2022 (95th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2022 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers.
Actor in a Leading Role
Brendan Fraser in The Whale, Palouse Prod.; A24.
Actress in a Leading Role
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24.
Actress in a Supporting Role
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24.
Directing
Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Netflix/Double Dare You!/Shadowmachine in assoc. with The Jim Henson Company Prod.; Netflix. (USA, Mexico, France) Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley.
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front, Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-prod. with Gunpowder Films in assoc. with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Prod.; Netflix. (Germany, USA, UK) James Friend.
Costume Design
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel Studios Prod.; Walt Disney. Ruth Carter.
Documentary
(Feature)
Navalny, Fishbowl Films/RaeFilm Studios/Cottage M Prod.; Warner Bros./CNN Films/HBO Max. Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris.
(Short Film)
The Elephant Whisperers, Netflix Documentary/Sikhya Entertainment Prod.; Netflix. (India) Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga.
Film Editing
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24. Paul Rogers.
International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front, Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-prod. with Gunpowder Films in assoc. with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Prod.; Netflix. (Germany, USA, UK)
Makeup and Hairstyling
Music
(Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front, Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-prod. with Gunpowder Films in assoc. with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Prod.; Netflix. (Germany, USA, UK) Volker Bertelmann.
(Original Song)
Naatu Naatu from RRR, DVV Entertainments Prod.; Variance Films/Sarigama Cinemas. (India) Music by M. M. Keeravaani; lyric by Chandrabose.
Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front, Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-prod. with Gunpowder Films in assoc. with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Prod.; Netflix. (Germany, USA, UK) Production design by Christian M. Goldbeck; set decoration by Ernestine Hipper.
Short Film
(Animated)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, NoneMore and Bad Robot Prod.; BBC and Apple Original Films. (UK, USA) Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud.
(Live Action)
An Irish Goodbye, Floodlight Pictures Prod.; Network Ireland Television. (UK) Tom Berkeley and Ross White.
Sound
Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures/Skydance/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Prod.; Paramount. Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor.
Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water, 20th Century Studios Prod.; Walt Disney. Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett.
Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
Women Talking, Plan B Entertainment / hear/say Prod.; Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing. Screenplay by Sarah Polley.
(Original Screenplay)
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hot Dog Hands Prod.; A24. Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Michael J. Fox's tireless advocacy of research on Parkinson's disease alongside his boundless optimism exemplifies the impact of one person in changing the future for millions.
Honorary Award
Euzhan Palcy is a pioneering filmmaker whose groundbreaking significance in international cinema is cemented in film history. [Statuette]
Diane Warren's music and lyrics have magnified the emotional impact of countless motion pictures and inspired generations of musical artists. [Statuette]
Peter Weir is a director of consummate skill and artistry whose work reminds us of the power of film to reveal the full range of human experience. [Statuette]
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
To Iain Neil for his substantial, extensive and innovative lens designs which have had lasting impact in motion picture cinematography.
Award of Commendation
To Ryan Laney for his innovative adaptation and deployment of AI-driven facial veiling technology used to protect the identities while preserving the visual relatability of subjects in documentary filmmaking as exemplified in Welcome to Chechnya (2020).
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Larry Barton for the pioneering design, development and engineering, and to Ben Wilcox for the electronic engineering and software development, of the Cinematography Electronics CineTape. The CineTape distance measurement system provides focus-pullers with continuous, accurate, real-time distance information to the subject, either at the camera or remotely. This high resolution distance data has enabled the reliable execution of shots that previously were impossible to judge accurately or had required multiple takes to achieve.
To Howard Preston for the concept, design and engineering, and to Bernie Butler-Smith for the design and implementation of electronic circuitry and software, of the Preston Cinema Systems Light Ranger 2. The Light Ranger 2 provides precise real-time focus distance information by continuously tracking subjects in sixteen discrete zones. The distance and depth of field indicators are superimposed on the camera image, enabling the focus-puller to intuitively judge focus, even in formerly impossible and extremely challenging situations.
(Technical Achievement Award)
To Howard Jensen and Danny Cangemi for the concept and creation, and to John Frazier for the development of the 60- and 100-foot Rain Bars. The Rain Bars provide a portable system for the creation of realistic, large-scale, adjustable, practical rain for motion pictures. Their rapid setup and relocation capabilities enable the efficient production of effects ranging from misting drizzles to torrential downpours.
To Mark Hills and Jim Vanns for the design and engineering of the FQ render farm management system. FQ’s highly efficient scheduler and sophisticated prioritization algorithms reflect a deep understanding of render farm management. With an architecture that has remained largely unchanged for more than a decade, FQ continues to support substantial growth in computational complexity at Framestore.
To Matt Chambers for his contributions to modern render farm management system design as exemplified in the scheduling architectures of Cue3 and Plow. These design contributions have resulted in robust, versatile, extensible and highly scalable render farm management systems that have supported substantial growth in computational complexity at Sony Pictures Imageworks and Weta Digital.
To Sébastien Deguy and Christophe Soum for the concept and original implementation of Substance Engine, and to Sylvain Paris and Nicolas Wirrmann for the design and engineering of Substance Designer. Adobe Substance 3D Designer provides artists with a flexible and efficient procedural workflow for designing complex textures. Its sophisticated and art-directable pattern generators, intuitive design, and renderer-agnostic architecture have led to widespread adoption in motion picture visual effects and animation.
To David Eberle, Theodore Kim, Fernando de Goes and Audrey Wong for the design and development of the Fizt2 elastic simulation system. Fizt2 provides a high-performance solver with novel and stable implicit physics and robust collision detection. The design of this system enables artist workflows to easily apply soft-body dynamics to a broad range of interacting animated characters and objects.