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Academy Awards: CODA Wins Best Picture As Will Smith Wins First Oscar Of His Career [Full List Of Winners]

by Yinka Akanbi March 29, 2022
by Yinka Akanbi March 29, 2022

The Oscar Awards cerwminy which is considered the biggest night in Hollywood has officially wrapped with a handful of historic firsts.

The best picture went to “CODA,” a film about a singer balancing her ambitions and her family that became a milestone for Deaf representation in the entertainment industry. Jessica Chastain won her first Oscar for best actress in a leading role for her performance in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Will Smith took home his first Oscar for best actor in a leading role in “King Richard.”

Ariana DeBose won the best actress in a supporting role for her performance in “West Side Story” and Jane Campion received the award for best director for “The Power of the Dog.”

Also in what at first looked like a twist in the scripted awards show, Chris Rock and Will Smith had an altercation during the 2022 Oscar telecast.

Rock appeared on stage to present the Oscar for documentary feature and made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith being in “G.I. Jane” because of her shaved head. Smith then took to the stage to slap Rock. Although it appeared to be a joke at first, Smith returned to his seat and yelled at Rock, “Keep my wife’s name out of your [expletive] mouth!”

He later apologised on stage after he picked up the first Oscar of his career for playing the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams in ‘King Richard’.

“I want to apologise to the Academy. I want to apologise to my all my fellow nominees,” he said during a tearful acceptance speech for best actor. “Art imitates life. I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams. But love will make you do crazy things.”

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See the full list of Oscar 2022 winners and nominees:

Best actress in a supporting role

Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”

WINNER: Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”

Judi Dench, “Belfast”

Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”

Aunjanue Ellis, “King Richard”

Best sound

“Belfast”

WINNER: “Dune”

“No Time to Die”

“The Power of the Dog”

“West Side Story”

Best cinematography

WINNER: Greig Fraser, “Dune”

Dan Laustsen, “Nightmare Alley”

Ari Wegner, “The Power of the Dog”

Bruno Delbonnel, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

Janusz Kaminski, “West Side Story”

Best documentary (short subject)

“Audible”

“Lead Me Home”

WINNER: “The Queen of Basketball”

“Three Songs for Benazir”

“When We Were Bullies”

Best visual effects

WINNER: “Dune”

“Free Guy”

“No Time to Die”

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”

“Spider-Man: No Way Home”

Best animated feature film

WINNER: “Encanto”

“Flee”

“Luca”

“The Mitchells vs. the Machines”

“Raya and the Last Dragon”

Best short film (animated)

“Affairs of the Art”

“Bestia”

“Boxballet”

“Robin Robin”

WINNER: “The Windshield Wiper”

Best actor in a supporting role

Ciarán Hinds, “Belfast”

WINNER: Troy Kotsur, “CODA”

Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog”

J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos”

Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”

Best international feature film

WINNER: “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

Best short film (live action)

“Ala Kachuu — Take and Run”

“The Dress”

WINNER: “The Long Goodbye”

“On My Mind”

“Please Hold”

Best costume design

WINNER: Jenny Beavan, “Cruella”

Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran, “Cyrano”

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Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan, “Dune”

Luis Sequeira, “Nightmare Alley”

Paul Tazewell, “West Side Story”

Best writing (original screenplay)

WINNER: Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”

Adam McKay (Screenplay), Adam McKay & David Sirota (Story), “Don’t Look Up”

Zach Baylin, “King Richard”

Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “The Worst Person in the World”

Best writing (adapted screenplay)

WINNER: Siân Heder, “CODA”

Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, “Drive My Car”

Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, “Dune”

Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Lost Daughter”

Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”

Best music (original score)

“Don’t Look Up”

WINNER: “Dune”

“Encanto”

“Parallel Mothers”

“The Power of the Dog”

Best film editing

“Don’t Look Up”

WINNER: “Dune”

“King Richard”

“The Power of the Dog”

“tick, tick…BOOM!”

Best documentary (feature)

“Ascension”

“Attica”

“Flee”

WINNER: “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”

“Writing with Fire”

Best production design

WINNER: “Dune”

“Nightmare Alley”

“The Power of the Dog”

“The Tragedy of Macbeth”

“West Side Story”

Best music (original song)

“Be Alive” from “King Richard”

“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”

“Down to Joy” from “Belfast”

WINNER: “No Time to Die” from “No Time to Die”

“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”

Best director

Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”

Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”

WINNER: Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”

Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story”

Best actor in a leading role

Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”

Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”

Andrew Garfield, “tick, tick…BOOM!”

WINNER: Will Smith, “King Richard”

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Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”

Best makeup and hairstyling

“Coming 2 America”

“Cruella”

“Dune”

WINNER: “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

“House of Gucci”

Best actress in a leading role

WINNER: Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”

Penélope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”

Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”

Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”

Best picture

“Belfast”

WINNER: “CODA”

“Don’t Look Up”

“Drive My Car”

“Dune”

“King Richard”

“Licorice Pizza”

“Nightmare Alley”

“The Power of the Dog”

“West Side Story”

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