Oscar Nominations: Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson Snubbed! “West Side Story” Screenplay Snubbed, Judi Dench Is In!

First round of Oscar noms: “West Side Story” Tony Kushner screenplay which was praised everywhere, was snubbed.
Surprise nominations for Judi Dench in “Belfast” and JK Simmons in “Being the Ricardos.”
“Power of the Dog” pulled it out for Jesse Plemons. And his wife in real life, Kirsten Dunst for the same movie. Congrats!

Second round: Lady Gaga snubbed for Best Actress! She was supposed to be a lock! Jared Leto didn’t make Supporting Actor! Jennifer Hudson snubbed as Aretha! No lead Black actresses!
Three of the four actors in “Being the Ricardos” were nominated. Shout out to Nina Arianda, who was wonderful as Vivian Vance even though she wasn’t nominated. Her day is coming!

Best Picture

Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Actor
Javier Bardem
Benedict Cumberbatch
Andrew Garfield
Will Smith
Denzel Washington

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain
Olivia Colman
Penelope Cruz
Nichole Kidman
Kristen Stewart

Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
Power of the Dog
Macbeth
West Side Story

Directing

Jane Campion
Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Kenneth Branagh
Ruyesuki Hamaguchi

Actor in a Supporting Role
Ciaran Hinds
Troy Katsur
Jessie Plemons
JK Simmons
Kodi-Smit McPhee

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jesse Buckley
Ariana DeBose
Judi Dench
Kirsten Dunst
Aunjunue Ellis

Animated Short Film

Costume Design
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Live Action Short Film

Music (Original Score)
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
Power of the Dog

Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World

Animated Feature Film
Encanto
Raya
Mitchells vs the Machines
Flee
Luca

Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire

Documentary Short Subject
“Audible”
“Lead Me Home”
“The Queen of Basketball”
“Three Songs for Benazir”
“When We Were Bullies”

Film Editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
Power of the Dog
Tick Tick Boom

International Feature Film
Flee
Hand of God
Drive My Car
Worst Person in the World
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Makeup and Hairstyling
Coming to America
Dune
Cruella
Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci

Music (Original Song)
Be Alive
Dos Orugitas
Down to Joy
No Time to Die
Somehow You Do — Diane Warren’s 13th songwriter nomination!

Production Design
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story

Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
Shang Chi
Spider Man
No Time to Die