Oscars 2022: Beyonce goes up against husband Jay-Z, Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish still in the running as Academy’s shortlists unveiled – Times of India

Pop superstar Beyonce’s ballad ‘Be Alive’ — penned for the tennis biopic ‘King Richard,’ about the father of Serena and Venus Williams (played by Will Smith) — was on a list of 15 tracks, which will be whittled down to a final five before March’s Oscars.

She will compete against her husband Jay-Z, who produced Netflix Western ‘The Harder They Fall,’ and teamed up with Kid Cudi for the movie’s track ‘Guns Go Bang.’

Grande appears in satire ‘Don’t Look Up,’ in which her pop star character sings ‘Just Look Up’ to implore the public to take seriously the impending threat of a comet plummeting towards Earth.

Billie Eilish’s 007 theme song ‘No Time To Die’ also made the list.

So did ‘Dos Oruguitas’ from Disney’s animated film ‘Encanto,’ a song composed by ‘Hamilton’ creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who only needs an Oscar to complete the coveted EGOT collection of awards — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.

Check out the list of contenders still in the running:

Original Song

So May We Start? from ‘Annette’ – Ron Mael, Russell Mael

Down To Joy from ‘Belfast – Van Morrison

Right Where I Belong from ‘Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road’ – Brian Wilson, Jim James

Automatic Woman from ‘Bruised’- H.E.R.

Dream Girl from ‘Cinderella’ – Idina Menzel, Laura Veltz

Beyond The Shore from ‘CODA’ – Nicholai Baxter, Matt Dahan, Sian Heder, Marius de Vries

The Anonymous Ones from ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ – Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Amandla Stenberg

Just Look Up from ‘Don’t Look Up’ – Nicholas Britell, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Taura Stinson

Dos Oruguitas from ‘Encanto’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Somehow You Do from ‘Four Good Days’ – Diane Warren

Guns Go Bang from ‘The Harder They Fall’ – Jeymes Samuel, Scott Mescudi, Shawn Carter

Be Alive from ‘King Richard’ – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson

No Time To Die from ‘No Time to Die’ – Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell

Here I Am (Singing My Way Home) from ‘Respect’ – Jamie Alexander Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, Carole King

Your Song Saved My Life from ‘Sing 2’ – Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Jr.

Fifteen contenders were unveiled for the international feature film Academy Award, from among 92 eligible movies. Each country is only permitted to submit one film.

France boasts the most foreign film nominations of any country in Oscars history, but will watch from the sidelines this year after its selection, Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winning body-horror ‘Titane,’ failed to make the cut.

The ultra-violent movie about a female serial killer who has sex with automobiles, before tricking a firefighter into believing she is his long-lost son, may have proven too controversial for Academy voters.

The shortlist includes frontrunners such as Paolo Sorrentino’s coming-of-age drama ‘The Hand of God’ (Italy) and Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ (Japan), based on a Haruki Murakami short story.

Iran’s Asghar Farhadi — among a select group of auteurs to have won multiple foreign film Oscars previously with ‘A Separation’ and ‘The Salesman’ — again makes the cut with morality drama ‘A Hero.’

The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is a step closer to its first Oscar nomination with ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,’ a comic drama about a reluctant young teacher who is sent to work in the world’s most isolated school.

Denmark, which won the foreign film Oscar last year for ‘Another Round,’ again has a strong contender in the form of ‘Flee,’ which chronicles a gay Afghan refugee’s perilous journey to Europe. The animated film was also included in the shortlist for best documentary, which was also unveiled Tuesday.

‘The Rescue,’ about the headline-grabbing 2018 race to save a Thai soccer team trapped in a cave, and Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul,’ about the huge but largely forgotten ‘Black Woodstock’ festival that took place in 1969 Harlem, also made the cut.

Foreign Film

Austria, ‘Great Freedom’

Belgium, ‘Playground’

Bhutan, ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’

Denmark, ‘Flee’

Finland, ‘Compartment No. 6’

Germany, ‘I’m Your Man’

Iceland, ‘Lamb’

Iran, ‘A Hero’

Italy, ‘The Hand of God’

Japan, ‘Drive My Car’

Kosovo, ‘Hive’

Mexico, ‘Prayers for the Stolen’

Norway, ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Panama, ‘Plaza Catedral’

Spain, ‘The Good Boss’

Documentary Feature

Ascension – Jessica Kingdon

Attica – Jessica Kingdon

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – RJ Cutler

Faya Dayi – Jessica Beshir

The First Wave – Matthew Heineman

Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen

In the Same Breath – Nanfu Wang

Julia – Julie Cohen, Betsy West

President – Camilla Nielsson

Procession – Robert Greene

The Rescue – Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Simple as Water – Megan Mylan

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Quest Love

The Velvet Underground – Todd Haynes

Writing with Fire – Rintu Thomas

Documentary Short Subject

Águilas

Audible

A Broken House

Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis

Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker

Day of Rage

The Facility

Lead Me Home

Lynching Postcards: “Token of a Great Day”

The Queen of Basketball

Sophie & the Baron

Takeover

Terror Contagion

Three Songs for Benazir

When We Were Bullies

Animated Short Film

Austria, ‘Great Freedom’

Belgium, “Playground’

Bhutan, ‘Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom’

Denmark, ‘Flee’

Finland, ‘Compartment No. 6’

Germany, ‘I’m Your Man’

Iceland, ‘Lamb’

Iran, ‘A Hero’

Italy, ‘The Hand of God’

Japan, ‘Drive My Car’

Kosovo, ‘Hive’

Mexico, ‘Prayers for the Stolen’

Norway, ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Panama, ‘Plaza Catedral’

Spain, ‘The Good Boss’

Live Action Short Film

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run

Censor of Dreams

The Criminals

Distances

The Dress

Frimas

Les Grandes Claques

The Long Goodbye

On My Mind

Please Hold

Stenofonen

Tala’vision

Under the Heavens

When the Sun Sets

You’re Dead Helen

Sound

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

Visual Effects

Black Widow

Dune

Eternals

Free Guy

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Godzilla vs. Kong

The Matrix Resurrections

No Time to Die

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Makeup and Hairstyling

Coming 2 America

Cruella

Cyrano

Dune

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

House of Gucci

Nightmare Alley

No Time to Die

The Suicide Squad

West Side Story

Original Score

Being the Ricardos

Candyman

Don’t Look Up

Dune

Encanto

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

The Green Knight

The Harder They Fall

King Richard

The Last Duel

No Time to Die

Parallel Mothers

The Power of the Dog

Spencer

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The final list of Oscar nominations will be revealed on February 8, and the awards will be handed out on March 27.

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