94th Academy Awards

94th Academy Awards
Date	March 27, 2022
Venue	Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Regina Hall Amy Schumer Wanda Sykes
Pre-show host(s)	Vanessa Hudgens Terrence J Brandon Maxwell Sofia Carson
Highlights
Most awards	Dune (6)
Most nominations	The Power of the Dog (12)
Major award winners	Best Picture: CODA Best Director: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) Best Actor: Will Smith (King Richard) Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur (CODA) Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) Best Adapted Screenplay: Sian Heder (CODA)
Broadcasting
Network	ABC
Viewership	16.62 million 9.0% (Nielsen ratings)
Directed by	Glenn Weiss
Produced by	Will Packer Shayla Cowan

The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The awards were scheduled after their usual late February date to avoid conflicting with both the 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LVI, with the latter being held in nearby Inglewood, California. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories honoring films released from March 1 to December 31, 2021. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Will Packer and Shayla Cowan and was directed by Glenn Weiss. Actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes hosted the show for the first time. Two days earlier, in an event held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Ovation Hollywood complex in Hollywood, the Academy held its 12th annual Governors Awards ceremony.

CODA won three awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Dune with six awards, The Eyes of Tammy Faye with two, and Belfast, Cruella, Drive My Car, Encanto, King Richard, The Long Goodbye, No Time to Die, The Power of the Dog, The Queen of Basketball, Summer of Soul, West Side Story and The Windshield Wiper with one. The telecast drew 16.62 million viewers in the United States.

During the ceremony, Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, whose head was shaved due to alopecia areata. The Academy banned Smith from attending its events for a decade as punishment.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture	Best Director
CODA - Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger (Apple TV+) Belfast - Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas (Focus Features) Don't Look Up - Adam McKay and Kevin Messick (Netflix) Drive My Car - Teruhisa Yamamoto (Janus Films) Dune - Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter (Warner Bros. Pictures) King Richard - Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith (Warner Bros. Pictures) Licorice Pizza - Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson (United Artists Releasing) Nightmare Alley - Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper (Searchlight Pictures) The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier (Netflix) West Side Story - Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger (20th Century Studios)	Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog Kenneth Branagh - Belfast Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
Best Actor	Best Actress
Will Smith - King Richard as Richard Williams Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank Andrew Garfield - Tick, Tick... Boom! as Jonathan Larson Denzel Washington - The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth	Jessica Chastain - The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker Olivia Colman - The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso Penélope Cruz - Parallel Mothers as Janis Martínez Moreno Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball Kristen Stewart - Spencer as Diana, Princess of Wales
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Troy Kotsur - CODA as Frank Rossi Ciarán Hinds - Belfast as Pop Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog as George Burbank J. K. Simmons - Being the Ricardos as William Frawley Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon	Ariana DeBose - West Side Story as Anita Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter as young Leda Caruso Judi Dench - Belfast as Granny Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh - Belfast Adam McKay (screenplay); Adam McKay and David Sirota (story) - Don't Look Up Zach Baylin - King Richard Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier - The Worst Person in the World	Sian Heder - CODA (based on the film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau) Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe - Drive My Car (based on the short story by Haruki Murakami) Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth - Dune (based on the novel by Frank Herbert) Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Lost Daughter (based on the novel by Elena Ferrante) Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog (based on the novel by Thomas Savage)
Best Animated Feature	Best International Feature Film
Encanto - Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer Flee - Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie Luca - Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren The Mitchells vs. the Machines - Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht Raya and the Last Dragon - Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho	Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan) Flee - Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark) The Hand of God - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy) Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom - Pawo Choyning Dorji (Bhutan) The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier (Norway)
Best Documentary Feature Film	Best Documentary Short Film
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein Ascension - Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell Attica - Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry Flee - Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie Writing with Fire - Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh	The Queen of Basketball - Ben Proudfoot Audible - Matthew Ogens and Geoff McLean Lead Me Home - Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk Three Songs for Benazir - Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei When We Were Bullies - Jay Rosenblatt
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
The Long Goodbye - Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed Ala Kachuu – Take and Run - Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger The Dress - Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki On My Mind - Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson Please Hold - K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse	The Windshield Wiper - Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sánchez Affairs of the Art - Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Bestia - Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz Boxballet - Anton Dyakov Robin Robin - Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Hans Zimmer - Dune Nicolas Britell - Don't Look Up Germaine Franco - Encanto Alberto Iglesias - Parallel Mothers Jonny Greenwood - The Power of the Dog	"No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish - No Time to Die "Be Alive" by Beyoncé - King Richard "Dos Oruguitas" by Sebastián Yatra - Encanto "Down to Joy" by Van Morrison - Belfast "Somehow You Do" by Reba McEntire - Four Good Days
Best Sound	Best Production Design
Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett - Dune Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri - Belfast Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor - No Time to Die Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb - The Power of the Dog Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy - West Side Story	Patrice Vermette (production designer) and Zsuzsanna Sipos (set decorator) - Dune Tamara Deverell (production designer) and Shane Vieau (set decorator) - Nightmare Alley Grant Major (production designer) and Amber Richards (set decorator) - The Power of the Dog Stefan Dechant (production designer) and Nancy Haigh (set decorator) - The Tragedy of Macbeth Adam Stockhausen (production designer) and Rena DeAngelo (set decorator) - West Side Story
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Grieg Fraser - Dune Dan Laustsen - Nightmare Alley Ari Wegner - The Power of the Dog Bruno Delbonnel - The Tragedy of Macbeth Janusz Kamiński - West Side Story	Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh - The Eyes of Tammy Faye Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer - Coming 2 America Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon - Cruella Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr - Dune Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras - House of Gucci
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Jenny Beavan - Cruella Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran - Cyrano Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan - Dune Luis Sequiera - Nightmare Alley Paul Tazewell - West Side Story	Joe Walker - Dune Hank Corwin - Don't Look Up Pamela Martin - King Richard Peter Sciberras - The Power of the Dog Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum - Tick, Tick... Boom!
Best Visual Effects
Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer - Dune Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick - Free Guy Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould - No Time to Die Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick - Spider-Man: No Way Home

