SOUND SHORTLIST:
| “Belfast” |
| “Dune” |
| “Last Night in Soho” |
| “The Matrix Resurrections” |
| “No Time to Die” |
| “The Power of the Dog” |
| “A Quiet Place Part II” |
| “Spider-Man: No Way Home” |
| “tick, tick…BOOM!” |
| “West Side Story” |
Members of the Sound Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees. All members of the Sound Branch will be invited to view eight-minute excerpts and interviews with the artists from each of the shortlisted films beginning Friday, January 28, 2022. Branch members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.
Per the Academy’s press release:
Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 27, 2022, and concludes on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. The 94th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
“Dune”
Warner Bros. Pictures
“No Time to Die”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
“West Side Story”
20th Century Studios
“A Quiet Place Part II”
Paramount Pictures
“Last Night in Soho”
Focus Features
WHY I DIDN’T CHOOSE THE OTHER FIVE
“The Power of the Dog” and “Belfast” are two films I feel will have plenty of Oscar love and that could translate into them getting a Best Sound nomination, but those are two films I haven’t seen, so it is tough to judge. “tick, tick…BOOM!” is a musical, so it should fit in here, but the fact that it has seen very little Oscar love so far leads me to believe it won’t end up here. The last two, “The Matrix Resurrections” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” just don’t seem like they do enough to be considered Oscar-nominated films in this category. However, “Last Night in Soho” and “A Quiet Place Part II” are sort of wishful picks, so any of the aforementioned films could take their places.
