Ready to make your 2022 Oscar predictions for the winners in all 23 categories? Then scroll through our photo gallery to find out the favorites in each race at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27. We are predicting the winners in everything from the big one, Best Picture, to the three shorts. We’ll be updating this gallery after the 2022 Oscars nominations are revealed on February 8.
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2022 Oscars
Image Credit: AMPAS These 2022 Oscar predictions are based on the forecasts of five groups: our expert journalists; our in-house editors; the two dozen readers who did the best predicting last year’s Oscar winners; the all-star 24 readers who did the best for the past two years combined; and thousands of readers like you.
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Best Picture
Image Credit: Netflix Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
West Side Story -
Best Director
Image Credit: Netflix Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story -
Best Actress
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer -
Best Actor
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick … Boom!
Will Smith, King Richard – WINNER
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Best Supporting Actress
Image Credit: Disney Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story – WINNER
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
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Best Supporting Actor
Image Credit: Apple TV+ Ciaran Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kostur, CODA – WINNER
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Image Credit: Apple CODA – WINNER
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
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Best Original Screenplay
Image Credit: MGM Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza – WINNER
The Worst Person in the World -
Best Cinematography
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Dune – WINNER
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
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Best Costume Design
Image Credit: Disney Cruella – WINNER
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story -
Best Film Editiing
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Don’t Look Up
Dune – WINNER
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick… Boom! -
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
House of Gucci -
Best Production Design
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Dune – WINNER
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story -
Best Original Score
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Don’t Look Up, Nicholas Britell
Dune, Hans Zimmer – WINNER
Encanto, Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers, Alberto Iglesias
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Best Original Song
Image Credit: MGM “Be Alive” from King Richard, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto, Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down to Joy” from Belfast, Van Morrison
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die, Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell – WINNER
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days, Diane Warren
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Best Sound
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Belfast
Dune – WINNER
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story -
Best Visual Effects
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Dune – WINNER
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home -
Best Animated Feature
Image Credit: Disney Encanto – WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon -
Best Documentary Feature
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul – WINNER
Writing with Fire -
Best International Feature
Image Credit: Janus Films Drive My Car – WINNER
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World -
Best Animated Short
Image Credit: Aardman Animation Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin – WINNER
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Best Documentary Short
Image Credit: Netflix; New York Times Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball – WINNER
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies -
Best Documentary Short
Image Credit: Netflix Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir – WINNER
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Best Live Action Short
Image Credit: Mongrel Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye – WINNER
On My Mind
Please Hold
