The 94th Academy Awards ceremony will take place Sunday-Monday night in Los Angeles. As expected, it should mark the return of the usual format to hold events of this magnitude following a forced pause linked to the coronavirus pandemic. What to expect from this year’s ceremony? Today we tell everything that is known.

When and where

The 94th Academy Awards will be held on March 27 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The event will start around 3:00 Moscow time. The show will be broadcast by ABC channel to American audiences, while in other countries the show will be broadcast live by local channels. Russian television does not plan to broadcast the ceremony. As for live streaming, services like Hulu Live and ABC channel app will reportedly be available to subscribers at the moment.

Now that the main coronavirus restrictions have been lifted or relaxed, we can expect a full-fledged show with the usual red carpet where a lot of stars have to walk, just like in the pre-pandemic era.

to change

It was decided to reframe the show a bit so that it became more dynamic and fit into a clearly defined three-hour timekeeping. Therefore, “Best Sound”, “Best Makeup”, “Best Animation Short”, etc. The presentation of the figurines in eight categories will be taken one hour before the main ceremony. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the television version will only include the speeches of the winners in these categories. Results in the remaining 15 categories will be announced during the show as usual.

This year, too, a new nomination has been nominated: a sort of audience award will be given in the #OscarsFanFavorite category. The winning tape in this category is determined by viewers who can vote on the award website. The number of tweets tagged with the relevant hashtag will also be counted.

leader

This time, there are three presenters, all female and all professional in the comedy genre. The most famous of these is Amy Schumer, who is not only a Hollywood comedy star but also a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Schumer is best known to viewers for the films “The Girl Without Complex” and “Beauty in the Head”.

The second host of the Oscars is Wanda Sykes, one of the screenwriters of The Chris Rock Show, as well as actress Wanda Sykes, who starred in projects such as Evan Yüce, Her Mother-in-law is a Monster, and The Amazing Mrs. Maisel

The host trio also included actress Regina Hall, who played one of the brightest female protagonists of the unforgettable 2000 Scary Movie. Many viewers remember Regina for this role, although since then she has acted in many films. Recent releases include the indie comedy “Support the Girls” and the simple comedy “Give Oak in Yuba County.”

We add that for the first time in Oscar history, three women will lead the ceremony. Previously, men were more likely to act in this capacity, although there were exceptions: in different years Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Hathaway, Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonde, Ellen DeGeneres were entrusted to “run the parade.”

By the way, there were no hosts at the last Oscar ceremonies, with Jimmy Kimmel last taking over the role in 2018.

who gives

Perhaps the main intrigue is whether Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will announce the winner in the “Best Picture” nomination – British tabloids have written about it recently, but it has yet to be confirmed.

But even if the Dukes of Sussex don’t attend the ceremony, the list of presenters is already pretty bright. Celebrities who will take the stage to announce the winners include Lady Gaga, Kevin Costner, Anthony Hopkins, Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Bill Murray, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Jennifer Garner, Mila Kunis, Zoë Kravitz, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sean. Combs, Woody Harrelson, Lily James, Lupita Nyong’o, Shawn Mendes, Elliot Page, Jason Momoa, sisters Serena and Venus Williams, Jacob Elordi, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more.

Music

Musical numbers have always been an integral part of the Oscar ceremony. At least two stars of the first magnitude will perform their parts in the upcoming show: traditionally, compositions from the films that are claimed to be the best are heard from the stage. Beyoncé will perform the song Be Alive she wrote for the “King Richard” tape with Will Smith in the lead role. Billie Eilish will also perform: she and her brother Finneas were nominated for No Time to Die from the James Bond movie of the same name. Colombian Sebastian Yatra will perform the song “Dos Oruguitas” from the soundtrack of the cartoon “Encanto”, and country singer Reba McIntyre will perform the song Somehow You Do from the movie “Four Good Days”. But Irishman Van Morrison, who recorded the song Down to Joy for the Belfast drama, will miss the ceremony because of the tour.

Pianist Robert Glasper, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, well-known US singer, percussionist and drummer Sheila E.

Favorites and Predictions

The leading films by number of nominations are West Side Story, Power of the Dog, Belfast and Dune, all holding the title of best tape of the year. In total, 10 films were presented in the Best Picture nomination – an unusually large number for an Oscar.

Most nominations – 12 – in “Power of the Dog” Jane Campion. Two missing from “Dune” Denis Villeneuve. In third place is Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, with seven nominations.

Many Western critics predict he will triumph with Benedict Cumberbatch in the western “Power of the Dog” nomination. However, they say that the main struggle will unfold between this tape, the film “CODA: A Child of Deaf Parents” with the participation of deaf actors, and the biographical drama “Belfast”. For the other seven paintings claimed to be the main statuette of the night, far less is bet on in the press.

Benedict Cumberbatch in The Power of the Dog

In the director’s nomination, mainly the success of Jane Campion, the first film of the last 12 years, “The Power of the Dog” is predicted. Campion became the first woman to win Best Director for the second time in Oscar history. She was first nominated for the 1994 drama The Piano. Then the statuette of Jane “stealed” Steven Spielberg with “Schindler’s List”. Interestingly, Campion and Spielberg are vying for Best Director and Best Picture once again this year.

In the “Best Actress” nomination, press predictions tend to win Jessica Chastain (“Eyes of Tammy Faye”).

— Says the Entertainment Weekly columnist.

Jessica Chastain in Tammy Faye’s Eyes

As for the best male role, here the film experts mainly bet on Will Smith. He played the role of tennis player Serena and Venus Williams’ father, Richard Williams, in the movie “King Richard”.

Rolling Stone writes.

Will Smith in King Richard

Recall that the list of nominations for the “Oscar” is a project of Russian production: the cartoon “Boxballet” claims a statuette in the nomination “Best Animated Short Film”. However, director Anton Dyakov will not fly to the ceremony: he did not get an American visa.

Shot from the movie “Boxballet”

Interesting facts about “Oscar-2022”

– The list of films nominated for 2022 has a surprisingly large number of black and white films: Belfast, Camon Camon, The Tragedy of Macbeth.

– The longest film among the nominees was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” with 179 minutes.

– Judi Dench, if she wins, will become the oldest person to win an Oscar in the acting category. Dench, 87, won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in Belfast. So far, the record is held by 84-year-old Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for Father last year.

– If West Side Story wins Best Picture, it will be the first musical to earn a major nomination in nearly two decades. The final Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to the Chicago musical in 2003.

– This year’s list of nominees is extremely “family”. The main acting category includes Javier Bardem (Being Ricardo) and his wife Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers). Nominated for supporting roles are Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, both for Power of the Dog. Recall that the actors have been engaged since 2017 and are raising two children. What can we say about the film “Cyrano”, announced in the nomination “Best Costumes”: its director, Joe Wright, is in a civil marriage with Hayley Bennett, who played the main female role. The male lead actor, Peter Dinklage, is married to the project’s screenwriter, Erica Schmidt.

– The same tape was screened for the first time in the categories of “Best Animated Film”, “Best Documentary Film” and “Best Foreign Language Film”. We are talking about the Danish drama “Escape”, which tells the story of an Afghan gay refugee in a very unusual format for his documentary projects – animation.