One of the highlights of award season each year is undoubtedly the Oscars – and we're full of anticipation for what the Oscars 2022 will bring.
While the ceremony and nominations for the 94th Oscars are still to come, speculation is rife as to who will win big this year. Last year, we saw Chloé Zhao's Nomadland – all about a van-dwelling working nomad – take home the Best Director, Best Actress (kudos to Frances McDormand) and Best Picture awards.
Daniel Kaluuya also won his second Oscar and Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman won the accolade for Best Original Screenplay.
What's more, it's recently been announced that the Oscars 2022 will have a host for the first time in four years. Here's everything else we know so far.
Fans are already hooked.
Who are the Oscars 2022 nominations?
The Oscars 2022 nominations were announced on 8 February 2022, as voting for the nominations took place from 27 January until 1 February.
You can find the full list of categories and their nominations below:
The nominations for Best Picture are:
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
The nominations for Best Director are:
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
The nominations for Best Actor are:
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick … Boom!
Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
The nominations for Best Actress are:
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
The nominations for Best Supporting Actor are:
Ciaran Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
The nominations for Best Supporting Actress are:
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
The nominations for Original Screenplay are:
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
The nominations for Adapted Screenplay are:
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog
The nominations for Animated Feature are:
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
The nominations for Production Design are:
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
The nominations for Costume Design are:
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
The nominations for Cinematography are:
Dune
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
The nominations for Editing are:
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
Tick, Tick … Boom!
The nominations for Makeup and Hairstyling are:
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
The nominations for Sound are:
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
The nominations for Visual Effects are:
Dune
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
The nominations for Score are:
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog
The nominations for Song are:
“Be Alive” (King Richard)
“Dos Oruguitas” (Encanto)
“Down to Joy” (Belfast)
“No Time To Die” (No Time to Die)
“Somehow You Do” (Four Good Days)
The nominations for Documentary Feature are:
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
The nominations for International Feature are:
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, Bhutan
Flee, Denmark
The Hand of God, Italy
Drive My Car, Japan
The Worst Person in the World, Norway
The nominations for Animated Short are:
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
The nominations for Documentary Short are:
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
The nominations for Live-Action Short are:
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
When will the Oscars 2022 ceremony be?
It will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on 27 March, which is slightly later than usual.
The date has been pushed back to avoid a clash with the Winter Olympics, which will take place in Beijing.
What are the hottest predictions for the biggest Oscars 2022 awards?
Variety has made many predictions for who will win what – top of the charts is Belfast, a coming-of-age film starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Jamie Dornan.
Also look out for Steven Spielberg's take on West Side Story, Lady Gaga's performance in House of Gucci, Dune – which has the most stellar of casts, including and not limited to Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya – and Licorice Pizza, which contains musician Alana Haim's acting debut.
Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home and the latest Bond instalment No Time To Die have also been tipped for Oscars glory.
“Women aren't allowed to have pores or wrinkles!”
Who will present Oscars 2022?
No news on who is set to present as of yet, but we shall keep you posted.
Spider-Man himself Tom Holland was rumoured to be taking the reins, but has recently told The Hollywood Reporter that, even though he'd love to he's “too busy right now”. “I don't have the time,” he said, but added that he'd be up for doing it in the future.
Where will I be able to watch the Oscars 2022 ceremony?
It's not been confirmed yet, but in previous years the Oscars ceremony has been available to watch on Hulu (if you're in the US) or the Sky Cinema Oscars channel.
