Will The Power Of The Dog Bring The First Best Picture Oscar To Netflix?
Just a couple of hours ago Tracey Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan have announced the Oscar nominees for the 94th Academy Awards. Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog has dominated with even 12 nods, followed by Dune, which received 10 nominations, however, except one of the most important for the best directing. Belfast and West Side Story both got seven nominations each.
Jane Campion was honoured in two directing categories - best directing and best adapted screenplay, whereas Steven Spielberg earned his eighth nod through different areas and genres of his filmmaking. Another Asian director in a row - Japanese Ryusuke Hamaguchi - also was nominated for best directing for his three-hour long examination of grief and art in Drive My Car, as his movie got the nod not only as the best international feature film but the overall best picture as well.
Best actor/actress in a leading or supporting role have also demonstrated a certain phenomenon when the actually married couples were simultaneously nominated for awards in the same category: Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) and Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) for a leading role as well as Kirsten Dunst and Jess Plemons (both The Power of the Dog) for a supporting role.
Here are the nominees:
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 DIRECTING
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Andrew Garfield (Tick Tick...BOOM)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of The Dog)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
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 SUPPORTING ROLE
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)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Ariana Debose (West Side Story)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunianue Ellis (King Richard)
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Flee
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
See the full list of nominees here.
The winners will be announced on March 27 during an official 94th Academy Awards ceremony at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. ABC will be streaming live the awarding ceremony.