Presenters

• Janora McDuffie - announcer
• Serena Williams and Venus Williams - introduced the performance of "Be Alive"
• DJ Khaled - introduced hosts Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes
• Daniel Kaluuya and H.E.R. - Best Supporting Actress presenters
• Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa - Best Animated Short Film, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Film Editing, Best Live Action Short Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Sound presenters (pre-taped)
• Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez and Wesley Snipes - Best Cinematography presenters
• Jacob Elordi and Rachel Zegler - Best Visual Effects presenters
• Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater and Shaun White - presented the 60th anniversary tribute to the James Bond series
• Stephanie Beatriz - introduced the performance of "Dos Oruguitas"
• Halle Bailey, Lily James and Naomi Scott - Best Animated Feature presenters
• Youn Yuh-jung - Best Supporting Actor presenter
• Tiffany Haddish and Simu Liu - Best International Feature Film presenters
• Mila Kunis - introduced the performance of "Somehow You Do"
• Ruth E. Carter and Lupita Nyong'o - Best Costume Design presenters
• John Leguizamo - introduced the performance of "We Don't Talk About Bruno"
• Jennifer Garner, Elliot Page and J. K. Simmons - Best Original Screenplay presenters
• Shawn Mendes and Tracee Ellis Ross - Best Adapted Screenplay presenters
• Rami Malek - introduced the performance of "No Time to Die"
• Chris Rock - Best Documentary Feature presenter
• Sean Combs - presented the 50th anniversary tribute to The Godfather trilogy
• Tyler Perry, Bill Murray and Jamie Lee Curtis - presented eulogies to Sidney Poitier, Ivan Reitman and Betty White during the "In Memoriam" segment
• Jake Gyllenhaal and Zoë Kravitz - Best Original Song presenters
• Kevin Costner - Best Director presenter
• John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman - Best Actor presenters
• Anthony Hopkins - Best Actress presenter
• Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli - Best Picture presenters

Performers

Performer	Song
Adam Blackstone	Musical arranger and orchestra conductor
Beyoncé	"Be Alive"
Sebastián Yatra	"Dos Oruguitas"
Reba McEntire	"Somehow You Do"
Adassa Stephanie Beatriz Mauro Castillo Carolina Gaitán Diane Guerrero Becky G Luis Fonsi Megan Thee Stallion	"We Don't Talk About Bruno"
Billie Eilish Finneas O'Connell	"No Time to Die"
The Samples Jill Scott	"I Will Remember You" "Spirit in the Sky" "Thank You for Being a Friend"

International broadcasters

Country	Network(s)
Baltic countries	Filmzone
Caribbean Latin America	TNT
Middle East and North Africa	OSN Movies
Sub-Saharan Africa	M-Net
Albania	Digitalb
Armenia	ARMTV
Australia	Seven Network, 7plus
Austria	ORF
Belgium (French) Luxembourg	BeTV, Canal+
Belgium (Dutch)	Play6
Bolivia	Unitel
Brazil	Globoplay
Bulgaria	Kino Nova
Canada	CTV
Chile	CNN Chile
Costa Rica	Teletica Canal 7
Croatia	HRT
Cyprus	Movies Best HD
Czech Republic	ČT
Denmark	TV 2
Dominican Republic	Tele Antillas
Ecuador	RTS
El Salvador	Canal 2
Finland	Yle Teema & Fem, Yle Areena
France	Canal+
Germany	ProSieben
Greece	OTE TV, Open TV
Guatemala	Canal 3
Honduras	Telecadena 7
Iceland	RÚV
India	Star Movies, Star Movies Select HD, Star World, Star World Premiere HD, Disney+ Hotstar
Indonesia	Disney+ Hotstar
Ireland	RTÉ2, RTÉ Player
Israel	yes Movies
Italy	Sky Cinema Oscar, Sky Uno, TV8, Now
Japan	WOWOW
Malaysia	Showcase Movies, Astro GO
Mexico	Azteca 7
Mongolia	Central Television
Montenegro	TVCG1
Netherlands	Film 1
New Zealand	TVNZ 2
Nicaragua	Televicentro
North Macedonia	MRT
Panama	RPC-TV
Paraguay	SNT
Poland	Canal+
Portugal	RTP1
Romania	Pro TV
Serbia	RTS
Singapore	Channel 5, meWATCH
South Korea	TV Chosun, OCN
Spain	Estrenos 2 por Movistar Plus+, #0 por Movistar+, Los Oscar por Movistar Plus+
Sweden	TV4
Switzerland	ProSieben, SRF 1, SRF zwei
Taiwan	TTV Main Channel
Thailand	TrueVisions
Turkey	TRT 2
United Kingdom	Sky Showcase, Sky Cinema Oscars, Now
Uruguay	Teledoce