Jane Campion’s gothic western The Power of the Dog led nominations to the 94th Academy Awards, the place streaming providers greater than ever earlier than swept over Hollywood’s prime honors.
Campion’s Netflix movie landed a number one 12 nominations in nominations introduced on Tuesday, together with nods for finest image, finest director and all of its prime actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Campion, a nominee for 1993′s The Piano, grew to become the primary girl to ever be nominated twice for finest director. Last yr, Chloé Zhao grew to become simply the second girl to ever win the award. Campion’s director of pictures Ari Wegner additionally grew to become the second girl ever nominated for finest cinematography. The solely earlier girl to take action was Rachel Morrison for Mudbound in 2018.
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adopted carefully behind with 10 nominations unfold out largely within the technical classes because the academy gravitated to the craft of Villeneuve’s science-fiction epic.
The nominees for finest image are: Belfast, The Power of the Dog, Dune, Drive My Car, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up, Licorice Pizza, CODA, King Richard, Nightmare Alley.
Best image has by no means been gained by a movie from a streaming service, however half of the ten nominees got here from streaming providers. This yr, the percentages could also be higher than ever {that a} streamer will lastly barrel by way of one of many final partitions of Hollywood custom.
Apple notched its first best-picture nomination with the deaf drama CODA. Netflix backed each The Power of the Dog and Adam McKay’s apocalyptic comedy Don’t Look Up. And each King Richard and Dune (regardless of the protests of its director) debuted concurrently in theaters and on HBO Max.
In pulling from movies launched in myriad methods, the Oscar nominations mirrored the tumult of pandemic yr for Hollywood that started with many theaters shuttered and ended with Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home smashing box-office data. Spidey, although, landed solely a single nomination, for visible results.
A largely digital awards season added some unpredictability to this yr’s nominations, which had been introduced by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. This yr’s Oscars can be delayed to make approach for the Olympics. The Oscars can be held on March 27 and can return to their typical venue, the Dolby Theatre.
And there have been surprises throughout. Lady Gaga, star of House of Gucci, was missed within the uber-competitive finest actress class. Nominated as a substitute had been Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter, Penélope Cruz for Parallel Mothers, Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos and Kristen Stewart for Spencer — whose hopes for her first Oscar nomination had appeared dashed after she was snubbed by the Screen Actors Guild.
Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s masterful three-hour Japanese drama, scored main nominations together with finest image, finest director and finest tailored screenplay. The academy, which in 2020 made Bong Joon Ho’s Korean thriller Parasite the most effective image winner, has drifted abroad in recent times, as extra worldwide members have been added to assist diversify the group.
As Covid-19 instances surged within the final two months because of the omicron variant, a lot of Oscar season additionally turned digital. Last yr, the pandemic led the academy to host a delayed Oscars in a socially distanced ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station. Ratings plummeted to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers.
This yr, the academy has but to map out plans for its present, besides that it’s going to embrace a number for the primary time since 2018. For higher or worse, the Academy Awards may even be with out its typical lead-in. The Golden Globes in January had been an untelevised non-event after NBC mentioned it would not air them in 2022 whereas the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press reformed itself after ethics and variety criticism.
Other modifications had been extra delicate however probably impactful. For the primary time, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences dominated out hard-copy DVD screeners for its members, who as a substitute might watch submissions on the academy’s streaming platform.
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