Oscars: Full List of Nominations
Hollywood Reporter,
by
Kimberly Nordyke
&
Hilary Lewis
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
2/8/2022 7:17:39 PM
The Power of the Dog leads the nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards, which were unveiled Tuesday morning.
The film landed a total of 12 noms, including best picture, best director for Jane Campion, and acting noms for star Benedict Cumberbatch and supporting players Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Dune follows with a total of 10 noms, including best picture, but the film was left out of the directing and acting categories.
West Side Story and Belfast earned seven noms, while King Richard
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/8/2022 7:33:40 PM (No. 1066055)
Anyone ever heard of any of these movies? Once years ago, people would endorse a movie with gusto. You gotta see this movie. Now, one rarely hears a word about a new movie.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 2/8/2022 7:43:53 PM (No. 1066064)
I can't wait to miss this!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
formerNYer 2/8/2022 8:02:00 PM (No. 1066069)
Political correctness gets you a reward - the bomb west side story gets 7 nominations, people couldn't wait to NOT see it.
What a bunch of jokers and losers because they think that anybody cares.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 2/8/2022 8:06:44 PM (No. 1066073)
Years ago, this interested me. But I have long since tired of humorless angry people whose only skill is standing on a spot and delivering a line who think I care about them OR their opinions when they live immoral lives. Haven't watched and won't return.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 2/8/2022 8:11:30 PM (No. 1066081)
Haven’t watched this crap or the NFL in 5 years and I don’t miss it
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/8/2022 8:26:54 PM (No. 1066100)
If people are going to the movies I don't know who they are. No one even mentions movies. I have heard of a few of them but 10 nominees for best picture is over skill and ridiculous. The last movie I saw was three years ago. And it had been a good ten years before I saw that one. Can't wait to see what the ratings are for their big ego trip of an award show. If I want to be abused I can think of more entertaining ways than watching their "we hate all conservatives but love our selves because we are special" barf show.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 2/8/2022 8:28:05 PM (No. 1066101)
I haven't gotten to see "Licorice Pizza", "Coda", "The Tragedy of MacBeth", or "Drive My Car" but expect to see them shortly.
I believe "Dune" is the most creative and satisfying of these nominees and should win. I can't believe Denis Villeneuve didn't get nominated for best director. What a joke. Javier Bardem should also have gotten nominated for his role in "Dune" as well. Can they do that?
"Belfast" is my second choice and could be strong contender especially with Judi Dench's performance.
"Nightmare Alley" is a remake of the 1947 original but it's actually a better movie than the original mainly because it doesn't soften the dark ending of the book which never would have been acceptable to censors or audiences in 1947.
"The Power of the Dog" was just too slow and plodding for my taste and I left after about an hour. Bennedict Cumberbatch was spectacular, but the rest of the cast was just too understated to keep my interest.
"King Richard" was a great character study by Will Smith as the driven father of Venus and Serena Williams who raised them to become sports legends despite their struggles in Compton. He may win for best actor.
"Don't Look Up" was laugh-out-loud funny as a satire on the way modern idiots in government and business would certainly respond to an apocalypse. It won't win but it was worth seeing even if their attempt to equate the plot with climate change backfired on DiCaprio and company.
"West Side Story" was a very skillful attempt to recapture the magic of the original, but I had a problem with the male casting. Riff and Bernardo were just not alpha male enough for me to see them as leaders of a gang. The singing and choreography were excellent and Rachel Zegler's youthful voice fit Maria better than the accomplished but older Marni Nixon that dubbed Natalie Wood in the original. They also moved some of the songs to their original Broadway points in the story which I thought fit better than the original.
I don't think Dune has any real competition for Best Movie, but the "artsy" Hollywood crowd will probably pick "Power of the Dog" anyway.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/8/2022 8:29:21 PM (No. 1066102)
Sorry for the additional post. Oops, when I need guidance, direction, intelligent advice I DO NOT look to the loons of Hollywood. Ever. Do not care what you think and you can't make me.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 2/8/2022 8:32:28 PM (No. 1066106)
Sorry, Hollyweird has jumped the shark, and few care any more what they do or say.
I've never heard of almost all of the current crop of "stars".......not stars, actually.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 2/8/2022 8:36:07 PM (No. 1066110)
Hollywood awards? Who cares?
