- You know who started riding as late as you?
- Who? - Your Uncle Henry.
- "The Power of the Dog" collected 12 Academy Award
nominations on February 8th, including those for Best Picture
and for Best Director for Jane Campion.
Campion made history by becoming the first woman
to receive two Best Director Oscar nominations.
Her first was for "The Piano" in 1994
at the 66th Academy Awards.
- These boys are suffering.
- Some of the other 10 films nominated in the tough
Best Picture category were "Belfast,"
"Licorice Pizza," "Drive My Car," "CODA,"
Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story," and "Dune."
"Dune," an epic story of family, duty, and survival
based on the 1965 science-fiction novel,
received 10 total nominations.
- Remove your hand from the box and you die.
- What's in the box? - Pain.
- Among them, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography,
and Best Original Score.
"Belfast," Kenneth Branagh's fictionalized glimpse
into his family's final year
living in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of 1969,
and "West Side Story" tied for seven nominations.
- We have to do a project about the moon landing.
- Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds
were nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Actor
respectively for their roles in "Belfast."
Dench was joined by newcomer Ariana DeBose
for "West Side Story,"
Aunjanue Ellis for "King Richard" --
-And I fixed Serena's serve because you messed that up.
- Kirsten Dunst in "The Power of the Dog,"
and Jessie Buckley for "The Lost Daughter."
Olivia Colman was also nominated for her role
in "The Lost Daughter" for Best Actress.
- Dead?
No, I'm alive, actually.
- This category is stacked with other big names.
Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz,
and Nicole Kidman are all nominated,
as is Kristen Stewart for her role
as Princess Diana in "Spencer."
For Best Actor, Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for
"The Power of the Dog,"
Denzel Washington for "The Tragedy of Macbeth,"
Javier Bardem in "Being the Ricardos,"
and Andrew Garfield in "tick, tick...
BOOM!"
Will Smith is also nominated for "King Richard,"
the story of how Serena and Venus Williams' father
helped mold his daughters into world-class tennis players.
- Your sister is gonna be number one in the whole world,
no doubt about it.
- I know that. - But you?
You gonna be the best there ever was.
- "King Richard" joins the coming-of-age story
"Licorice Pizza,"
and the satirical "Don't Look Up"
in the Best Original Screenplay category.
- Sit tight and assess? - But the big matchup
for "King Richard" will be for Best Original Song.
Beyoncé is nominated for her first Oscar for "Be Alive,"
facing Billie Eilish for "No Time to Die"
and "Encanto," one of the most popular soundracks of the year.
- [singing in Spanish]
-The Academy Awards will air on March 27th on ABC
and will feature a host for the first time since 2018.
- We're at the Oscars.
Some of you will be going home tonight with an Academy Award.
What could be better than that?
Nothing, right?