This afternoon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the films that have been shortlisted in ten categories for the 94th Academy Awards. The official announcement includes ten films in the Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound, and Visual Effects races and fifteen for Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, International Feature Film, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, and Live Action Short Film.
It was a great day for Marvel, which netted spots for four of its films – Black Widow, Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: No Way Home – on the Visual Effects list. No Time to Die made the cut in five categories, while Dune scored four mentions. Flee was shortlisted for both Documentary Feature and International Feature Film, and it may earn a third nomination in the Animated Feature category, which does not involve a shortlist. The most significant snub comes for France’s international entry, Titane, which did not make the shortlist in either that race or the makeup and hairstyling category and is now officially out of the running.
Nominations in these ten categories and the additional thirteen races will be announced on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022. Check out the shortlisted films in all ten categories below!
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry
Faya Dayi
The First Wave
Flee
In the Same Breath
Julia
President
Procession
The Rescue
Simple as Water
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
The Velvet Underground
Writing with Fire
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Águilas
Audible
A Broken House
Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis
Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker
Day of Rage
The Facility
Lead Me Home
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
The Queen of Basketball
Sophie & the Baron
Takeover
Terror Contagion
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Austria, Great Freedom
Belgium, Playground
Bhutan, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Denmark, Flee
Finland, Compartment No. 6
Germany, I’m Your Man
Iceland, Lamb
Iran, A Hero
Italy, The Hand of God
Japan, Drive My Car
Kosovo, Hive
Mexico, Prayers for the Stolen
Norway, The Worst Person in the World
Panama, Plaza Catedral
Spain, The Good Boss
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
The Suicide Squad
West Side Story
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Being the Ricardos
Candyman
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
The Green Knight
The Harder They Fall
King Richard
The Last Duel
No Time to Die
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Spencer
The Tragedy of Macbeth
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
So May We Start? (Annette)
Down To Joy (Belfast)
Right Where I Belong (Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road)
Automatic Woman (Bruised)
Dream Girl (Cinderella)
Beyond The Shore (CODA)
The Anonymous Ones (Dear Evan Hansen)
Just Look Up (Don’t Look Up)
Dos Oruguitas (Encanto)
Somehow You Do (Four Good Days)
Guns Go Bang (The Harder They Fall)
Be Alive (King Richard)
No Time To Die (No Time to Die)
Here I Am (Singing My Way Home) (Respect)
Your Song Saved My Life (Sing 2)
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs of the Art
Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice
Bad Seeds
Bestia
Boxballet
Flowing Home
Mum Is Pouring Rain
The Musician
Namoo
Only a Child
Robin Robin
Souvenir Souvenir
Step into the River
Us Again
The Windshield Wiper
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Censor of Dreams
The Criminals
Distances
The Dress
Frimas
Les Grandes Claques
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Stenofonen
Tala’vision
Under the Heavens
When the Sun Sets
You’re Dead Helen
SOUND
Belfast
Dune
Last Night in Soho
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
A Quiet Place Part II
Spider-Man: No Way Home
tick, tick…BOOM!
West Side Story
VISUAL EFFECTS
Black Widow
Dune
Eternals
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Godzilla vs. Kong
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home