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  • Nominations for Oscars 2022 announced: Here is the full list

    Nominations for Oscars 2022 announced: Here is the full list

    Los Angeles: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday announced nominations for the 94th annual Academy Awards which included films in a range of genres.

    “The Power of the Dog” led among nominated films with 12 nods. The drama’s director, Jane Campion, made history by becoming the first woman to be nominated more than once for best director. The acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker was previously nominated for the 1993 drama, “The Piano” (Last year, “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao became just the second woman to ever win the award.)

    The nine other best picture contenders are “Belfast,” “Coda,” “Don’t Look Up,” “Drive My Car,” “Dune,” “King Richard,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Nightmare Alley,” and “West Side Story.”

    Fellow directing nominee Steven Spielberg also set a new record. As the producer of “West Side Story,” which earned a total of seven nominations, Spielberg has now produced 11 films nominated for best picture, a new record for the Oscars.

    Denzel Washington extended the record he already holds as the most nominated Black actor, earning his tenth Oscar nomination for his performance in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” In addition, Will Smith scored his third lead actor Oscar nomination for “King Richard,” a portrait of tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams’s ambitious father. Smith was previously nominated for his roles in “Ali” and “The Pursuit of Happyness.”

    The other performers recognised in the Best Actor category are Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”) and Andrew Garfield (“tick, tick…BOOM!”).

    The contenders vying for the best actress statuette are Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) and Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”).

    Netflix has conquered the world of streaming video but the company is still chasing Hollywood’s most coveted prize: The best picture award. However, the streaming giant has a good shot to win this year with “The Power of the Dog. “The company also distributed fellow best picture nominee “Don’t Look Up” as well as the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed musical “tick, tick…BOOM!”

    As the above-listed contenders woke up to some welcome news Tuesday morning, other hopefuls were not so fortunate. Notable Oscar snubs this year included:

    Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” which failed to earn a Best Picture nod along with stars Lady Gaga, Adam Driver and supporting player Jared Leto who were all locked out of the acting races — potential casualties of the film’s mixed-to-negative reviews and so-so box-office performance.

    “West Side Story” breakout star Rachel Zegler, who won a Golden Globe last month for her performance as María Vasquez, got shut out of the best actress category.

    “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve, who was previously nominated for the sci-fi drama “Arrival” (2016), failed to pick up the best director nomination, although “Dune” racked up an impressive 10 nods.

    Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” Rebecca Hall’s “Passing” and Asghar Farhadi’s “A Hero” — three of the year’s most critically venerated films — walked away empty-handed. While Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim, the two young stars of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” fell short of acting honors.

    “Spider-Man: No Way Home” shattered box office records but failed to earn a nod for the Best Picture category.

    The Academy Awards ceremony is set to air live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC Sunday, March 27. See the list of nominees below.

    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

    Best Actress

    Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
    Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
    Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
    Kristen Stewart, Spencer

    Best Actor

    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 Supporting Actress

    Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter

    Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
    Judi Dench, Belfast
    Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
    Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

    Best Supporting Actor

    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

    Best Director

    Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
    Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
    Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
    Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

    Best Adapted Screenplay

    CODA
    Drive My Car
    Dune
    The Lost Daughter
    The Power of the Dog

    Best Original Screenplay

    Belfast
    Don’t Look Up
    King Richard
    Licorice Pizza
    The Worst Person in the World

    Best Cinematography

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

    Best Animated Film

    Encanto
    Flee
    Luca
    The Mitchells vs. the Machines
    Raya and the Last Dragon

    Best Original Score

    Don’t Look Up, Nicholas Britell
    Dune, Hans Zimmer
    Encanto, Germaine Franco
    Parallel Mothers, Alberto Iglesias
    The Power of the Dog, Jonny Greenwood

    Best Original Song

    “Be Alive” from King Richard, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson
    “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto, Lin-Manuel Miranda
    “Down to Joy” from Belfast, Van Morrison
    “No Time to Die” from No Time to Die, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
    “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days, Diane Warren

    Best Costume Design

    Cruella
    Cyrano
    Dune
    Nightmare Alley
    West Side Story

    Best Makeup & Hairstyling

    Coming 2 America
    Cruella
    Dune
    The Eyes of Tammy Faye
    House of Gucci

    Best Editing

    Don’t Look Up
    Dune
    King Richard
    The Power of the Dog
    Tick, Tick… Boom!

