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Oscars for Spain in 2022? Full nomination list revealed
08/02/2022
OSCAR nominations for the 2022 awards are now confirmed – and the list just released shows a Spanish husband-and-wife team up for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Although cult director Pedro Almodóvar was tipped to make the shortlist for Best International Film with his recent Madres Paralelas ('Parallel Mothers'), it has not reached the top five – three of which, Drive My Car, The Hand of God and The Worst Person in the World, have been nominated for a BAFTA, the ceremony for which is on February 13.
You can read further details of these films by clicking on the BAFTA link above.
The other two Best International Film nominations are Flee and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.
Despite failing to make the shortlist for Best International Film, one of the Parallel Mothers in Almodóvar's latest feature, Penélope Cruz, has been nominated for a Best Actress in a Leading Rôle Oscar, along with Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye – who won a Concha de Plata, or 'Silver Shell' for Best Performance Artist for the part at September's San Sebastián Film Festival – Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter, Kristen Stewart for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer, and Nicole Kidman in Being the Ricardos.
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'Bond villain' Javier Bardem and 'Mr Penélope Cruz' played the main part in Fernando León de Aranoa's comedy-drama El Buen Patrón ('The Good Boss'), which was one of the productions pre-selected for a Best International Film Oscar, but in the end, has not made the cut.
Bardem, though, who went blond and became the 'baddie' in Skyfall, is up for Best Actor in a Leading Rôle for his part in Being the Ricardos – meaning his Australian co-star is up against his own wife for a Best Actress Oscar.
Bardem's rivals in the race are Benedict Cumberbatch for The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield for Tick, Tick...Boom!, Will Smith for King Richard, and Denzel Washington for The Tragedy of Macbeth, meaning the latter continues his reign as most-nominated black actor in history, now in double figures with his 10th, of which nine were for acting and one for producing.
Spain is in the running for two other Oscars, one of these being for Alberto Iglesias for Best Original Score for the soundtrack he composed for Madres Paralelas.
Iglesias will be competing against Hans Zimmer for Dune, Germaine Franco for Encanto, Nicholas Brittel for Don't Look Up, and Jonny Greenwood for The Power of the Dog.
The other Spanish nomination is for Best Animated Short Film for director Alberto Mielgo, whose Spain-US co-production, The Windshield Wiper, is up against Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet, and Robin Robin.
Spain and the Oscars
Almodóvar already has two Oscars to his name for what is now known as Best International Film but was then called Best Foreign Language Film – for the 1999 tragi-comedy Todo Sobre Mi Madre ('All About My Mother'), with Cecilia Roth as a grieving mum who tracks down her late son's father, now living as a woman, and a 25-year-old Penélope Cruz as a nun dying from AIDS, and the oddly romantic Hable Con Ella ('Talk To Her'), from 2002, the synopsis of which would put most people off watching it but which actually turns out to be tender, captivating and intriguing against the odds.
Nominations have not been lacking for Spain, albeit rare, and wins rarer still – Hollywood legend and Málaga's most famous export, Antonio Banderas, was nominated, for the first time in his 40-plus-year career, for Best Actor in 2020 for Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory'), a semi-autobiographical epic featuring Penélope Cruz as a young Almodóvar's mum, and which netted Almodóvar a Best Director and Best International Film nomination.
They both went home empty-handed – Banderas has, as yet, to the outrage of his fans, never won an Oscar - but with the knowledge that they had made it into the top five for the first time since Spain had achieved this in 2005, again with Bardem, playing paraplegic Raimon Sampedro fighting for his right to die with dignity in Mar Adentro ('The Sea Inside'), based upon a true story.
Spain's latest Oscar award was last year, though, for Cantabria-born Sergio López-Rivera for 'Best Hair and Makeup' for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' – a sought-after artist who has lived in Los Ángeles for 35 years.
In a roundabout way, Spain also 'won' four Oscars in 2020 for Galician tinned potato crisps producer Bonilla a la Vista – these were clearly seen on set during the South Korean black comedy Parasite, which cleared up at the last pre-pandemic ceremony and became the first non-English-language production in its then 92-year history to win Best Picture, the crème of the awards.
The remainder of the list
West Side Story producer and prolific director Steven Spielberg now holds the record for the highest number of Oscar-nominated films – 11 in total – but Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog is comfortably in the lead for the 94th awards with a whopping 12 nominations.
She is also now the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director, previously getting a nod for The Piano.
The productions whose cast and crew are crossing their fingers for a Best Picture statuette once the ceremony comes around on March 27 are Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Belfast, and CODA.
