Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced this morning by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross in twenty-three categories. The overall nominations leader is The Power of the Dog with 12 bids, including four acting nominations. Next up was Dune with ten bids, though it missed an expected mention for director Denis Villeneuve, followed by Belfast and West Side Story in third place with seven nominations each.
Drive My Car becomes the first Japanese film to be nominated for Best Picture, also securing nominations for director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, its screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. This follows its trifecta of wins for Best Film from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics. Flee makes history with its three nominations in the international, documentary, and animated feature categories. Two other foreign-language films have multiple nominations this year, The Worst Person in the World and Parallel Mothers.
Among the surprising snubs are a near shut-out for House of Gucci, with only its makeup and hairstyling cited. In the Documentary Feature category, which annually boasts a startling omission, The Rescue is missing from the list this year. Aaron Sorkin, who last year failed to get an anticipated directing nomination for The Trial of the Chicago 7, was left off the list for his Being the Ricardos screenplay, with only three of his actors nominated to represent the film. Voters also swapped out actress Caitriona Balfe in the supporting actress race for her Belfast costar Judi Dench, and two smaller films on the bubble, Mass and Passing, both received zero nominations. Nightmare Alley made an unexpected appearance in the Best Picture category, receiving just three other nominations, while Licorice Pizza was the highest-profile nominated-film to underperform, securing mentions only for Best Picture, Directing, and Original Screenplay.
Here’s the full list of 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
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)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick…BOOM!)
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)
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Ciarán 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)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Costume Design
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Film Editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick…BOOM!
Music (Original Score)
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Music (Original Song)
“Down to Joy” (Belfast)
“Dos Oruguitas” (Encanto)
“Somehow You Do” (Four Good Days)
“Be Alive” (King Richard)
“No Time to Die” (No Time to Die)
Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Makeup and Hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
International Feature Film
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
Animated Feature Film
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Documentary (Feature)
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire
Documentary (Short Subject)
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Short Film (Animated)
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
Short Film (Live Action)
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold