The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The awards were scheduled after their usual late February date to avoid conflicting with both the 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LVI, with the latter being held in nearby Inglewood, California. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories honoring films released from March 1 to December 31, 2021. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Will Packer and Shayla Cowan and was directed by Glenn Weiss. Actresses Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes hosted the show for the first time. Two days earlier, in an event held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Ovation Hollywood complex in Hollywood, the Academy held its 12th annual Governors Awards ceremony.

CODA won three awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Dune with six awards, The Eyes of Tammy Faye with two, and Belfast, Cruella, Drive My Car, Encanto, King Richard, The Long Goodbye, No Time to Die, The Power of the Dog, The Queen of Basketball, Summer of Soul, West Side Story and The Windshield Wiper with one each.

The ceremony received negative reviews due to a controversial incident in which Best Actor winner Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, who shaved her head due to alopecia areata. In response, the Academy banned Smith from attending its events for a decade as punishment. Criticism was also directed toward the decision to present eight categories separate from the main telecast. The telecast drew 16.62 million viewers in the United States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 94th Academy Awards were announced on February 8, 2022, by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. The Power of the Dog led all nominees with twelve nominations; Dune came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 27.

CODA became the first Best Picture winner to be distributed via a streaming platform and the first one starring a primarily deaf cast. Its three nominations were the fewest for any Best Picture winner since 1932's Grand Hotel, and it was the first Best Picture winner without directing or film editing nominations since the aforementioned film. Furthermore, it became the first without any nominations in the below-the-line categories since 1980's Ordinary People.

Best Director winner Jane Campion was the third woman to win the award and the first woman to be nominated twice, having previously been nominated for 1993's The Piano. The Power of the Dog became the first film to win Best Director as its sole award since 1967's The Graduate. Best Original Screenplay winner Kenneth Branagh was the first person to have been nominated in seven different categories throughout his career, having also been nominated as director and as one of the producers for Belfast.

Best Supporting Actor winner Troy Kotsur became the first deaf man and second deaf individual overall to win an acting award. Best Supporting Actress winner Ariana DeBose was the first Afro-Latina person and first openly queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar. Furthermore, as a result of her win for portraying Anita in the 2021 film adaptation of the Broadway musical West Side Story, she and Rita Moreno, who previously won for playing the same character in the 1961 film adaptation, became the third pair of actors to win for portraying the same character in two different films.

Nominated for their performances as Leda Caruso in The Lost Daughter, Best Actress nominee Olivia Colman and Best Supporting Actress nominee Jessie Buckley were the third pair of actresses nominated for portraying the same character in the same film. Flee became the first film to be nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best International Feature Film, and Best Documentary Feature in the same year.

Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

{| class="wikitable" role="presentation" | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| CODA – Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, producers Belfast – Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, producers Don't Look Up – Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, producers Drive My Car – Teruhisa Yamamoto, producer Dune – Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, producers King Richard – Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, producers Licorice Pizza – Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, producers Nightmare Alley – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, producers The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, producers West Side Story – Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog Kenneth Branagh – Belfast Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza Steven Spielberg – West Side Story |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Will Smith – King Richard as Richard Williams Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos as Desi Arnaz Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick... Boom! as Jonathan Larson Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth as Lord Macbeth | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter as Leda Caruso Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers as Janis Martínez Moreno Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Diana Spencer |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi Ciarán Hinds – Belfast as Pop Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog as George Burbank J. K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos as William Frawley Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter as young Leda Caruso Judi Dench – Belfast as Granny Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Belfast – Kenneth Branagh Don't Look Up – Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay and David Sirota King Richard – Zach Baylin Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson The Worst Person in the World – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| CODA – Sian Heder; based on the original motion picture screenplay La Famille Bélier written by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Éric Lartigau Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe; based on the short story by Haruki Murakami Dune – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth; based on the novel by Frank Herbert The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal; based on the novel by Elena Ferrante The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion; based on the novel by Thomas Savage |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Encanto – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie Luca – Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren The Mitchells vs. the Machines – Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht Raya and the Last Dragon – Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Drive My Car (Japan) in Japanese – directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi Flee (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen The Hand of God (Italy) in Italian – directed by Paolo Sorrentino Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan) in Dzongkha – directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji The Worst Person in the World (Norway) in Norwegian – directed by Joachim Trier |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein Ascension – Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell Attica – Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte de la Gournerie Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Queen of Basketball – Ben Proudfoot Audible – Matthew Ogens and Geoff McLean Lead Me Home – Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk Three Songs for Benazir – Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei When We Were Bullies – Jay Rosenblatt |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed Ala Kachuu – Take and Run – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger The Dress – Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Windshield Wiper – Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez Affairs of the Art – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills Bestia – Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz Boxballet – Anton Dyakov Robin Robin – Dan Ojari and Mikey Please |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Dune – Hans Zimmer Don't Look Up – Nicholas Britell Encanto – Germaine Franco Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die – Music and lyrics by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell "Be Alive" from King Richard – Music and lyrics by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter "Dos Oruguitas" from Encanto – Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda "Down to Joy" from Belfast – Music and lyrics by Van Morrison "Somehow You Do" from Four Good Days – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett Belfast – Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri No Time to Die – Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor The Power of the Dog – Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb West Side Story – Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Dune – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos Nightmare Alley – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau The Power of the Dog – Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards The Tragedy of Macbeth – Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh West Side Story – Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Dune – Greig Fraser Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen The Power of the Dog – Ari Wegner The Tragedy of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel West Side Story – Janusz Kamiński | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh Coming 2 America – Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer Cruella – Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon Dune – Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr House of Gucci – Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras |- | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Cruella – Jenny Beavan Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran Dune – Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira West Side Story – Paul Tazewell | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"| Dune – Joe Walker Don't Look Up – Hank Corwin King Richard – Pamela Martin The Power of the Dog – Peter Sciberras Tick, Tick... Boom! – Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum |- | colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top; width:50%;"|