All of these besides Nightmare Alley, West Side Story, King Richard and CODA are up for BAFTAs this coming Sunday.
Best Actress in a Supporting Rôle nominations are Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Judi Dench (Belfast), Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog), and Aujanue Ellis (King Richard).
Their male counterparts nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Rôle are Ciaran Hinds (Belfast), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog), and J. K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos).
Best Short Documentary nominations are for Audible, Lead Me Home, The Queen of Basketball, Three Songs for Benazir, and When We Were Bullies.
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature are Ascension, Attica, Flee, Summer of Soul, and Writing With Fire.
King Richard, Encanto, Belfast, the latest Bond episode No Time to Die, and Four Good Days are up for Best Original Song, and Encanto, Flee, Luca, The Mitchells vs The Machine, and Raya and the Last Dragon are nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
The five gunning for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar are CODA, Drive My Car, Dune, The Lost Daughter, and The Power of the Dog, and for Best Original Screenplay, Belfast, Don't Look Up, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, and The Worst Person in the World.
Along with the record-breaking Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) and Steven Spielberg (West Side Story), Best Director nominations go to Kenneth Branagh, for Belfast; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi for Drive My Car, and Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza.
Best Cinematography was previously known as Best Photographic Direction, and this year's Oscar nominees are the films Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and West Side Story.
Best Costume Design candidate films are Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, Nightmare Alley and West Side Story.
Best Achievement in Sound, sometimes known at film awards as Best Sound Effects, could go to Belfast, Dune, No Time to Die, The Power of the Dog, or West Side Story.
Up for Best Live Action Short Film are Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, The Dress, The Long Goodbye, On My Mind, and Please Hold.
Best Visual Effects nominations are for Dune, Free Guy, No Time to Die, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Best Film Editing nominees are Don't Look Up, Dune, King Richard, The Power of the Dog, and Tick, Tick...Boom!.
Finally, the films hoping to earn a statuette for Best Makeup and Hairstyling are Coming 2 America, Cruella, Dune, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and the explosive drama starring pop artist Lady Gaga, House of Gucci.
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OSCAR nominations for the 2022 awards are now confirmed – and the list just released shows a Spanish husband-and-wife team up for Best Actor and Best Actress.
Although cult director Pedro Almodóvar was tipped to make the shortlist for Best International Film with his recent Madres Paralelas ('Parallel Mothers'), it has not reached the top five – three of which, Drive My Car, The Hand of God and The Worst Person in the World, have been nominated for a BAFTA, the ceremony for which is on February 13.
You can read further details of these films by clicking on the BAFTA link above.
The other two Best International Film nominations are Flee and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.
Despite failing to make the shortlist for Best International Film, one of the Parallel Mothers in Almodóvar's latest feature, Penélope Cruz, has been nominated for a Best Actress in a Leading Rôle Oscar, along with Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye – who won a Concha de Plata, or 'Silver Shell' for Best Performance Artist for the part at September's San Sebastián Film Festival – Olivia Colman for The Lost Daughter, Kristen Stewart for her portrayal of Princess Diana in Spencer, and Nicole Kidman in Being the Ricardos.
Being Bond's Nemesis, a Good Boss and a Ricardo
'Bond villain' Javier Bardem and 'Mr Penélope Cruz' played the main part in Fernando León de Aranoa's comedy-drama El Buen Patrón ('The Good Boss'), which was one of the productions pre-selected for a Best International Film Oscar, but in the end, has not made the cut.
Bardem, though, who went blond and became the 'baddie' in Skyfall, is up for Best Actor in a Leading Rôle for his part in Being the Ricardos – meaning his Australian co-star is up against his own wife for a Best Actress Oscar.
Bardem's rivals in the race are Benedict Cumberbatch for The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield for Tick, Tick...Boom!, Will Smith for King Richard, and Denzel Washington for The Tragedy of Macbeth, meaning the latter continues his reign as most-nominated black actor in history, now in double figures with his 10th, of which nine were for acting and one for producing.
Spain is in the running for two other Oscars, one of these being for Alberto Iglesias for Best Original Score for the soundtrack he composed for Madres Paralelas.
Iglesias will be competing against Hans Zimmer for Dune, Germaine Franco for Encanto, Nicholas Brittel for Don't Look Up, and Jonny Greenwood for The Power of the Dog.
The other Spanish nomination is for Best Animated Short Film for director Alberto Mielgo, whose Spain-US co-production, The Windshield Wiper, is up against Affairs of the Art, Bestia, Boxballet, and Robin Robin.
