This year too, Oscars 2022 do not disappoint expectations. The 94th edition of the Academy Awards gave us many surprises, starting with the unexpected winner of the best picture award.

The Power of the Dog, super-favorite Netflix movie with 12 nominations, winner of multiple awards at the past Bafta and Critics Choice Awards, managed to take home only the award for best director, making Jane Campion the third woman in Oscar-winning history to win this award.

The big surprise of the night of the Oscars 2022 was CODA. The film, which focuses on a family of deaf people, won the award for best film, making Apple TV+ the first streaming platform to win this award. The film also won best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur and best adapted screenplay for Sian Heder. Together with Grand Hotel in 1932, Gigi in 1959 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004, CODA is the only film of the evening that managed to win all the awards for which it was nominated (three).

Even Dune does not disappoint expectations. The film directed by Denis Villeneuve has in fact won all the technical awards: best sound, soundtrack, editing, scenography, photography and special effects. The technical categories were then at the center of much controversy on social media. This year, in fact, to gain time in the live shows, the Academy has decided not to broadcast them during the live event, but to record them in advance.

Oscars 2022: an award and a slap for Will Smith

Will Smith is the winner of the Best Actor Award for his performance in King Richard. Shortly before receiving the statuette, the actor was the protagonist of an unexpected altercation between him and Chris Rock: the American conductor and comedian, who took the stage to announce the winner for best documentary, turned to Jada Pinkett Smith, Will’s wife, making a not at all funny joke about her alopecia. Smith didn’t think twice, joined Chris Rock on stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and slapped him at the speed of light. Back in the audience, Smith then yelled at him “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!”

Jessica Chastain is the winner of the award for best leading actress in The eyes of Tammy Faye. The movie also won the award for best makeup and hairstyling. The Best Supporting Actress statuette went to Ariana DeBose for her performance in West Side Story, while actor and director Kenneth Branagh won the Best Original Screenplay statuette for Belfast.

Encanto wins the award for best animated film, leaving The Mitchells. A fairly obvious prize for Disney, which competed with 3 out of 5 films in this category.

On the music front, the young Billie Eilish instead wins the Oscar for best original song with the song No Time To Die.

Oscars 2022: the complete list of winners

Below is the complete list of the various categories of the 2022 Oscars, with all nominations and winners highlighted in bold.

Best Picture

• CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger
• Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas
• Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick
• Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto
• Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter
• King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith
• Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson
• Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper
• The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier
• West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger

Best Director

• 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

• 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

Best Actress

• 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

• 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

Best Supporting Actress

• 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

• Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
• Don’t Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay and David Sirota
• King Richard – Zach Baylin
• Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Worst Person in the World – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier

Best Adapted Screenplay

• CODA – Sian Heder; based on the original motion picture screenplay La Famille Bélier written by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau
• Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe; based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
• Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth; based on the novel by Frank Herbert
• The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal; based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
• The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion; based on the novel by Thomas Savage

Best Animated 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

Best International Feature Film

• Drive My Car (Japan) in Japanese – directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
• Flee (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
• The Hand of God (Italy) in Italian – directed by Paolo Sorrentino
• Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan) in Dzongkha – directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji
• The Worst Person in the World (Norway) in Norwegian – directed by Joachim Trier

Best Documentary Feature

• 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

Best Documentary Short Subject

• 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

• 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

Best Animated Short Film

• 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 Dyako
• Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please

Best Original Score

• Dune – Hans Zimmer
• Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell
• Encanto – Germaine Franco
• Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias
• The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood

Best Original Song

• “No Time to Die” from No Time to Die – Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
• “Be Alive” from King Richard – Music and lyrics by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
• “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto – Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• “Down to Joy” from Belfast – Music and lyrics by Van Morrison
• “Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren

Best Sound

• Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
• Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
• No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
• The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
• West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

Best Production Design

• Dune – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
• Nightmare Alley – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
• The Power of the Dog – Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
• West Side Story – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo

Best Cinematography

• Dune – Greig Fraser
• Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen
• The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel
• West Side Story – Janusz Kamiński

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
• Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
• Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
• Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
• House of Gucci – Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

Best Costume Design

• Cruella – Jenny Beavan
• Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
• Dune – Jacqueline West and Bob Morgan
• Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira
• West Side Story – Paul Tazewell

Best Film Editing

• Dune – Joe Walker
• Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin
• King Richard – Pamela Martin
• The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras
• Tick, Tick… Boom! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

Best Visual Effects

• Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
• Free Guy – Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
• No Time to Die – Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings – Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
• Spider-Man: No Way Home – Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

Honorary Academy Awards

• Samuel L. Jackson – “A cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated across genres and generations and audiences worldwide.”
• Elaine May – “For her bold, uncompromising approach to filmmaking, as a writer, director and actress.”
• Liv Ullmann – “Ullman’s bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals.”