The full Oscars 2022 winners list, plus the wildest moments of the Oscars

“Love will make you do crazy things.” Will Smith dropped that line in his acceptance speech for Best Actor at the 2022 Oscars as a veiled reference to the biggest drama of the ceremony. During the 94th Academy Awards, the actor got up from his seat and slapped presenter Chris Rock in the face for a joke Rock made about Jada Pinkett Smith, Smith’s wife.

That moment rocked social media as the viewing audience tried to decide if the interaction had been a scripted bit with a fake slap, only to begin to realize when it wasn’t uncensored versions of the attack started popping up on social media. (In America, ABC muted the show so viewers didn’t hear Rock’s immediate response — “Oh wow, Will Smith just threw my shit out of me” — or Smith repeatedly yelling at Rock, “Let out my wife’s name, damn it times. mouth!”)

Smith’s tearful speech, in which he apologized to the academy and justified the slap as an impetus to protect his family, sparked further outrage online. In a year when, after years, the Academy once again struggled to find new ways to increase viewership steady decline in audienceit was a guarantee that while audiences can argue about whether either the awards or the ceremony is relevant to general audiences, people will surely be discussing this year’s ceremony, and not for the reasons the Academy had hoped .

Format experiments for the 2022 ceremony included a return to actual hosts for the first time in four years, with Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes and Amy Schumer overseeing the presentations. (“This year, the Oscars hired three women as presenters because it was cheaper than hiring a man,” Schumer joked during the show’s opening sequence.) The producers did one, too immediately controversial decision to present eight of the awards – the short film awards and several of the craft categories – separately prior to the ceremonies and to capture only selected footage of these presentations during the live show.

While this decision prompted immediate outrage — particularly among those eligible to win these awards, who lamented that their professions were not respected — it wasn’t the worst change in the ceremony format. It effectively eliminated some of the slower parts of the show: instead of watching the winners take in the fact that their names were being called, gather, hug their loved ones and take the stage, the audience only had to see quick insert cuts of their acceptance speeches. But the academy’s decision to publish the names of the winners upon their announcement meant the main ceremony included eight awards where audiences may already have known who won, further defusing those presentations.

And attempts to speed up and streamline the ceremony mostly gave way to questionable filler, like a stumbling comedy in which Sykes disguised himself as Will Smith King Richard character, tennis coach Richard Williams; Hall dressed as Tammy Faye Bakker as seen in The Eyes of Tammy Faye; and Schumer descended from the stage ceiling on wires, disguised as Spider-Man.

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Even putting the Will Smith drama aside, it’s been a strange year for the show. The traditional “In Memoriam” montage, usually a sober affair in which the names of Hollywood figures who have died in the past year flash solemnly onscreen over a sentimental song, was one upbeat, rocking number this year, with a choir dancing and singing songs like Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”. Speeches were mostly non-political, but the three cohosts cracked several jokes related to current politics, including gags about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law and Texas’ voter-suppression efforts. Some of the presenters were actors from films like Juno

The ceremony proceeded with startling speed and an oddly cavalier lack of concern about tonal shifts. Some parts were clear attempts to appeal to a Gen Z audience that almost certainly wasn’t tuning in: At one point, South Korean pop group BTS appeared in a segment lasting under a minute where they briefly praised…well, movies, basically. And then there were the much-vaunted referendum categories, asking fans to vote online for “the happiest movie moment ever” and the best picture of 2021.

In both cases, Zack Snyder movies won – the moment in Snyders justice league Where “Flash Enters the Speed ​​Force was the jubilant moment while the Snyder film hit Netflix Army of the Dead Won Fan Favorite. In both cases, however, the montage of the top five nominees sped by with so little preparation, explanation, or fanfare that it was difficult for viewers to even take in what they were seeing.

And some of the evening’s bigger surprises got somewhat lost among all the quick cuts and shifts between staged parts, montages and musical performances. KODA Winning best picture stands out as a surprise moment, and social media has responded particularly positively when KODA‘s Troy Kotsur became the first deaf man in history to win an acting Oscar. ThreatenBest Supporting Actress winner Youn Yuh-jung presented him with the award, then gently took his award statuette from his hands so he could sign his acceptance speech. It was a triumphant, emotional moment that briefly faded in the rush to get more comedy business and guest stars. And the speed at which it all happened, despite the show’s nearly four-hour runtime, was a reminder that while much happens at the Oscars each year, most of it is meant for the acclaimed creators more than for audiences to absorb.

Pending viewership stats, it remains to be seen if the changes to the ceremony will have the desired effect in raising their profile. As with previous explosive Oscar moments, those who skipped the ceremony are more likely to watch the relevant clips online.

Here are all the winners of the 94th Annual Academy Awards.

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BEST PICTURE

Winner: KODA
Other nominees: Don’t Look Up, Dune, Belfast, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, King Richard, Nightmare Alley, Drive My Car

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Jessica Chastain, Tammy Faye’s eyes
Other nominees: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter; Nicole Kidman, be the Ricardos; Penelope Cruz, parallel mothers; Kristen Stewart, spencer

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Will Smith— King Richard
Other nominees: Benedict Cumberbatch, The power of the dog; Andrew Garfield, Tick, tick… boom!; denzel washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth; javier bardem, Be the Ricardos

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Jane Campion, The power of the dog
Other nominees: Paul Thomas Anderson, liquorice pizza; Steven Spielberg, west side story; Kenneth Branagh, Belfast; Ryusuke Hamaguchi, drive my car

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Winners: Billie Eilish and Finneas, “No Time to Die”, in no time to die“
Other nominees: “Of the Orguitas”, Charm; “Be alive,” King Richard; “Down to Joy” Belfast; “Somehow you do”, four good days

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Winner: summer of the soul
Other nominees: Escape, Ascension, Attica, Writing with Fire

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Winner: KODA
Other nominees: The Power of the Dog, The Prodigal Daughter, Dune, Drive My Car

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Winner: Belfast
Other nominees: Liquorice Pizza, Don’t look up, King Richard, the worst man in the world

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Winner: Cruella
Other nominees: Dune, Nightmare Alley, Cyrano, West Side Story

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Winner: drive my car
Other nominees: The Worst Person Alive, Escape, The Hand of God, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Troy Kotsur, KODA
Other nominees: Kodi Smit Mcphee, The power of the dog; Ciaran Hinds, Belfast; JK Simmons, Be the Ricardos; Jesse Plemons, The power of the dog

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Winner: charm
Other nominees: Luca, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Flee, Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Winner: dune
Other nominees: Spider-Man: No Way Home, Free Guy, No Time To Die, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

BEST SOUND

Winner: dune
Other nominees: The Might of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story

THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Ariana DeBose, Westside Story
Other nominees: Kirsten Dunst, The power of the dog; Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard; Jessie Buckley, The Prodigal Daughter; Judi Dench, Belfast

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Winner: dune
Other nominees: Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Might of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, West Side Story

BEST FILM EDITING

Winner: dune
Other nominees: The power of the dog, Don’t look up, Tick, Tick… Boom!, King Richard

BEST ORIGINAL RESULT

Winner: dune
Other nominees: The power of the dog, parallel mothers, don’t look up, encanto

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

Winner: The long goodbye
Other nominees: The Dress, On My Mind, Please Hold, Ala Kachuu – Take and Run

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Winner: The windshield wiper
Other nominees: Robin Robin, Boxing Ballet, Matters of Art, Bestia

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

Winner: The Queen of Basketball
Other nominees: Audible, Lead Me Home, Three Songs for Benazir, When We Were Bullies

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLES

Winner: Tammy Faye’s eyes
Other nominees: Coming 2 America, Cruella, Dune, House of Gucci

BEST SOUND

Winner: dune
Other nominees: Belfast, No Time To Die, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story