Observing the Oscar 2022 list, the audience can easily recognize the similarities between the pairs of actors and the opposite fates of many works.
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony took place with the film CODA winning the top prize for Best Picture. In the important categories for best male and female lead, Will Smith and Jessica Chastain share many similarities. The same thing happened to Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur in the supporting actor category.
The Power of the Dog and Dune are the films that won the most nominations at the 2022 Oscars with 12 and 10 categories, respectively. However, the Academy’s recognition of these titles is much less commensurate with their quality and value. Although they did not leave empty-handed, both films lost many important awards.
Coincidentally, at this year’s Oscars, both the winners of the best supporting actor category, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur , both received their first nominations in their careers. Ariana DeBose won the golden statuette for her role in West Side Story, and Troy Kotsur as CODA.
Actress Ariana DeBose.
Actor Troy Kotsur.
These are also two victories that mean a lot not only to the actors but also to the minority they represent. Ariana DeBose is the first LGBTQ+ Latino artist to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As for Troy Kotsur, CODA also helped the actor become the first deaf actor to win the Oscar for best supporting role.
Oscar 2022 also marks the first win of the best male/female gold statue owners. Will Smith won the Best Actor Golden Statue after three nominations and 20 years of waiting. In the female lead category, Jessica Chastain also received the award after being nominated three times, but only had to wait 10 years.
Actor Will Smith and actress Jessica Chastain.
Coincidentally, both won Oscars for playing a real character from history. Chastain transformed into presenter, evangelist, singer, author Tammy Faye in the movie The Eye of Tammy Faye. And Will Smith plays Richard Williams, the father of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.
Oscar 2022 marks the first time that Billie Eilish and her brother have received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. The achievement was made thanks to No Time to Die – the theme song of the movie of the same name about the pompous spy character 007.
Billie Eilish brothers.
Coincidentally, before receiving the award, the singer and her brother performed the song right on the Oscar stage. With this win, Billie Eilish became the first artist born in the 2000s to win an Oscar. The golden statue of the Billie Eilish brothers is also the only achievement that No Time to Die has achieved at the 2022 awards ceremony.
At this year’s Oscars, Dune won six. The awards include sound, visual effects, production design, soundtrack, editing and cinematography. Previously, the film directed by Denis Villeneuve received 10 nominations.
Dune’s wins are in the areas of cinematography, post-production and soundtrack. Therefore, despite winning the most gold statues on the 94th awards night, the Academy’s recognition of Dune hardly resonates with the mass audience – who are only interested in awards for actors and categories. excellent movie. It’s also a real pity that Dune failed to win for the adapted screenplay.
Actors Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
As the work that received the most Oscar nominations in 2022 with 12 categories, The Power of the Dog only won a single win in the category of Best Director for filmmaker Jane Campion . This is a disappointing result for a highly-anticipated work like The Power of the Dog.
The film missed awards in many important categories including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. In particular, the fact that The Power of the Dog did not have an award in the Best Film category is the most regrettable. Despite the film’s outstanding artistic quality, the film’s cold, distant, and psychologically polarized feelings did not win the hearts of the Oscar jury.
Filmmaker Jane Campion.
Once a little-noticed name in the list of 10 works nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars 2022, CODA had a spectacular comeback in the last weeks before the awards ceremony. On March 19 and March 20, CODA won two awards from the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and the Screenwriters Guild of America (WAG). Notably, these overwhelming victories came right after the Academy began voting for the winning work at the 94th Oscar.
The cast of the movie CODA.
Before March 17, important pre-Oscar awards such as the Critic Choice Awards or BAFTA all named Jane Campion’s films. However, since March 20, the critics’ favor has tilted towards CODA. As a result, the work won three awards in the categories of Best Film, Supporting Actor and Adapted Screenplay. This means that the film has won all of the previous nominations, bringing the film’s win rate to 100%.