Anyone outside Hollywood care at all?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
konocti95 2/8/2022 8:42:39 PM (No. 1066119)
Thanks #7, I appreciate the recommendations. Lots of people work very hard to not only entertain us but to give us an opportunity to interesting or uncomfortable thoughts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 2/8/2022 9:00:17 PM (No. 1066141)
I could care less can't remember the last time I was in a movie theater. None of the Oscar nominations are worth a cup of warm spit.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/8/2022 9:01:31 PM (No. 1066143)
I am proud to admit I have no clue what these movies or who these people are. And I don't intend to find out. I have a drawer full of socks waiting for Oscar night.
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The Power of the Dog is a so-so Western filmed in New Zealand the acting is solid but it doesn’t compare to the great westerns like Giant, Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, The Searchers or No Country for Old Men. Not even close.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/8/2022 9:58:55 PM (No. 1066180)
The only way I would watch the Oscars is if Ricky Gervais was the host.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 2/8/2022 10:20:02 PM (No. 1066209)
Oscar, oscar, erm, wasn't he some character on Sesame Street???
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/8/2022 10:26:28 PM (No. 1066214)
Don't care, Boycott Hollywood.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Connor 2/8/2022 10:48:16 PM (No. 1066230)
I just spent hours trying to find something to watch. Tomorrow I am cancelling Netflix and Hulu. That leaves Amazon Prime. I order quite a bit thru Amazon.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 2/8/2022 10:51:19 PM (No. 1066235)
The last movie that I saw in a theater was “Apollo 13”. There is mostly better stuff to stream and that’s what we. British stuff and older movies from pre-woke days. There is actually more content online that would take more than a lifetime to see all of it. I am not sure that the theater business can survive. I guess it’s still a place to take a date but the sound is so loud it’s unbearable to me and I am hard of hearing. Plus, viewing at home means the bathroom and a bottle of good bourbon are just steps away.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 2/8/2022 11:22:36 PM (No. 1066262)
I have only heard of a few of these and have no interest in seeing any of them. The only movie coming up that it am looking forward to is the third Harry Potter prequel coming up in April. It'll be the first time I have been to the theater for a movie in six years, ironically also for a Harry Potter movie.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
skacmar 2/9/2022 12:52:23 AM (No. 1066320)
Besides Dune, West Side Story. and Netflix movie Don't Look Up, I have never heard of any of the other movies. We're any of these movies commercially successful or did only the critics and Academy nominating committe like them? The article noted that no host has been named for the awards yet. Probably because no sane person wants to be associated with the woke train wreck that the awards show will devolve into.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mifla 2/9/2022 5:09:06 AM (No. 1066393)
My home collection contains several movies mostly from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. That is what I watch. Haven't been in a theater in years.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 2/9/2022 5:27:38 AM (No. 1066405)
I can’t believe the latest Jackass movie isn’t at the top of every category! It will be the finest film made in the last 50 years! Oscars all around!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
franq 2/9/2022 10:05:21 AM (No. 1066668)
Thanks for the laugh,#23. A voice of reason in a sea of celluloid!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kumoan 2/9/2022 1:43:02 PM (No. 1066906)
And, in other news of equal import, 13 bugs of various types have, so far, been squashed as WHO Brandon flounders around trying to master shuffling in his newest clown shoes. [size 47]
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 2/9/2022 6:13:16 PM (No. 1067127)
I don't care. Why is this a news story. People today really don't care much about the garbage that comes out of hollyweird. I haven't watched many movies since the 1980's. Nothing good and woke people are not worth watching as far as I'm concerned.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
broken01 2/10/2022 11:07:02 AM (No. 1067769)
The last movie I watched in theater was Avengers: End Game. That was because I won a 4 ticket family pack from the local radio station. It was good but Infinity War was better. The last Oscars I watched was when fat boy Michael Moore shamed GWB about the Iraq War. Other than Woke Side Story I don't even know what these movies are about nor do I care. Since the GWB administration Hollywood has gone off the rails. With the fawning of all things Obama to the completely unhinged attitude towards PDJT to the absolute distain for anyone who didn't vote for FJB. I just don't care anymore which is sad because it used to not be that way.
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