Oscar Predictions 2022

OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2022

Disclaimer: These are my personal rankings of the films in each category, not my prediction of who I believe The Academy will choose.  I have viewed every nominee with the exception of Ala Kachuu - Take and Run, The Dress, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, and Writing with Fire.

Best Picture
1. Belfast
2. CODA

3. West Side Story

4. The Power of the Dog

5. King Richard

6. Dune

7. Nightmare Alley

8. Licorice Pizza

9. Drive My Car

10. Don't Look Up

Best Director

1. Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

2. Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

3. Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

4. Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Best Actor

1. Will Smith (King Richard)

2. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

3. Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)

4. Andrew Garfield (tick, tick...BOOM!)

5. Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Best Actress

1. Jessica Chastain (Eyes of Tammy Faye)

2. Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

3. Kristen Steward (Spencer)

4. Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

5. Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Troy Kotsur (CODA)

2. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

3. Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)

4. J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)

5. Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Ariana Debose (West Side Story)

2. Judi Dench (Belfast)

3. Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)

4. Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

5. Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Best Original Screenplay

1. Belfast

2. Licorice Pizza

3. King Richard

4. The Worst Person in the World

5. Don't Look Up

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. CODA

2. The Power of the Dog

3. The Lost Daughter

4. Drive My Car

5. Dune

Best Animated Feature Film

1. Encanto

2. Raya and the Last Dragon

3. Luca

4. Flee

5. The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best International Feature Film

1. Drive My Car

2. The Worst Person in the World

3. Flee

4. The Hand of God

Best Documentary Feature

1. Attica

2. Ascension

3. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

4. Flee

Best Documentary Short Subject

1. Audible

2. Lead Me Home

3. The Queen of Basketball

4. When We Were Bullies

5. Three Songs for Benazir

Best Live Action Short Film

1. On My Mind

2. Please Hold

3. The Long Goodbye

Best Animated Short Film

1. Robin Robin

2. Bestia

3. Boxballet

4. The Windshield Wiper

5. Affairs of the Art

Best Original Score

1. Dune (Hans Zimmer)

2. The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

3. Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)

4. Encanto (Germaine Franco)

5. Don't Look Up (Nicholas Britell)

Best Original Song

1. No Time to Die (from No Time to Die)

2. Dos Oruguitas (from Encanto)

3. Be Alive (from King Richard)

4. Down to Joy (from Belfast)

5. Somehow You Do (from Four Good Days)

Best Sound

1. West Side Story

2. No Time to Die

3. Dune

4. Belfast

5. The Power of the Dog

Best Production Design

1. West Side Story

2. The Tragedy of Macbeth

3. Nightmare Alley

4. The Power of the Dog

5. Dune

Best Cinematography

1. The Power of the Dog

2. West Side Story

3. Dune

4. Nightmare Alley

5. The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

1. The Eyes of Tammy Faye

2. House of Gucci

3. Coming 2 America

4. Cruella

5. Dune

Best Costume Design

1. Cruella

2. West Side Story

3. Nightmare Alley

4. Dune

5. Cyrano

Best Film Editing

1. King Richard

2. The Power of the Dog

3. Dune

4. tick, tick...BOOM!

5. Don't Look Up

Best Visual Effects

1. Dune

2. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

3. Spider-Man: No Way Home

4. Free Guy

5. No Time to Die