The 94^th Academy Awards premiered last night, March 27^th, 2022, on ABC, hosted by Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall – the first trio to host the awards since 1987.  

11 time nominee Dune took home 6 awards, followed by CODA, which won 3. Best Picture nominee Drive My Car – based on the short story by Haruki Murakami – took home Best International Feature, the second win for Japan. Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut, marked Branagh’s first Oscar win, after 8 nominations. 

This historic show featured the second deaf man ever to win Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur for CODA), as well as the third win – second in a row – for a woman for Best Director (Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog)! Similarly iconic, West Side Story earned Ariana Debose’s iconic win for portraying Anita – a role that won Rita Moreno the same award 60 years prior, marking her as the first Latina woman to win Best Supporting Actress – in a win that was similarly historic, as Debose is the first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Academy Award. As Debose said in her speech, “To anybody who has ever questioned your identity…. I promise you this, there is indeed a place for us.” 

Catch up on all the winners here: 

BEST PICTURE: 

WINNER: CODA

Belfast 

Don’t Look Up 

Drive My Car 

Dune 

King Richard 

Licorice Pizza 

Nightmare Alley 

The Power of the Dog 

West Side Story 

BEST ACTRESS 

WINNER 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 MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING 

WINNER: The Eyes of Tammy Faye 

Coming 2 America 

Cruella 

Dune 

House of Gucci 

BEST ACTOR 

WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard 

Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos 

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog 

Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick…Boom! 

Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth 

BEST DIRECTOR 

WINNER: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza 

Kenneth Branagh, Belfast 

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car 

Steven Spielberg, West Side Story 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

WINNER: “No Time to Die,” No Time to Die (Performed by Billie Eilish and FINNEAS) 

“Be Alive,” King Richard (Performed by Beyoncé and DIXSON)

“Dos Oruguitas,” Encanto (Performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

“Down to Joy,” Belfast (Performed by Van Morrison)

“Somehow You Do,” Four Good Days  (Performed by Dianne Warren)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

WINNER: Zsuzsanna Sipos and Patrice Vermette, Dune  

Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Nightmare Alley    

Grant Major and Amber Richards, The Power of the Dog 

Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh, The Tragedy of Macbeth  

Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo, West Side Story  

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 

WINNER: Summer of Soul 

Ascension 

Attica 

Flee 

Writing With Fire 

BEST EDITING 

WINNER: Dune 

Don’t Look Up 

King Richard 

The Power of the Dog 

Tick, Tick…Boom! 

BEST SCORE 

WINNER: Hans Zimmer, Dune 

Nicholas Britell, Don’t Look Up 

Germaine Franco, Encanto 

Alberto Iglesias, Parallel Mothers 

Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

WINNER: Sian Heder, CODA 

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car 

Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth, Dune 

Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter 

Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

WINNER: Kenneth Branagh, Belfast 

Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza 

Adam McKay and David Sirota, Don’t Look Up 

Zach Baylin, King Richard 

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, The Worst Person in the World 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

WINNER: Jenny Beavan, Cruella 

Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran, Cyrano 

Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan, Dune 

Luis Sequeira, Nightmare Alley 

Paul Tazewell, West Side Story 

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT 

WINNER: The Long Goodbye 

Ala Kachuu 

The Dress 

On My Mind 

Please Hold 

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 

WINNER: 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) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

WINNER: Troy Kotsur, CODA 

Ciarán Hinds, Belfast 

Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog 

J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos 

Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT 

WINNER: The Windshield Wiper 

Affairs of the Art 

Bestia 

Boxballet 

Robin Robin 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

WINNER:  Encanto

Flee 

Luca 

The Mitchells vs. the Machines  

Raya and the Last Dragon 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 

WINNER: Dune 

Free Guy 

No Time to Die 

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 

Spider-Man: No Way Home 

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT 

WINNER: The Queen of Basketball 

Audible 

Lead Me Home 

Three Songs for Benazir 

When We Were Bullies 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

WINNER: Greig Fraser, Dune 

Dan Laustsen, Nightmare Alley 

Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog 

Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth 

Janusz Kaminski, West Side Story 

BEST SOUND 

WINNER: Dune 

Belfast 

No Time to Die 

The Power of the Dog 

West Side Story 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

WINNER: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story 

Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter 

Judi Dench, Belfast 

Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog 

Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard