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Best Picture nominees

The nominees for Best Picture are:

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

Which movie has the most nominations?

The Power Of The Dog has the most nominations, with 12, while Dune comes in at an impressive 10 nominations as well.

Who will host the Oscars?

The 2022 Oscars are set to be hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes.

What time are the Oscars?

The 94th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 27, 2022, and the ceremony gets underway at 8pm ET.

What day are the Oscars?

The 94th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 27, 2022.

How does voting work? continued

The Board of Governors, on behalf of the Academy Branch Executive Committees, must ask all AMPAS members to join.

A member may be nominated for membership based on other major contributions to the field of motion pictures, or a member may propose a name based on other substantial contributions to the field of motion pictures.

Every year, new membership bids are examined. Although the names of persons who have been asked to join the Academy have been disclosed in news releases as recently as 2007, the Academy does not publicly reveal its membership.

According to the 2007 press release, the organization has slightly under 6,000 voting members.

While the membership was rising at the time, tougher regulations have kept it stable since then.

How does voting work?

As of 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary society, has approximately 7,000 voting members.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is organized into several branches, each representing a particular aspect of filmmaking. Actors make up the largest voting bloc, with 1,311 members of the Academy’s membership.

Since the seventh Academy Awards in 1935, their auditing company has confirmed votes.

The business sends out eligible nominee ballots to Academy members in December for the preceding eligible year, with a deadline in January of the following year, and then tabulates the results in a process that takes thousands of hours.

How do Oscar nominations work?

The Academy Award nominations have been released to the public in mid-January every year since 2004, with the exception of 2021 and 2022.

The findings were already revealed in early February.

In March of 2021, the candidates were revealed. For the first time since 2003, the nominations were revealed in early February 2022.

Engraving the statuette

Oscar statuettes given during the ceremony contain blank baseplates to prevent information identifying the Oscar winners from leaking before the presentation.

Until 2010, Oscar winners had to return their statuettes to the Academy and wait several weeks for their names to be written on their awards.

Since 2010, victors have been able to have engraved nameplates attached to their statuettes at an inscription-processing booth during the Governor’s Ball, which takes place immediately after the Oscars.

Before the event, the R.S. Owens business had engraved nameplates manufactured with the names of all possible winners. The non-winning nominees’ nameplates are then recycled.

On the Oscars statuette

The Academy Prize of Merit, most often known as the Oscar statuette, is presented to winners at the ceremony.

It measures 13.5 in tall, weighs 8.5 lb, and portrays a knight wielding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

It is made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base.

Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians are the five spokes that reflect the Academy’s founding branches: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.

Who won the first best actor award?

Emil Jannings was the inaugural best actor winner, for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

Because he needed to return to Europe before the event, the Academy decided to give him the award early, making him the first Academy Award recipient ever.

Winners were acknowledged for all of their work in a certain category throughout the qualifying period at the time; for example, Jannings got the prize for two films he starred in during that time.

Facts about early Oscars ceremonies

The Mayfair Hotel hosted the post-awards celebration. The cost of guest tickets for the ceremony that night was $75.

For their work between 1927 and 1928, 15 statuettes were presented, recognizing artists, directors, and other professionals in the filmmaking business. The entire event lasted 15 minutes.

Winners were announced to the media three months before the first event.

The results were supplied to newspapers for publishing at 11pm on the night of the awards for the second ceremony in 1930 and the rest of the first decade.

When were the first Oscars held?

On May 16, 1929, a private dinner gathering at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of around 270 people hosted the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony.

Wins at the Razzie Awards 2022

In the satirical award ceremony that took place on May 25, 2022, LeBron James, the NBA star, was named worst actor for his performance in Space Jam: A New Legacy, which also won Worst Remake, Rip Off or Sequel, and Worst On-Screen Couple.

For his role as Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott’s House Of Gucci, Jared Leto won the award for worst supporting actor.

At this year’s awards, a new category was added: Worst Performance By Bruce Willis In A 2021 Film.

Within the category, the actor faced up against himself eight times for films such as American Siege, Apex, Cosmic Sin, Deadlock, and Out Of Death.

What are the Razzie Awards?

The Golden Raspberry Awards are a satirical award ceremony that recognizes the worst in cinematic underachievement.

The Razzie Awards’ satirical annual event has predated its opposite, the Academy Awards, by four decades, and was co-founded by UCLA film grads and film industry veterans John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Troy Kotsur

Troy Kotsur, the star of CODA, is not only the first deaf male artist to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Kotsur fell out of his chair when he learned of his Academy nod.

He told Today: “I forgot that my chair had wheels. So I slipped and lost my balance.

“I didn’t realize how viral that fall would go, all over social media…I couldn’t stop the momentum. So yes, so be it. I have to accept that that video is out there.”

First-time Oscar-nominees: Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds has been an actor for the bulk of his life, but his first Academy Award nomination came this year.

The actor was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his part in Belfast, which he describes as a pleasant surprise, per Reuters.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Aunjanue Ellis

Aunjanue Ellis receives her first nomination for her work in King Richard.

The actress’ nomination for Best Supporting Actress is one of several for which the film is nominated.

Aunjanue says she was so frightened the day the nominations were released that she put her phone away and checked later that night.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Jesse Buckley

For her portrayal in The Lost Daughter, Jessie Buckley got her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

The film is directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

It is based on Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Kodi Smit-McPhee

Kodi Smit-McPhee, who starred in The Power of the Dog, is up for his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category.

The Australian actor is ecstatic that the film has been nominated in so many categories, and he considers it an honor to be included among his peers, per Variety.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Ariana DeBose

Ariana DeBose isn’t the first woman to be nominated for her role as Anita in West Side Story, but it is the first time she has received an Academy Award nomination.

The actress, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her part in the film, describes the experience as “surreal.”

First-time Oscar-nominees: Questlove

With Summer of Soul, Questlove not only made his directorial debut, but he also became a first-time Oscar candidate.

Questlove’s film has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature, which is more than he could have imagined.

He told Variety: “I’m still feeling the high, and I hope it never stops. This is great. There’s no way you can take on something of this magnitude and think, ‘Maybe I’m making an Oscar-caliber film.’ I just wanted to make a beautiful film and restore history.”

First-time Oscar-nominees: Kirsten Dunst

Kirsten Dunst is also nominated for her part in the film The Power of the Dog, garnering her first nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actress.

Despite the fact that she has been performing for much of her life, this is her first Academy Award nomination.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Jesse Plemons

This year, Jesse Plemons is nominated for his first Academy Award for his performance in The Power of the Dog.

The actor is one of numerous nominations for the film, including Kirsten Dunst, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

The film got a total of 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

First-time Oscar-nominees: Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart has become a household figure as a result of her involvement in big film productions, but she garnered her first Academy Award nomination this year.

Stewart is nominated for Best Actress for her performance as Princess Diana in Spencer, which she says she celebrated with a round of golf with her closest friends.

She said to Entertainment Tonight: “I am speechless and humbled…I am bowled over by this. I never thought in a thousand years I’d be in the company of these four incredible women. I would pay to make movies. I would make them if it was illegal.”