Our forum posters, many of whom are Hollywood insiders hiding behind screen names, were quick to sound off with their 2022 Oscar winner reactions. As they discussed the unfolding ceremony on March 27, they cheered for their favorite films and lamented the fact that others had lost..
Over the past 93 years the Academy Awards have learned that it’s impossible to please everybody, and this year is no exception. Below is just a sampling of the brutally honest comments of our sassy forum posters concerning the 2022 Oscar winners. Take a read and then jump in here if you’re brave enough.
Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
X – “CODA” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers
“Licorice Pizza” Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
“Nightmare Alley” Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers
“The Power of the Dog” Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
“West Side Story” Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Barbra Please: Yess… “CODA”!!!
ejaru1810: “CODA” won, welcome to the club of “The Artist,” “Crash” and “Green Book” as the worst winners of all time.
abelfenty: I’M CRYING. IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. CODA SWEPT.
Derrick Eoghan Oisín O’Callaghan: “CODA”… YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Stats have been broken tonight.
Best Director
“Belfast” Kenneth Branagh
“Drive My Car” Ryusuke Hamaguchi
“Licorice Pizza” Paul Thomas Anderson
X – “The Power of the Dog” Jane Campion
“West Side Story” Steven Spielberg
Ghost: Go, Jane!
cinetastic: How surprising that Campion won! Who could have seen it coming?
FreemanGriffin: So not deserving, sorry, I don’t care, she just isn’t all that good a director and her movie was half great and half terrible.
Anna Artdeco: Go Jane!! Love to see female directors getting their due.
Best Actress
X – Jessica Chastain in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Olivia Colman in “The Lost Daughter”
Penélope Cruz in “Parallel Mothers”
Nicole Kidman in “Being the Ricardos”
Kristen Stewart in “Spencer”
syrus80: YES!!!!! Congrats Jessica! I am so happy for her!!!!!
Troll_Hunter: Hoped for Cruz but not mad it’s Jessica. Congrats Queen.
abelfenty: What a boring win. Colman, Cruz, and Stewart all gave much superior performances.
Best Actor
Javier Bardem in “Being the Ricardos”
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield in “tick, tick…BOOM!”
X – Will Smith in “King Richard”
Denzel Washington in “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
TrumpBiden: Amazing night for Smith. Standing up for his wife and collecting his much deserved Oscar. Congrats legend. Absolute legend.
stilloverit: Will Smith, what an actor, what a MAN.
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley in “The Lost Daughter”
X – Ariana DeBose in “West Side Story”
Judi Dench in “Belfast”
Kirsten Dunst in “The Power of the Dog”
Aunjanue Ellis in “King Richard”
FreemanGriffin: Ariana DeBose!!!!!!! (: (: (: (: She swept!
Sean C: Anita officially enters the history books with Vito Corleone and the Joker!
laslo: A second Latina winner is what we deserve!
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds in “Belfast”
X – Troy Kotsur in “CODA”
Jesse Plemons in “The Power of the Dog”
J.K. Simmons in “Being the Ricardos”
Kodi Smit-McPhee in “The Power of the Dog”
nevkm: Troy!! Happy for him!
abelfenty: ACADEMY AWARD WINNER TROY KOTSUR. IT JUST SOUNDS SO RIGHT.
Mary: I’m so happy for Troy!!
Best Original Screenplay
X – “Belfast” Written by Kenneth Branagh
“Don’t Look Up” Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
“King Richard” Written by Zach Baylin
“Licorice Pizza” Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Worst Person in the World” Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
noemiq: NO just no! “Belfast”?
Moviebuff22: Congrats to Borefest!!
M: Yikes, taste not found.
Best Adapted Screenplay
X – “CODA” Screenplay by Siân Heder
“Drive My Car” Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
“Dune” Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
“The Lost Daughter” Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
“The Power of the Dog” Written by Jane Campion
Brayfers: YES Siân Heder !!!!!
SN: These are the worst Screenplay winners in a very long time.
estrelas: This has to be the worst set of writing winners in like…forever?!
Best Cinematography
X – “Dune” Greig Fraser
“Nightmare Alley” Dan Laustsen
“The Power of the Dog” Ari Wegner
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” Bruno Delbonnel
“West Side Story” Janusz Kaminski
Atypical: So history not made for Ari Wegner. Sad. Oh well.
Best Costume Design
X – “Cruella” Jenny Beavan
“Cyrano” Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
“Dune” Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
“Nightmare Alley” Luis Sequeira
“West Side Story” Paul Tazewell
Derp Boy: Did not like “Cruella” too much but yeah the costumes were fabulous just like the villain herself.
Atypical: Yay Jenny Beavan! 3X Oscar winner! Legend.
Best Film Editing
“Don’t Look Up” Hank Corwin
X – “Dune” Joe Walker
“King Richard” Pamela Martin
“The Power of the Dog” Peter Sciberras
“tick, tick…BOOM!” Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“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
X – “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
“House of Gucci” Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Best Original Score
“Don’t Look Up” Nicholas Britell
X – “Dune” Hans Zimmer
“Encanto” Germaine Franco
“Parallel Mothers” Alberto Iglesias
“The Power of the Dog” Jonny Greenwood
nevkm: Zimmer…ugh.
Atypical: Far better scores in the lineup, but whatever.
Best Original Song
“Be Alive” from “King Richard”
Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”
Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast”
Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
X – “No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
J: YES BILLIE!!!!!
Atypical: Billie and Finneas STAY winning!!! Love itttt!
Go Jessica!: BILLIE. Yes 20-year-old queen.
Milk Money: NOTE: If you wanna win an Oscar, sing a Bond theme song.
Best Production Design
X – “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
Anna Artdeco: “Dune” sweep happening. We love to see it.
Best Sound
“Belfast” Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
X – “Dune” Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
“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 Visual Effects
X – “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
roger88: A “Mad Max: Fury Road”-esque run.
Best International Feature
X – “Drive My Car” Japan
“Flee” Denmark
“The Hand of God” Italy
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” Bhutan
“The Worst Person in the World” Norway
FreemanGriffin: Good, “Drive My Car” won!
crabbie: The best film of the year won.
Best Animated Feature
X – “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
abelfenty: “Flee” was robbed.
TheLordMan: “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” won the most awards yet lost this. Makes sense.
Ziggiy: “Encanto” won? I’m SHOCKED!?!?
ejaru1810: “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” and “Flee” are far better than “Encanto.” “Encanto” only won for being a Disney film with catchy music.
Best Animated Short
“Affairs of the Art” Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
“Bestia” Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
“Boxballet” Anton Dyakov
“Robin Robin” Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
X – “The Windshield Wiper” Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
fivestar: How in the world did “The Windshield Wiper” win? I swear it’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen in my life.
Best Documentary Feature
“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
X – “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
“Writing with Fire” Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
Frank2803: Well deserved, Questlove.
Best Documentary Short
“Audible” Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
“Lead Me Home” Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
X – “The Queen of Basketball” Ben Proudfoot
“Three Songs for Benazir” Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
“When We Were Bullies” Jay Rosenblatt
Best Live Action Short
“Ala Kachuu – Take and Run” Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
“The Dress” Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
X – “The Long Goodbye” Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
“On My Mind” Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
“Please Hold” K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse
Almond: Oscar winner Riz let’s gooo.
Brayfers: Academy Award Winner RIZ AHMED !!
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