle Goff, Laura Jayne Tunbridge, Hannah Kelso

BRITISH SHORT FILM
THE BLACK COP Cherish Oteka
FEMME Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, Sam Ritzenberg, Hayley Williams
THE PALACE Jo Prichard
STUFFED Theo Rhys, Joss Holden-Rea
THREE MEETINGS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMITTEE Michael Woodward, Max Barron, Daniel Wheldon

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ARIANA DEBOSE
HARRIS DICKINSON
LASHANA LYNCH
MILLICENT SIMMONDS
KODI SMIT-MCPHEE

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Shows you how forgettable the year was if Don't Look Up was considered one of the year's five best.

And am I the only one who didn't see much in Alana Haim's performance? She pretty much played herself in an underwritten and often stereotypical role. I'll honestly be surprised if we see her in any major future films (see Joanna Newsom, whose only other film performance after Anderson's Inherent Vice was a cameo in Popstar).

But it's not as bad Kodi Smit-McPhee's acting in The Power of the Dog though. If the Razzies were actually still taken seriously, that disaster of a performance would be a big contender for Worst Supporting Actor.

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So where on the all-time list does Don't Look Up rank on worst Best Picture nominees?

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Oscar nominations.

Best Picture:
Belfast
CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
Licorice Pizza
King Richard
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

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

Best 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

Best Actress:
Jessica Chastian, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Supporting Actor:
Ciaran 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 Supporting Actress:
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kristen Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Anjanue Ellis, King Richard

Best Original Screenplay:
Belfast
Don't Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World

Best Adapted Screenplay:
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Best Animated Feature:
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Documentary Feature:
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire

Best International Feature:
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Luanna: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World

Best Cinematography:
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Film Editing:
Don't Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick...Boom!

Best Original Score:
Don't Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog

Best Original Song:
"Be Alive" (King Richard)
"Dos Orguitas" (Encanto)
"Down to Joy" (Belfast)
"No Time to Die" (No Time to Die)
"Somehow You Do" (Four Good Days)

Best Production Design:
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Best Costume Design:
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci

Best Sound:
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Visual Effects:
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Live Action Short Film:
Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold

Best Animated Short Film:
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper

Best Documentary Short Subject:
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies

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What a stinker of a Best Picture lineup.

4 I've no interest in ever seeing
3 I like (Dune , Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza)
2 are underwhelming (CODA and Drive My Car)
1 I don't like but is a very Oscar film (Belfast)

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2021 was a poor year in film in general, perhaps the worst in my lifetime. Watch a lot of these nominees be forgotten in a few years while the films that got snubbed (Titane, The French Dispatch, C'mon C'mon, Passing) become better remembered.

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What a stinker of a Best Picture lineup.

4 I've no interest in ever seeing
3 I like (Dune , Power of the Dog and Licorice Pizza)
2 are underwhelming (CODA and Drive My Car)
1 I don't like but is a very Oscar film (Belfast)

Surprised to hear you weren't high on Drive My Car. The praise I've heard in arthouse circles directed towards it over the past couple months has been overwhelming.

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Drive My Car plays near me on Friday. I'm unsure of whether to see it in the theatre due to the three hour run time. It seems more like something that could have been two hours.

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Surprised to hear you weren't high on Drive My Car. The praise I've heard in arthouse circles directed towards it over the past couple months has been overwhelming.

I haven't been keeping up with my reviews on this site, but while I thought Drive My Car was okay, it's too slow and really a film about the themes of Chekov's Uncle Vanya, which makes it very stage-oriented and uncinematic. If you're looking for a long, cinematic adaptation of a Murakami short story then just watch Burning, which is far better.

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Shit man, if you thought it was too slow, I should probably avoid it at all costs

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I was reading about the disaster so far that is the Favorite Movie voting for the Oscars. My question isn't who is responsible for the Cinderella campaign voting but rather how the Snydercut is eligible. Justice League was already in the 2017 list of eligible titles. Only psychotic people really think it's a new movie.

Ultimately, I expect those in charge of the online voting to throw out the spam votes and just give it to No Way Home before pretending this whole thing never happened.