Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards have been announced and the winners shall take home the coveted Oscar trophy on March 27. The biggest surprise of all the best picture nod for Don’t Look Up and best international film nomination for Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom, a Bhutanese film. The most number of nominations this year has gone to The Power of the Dog, A Netflix film with 12 counts followed by Dune having 10 nods. This years Academy will also have a host for the first time since 2018. Here is the final list of nominees for the prestigious award-
Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
King Richard
Dune
Nightmare Alley
Licorice Pizza
West Side Story
The Power of the Dog
Best Director
Kenneth Branagh | Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg | West Side Story
Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion| The Power of the Dog
Best Lead Actor
Javier Bardem | Being The Ricardos
Will Smith | King Richard
Andrew Garfield | Tick, Tick…Boom!
Denzel Washington | The Tragedy of Macbeth
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Power of the Dog
Best Lead Actress
Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter
Jessica Chastain- The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Nicole Kidman | Being The Ricardos
Penelope Cruz | Parallel Mothers
Kristen Stewart | Spencer
Best Supporting Actor
Toy Cotsur | CODAC
Kodi Smit-McPhee & Jesse Plemons | The Power of the Dog
Ciaran Hinds | Belfast
J.K. Simmons | Being The Ricardos
Best Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose | West Side Story
Jesse Buckley | The Lost Daughter
Kirsten Dunst-The Power of the Dog
Judi Dench | Belfast
Aunjanue Ellis | King Richard
