Oscars 2022 Complete Winners List: ‘CODA’ Nabs Best Picture, 'Dune' Wins 6 Awards (original) (raw)

The biggest upset at the 94th Academy Awards had nothing to do with any of the nominated films competing for honors. It came roughly three hours into the telecast, when Will Smith stepped on stage and slapped Chris Rock after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. It was a stunning unscripted moment that left viewers and the audience in the Dolby theater slack-jawed. Rock, looking stunned at what had just transpired on live television, pulled himself together and announced “Summer of Soul” as the winner of Best Documentary Feature.

Smith accepted his statuette for Best Actor shortly after the incident, during which he tearfully apologized to the Academy and his fellow nominees, but not Rock.

The rest of the evening played out very much as expected. “Dune” won six categories, the most of any of the nominated films: Sound, Editing, Score, Production Design, Best Cinematography and Visual Effects. Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose made history as the first Afro-Latina and openly queer woman to take home an acting prize, while Best Supporting Actor Troy Kotsur became the first deaf male actor to win. Eight-time nominee Kenneth Branagh finally won an Oscar, for his original screenplay for the semi-autobiographical “Belfast.” In her acceptance speech for Best Actress, fellow first-time winner Jessica Chastain paid tribute to Tammy Faye Bakker and her “radical acts of love” towards the LGBTQ community.

In the end, the neck-and-neck race for Best Picture between “The Power of the Dog” and “CODA” went the way of “CODA,” while Jane Campion took home Best Director, her first Oscar since winning Best Original Screenplay for “The Piano” in 1994.

Hosts Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes kept the show moving forward at an energetic clip, from the opening monologue, in which they alluded to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill (“Well, we’re gonna have a great night tonight and for you people in Florida, we’re gonna have a gay night,” Sykes said) to a zany bit where they appeared on stage as Richard Williams (Sykes), Tammy Faye Bakker (Hall) and Spider-Man (Schumer).

And yes, Rachel Zegler did indeed appear at the ceremony and we for sure are still talking about Bruno.

The complete list of winners is below, with links to stories.