This morning, actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross announced the nominess for all 23 categories of the 2022 Academy Awards. (You can watch the full livestream announcement below.) Topping the roster with 12 nominations was the drama The Power of the Dog. With seven nominations, West Side Story is the top musical contender. In June, the academy announced the honorees of its 12th annual Governors Awards, including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Danny Glover and Honorary Academy Awards to Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May, and Liv Ullmann. The winners in the competitive categories will be revealed at the ceremony for the 94th Oscars on March 27 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, which will be televised live on ABC, directed by Glenn Weiss for the seventh straight year.
The nominations for West Side Story include supporting actress (Ariana DeBose), costume design (Paul Tazewell), sound (Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, Shawn Murphy), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), production design (Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo), director (Steven Spielberg), and picture.
Other musicals with multiple nods include Tick, Tick … Boom! for editing (Myron Kerstein, Andrew Weisblum) and actor (Andrew Garfield) and Encanto for animated feature, original score (Germaine Franco), and original song (“Dos Origuitas” by Lin-Manuel Miranda). Musicals earning one nomination each include Cyrano for costume design (Massimo Cantini Parrini), Summer of Soul for documentary feature, and Robin Robin for animated short film.
The remaining nominees for original score are Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell), Dune (Hans Zimmer), Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias), and The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood). The remaining nominees for original song are Belfast (“Down to Joy” by Van Morrison), Four Good Days (“Somehow You Do” by Diane Warren), King Richard (“Be Alive” by Beyoncé and Dixson), and No Time to Die (“No Time to Die” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell).