Oscars 2022: “Power of Dog”, from Jane Campion, in lead with twelve nominations

“Dune” is named in ten categories, and “Belfast” and “West Side Story” films in seven categories each. The Oscars will be returned on March 27 to Los Angeles.

Le Monde with AFP

The Power of the Dog movie, Jane Campion, goes on the race for the 94 e edition of the Oscars with twelve nominations in total, announced, Tuesday, February 8, the American Academy of Arts and Film Sciences that delivers the prestigious price.

Dark and psychological Western, The Power of the Dog is in particular in the categories of the best film, the best achievement, the best actor (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the best second female roles (Kirsten Dunst) and masculine, where It manages to align two in five candidates in total (Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee).

His director, New Zealand Jane Campion, enters history as the first director to win two nominations for the Oscar of the best achievement, twenty-eight years after the piano lesson.

The Power of the Dog is closely followed by the Space Opera with big budget Dune (from Denis Villeneuve) with ten nominations. Then come with seven Belfast nominations, diving in black and white in the childhood of Kenneth Branagh in the heart of the northern Irish violence of the late 1960s, tied with the remake of the West Side Story musical film, Steven Spielberg. The two directors are in the running in their category.

The Oscars will be returned on March 27 to Los Angeles.

  • Best film:

Belfast

coda

Do not look up: Cosmic denial

Drive my car

Dune

The Williams method

Pizza Licorice

Nightmare Alley

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

  • best embodiment:

KENNETH BRANAGH (BELFAST)

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Paul Thomas Anderson (Pizza Licorice)

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

  • best actor:

Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)

Will Smith (The Williams method)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of MacBeth)

  • Best actress:

Jessica Chastain (in Tammy Faye’s eyes)

Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Penelope Cruz (Madres Paralelas)

Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

  • Best actress in a second role:

Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)

Ariana Debose (West Side Story)

Judi Dench (Belfast)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (the Williams method)

  • best actor in a second role:

Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (coda)

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

JK Simmons (Being The Ricardos)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

  • best international movie:

Drive My Car (Japan)

Flee (Denmark)

The hand of God (Italy)

The School of the World (Bhutan)

Julie (in 12 chapters) (Norway)

/Media reports.