    Best Visual Effects

    Dune
    Free Guy
    No Time to Die
    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Best Production Design

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

    Best Sound

    Belfast
    Dune
    No Time to Die
    The Power of the Dog
    West Side Story

    Best International Film

    Drive My Car
    Flee
    The Hand of God
    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
    The Worst Person in the World

    Best Documentary

    Ascension
    Attica
    Flee
    Summer of Soul
    Writing with Fire

    Best Documentary Short Subject

    Audible
    Lead Me Home
    The Queen of Basketball
    Three Songs for Benazir
    When We Were Bullies

    Best Animated Short Film

    Affairs of the Art
    Bestia
    Boxballet
    Robin Robin
    The Windshield Wiper

    Best Live-Action Short Film

    Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
    The Dress
    The Long Goodbye
    On My Mind
    Please Hold

  • 41st Student Oscar winners announced

    41st Student Oscar winners announced

    MUMBAI: 15 students have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition.  They will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, 7 June at 6 p.m. at the DGA Theater in Hollywood.  The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the five award categories will be announced at the ceremony. 

     

    For the alternative category, the winners are “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York and “Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida. For the animation category, the winners include “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California; “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah and “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California.

     

    In the documentary category, the winners are “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University; “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University and “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University.

     

    The winners in the narrative category include “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York; “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University and “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California. The winners who took home the coveted prize in the foreign category include “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom; “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany and “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

     

    This year saw first-time honours go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition.  Academy members voted the winners from a field of 49 finalists, announced earlier this month. The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. The previous Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

  • Zero Dark Thirty bags four Oscar nominations

    Zero Dark Thirty bags four Oscar nominations

    MUMBAI: Kathryn Bigelow‘s ambitious film Zero Dark Thirty has bagged four prestigious nominations at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards. The film is the story of history‘s greatest manhunt for the world‘s most dangerous man.
    These include Best Motion Picture – Drama, best performance by an actress in a motion picture (Drama) – Jessica Chastain, best director (Motion Picture) – Kathryn Bigelow and best screenplay (Motion Picture) – Mark Boal.
    The film explores a relentless, decade-long pursuit that leads to the daring midnight raid of Osama bin Laden‘s compound, even as she unzips the body bag to verify that the bloody corpse inside is indeed that of the slain Al-Qaida leader, Jessica Chastain‘s CIA officer character is defined primarily by her femininity in this male-dominated world.
    The film has bagged four prestigious nominations at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards. These include Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) – Jessica Chastain, Best Director (Motion Picture) – Kathryn Bigelow and Best Screenplay (Motion Picture) – Mark Boal.
    Besides, the film has received many accolades and awards at prestigious award ceremonies including Washington D.C. Arena Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle and Boston Society Film Critics.
    Directed by Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow; the film stars Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Chriss Pratt, James Gandolfini, Edgar Ramirez and Mark Strong.
    PVR Pictures is gearing itself torelease Zero Dark Thirty in India on 1 February next year.

  • Oscar nominations voting opens today to 5,856 Academy Voters

    Oscar nominations voting opens today to 5,856 Academy Voters

    MUMBAI: Nominations voting for the 85th Academy Awards open Monday for the 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Members will have until 3 January, 2013 to vote electronically or mail in a paper ballot.
    Any paper ballots received after the deadline will not be counted.
    Nominations and final Awards ballots will be tabulated and verified by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are accurate and secure.
    This will be the first year the Academy is providing its membership the opportunity to vote electronically. Several voting resources will be available to members, including assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, and a 24-hour support call center during voting periods.
    The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on 10 January, 2013 in the Academy‘s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
    Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on 25 February, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live on Star Movies. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

  • 3 films from Reliance DreamWorks nominated for Oscars

    3 films from Reliance DreamWorks nominated for Oscars

    MUMBAI: Three films namely War Horse, The Help and Real Steel from Reliance DreamWorks have garnered eleven Oscar Nominations.

