Everything you need to know about the 2022 Oscars, from hosts to nominees to drama

Films and the individuals who make them can be celebrated when the 94th Academy Awards happen this weekend, marking the official finish of the 2021-22 movie awards circuit, beforehand referred to as the Oscar season from hell.

Right here’s what you must know forward of Sunday’s ceremony.

What time is the present and the place to observe it?

As common, the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences will current the Oscars, which is able to air worldwide stay on ABC beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific on Sunday.. The ceremony can be held in Los Angeles on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, previously the Hollywood and Highland Middle, and the telecast can be carried in additional than 200 territories.

The present additionally can be viewable on streaming companies like Hulu Reside TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV, in addition to on abc.com. and the ABC app if customers can authenticate their supplier.

Who’s internet hosting?

After going hostless for 3 years — twice through the COVID-19 pandemic — the movie academy seems to be making up for misplaced time by tapping three hosts to emcee the newest installment. Actor-comedians Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes and actor Regina Corridor can be doing the honors, though the internet hosting job is extensively thought-about a thankless gig.

How will the telecast be completely different this yr?

Sparking controversy amongst Hollywood’s heavy-hitters, a part of the present can be overhauled in an effort to spice up the printed’s flagging rankings. Eight of the 23 classes can be reduce from the stay ceremony after the present hit an all-time low in 2021. And therein lies the rub.

First-time Oscars producer Will Packer (“The {Photograph},” “Women Journey,” “Straight Outta Compton”) and the movie academy pushed by means of the frowned-upon choice to current the awards for the three short-film classes and 5 technical classes — movie modifying, unique rating, manufacturing design, sound and make-up and hairstyling — beforehand after which edit them into the stay present.

The choice prompted a backlash from the guilds and trade organizations representing these teams. It additionally raised quite a lot of eyebrows when the academy launched two casual, fan-voted classes to gin up curiosity and make the present enchantment to “broad swaths of the general public” with out alienating the nominated artists and the Oscars’ diehard followers.

One such marketing campaign — #OscarsCheerMoment — solicits cinephiles’ submissions of all-time favourite film moments that spurred audiences to burst into cheers in theaters. (Profitable scenes can be showcased through the present.)

After scrapping the controversial proposal for a “standard movie” class just a few years again, the movie academy additionally opened up voting to Twitter customers who can choose their favourite film of 2021 below the #OscarsFanFavorite hashtag. The movie that earns probably the most votes can be acknowledged through the telecast no matter whether or not it acquired an Oscar nomination. ( you, “Spider-Man: No Manner Dwelling.”)

The present can pay homage to the James Bond franchise and “The Godfather,” which turns 50 this yr, and there most likely will nonetheless be loads of presenter banter, just a few preshot packages and long-winded speeches. Packer has pleaded good-naturedly with nominees to be ready and concise, although.

“No one believes that you simply thought there was no method you’d win so that you had nothing ready — simply going to be trustworthy with you,” he instructed the nominees on the nominees luncheon earlier this month. “You’ve obtained 20% probability of successful — that’s good odds on this city.”

Who’s nominated?

Promotional posters for the ten motion pictures vying for greatest image.

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Thirty-eight function movies are in competition for this yr’s Academy Awards. Jane Campion’s western “The Energy of the Canine” has been the awards season juggernaut and leads the pack with 12 nominations, together with greatest image and director.

Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi adaptation “Dune” trails with 10 nods, together with “Belfast,” “CODA” (a shock winner on the Display screen Actors and Producers Guild Awards), “Don’t Look Up,” “Drive My Automotive,” “King Richard,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Nightmare Alley” and “West Aspect Story”

Along with the perfect image nods, filmmakers Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”), Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”), Campion (“The Energy of the Canine”), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Automotive”) and Steven Spielberg (“West Aspect Story”) are nominated for greatest director.

Right here’s the breakdown for the lead performing classes:

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See the total listing right here.

Who’re the presenters?

To date Oscars presenters embrace:

• Halle Bailey
• Stephanie Beatriz
• Josh Brolin
• Ruth E. Carter
• Sean “Diddy” Combs
• Kevin Costner
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• DJ Khaled
• Jacob Elordi
• Jennifer Garner
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• Tiffany Haddish
• Woody Harrelson
• Tony Hawk
• H.E.R.
• Anthony Hopkins
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Lily James
• Daniel Kaluuya
• Zoë Kravitz
• Mila Kunis
• Woman Gaga
• John Leguizamo
• Simu Liu
• Rami Malek
• Shawn Mendes
• Jason Momoa
• Invoice Murray
• Lupita Nyong’o
• Elliot Web page
• Rosie Perez
• Tyler Perry
• Chris Rock
• Tracee Ellis Ross
• Jill Scott
• Naomi Scott
• J.Ok. Simmons
• Kelly Slater
• Wesley Snipes
• Uma Thurman
• John Travolta
• Shaun White
• Serena Williams
• Venus Williams
• Yuh-Jung Youn
• Rachel Zegler

Earlier this week, there was a query of whether or not “West Aspect Story” star Zegler would take part, however on Wednesday the actor was lastly invited to be a presenter.

Who’s performing?

The ceremony additionally will embrace performances of the Oscar-nominated unique songs, which can be sung by Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Sebastián Yatra and Reba McEntire.

Bey will sing “Be Alive” from “King Richard,” Eilish and Finneas will carry out “No Time to Die” from the eponymous 007 movie, Yatra will sing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto” and McEntire will sing Diane Warren’s “By some means You Do” from “4 Good Days.”

“Right down to Pleasure” by Van Morrison from “Belfast” is also among the many nominees however gained’t be carried out through the broadcast as a result of Morrison is touring and unable to attend the present.

If he scores an Academy Award on Sunday, Miranda will be part of the rarefied class of EGOT winners — trade stars who’ve gained an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

An all-star band consisting of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, percussionist and singer Sheila E., pianist Robert Glasper and the present’s music director, Adam Blackstone, is slated to carry out all through the present.

Are we pretending there’s no pandemic? And a battle in Ukraine?

Sure? And no?

Some have speculated that the 2022 visitor listing could be scaled again amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, the academy introduced it wouldn’t require proof of vaccination for attendees — besides performers and presenters, who might want to take a look at damaging. Nominees and their dates can be requested to offer proof of vaccination and two damaging PCR checks.

As for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the battle has been a scorching matter, and acceptance speeches at a handful of awards ceremonies within the lead-up to the Oscars have talked about it.

The Academy Awards, normally probably the most seen of all of the awards exhibits, would be the largest platform to make a political assertion. And that features the hosts. If it have been as much as co-host Schumer, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, a fellow actor, could be a part of the present.