The 2022 Oscar Shortlsts Revealed, Showing the Finalists in 10 Categories - Collider

The Academy Awards have announced their shortlist for the 94th installment of the awards celebration set to take place on March 27th. The list breaks down the pre-nominees of 10 categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, International Feature, Live Action Short, Animated Short, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music Score, Original Song, Sound, and Visual Effects. While we now have an idea of where some of the nominations may go, the final list of nominees will be made known on February 8th.

Many of the films received more than one mention, but No Time to Die, the newest James Bond film, earned the most with mentions in five categories. Coming in behind No Time to Die, was another action-packed blockbuster hit, Dune, which raked in four mentions. The Jane Campion-directed The Power of the Dog earned three mentions, just ahead of the latest Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the newest installment in the Matrix franchise, The Matrix Resurrections, which each earned two.

Pop favorite Billie Eilish received two mentions for separate projects, including one for a documentary centered around her life and another for Original Song for her work as co-writer and singer of the title tune from No Time to Die. She’ll have heavy competition in both, as she goes up against the likes of Brian Wilson, Beyoncé, Carole King, and Lin-Manuel Miranda (just to name a few) for Original Song.

Along with the excitement of multiple mentions comes the upset and shock at the lack of nods for some films, such as the French film Titane, which took home the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. Director Julia Ducournau won the coveted award at Cannes and was the second woman ever to do so, the first being Campion. Titane was expected to earn a spot in the International Feature category.

Check out the full list of categories and mentions below and see if you agree with the Academy’s shortlist decisions.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Ascension

Attica

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

Faya Dayi

The First Wave

Flee

In the Same Breath

Julia

President

Procession

The Rescue

Simple as Water

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

The Velvet Underground

Writing with Fire

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Águilas

Audible

A Broken House

Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis

Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker

Day of Rage

The Facility

Lead Me Home

Lynching Postcards: “Token of a Great Day”

The Queen of Basketball

Sophie & the Baron

Takeover

Terror Contagion

Three Songs for Benazir

When We Were Bullies

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Austria, Great Freedom

Belgium, Playground

Bhutan, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Denmark, Flee

Finland, Compartment No. 6

Germany, I’m Your Man

Iceland, Lamb

Iran, A Hero

Italy, The Hand of God

Japan, Drive My Car

Kosovo, Hive

Mexico, Prayers for the Stolen

Norway, The Worst Person in the World

Panama, Plaza Catedral

Spain, The Good Boss

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Coming 2 America

Cruella

Cyrano

Dune

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

House of Gucci

Nightmare Alley

No Time to Die

The Suicide Squad

West Side Story

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Being the Ricardos

Candyman

Don’t Look Up

Dune

Encanto

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

The Green Knight

The Harder They Fall

King Richard

The Last Duel

No Time to Die

Parallel Mothers

The Power of the Dog

Spencer

The Tragedy of Macbeth

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

“So May We Start?” from Annette

“Down To Joy” from Belfast

“Right Where I Belong” from Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

“Automatic Woman” from Bruised

“Dream Girl” from Cinderella

“Beyond The Shore” from CODA

“The Anonymous Ones” from Dear Evan Hansen

“Just Look Up” from Don’t Look Up

“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto

“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days

“Guns Go Bang” from The Harder They Fall

“Be Alive” from King Richard

“No Time To Die” from No Time to Die

“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from Respect

“Your Song Saved My Life” from Sing 2

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Affairs of the Art

Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice

Bad Seeds

Bestia

Boxballet

Flowing Home

Mum Is Pouring Rain

The Musician

Namoo

Only a Child

Robin Robin

Souvenir Souvenir

Step into the River

Us Again

The Windshield Wiper

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run

Censor of Dreams

The Criminals

Distances

The Dress

Frimas

Les Grandes Claques

The Long Goodbye

On My Mind

Please Hold

Stenofonen

Tala’vision

Under the Heavens

When the Sun Sets

You’re Dead Helen

SOUND

Belfast

Dune

Last Night in Soho

The Matrix Resurrections

No Time to Die

The Power of the Dog

A Quiet Place Part II

Spider-Man: No Way Home

tick, tick…Boom!

West Side Story

VISUAL EFFECTS

Black Widow

Dune

Eternals

Free Guy

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Godzilla vs. Kong

The Matrix Resurrections

No Time to Die

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Spider-Man: No Way Home

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