    Earlier, Adaminte Makan Abu, India’s official entry at this year’s Oscars, had failed to make it to the top nine shortlisted films for the Best Foreign Film for 2011.

    Sohan Roy‘s DAM 999, the country‘s only hope at the Oscars this year, had been eliminated from the Oscar race. The filmmakers were expecting nominations in the best picture, best original song and best original score categories. Though the film was not India’s official entry, it was individually sponsored by the makers.

    Despite Indian cinema being recognised globally for its technological advancements, variety, visual splendour, skilled technicians and also for its reach and returns, our films have not been able to break into the coveted Oscar circle for a long time.

    Commenting on why we don’t make films worth an Oscar award, producer Mukesh Bhatt said, “ This is because we make films for millions of our Indian audience. That in itself is a herculean task. Though as a rule we send one film as an official entry to the Oscars, we have never grudged about our films being eliminated from the Oscars.”

    Among the 30 films that were the country’s official entry at the Oscars, only three films namely Mother India in 1957, Salaam Bombay in 1988 and Lagaan in 2001 got Oscar nominations, while those that failed include Sahib Biwi Ghulam, Reshma aur Shera, Garam Hawa, Manthan, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Saagar, Rudaali, Bandit Queen, Devdas, Shwas,Rang De Basanti,Tare Zameen Par and Adaminte Makan Abu among others.

  • ‘Hugo’, ‘The Artist’ top Oscar nominations

    ‘Hugo’, ‘The Artist’ top Oscar nominations

    MUMBAI: Martin Scorcese‘ 3D family film ‘Hugo‘ has got 11 Oscar nominations while the silent black and white film ‘The Artist‘ got 10 nominations for the 84th annual Oscar Awards, making it a clear two- horse race.

    The show will air on Star Movies on 27 February.

    ‘The Artist‘ is the first black and white film to get a best picture nomination since ‘Good Night and Good Luck‘ in 2005. ‘Hugo is the fourth film released in 3D to score a best picture nomination, after ‘Avatar‘, ‘Up‘ and ‘Toy Story 3‘. If it is able to stop ‘The Artist‘s momentum, then it would be the first 3D film to win best picture.

    This year nine films have been nominated for best picture the most surprising being ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‘. Another surprise was ‘The Tree Of Life‘ which among other things got nominated for picture and director Terrance Mallick despite having been previously ignored during the Oscar season.

    ‘War Horse‘ from Dreamworks and Reliance Entertainment got six nominations including best picture.Spielberg has been left off the director‘s list. However Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg now have the record for most best picture nominations for a producer with seven, passing Stanley Kramer.

    ‘The Descendants‘, which was earlier considered one of the front runners, only got five nominations making it virtually impossible for it to win Best Picture. However George Clooney is the favourite to win best actor for his role as a father trying to cope with grief over the fact that his wife is in a coma.
     
    Clooney‘s competition includes Gary Oldman who finally scored his first Oscar nomination for ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy‘, Surprisingly Leonardo DiCaprio has been left in the cold for his turn as former FBI director J Edgar Hoover in Clint Eastwood‘s ‘J. Edgar‘.
     
    In best actress, it is a two-way fight between Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady‘ and Viola Davis for ‘The Help‘. ‘The Help‘ is another best picture nominee and means that Dreamworks is the only studio to have two films competing for best film.

    Like ‘War Horse‘, ‘Moneyball‘ has also got six nominations including for best picture and for its stars Brad Pitt and Jonah hill. It is a serious threat for adapted screenplay.

    Woody Allen‘s ‘Midnight In Paris‘ scored four nominations including two for Allen for directing and writing. It has been over two decades since Allen last won an Oscar. He could win for original screenplay unless ‘The Artist‘ does a sweep.

    John Williams got two nominations for his scores for the two Spielberg films ‘War Horse‘ and ‘The Adventures of Tintin‘. He has now been nominated 47 times. Allen has now been nominated 23 times. Interestingly while ‘Hugo‘, ‘Midnight in Paris‘, ‘The Tree of Life‘ and ‘War Horse‘ got best picture nominations they did not get any acting nominations. Apart from Dicaprio other surprising omissions include ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‘, ‘Drive‘, which are not on the best picture list.