The nominees for the 94th Academy Awards are a mixed and history-making bunch. Netflix's <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2022/03/14/whats-the-power-of-the-power-of-the-dog-why-jane-campions-film-is-winning-big-awards/" target="_blank"><i>The Power of the Dog</i></a><i> </i>leads with 12 nominations,<i> </i>including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress and Actor. The film's director, <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2022/02/09/jane-campions-oscar-history-is-a-reminder-female-filmmakers-are-finally-breaking-ground/" target="_blank">Jane Campion</a>, is now the first <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/how-women-are-dominating-2021-s-record-breaking-awards-season-1.1202143" target="_blank">woman to receive two Best Director</a> nominations — the other was for 1993's <i>The Piano</i>. <i>Dune</i>, which was <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2021/09/22/why-dune-director-denis-villeneuve-chose-mesmerising-abu-dhabi-as-his-arrakis/" target="_blank">partly shot in Abu Dhabi</a>, also has a strong showing with 10 nods, including Best Picture, Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay. In addition, Japanese film and Danish animated docudrama <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2021/12/24/oscars-2022-more-foreign-titles-get-recognition-outside-international-film-category/" target="_blank"><i>Flee</i></a><i> —</i> which tells the story of an Afghan refugee <i>— </i>have also earned more than one nod for this year's awards. <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/comment/2022/03/20/will-coda-beat-the-power-of-the-dog-to-win-the-best-picture-oscar/" target="_blank"><i>Coda</i></a>, a story about a hearing-impaired family, is also a favourite to win Best Picture. The Oscars will take place on March 27 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Javier Bardem, <i>Being the Ricardos</i> Benedict Cumberbatch, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Andrew Garfield, <i>Tick, tick...Boom!</i> Will Smith, <i>King Richard</i> Denzel Washington, <i>The Tragedy of Macbeth</i> Ciaran Hinds, <i>Belfast</i> Troy Kotsur, <i>Coda</i> Jesse Plemons, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> J K Simmons, <i>Being the Ricardos</i> Kodi Smit-McPhee, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Jessica Chastain, <i>The Eyes of Tammy Faye</i> Olivia Colman, <i>The Lost Daughter</i> Penelope Cruz, <i>Parallel Mothers</i> Nicole Kidman, <i>Being the Ricardos</i> Kristen Stewart, <i>Spencer</i> Jessie Buckley, <i>The Lost Daughter</i> Ariana DeBose, <i>West Side Story</i> Judi Dench, <i>Belfast</i> Kirsten Dunst, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Aunjanue Ellis, <i>King Richard</i> <i>Encanto</i> <i>The Mitchells vs The Machines</i> <i>Flee</i> <i>Luca</i> <i>Raya and the Last Dragon</i> Greig Fraser, <i>Dune</i> Dan Laustsen, <i>Nightmare Alley</i> Ari Wegner, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Bruno Delbonnel, <i>The Tragedy of Macbeth</i> Janusz Kaminski, <i>West Side Story</i> Jenny Beavan,<i> Cruella</i> Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran,<i> Cyrano</i> Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan,<i> Dune</i> Luis Sequeira, <i>Nightmare Alley</i> Paul Tazewell,<i> West Side Story</i> Jane Campion, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Kenneth Branagh, <i>Belfast</i> Paul Thomas Anderson, <i>Licorice Pizza</i> Ryusuke Hamaguchi, <i>Drive My Car</i> Steven Spielberg, <i>West Side Story</i> <i>Ascension</i> <i>Attica</i> <i>Flee</i> <i>Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)</i> <i>Writing With Fire</i> <i>Audible</i> <i>Lead Me Home</i> <i>The Queen of Basketball</i> <i>Three Songs for Benazir</i> <i>When We Were Bullies</i> Hank Corwin, <i>Don’t Look Up</i> Joe Walker, <i>Dune</i> Pamela Martin, <i>King Richard</i> Peter Sciberras, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum, <i>Tick, Tick … Boom!</i> <i>Drive My Car</i>, Japan <i>Flee,</i> Denmark <i>The Worst Person in the World</i>, Norway <i>Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom</i>, Bhutan <i>The Hand of God</i>, Italy Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer, Coming 2 America Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon, Cruella Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, Dune Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh,<b> </b><i>The Eyes of Tammy Faye </i> Goran Lundstrom, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras,<b> </b><i>House of Gucci</i> Nicholas Britell, <i>Don’t Look Up</i> Hans Zimmer, <i>Dune</i> Germaine Franco, <i>Encanto</i> Alberto Iglesias, <i>Parallel Mothers</i> Jonny Greenwood, <i>The Power of the Dog</i> Dixson and Beyonce Knowles-Carter's<i> Be Alive</i> from<i> King Richard</i> Lin-Manuel Miranda's <i>Dos Oruguitas </i>from <i>Encanto</i> Van Morrison's <i>Down to Joy</i> from <i>Belfast </i> Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell's <i>No Time to Die</i> from <i>No Time to Die</i> Diane Warren's<i> Somehow You Do </i>from <i>Four Good Days</i> <i>Belfast</i> <i>Coda</i> <i>Don't Look Up</i> <i>Drive My Car</i> <i>Dune</i> <i>King Richard</i> <i>Licorice Pizza</i> <i>Nightmare Alley</i> <i>The Power of the Dog</i> <i>West Side Story</i> <i>Dune</i> <i>Nightmare Alley</i> <i>The Power of the Dog</i> <i>The Tragedy of Macbeth</i> <i>West Side Story</i> <i>Affairs of the Art</i> <i>Bestia</i> <i>Boxballet</i> <i>Robin Robin</i> <i>The Windshield Wiper</i> <i>Ala Kachuu — Take and Run</i> <i>The Dress</i> <i>The Long Goodbye</i> <i>On My Mind</i> <i>Please Hold</i> <i>Belfast</i> <i>Dune</i> <i>No Time to Die</i> <i>The Power of the Dog</i> <i>West Side Story</i> <i>Dune</i> <i>Free Guy</i> <i>No Time to Die</i> <i>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings</i> <i>Spider-Man: No Way Home</i> Sian Heder, <i>Coda</i> <i>Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car</i> <i>Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, Dune</i> <i>Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter</i> <i>Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog</i> Kenneth Branagh, <i>Belfast</i> Adam McKay, <i>Don't Look Up</i> Paul Thomas Anderson, <i>Licorice Pizza</i> Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, <i>The Worst Person in the World</i> Zach Baylin, <i>King Richard</i>
