Cinema Chat: 2022 Oscar nods, Valentine's Day screenings, and more

OSCARS 2022: FULL LIST OF NOMINATIONS

"The Power of the Dog" leads the nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards, which were unveiled Tuesday morning. The film landed a total of 12 noms, including best picture, best director for Jane Campion, and acting noms for star Benedict Cumberbatch and supporting players Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

"Dune" follows with a total of 10 noms, including best picture, but the film was left out of the directing and acting categories. West Side Story and Belfast earned seven noms, while King Richard was nominated in six categories. Those three also will compete for best picture in a category that includes a total of 10 nominees; "CODA," "Don’t Look Up," "Drive My Car," "Licorice Pizza" and "Nightmare Alley" round out the list.

Nominees were unveiled in all 23 categories, from best picture to best director, along with the acting categories and crafts categories including best sound, best production design, best makeup and hairstyling, and best visual effects. Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross hosted the announcement.

The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 27. The broadcast will air live at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

BEST PICTURE

• "Belfast" (Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers)
  
• "CODA" (Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, 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)

BEST DIRECTOR

• Paul Thomas Anderson ("Licorice Pizza")
  
• Kenneth Branagh ("Belfast")
  
• Jane Campion ("The Power of the Dog")
  
• Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ("Drive My Car")
  
• Steven Spielberg ("West Side Story")

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessica Chastain ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye")
  
• Olivia Colman ("The Lost Daughter")
  
• Penélope Cruz ("Parallel Mothers")
  
• Nicole Kidman ("Being the Ricardos")
  
• Kristen Stewart ("Spencer")

BEST ACTOR

• Javier Bardem ("Being the Ricardos")
  
• Benedict Cumberbatch ("The Power of the Dog")
  
• Andrew Garfield ("tick, tick … BOOM!")
  
• Will Smith ("King Richard")
  
• Denzel Washington ("The Tragedy of Macbeth")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Jessie Buckley ("The Lost Daughter")
  
• Ariana DeBose ("West Side Story")
  
• Judi Dench ("Belfast")
  
• Kirsten Dunst ("The Power of the Dog")
  
• Aunjanue Ellis ("King Richard")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Ciarán Hinds ("Belfast")
  
• Troy Kotsur ("CODA")
  
• Jesse Plemons ("The Power of the Dog")
  
• J.K. Simmons ("Being the Ricardos")
  
• Kodi Smit-McPhee ("The Power of the Dog")

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• "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)

BEST SOUND

• "Belfast" (Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri)
  
• "Dune" (Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett)
  
• "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)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• "Don’t Look Up" (Nicholas Britell)
  
• "Dune" (Hans Zimmer)
  
• "Encanto" (Germaine Franco)
  
• "Parallel Mothers" (Alberto Iglesias)
  
• "The Power of the Dog" (Jonny Greenwood)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• "CODA" (Screenplay by Siân Heder)
  
• "Drive My Car" (Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)
  
• "Dune" (Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth)
  
• "The Lost Daughter" (Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal)
  
• "The Power of the Dog" (Written by Jane Campion)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• "Belfast" (Written by Kenneth Branagh)
  
• "Don’t Look Up" (Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota)
  
• "King Richard" (Written by Zach Baylin)
  
• "Licorice Pizza" (Written by Paul Thomas Anderson)
  
• "The Worst Person in the World" (Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

• "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)
• "The Windshield Wiper" (Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

• "Ala Kachuu — Take and Run" (Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger)
  
• "The Dress" (Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki)
  
• "The Long Goodbye" (Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed)
  
• "On My Mind" (Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson)
  
• "Please Hold" (K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse)
  

BEST FILM EDITING

• "Don’t Look Up" (Hank Corwin)
  
• "Dune" (Joe Walker)
  
• "King Richard" (Pamela Martin)
  
• "The Power of the Dog" (Peter Sciberras)
  
• "tick, tick… BOOM!" (Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)
  

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• "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)
  
• "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" (Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh)
  
• "House of Gucci" (Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• "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)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• "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)
  
• "Summer of Soul" (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein)
  
• "Writing With Fire" (Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

• "Audible" (Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean)
  
• "Lead Me Home" (Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk)
  
• "The Queen of Basketball" (Ben Proudfoot)
  
• "Three Songs for Benazir" (Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei)
  
• "When We Were Bullies" (Jay Rosenblatt)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• “Be Alive” — Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter ("King Richard")
  
• “Dos Oruguitas” — Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda ("Encanto")
  
• “Down to Joy” — Music and Lyric by Van Morrison ("Belfast")
  
• “No Time to Die” — Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell ("No Time to Die")
  
• “Somehow You Do” — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren ("Four Good Days")

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• "Dune" (Greig Fraser)
• "Nightmare Alley" (Dan Laustsen)
• "The Power of the Dog" (Ari Wegner)
• "The Tragedy of Macbeth" (Bruno Delbonnel)
• "West Side Story" (Janusz Kaminski)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

• "Drive My Car" (Japan)
  
• "Flee" (Denmark)
  
• "The Hand of God" (Italy)
  
• "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom" (Bhutan)
  
• "The Worst Person in the World" (Norway)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• "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)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• "Dune" (Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer)
  
• "Free Guy" (Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick)
  
• "No Time to Die" (Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould)
  
• "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver)
  
• "Spider-Man: No Way Home" (Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick)
  

OPENING DOWNTOWN

"Death on the Nile" -- OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 AT THE STATE WITH ADVANCED SCREENING TONIGHT

A mystery thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film is a sequel to "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) and stars Branagh returning as Hercule Poirot, along with Tom Bateman (also returning from the first film), Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, and Letitia Wright round out the ensemble cast. The film is the third screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1978 film and an episode of the television series Agatha Christie's Poirot broadcast in 2004. Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, whose Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

