Oscars Predictions (2022)

Whenever I do these predictions they aren’t really predictions it’s really become a mix of who I think will win and who I want to win in an ideal world. I like doing these and then referring back to my list during the Oscars. If you get a lot of people to do the same thing you can almost make a game out of it. The following is a list of all the Oscars nominees for the 2022 award season and highlighted are my prediction/who I want to win. Disclaimer: I have not had the chance to see most of these films, and some might solely be based on a quick google rundown and from what I have heard from others. Also… most are Dune. I am very very biased towards Dune.


Oscars Predictions 2022: 

Best Picture

• Belfast
• Coda
• Don’t Look Up
• Drive my Car 
• DUNE
• King Richard 
• Licorice Pizza
• Nightmare Alley 
• The Power of the Dog 
• West Side Story 

Best Actor

• Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos 
• Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog 
• Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick… Boom!
• Will Smith - King Richard 
• Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth 

Best Supporting Actress

• Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter 
• Ariana DeBose - West Side Story 
• Judi Dench - Belfast 
• Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog 
• Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard 

Best Supporting Actor

• Troy Kostsur - CODA
• Jesse Plemons - Power of the Dog 
• JK Simmons - Being the Ricardos
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - Power of the Dog 
• Ciaran Hinds - Belfast

Best Actress

• Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Fae
• Olivia Coleman - The Lost Daughter
• Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers 
• Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos 
• Kristin Stewart - Spencer 

Best Director

• Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
• Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
• Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion
• West Side Story - Steven Spielberg
• (Should be Denis Villeneuve… just saying)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Encanto 
• Flee
• Luca
• The Mitchells vs the Machines
• Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Cinematography

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

Best Costume Design

• Cruella 
• Cyrano 
• Dune 
• Nightmare Alley 
• West Side Story

Best Documentary Feature

• Ascension
• Attica
• Flee
• Summer of Soul (or, when the Revolution could not be televised)
• Writing with Fire 

Best Documentary Short

• Audible 
• Lead me Home 
• The Queen of Basketball 
• Three Songs for Benzir 
• When we were Bullies 

Best Film Editing

• Don’t Look Up 
• DUNE 
• King Richard 
• The Power of the Dog 
• Tick, Tick… Boom!

Best International Feature Film

• Drive my Car
• Flee
• The Hand of God 
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom 
• The Worst Person in the World 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Coming 2 America 
• Cruella 
• Dune 
• The Eyes of Tammy Fae 
• House of Gucci 

Best Music (Orig. Score)

• Don’t Look Up
• Dune 
• Encanto 
• Parallel Mothers
• The Power of the Dog 

Best Music (Orig. Score)

• “Be Alive” - King Richard 
• “Dos Oruguitas” - Encanto 
• “Down to Joy” - Belfast 
• “No Time to Die” - No time to Die
• “Somehow you do” - Four Good Days 

Production Design

• DUNE 
• Nightmare Alley
• The Power of the Dog 
• The Tragedy of Macbeth 
• West Side Story 

Best Short Film (Animated)

• Affairs of the Art
• Bestia 
• Box Ballet
• Robin Robin
• The Windshield Wiper

Best Short Film (Live Action)

• Ala Kachuu - Take and Run 
• The Dress
• The Long Goodbye 
• On my Mind 
• Please Hold 

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

• Dune 
• Free Guy 
• No Time to Die 
• Shang Chi and the Legend of the ten rings 
• Spider-man: No Way Home 

Best Writing - Original Screenplay

• Belfast - Kenneth Branagh
• Don’t Look Up - Adam McKay & David Sirota
• King Richard - Written by Zach Baylin
• Licorice Pizza - Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Worst Person in the World - Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay

• CODA - Screenplay by Siân Heder
• Drive my Car - Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
• DUNE - Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
• The Lost Daughter - Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
• The Power of the Dog - Written by Jane Campion