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Pop Culture Happy Hour

2022 Oscar Nominations

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This year's Oscar nominations were announced today, and it's a big year for The Power of the Dog, Dune, West Side Story, Drive My Car, and more. We've got an overview of the nominees in the major categories, plus some surprises and snubs. Vote for the BEST best picture Oscar winners at npr.org/bestpicture

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The 2022 Oscar nominations were announced today and it is a big year for the power of

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the dog, West Side Story, Dune, Drive My Car, and more.

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We've got your major milestones plus some surprises and snubs on Glen Weldon.

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And I'm Steven Thompson today.

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We are talking about this year's Oscar nominations on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:29.0

It's just the two of us today.

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We're going to give you an overview of the nominees in the major categories we can't

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get to everything.

0:35.6

We'll bring you our Oscar predictions in an episode that'll run closer to the ceremony,

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which takes place March 27th.

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So let's get started.

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There are 10 best picture nominees this year.

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Belfast is Kenneth Brana's semi-autobiographical film about a work in class family in 1960s

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Northern Ireland.

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Coda is Sean Hader's coming of age movie about a teenage child of deaf adults.

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What Coda stands for, don't look up is Adam McKay's satire about two astronomers trying

1:03.6

to warn people that a comet is about to destroy Earth.

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Drive My Car is a film from Japanese director Lausca Hamaguchi about a widow director and

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his driver.

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Dune is Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel.

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King Richard is Ronaldo Marcus Green's movie about Richard Williams, the father of tennis

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stars Venus and Serena Williams.

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