"Belfast" — RETURNS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 TO THE STATE

7 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director for Kenneth Branagh, Best Supporting Actress for Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actor for Ciarán Hinds, Best Sound, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Song

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

"The Power of the Dog"— RETURNS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11 TO THE STATE

12 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director for Jane Campion, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst, Best Supporting Actor for Jesse Plemons, Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee, Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS DOWNTOWN

Coming on Valentine's Day

Free for Michigan Theater members, but all are invited for this romantic evening. Have your sweetheart choose:

• "The Philadelphia Story" - 7:15 PM
• "The Princess Bride" - 7:30 PM

Late Nights at the Michigan

• "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" - Plays 2/11 at 10 PM
• "The Princess Bride" - Plays 2/18 at 10 PM
• "Purple Rain" - Plays 2/25 

Korean Cinema NOW 

• "Sinkhole" – Plays 2/19 at 1 PM
• "Hard Hit" – Plays 2/26 at 1 PM

Sidney Poitier Memorial Retrospective Series (at the Michigan)

• "In the Heat of the Night" - Plays 02/13 at 3 PM
• "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - Plays 02/20 at 3 PM
• "Stir Crazy" - Plays 02/27 at 3 PM

CONTINUING DOWNTOWN

"Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America"

A selection of the SXSW Film Festival. Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer (and former ACLU deputy legal director) Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. This moving documentary is released as the US stands on the precipice of significant deterioration in historical education. Founder of the Who We Are project Jeffrey Robinson has spent the last decade lecturing about anti-black racism and white supremacy in America.

Emily Kunstler (Producer/Director/Editor) and Sarah Kunstler(Producer/Director) are the founders of Off Center Media, a documentary production company dedicated to racial justice and social change. Their film, "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" (Sundance '09, POV/PBS), was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Academy Award. The film is an examination of their father’s life and choices, tracing his career as a civil rights lawyer and fighter for racial justice, as well his representation of society’s most despised. Other Off Center Media films have contributed to campaigns to stay executions, convince decision makers to reopen cases, and exonerate the wrongfully convicted.

"Parallel Mothers"

2 Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Score and Best Actress for Penelope Cruz

A 2021 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film stars Penélope Cruz.

It had its premiere as the opening film of the 78th Venice International Film Festival on 1 September 2021 where Penélope Cruz was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.. It was the closing film of the 2021 New York Film Festival. Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.

"Flee" 

3 Academy Award Nominations: Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature Film

An animated documentary film directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. It follows the story of a man named Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past for the first time, of fleeing his country. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2021 It received unanimous acclaim from film festivals and critics, with critical praise for animation, story, thematic content, and subject matter; winning numerous awards. It was selected as the Danish entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film and was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature. Flee tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

"The Tragedy of Macbeth"

3 Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Actor for Denzel Washington.

Frances McDormand andDenzel Washingtonstar in Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation of Shakespeare's classic work; a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.

"Drive My Car"

4 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film

Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production's premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koji Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke's late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins -- with the help of his driver -- to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. Adapted from Haruki Murakami's short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's film is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace. Winner of three prizes at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, including Best Screenplay.

"Scream"

An American slasher film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and written by James Vanderbiltand Guy Busick. It is the fifth installment in the "Scream film" series. Though billed as a relaunch of the film series, the film is a direct sequel to "Scream 4" (2011), and the first in the series not to be directed by Wes Craven, who died in 2015. The film is dedicated to Craven at the beginning of the closing credits. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, and Jack Quaid, alongside Marley Shelton, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell, who reprise their roles from previous installments. Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, Calif., a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past.

"Licorice Pizza"

3 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson

This film is a 2021 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson ("Phantom Thread," "There Will Be Blood," "Boogie Nights"). The film stars Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Maya Rudolph, and Benny Safdie. The film received acclaim from critics and received three awards from the National Board of Review, including Best Film. It was also named one of the best films of 2021 by the American Film Institute and received four nominations at the 79th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, along with eight nominations at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture. The story of Alana Kane (Alana Haim) and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

"The French Dispatch"

A 2021 American comedy-drama anthology film written, directed, and produced byWes Andersonfrom a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, andJason Schwartzman. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Benicio del Toro,Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, and Owen Wilson. Its plot follows three different storylines, as the French foreign bureau of a fictional Kansas newspaper creates its final issue. Filming took place between November 2018 and March 2019, with cinematographer Robert Yeoman, in the city of Angoulême, France. Following a delay, the film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 12, 2021.

COMING SOON

Other Oscar Nominated Films Coming Soon

• "Summer of Soul"
  
• "King Richard"
  
• "Nightmare Alley" (in special Black and White, Director’s version)
  
• "Dune"
  
• "West Side Story"

"The Worst Person in the World" -- OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18

2 Academy Award Nominations: Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay!

This film concludes Joachim Trier's Oslo Trilogy with a romantic comedy that delightfully subverts the genre's well-worn tropes. It is a modern dramedy about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It chronicles four years in the life of Julie (Renate Reinsve), a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

2022 Oscar Shorts -- OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 AT THE MICHIGAN

Animated, Short Fiction Film, Short Documentary

"Cyrano" -- OPENS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 AT THE MICHIGAN

Award-winning director Joe Wright envelops moviegoers in a symphony of emotions with music, romance, and beauty in this re-imagining the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle. A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (played by Peter Dinklage) dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne (Haley Bennett), Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her -- and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.).

"The Batman" -- OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 4 AT THE STATE

The Riddler plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with Batman (Robert Pattinson) and Commissioner Gordon in Gotham City. Director:Matt Reeves

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