The 94th Academy Awards were televised on Sunday night (well, the early hours of Monday for UK viewers) and they featured one of the most insane moments since the Oscars’ inception: Will Smith walking on stage and smacking Chris Rock for joking about his wife Jada. Since that has been all everyone is talking about, you might not know this if you didn’t watch the ceremony, but they also handed out a few awards, too.
CODA, the coming-of-age comedy drama film about a child of deaf adults, took home all three of the awards it was nominated for, including the biggest award of the night – Best Picture. Troy Kotsur also became the first deaf actor to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Jane Campion won the award for Best Director for her film The Power of the Dog, which marks the first time in Academy Award history that women have taken home the award in successive years. It also makes Jane Campion only the third woman to have ever won. Oddly, it is the first time since 1968 – when Mike Nichols won for The Graduate – that a film won Best Director and nothing else.
Similarly to the BAFTAs, Dune won the most awards, with six total, including Best Cinematography. Drive My Car picked up Best International Feature, while Jessica Chastain and Will Smith picked up the Best Actress and Best Actor awards respectively. (The latter apologised to the Academy, but not to Chris Rock, and said that he hopes he is invited back in his speech.)
See the full list of winners and nominees below.
Best Picture
Belfast
CODA (WINNER)
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) (WINNER)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Best Actor
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (tick, tick … BOOM!)
Will Smith (King Richard) (WINNER)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
Best Director
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) (WINNER)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) (WINNER)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Troy Kotsur (CODA) (WINNER)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
JK Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Best Costume Design
Cruella (WINNER)
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Best Sound
Belfast
Dune (WINNER)
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
Best Original Score
Don’t Look Up
Dune (WINNER)
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
Best Adapted Screenplay
CODA (Sian Heder) (WINNER)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Best Original Screenplay
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) (WINNER)
Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay, David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
The Worst Person in the World (Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)
Best Animated Short
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper (WINNER)
Best Live Action Short
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye (WINNER)
On My Mind
Please Hold
Best Film Editing
Don’t Look Up
Dune (WINNER)
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick… BOOM!
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (WINNER)
House of Gucci
Best Animated Feature
Encanto (WINNER)
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells Vs the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (WINNER)
Writing With Fire
Best Documentary Short
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball (WINNER)
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
Best Original Song
Be Alive (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas (Encanto)
Down to Joy (Belfast)
No Time to Die (No Time to Die) (WINNER)
Somehow You Do (Four Good Days)
Best Cinematography
Dune (WINNER)
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best International Feature
Drive My Car (WINNER)
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
Best Production Design
Dune (WINNER)
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Best Visual Effects
Dune (WINNER)
Free Guy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
No Time to Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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