Oscar Awards 2022 Records Set To Be Made And Broken At Sunday’s Ceremony

The
94th
Academy
Awards
is
all
set
to
break
some
records
with
wins
from
streaming
platforms
to
wins
by
female
directors,
cinematographers
to
actors
from
underrepresented
communities
and
more.
Some
of
the
names
expected
to
win
this
weekend
are

CODA,
The
Power
Of
The
Dog,
West
Side
Story‘s
Ariana
DeBose,
Troy
Kotsur
and
more.

Oscar
Awards
2022
To
Be
Attended
By
Ukrainian
President
Zelenskyy?

Netflix’s

Don’t
Look
Up,
The
Power
Of
The
Dog,
Tick
Tick
Boom
are
not
the
only
films
that
have
bagged
the
streaming
platform
nods.
According
to
reports,
the
streaming
giant
has
27
Oscar
nominations
this
year
in
17
different
categories
including
Best
Picture,
Best
Director,
Best
Cinematography,
Leading
and
Supporting
roles,
Adapted
and
original
screenplay.
This
might
be
the
first
year,
a
streaming
studio
takes
home
one
of
the
biggest
Oscars
awards.

The
Power
of
The
Dog
which
led
with
12
nominations,
could
also
land
its
cinematographer
Ari
Wegner
her
first
Oscar
win,
making
her
the
only
woman
to
win
in
the
Best
Cinematography
category
in
all
of
Academy
Awards
history.
Benedict
Cumberbatch’s
film
could
also
make
another
record
as
the
first
time
a
writer-director
bagging
Best
Picture,
Best
Screenplay
and
the
Best
Director
award.
Jane
Campion,
who
also
has
an
Oscar
for

The
Piano‘s
Best
Original
Screenplay
in
1994
has
been
nominated
for
all
three
major
categories
in
2022.

Kodi
Smit-McPhee
who
has
been
nominated
for
Best
Supporting
Actor
for

The
Power
of
the
Dog
could
become
the
second-youngest
actor
to
win
the
Oscar
Award
after
actress
Tatum
O’Neal
who
was
only
10
years
old
when
she
won
Best
Supporting
Actress
for
the
film
Paper
Moon.

West
Side
Story‘s
Ariana
DeBose,
who
is
most
likely
to
win
Best
Supporting
Actress
for
2022,
will
become
the
second
Latina
to
win
Best
Supporting
Actress
and
the
first
woman
of
colour
from
the
LGBTQA+
community
to
win
an
Oscar.
Her
win
will
also
mark
the
third
time
an
actor
won
an
Oscar
for
playing
the
same
character
that
a
different
actor
also
won
for.

Oscar-Winning
Filmmaker
Asghar
Farhadi
Accused
Of
Plagiarising
His
2021
Release
A
Hero

Meanwhile,
Troy
Kotsur’s
win
for

CODA
could
make
him
the
second
deaf
actor
ever
to
win
Oscar
in
the
same
category.
Notably,

Drive
My
Car
has
brought
Japanese
cinema
closer
to
Oscar
win,
if
the
film
win’s
it
will
make
history
by
becoming
the
first
Japanese
film
to
win
a
Best
Picture
Academy
Award.

Oscars
2022
is
set
to
be
hosted
by
Regina
Hall,
left,
Amy
Schumer
and
Wanda
Sykes
after
going
hostless
for
three
years.
The
ceremony
will
go
live
in
India
on
March
28,
2022,
at
5:30
am
IST.