
Academy Award Winners – 2022
The 94th Academy Awards premiered last night, March 27th, 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