2022 Oscar Nominee Reviews

Aftersun

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Actor, Paul Mescal

All Quiet on the Western Front

4.5/5.0REVIEW
9 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best International Feature (Germany)
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling
  • Best Music (Orignal Score), Volker Bertelmann
  • Best Production Design
  • Best Sound
  • Best Visual Effects

All That Breathes

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

4.5/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

Argentina, 1985

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best International Feature (Argentina)

Avatar: The Way of Water

4.0/5.0
4 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Production Design
  • Best Sound
  • Best Visual Effects

Babylon

3.5/5.0REVIEW
3 nominations

  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Music (Original Score), Justin Hurwitz
  • Best Production Design

The Banshees of Inisherin

5.0/5.0REVIEW
9 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director, Martin McDonagh
  • Best Actor, Colin Farrell
  • Best Supporing Actor, Brendan Gleeson
  • Best Supporting Actor, Barry Keoghan
  • Best Supporting Actress, Kerry Condon
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Music (Original Score), Carter Burwell

Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths

2.5/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Cinematography

The Batman

3.5/5.0
3 nominations

  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling
  • Best Sound
  • Best Visual Effects

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

3.5/5.0
5 nominations

  • Best Supporting Actress, Angela Bassett
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling
  • Best Music (Original Song), “Lift Me Up”
  • Best Visual Effects

Blonde

4.0/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Actress, Ana de Armas

Causeway

3.5/5.0 REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Supporting Actor, Brian Tyree Henry

Close

/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best International Film (Belgium)

Elvis

3.0/5.0
8 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor, Austin Butler
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Costume Deisgn
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling
  • Best Production Design
  • Best Sound

Empire of Light

3.0/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Cinematography

EO

2.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best International Feature (Poland)

Everything Everywhere All At Once

4.5/5.0REVIEW
11 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
  • Best Actress, Michelle Yeo
  • Best Supporting Actor, Ke Huy Quan
  • Best Supporting Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Best Supporting Actress, Stephanie Hsu
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Music (Original Score), Son Lux
  • Best Music (Original Song), “This is A Life”

The Fabelmans

3.0/5.0 REVIEW
7 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director, Steven Spielberg
  • Best Actress, Michelle Williams
  • Best Supporting Actor, Judd Hirsch
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Music (Original Score), John Williams
  • Best Production Design

Fire of Love

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

4.5/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

4.0/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

A House Made of Splinters

3.5/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

Living

4.0/5.0 REVIEW
2 nominations

  • Best Actor, Bill Nighy
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

4.0/5.0 REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

4.0/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Costume Design

Navalny

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Documentary Feature

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

The Quiet Girl

4.5/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best International Film (Ireland)

RRR

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Music (Original Song), “Naatu Naatu”

The Sea Beast

3.5/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

TAR

4.5/5.0REVIEW
6 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director, Todd Field
  • Best Actress, Cate Blanchett
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Film Editing

Tell it Like a Woman

1.5/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Music (Original Song), “Applause”

To Leslie

4.0/5.0
1 nomination

  • Best Actress, Andrea Riseborough

Top Gun: Maverick

4.0/5.0 REVIEW
6 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Music (Original Song), “Hold My Hand”
  • Best Sound
  • Best Visual Effects

Triangle of Sadness

4.0/5.0
3 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Director, Ruben Ostlund
  • Best Original Screenplay

Turning Red

3.5/5.0REVIEW
1 nomination

  • Best Animated Feature

The Whale

2.5/5.0REVIEW
3 nominations

  • Best Actor, Brendan Fraser
  • Best Supporting Actress, Hong Chau
  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Women Talking

4.5/5.0REVIEW
2 nominations

  • Best Picture
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Shorts

Best Animated ShortREVIEWS

  • The Boy, The Mole, the Fox and the Horse – 3.0/5.0
  • The Flying Sailor – 2.5/5.0
  • Ice Merchants – 5.0/5.0
  • My Year of Dicks – 3.5/5.0
  • An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I think I Believe It – 3.5/5.0

Best Documentary ShortREVIEWS

  • The Elephant Whisperers – 4.0/5.0
  • Haulout – 3.5/5.0
  • How Do You Measure a Year? – 2.0/5.0
  • The Martha Mitchell Effect – 3.5/5.0
  • Stranger at the Gate – 3.5/5.0

Best Live Action Short – REVIEWS

  • An Irish Goodbye – 4.0/5.0
  • Ivalu – 3.5/5.0
  • Le Pupille – 3.0/5.0
  • Night Ride – 2.0/5.0
  • The Red Suitcase – 4.5/5.0