HollyWeird: Some Hollywood Firsts in Oscar Nominations

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 2022 Oscar Nominations

The Oscar nominations for the 94th Academy Awards had been introduced on Feb. 8. This yr is a return to regular, at the very least so far as having an precise host, and a leap into a brand new method of selecting one of the best and best stars of the silver display screen.

Kristen Stewart (Twilight) and Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman) obtained first-time nominations. But we additionally see some acquainted names on the record, together with Steven Spielberg, and a few who had been upset to not be nominated, akin to Lada Gaga.

Best Picture

This yr has a full record of ten Best Picture nominees. The high canine (pun supposed) in nominations was the movie The Power of the Dog with 12 nominations. Dune, which has had dangerous opinions from followers, obtained ten.

Apple TV+ has solely been in enterprise for 2 years however nonetheless obtained a greatest image nomination for CODA.

Best Picture Nominations

• 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 Director

Thanks to West Side Story, Spielberg is now the primary particular person to be nominated greatest director in six completely different a long time. The others embrace Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Schindler’s List (1994), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005), and Lincoln (2012). Spielberg is now tied because the third greatest director with Billy Wilder, and, amongst residing administrators, he’s second solely to Martin Scorsese.

Jane Campion’s nomination for The Power of the Dog makes her the primary girl to earn a second greatest director nomination. Her first was for The Piano (1993).

Best Director Nominations

• 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

 Best Actor

This is the primary time since 1981 that there’s not a first-time nominee in one of the best actor class. Instead, Javier Bardem obtained his fourth; Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Garfield every obtained a second; Will Smith obtained his third, and Denzel Washington earned his ninth.

Best Actor Nominations

• 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

None of one of the best actress nominees are from one of the best image nominations. This hasn’t occurred since 2006, when Reese Witherspoon gained for Walk the Line.

Best Actress Nominations

• Jessica Chastain: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Olivia Colman: The Lost Daughter
• Penelope Cruz: Parallel Mothers
• Nicole Kidman: Being the Ricardos
• Kirsten Stewart: Spencer

Best Supporting Actress

Judi Dench earned her eighth performing nomination, which is greater than another non-American actress has obtained. She can also be the fourth most nominated actress of any nationality, tied with Glenn Close and Geraldine Page. The high actresses in this subject are Meryl Streep (21), Katharine Hepburn (12), and Bette Davis (10).

Best Supporting Actress Nominations

• Jessie Buckley: The Lost Daughter
• Ariana DeBose: West Side Story
• Judi Dench: Belfast
• Kirstin Dunst: The Power of the Dog
• Aunjanue Ellis: King Richard

Best Original Song

Diane Warren has earned her thirteenth Oscar nomination for “Somehow You Do You,” featured in Four Good Days, making her probably the most nominated songwriter to by no means win the Oscar to date. This is her fifth consecutive nomination and seventh in the final eight years.

Best Original Song Nominations

• “Be Alive”: King Richard
• “Dos Oruguitas”: Encanto
• “Down to Joy”: Belfast
• “No Time to Die”: No Time to Die
• “Somehow You Do You”: Four Good Days

Best Cinematography

Ari Wegner grew to become solely the second girl ever to be nominated in this class for The Power of the Dog. Rachel Morrison was nominated for Mudbound in 2018.

Best Cinematography Nominations

• Dune
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• West Side Story

 Cheers And Jeers

Sometimes, HollyWeird gamers make headlines for foolish or weird happenings, so here’s a assortment of newsworthy doings — honorable and dishonorable — by the tenants of Tinseltown.

 Rudy Giuliani Causes a Stir on The Masked Singer

Former New York City mayor and lawyer for Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani has had his fair proportion of the highlight, and never all of it good. Now, it’s being reported that he made an look on The Masked Singer, and when he was “unmasked,” the judges weren’t too comfortable.

Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong walked offstage once they discovered Giuliani would seem in the American model of the present. However, fellow judges Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger stayed and chatted with the previous mayor for a bit.

The Seventh Season is titled “The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly,” and Giuliani’s episode will air in March.

Tune in subsequent week to see what else Tinseltown has deliberate.

~ Read extra from Kelli Ballard.