Coda won Best Picture at the The 94th Academy Awards. The 2022 Oscars also honoured Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose with acting awards.
Sir Kenneth Branagh won Best Original Screenplay, No Time To Die took home Best Original Song for Billie Eilish and Finneas, while Riz Ahmed won the best short film (live action) award. Sci-fi epic Dune won six awards in total, including Best Original Score and Production Design.
It was a night of high drama though, and will be remembered for Best Actor winner Will Smith storming the stage to slap Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada’s hair.
Here’s the full list of winners of the 2022 Oscars.
Best Picture
Apple became the first streaming platform to win the coveted Best Picture award with Coda, a film about a young girl with a deaf family who dreams of becoming a singer.
The heart-warming movie, directed by Sian Heder, also triumphed at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won top prize and became the biggest acquisition in the festival’s history after Apple TV+ picked it up for 25 million US dollars.
The film won all three Oscars that it was nominated for: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.
WINNER: CODA
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Directing
Jane Campion became the third woman to win a best director Oscar, taking the award for The Power Of The Dog.
WINNER: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
Best Actor
Will Smith apologised after appearing to hit Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars, using his best actor acceptance speech to say: “I want to apologise to the Academy, I want to apologise to all my fellow nominees.”
“This is a beautiful moment and I’m not crying for winning an award, it’s not about winning an award for me, it’s about being able to shine a light on all of the people.”
He continued: “Art imitates life, I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams, but love will make you do crazy things.”
After paying tribute to his mother and his family he added: “Thank you for this honour, thank you for this moment…I hope the Academy invites me back.”
WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick…Boom!
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain appeared to address the so-called Don’t Say Gay bill in Florida as she accepted her best actress Oscar for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.
She said: “Right now we are coming out of some difficult times that have been filled with trauma and isolation.
“So many people out there feel hopelessness and they feel alone and suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, it has touched many families, it has touched mine, and especially members of the LGBTQ community who oftentimes feel out of place with their peers.
“We are faced with discriminatory and bigoted legislation that is sweeping our country with the only goal of further dividing us. There is violence and hate crimes being perpetrated on innocent civilians all over the world.”
She added: “For any of you out there who do feel hopeless or alone I want you to know you are unconditionally loved for the uniqueness that is you.”
WINNER: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being The Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Best Supporting Actor
Troy Kotsur revealed he had wanted to teach US president Joe Biden “dirty sign language” as he accepted the Oscar for best supporting actor.
The actor won for his role in Sian Heder’s Coda, and is the first deaf male to win an Academy Award.
Speaking on stage alongside an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, he paid tribute to Heder, his father and his family, and expressed gratitude that the film had ‘reached out worldwide’.
He also praised the “wonderful deaf theatre stages, where I was given the opportunity to develop my craft as an actor”.
WINNER: Troy Kotsur – CODA
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog
JK Simmons – Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
Best Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose said her best supporting win was proof that “dreams do come true” as she accepted the Oscar for best supporting actress.
The actress won for her turn as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
In her acceptance speech she said: “Now you see why Anita says I want to be in America because even in this weary world that we live in dreams do come true and that’s a heartening thing right now.”
WINNER: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst – The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Best Original Screenplay
Sir Kenneth Branagh won the best original screenplay Oscar for Belfast.
Collecting the statue, he said: “This is an enormous honour for my family and a great tribute to an amazing city and fantastic people.”
He added: “This story is the search for joy and hope in the fact of violence and loss.
“We lost some people along the way.”
WINNER: Belfast, Written by Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up, Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by 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 Adapted Screenplay
Sian Heder won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Coda.
The director said the experience had been “truly life-changing” and thanked members of the deaf community for being her “teachers” throughout the process.
Concluding her speech she thanked her onstage ASL interpreter and embraced her.
WINNER: 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
Best Animated Feature Film
Disney’s Encanto won the Oscar for best animated feature.
Producer Yvett Merino said: “I’m so proud to be part of a film that puts beautiful diverse characters front and centre and that people are seeing themselves in the film.”
WINNER: Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
Raya And The Last Dragon
Best International Feature Film
WINNER: Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Writing With Fire
Best Documentary Short Subject
WINNER: The Queen Of Basketball
Audible
Lead Me Home
Three Songs For Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Best Live Action Short Film
Riz Ahmed reflected on the “role of the story” during an acceptance speech for the best short film (live action) at this year’s Oscars.
The actor and musician, 39, took to the stage during the star-studded ceremony in Los Angeles to accept the award for The Long Goodbye.
The 11-minute film, directed and co-written by Aneil Karia, who joined him on stage, which is also co-written and stars Ahmed, tracks a family who are preparing for a wedding celebration when “the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep”.
WINNER: The Long Goodbye
Ala Kachuu- Take and Run
The Dress
On My Mind
Please Hold
Best Animated Short Film
WINNER: The Windshield Wiper
Affairs Of The Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
Best Original Score
WINNER: Dune
Don’t Look Up
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power Of The Dog
Best Original Song
Billie Eilish and Finneas won an Oscar for her song No Time To Die from the James Bond film of the same name. It’s the third James Bond film in a row to scoop the honour.
WINNER: No Time to Die, No Time to Die
Be Alive, King Richard
Dos Oruguitas, Encanto
Down to Joy, Belfast
Somehow You Do, Four Good Days
Best Sound
WINNER: Dune
Belfast
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
Best Production Design
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
WINNER: The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
House Of Gucci
Best Costume Design
WINNER: Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Best Film Editing
Don’t Look Up
WINNER: Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick…BOOM!
Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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