Spain and the Oscars
Almodóvar already has two Oscars to his name for what is now known as Best International Film but was then called Best Foreign Language Film – for the 1999 tragi-comedy Todo Sobre Mi Madre ('All About My Mother'), with Cecilia Roth as a grieving mum who tracks down her late son's father, now living as a woman, and a 25-year-old Penélope Cruz as a nun dying from AIDS, and the oddly romantic Hable Con Ella ('Talk To Her'), from 2002, the synopsis of which would put most people off watching it but which actually turns out to be tender, captivating and intriguing against the odds.
Nominations have not been lacking for Spain, albeit rare, and wins rarer still – Hollywood legend and Málaga's most famous export, Antonio Banderas, was nominated, for the first time in his 40-plus-year career, for Best Actor in 2020 for Dolor y Gloria ('Pain and Glory'), a semi-autobiographical epic featuring Penélope Cruz as a young Almodóvar's mum, and which netted Almodóvar a Best Director and Best International Film nomination.
They both went home empty-handed – Banderas has, as yet, to the outrage of his fans, never won an Oscar - but with the knowledge that they had made it into the top five for the first time since Spain had achieved this in 2005, again with Bardem, playing paraplegic Raimon Sampedro fighting for his right to die with dignity in Mar Adentro ('The Sea Inside'), based upon a true story.
Spain's latest Oscar award was last year, though, for Cantabria-born Sergio López-Rivera for 'Best Hair and Makeup' for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' – a sought-after artist who has lived in Los Ángeles for 35 years.
In a roundabout way, Spain also 'won' four Oscars in 2020 for Galician tinned potato crisps producer Bonilla a la Vista – these were clearly seen on set during the South Korean black comedy Parasite, which cleared up at the last pre-pandemic ceremony and became the first non-English-language production in its then 92-year history to win Best Picture, the crème of the awards.
The remainder of the list
West Side Story producer and prolific director Steven Spielberg now holds the record for the highest number of Oscar-nominated films – 11 in total – but Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog is comfortably in the lead for the 94th awards with a whopping 12 nominations.
She is also now the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director, previously getting a nod for The Piano.
The productions whose cast and crew are crossing their fingers for a Best Picture statuette once the ceremony comes around on March 27 are Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story, Belfast, and CODA.
All of these besides Nightmare Alley, West Side Story, King Richard and CODA are up for BAFTAs this coming Sunday.
Best Actress in a Supporting Rôle nominations are Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter), Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Judi Dench (Belfast), Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog), and Aujanue Ellis (King Richard).
Their male counterparts nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Rôle are Ciaran Hinds (Belfast), Troy Kotsur (CODA), Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog), and J. K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos).
Best Short Documentary nominations are for Audible, Lead Me Home, The Queen of Basketball, Three Songs for Benazir, and When We Were Bullies.
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature are Ascension, Attica, Flee, Summer of Soul, and Writing With Fire.
King Richard, Encanto, Belfast, the latest Bond episode No Time to Die, and Four Good Days are up for Best Original Song, and Encanto, Flee, Luca, The Mitchells vs The Machine, and Raya and the Last Dragon are nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
The five gunning for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar are CODA, Drive My Car, Dune, The Lost Daughter, and The Power of the Dog, and for Best Original Screenplay, Belfast, Don't Look Up, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, and The Worst Person in the World.
Along with the record-breaking Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) and Steven Spielberg (West Side Story), Best Director nominations go to Kenneth Branagh, for Belfast; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi for Drive My Car, and Paul Thomas Anderson for Licorice Pizza.
Best Cinematography was previously known as Best Photographic Direction, and this year's Oscar nominees are the films Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and West Side Story.
Best Costume Design candidate films are Cruella, Cyrano, Dune, Nightmare Alley and West Side Story.
Best Achievement in Sound, sometimes known at film awards as Best Sound Effects, could go to Belfast, Dune, No Time to Die, The Power of the Dog, or West Side Story.
Up for Best Live Action Short Film are Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, The Dress, The Long Goodbye, On My Mind, and Please Hold.
Best Visual Effects nominations are for Dune, Free Guy, No Time to Die, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Best Film Editing nominees are Don't Look Up, Dune, King Richard, The Power of the Dog, and Tick, Tick...Boom!.
Finally, the films hoping to earn a statuette for Best Makeup and Hairstyling are Coming 2 America, Cruella, Dune, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and the explosive drama starring pop artist Lady Gaga, House of Gucci.
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