The SAG Awards will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS at 7 CT/5 PT with a TNT encore airing at 10 CT/8 PT. Cable subscribers can also watch the SAG Awards live using the networks’ websites, mobile apps and connected device apps such as Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire
The Annie’s are going virtual this year! The 49th Annual Annie Awards™ has been moved to a virtual format instead of a live ceremony originally set for Saturday, February 26. Reasons for the change are due primarily to the growing concern over the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.
The Annies will stream live on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 9 p.m. (Central time) . The link for the livestream will be free and available to everyone who wants to view the ceremony and a complete recording of the livestream will be available on the Annie Award website the following day – www.annieawards.org.
1. Best Feature
Encanto
Walt Disney Animation Studios
2. Best Indie Feature
Belle
Studio Chizu / Distributed by GKIDS
3. Best Special Production
La Vie de Château (My Life In Versailles)
Films Grand Huit in association with Miyu Productions
4. Best Short Subject
Bestia
Trebol 3 Producciones, MALEZA Estudio
5. Best Sponsored
A Future Begins
Nexus Studios
6. Best TV/Media – Preschool
Ada Twist, Scientist
Episode: Twelve Angry Birds
7. Best TV/Media – Children
Amphibia
Episode: True Colors
8. Best TV/Media – General Audience
Arcane
Episode: When These Walls Come Tumbling Down
9. Best Student Film
A Film About A Pudding
Student Director: Roel Van Beek
10. Best FX – TV/Media
Arcane
Episode: Oil and Water
11. Best FX – Feature
Belle
Production Company: Studio Chizu / Distributed by GKIDS
“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
Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”)
Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”)
Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”)
Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”)
Best Lead 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 Lead 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 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 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 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 and 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 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 Animated Feature Film
“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 Animated Short Film
“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 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 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 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 Song
“Be Alive” from “King Richard,” music and lyric by Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto,” music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast,” music and lyric by Van Morrison
“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die,” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days,” music and lyric by Diane Warren
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 (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
“Writing With Fire,” Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
Best Documentary Short Subject
“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 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 International Feature Film
“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 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 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 DeAngelohttps://715a7c4625ce2b7717d1de6794e64fb1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
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
Best Live Action Short Film
“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
Ozark Part 1 begins this weekend with seven episodes you can binge watch on Netflix beginning Friday, January 21st. I’m not going to miss this!
When we last saw Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) their mob attorney, Helen, played by Janet McTeer, had been brutally murdered. The Byrdes were at a crossroads with their Mexican drug king pin and their pregnant FBI agent. Their kids, now 17 and 14, were wise to their money laundering operation out of a casino in the Ozarks. Wendy’s brother, Ben, played by Tom Pelphrey, was dead because they killed and incinerated him like Toby toward the end of “Sweeney Todd.” Ruth, Tom’s girlfriend, and the Byrds’ right hand girl, Julia Garner, had had it with them, which wasn’t good.
Best Film: The Power of the Dog Best Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog Best Actress: Agathe Rousselle, Titane Best Actor: Nicolas Cage, Pig Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog Best Supporting Actor: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog Best Ensemble: The French Dispatch Best Original Screenplay: Vanessa Block and Michael Sarnoski, Pig Best Adapted Screenplay: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car Best Cinematography: Andrew Droz Palermo, The Green Knight Best Editing: Joe Walker, Dune Best Original Score: Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog Best International Film: Drive My Car Best Documentary: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Best Animated Film: The Mitchells vs. The Machines Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance: Abbi Jacobson, The Mitchells vs. The Machines Best Stunts: No Time to Die Best First Film: Michael Samoski, Pig Austin Film Award: Without Getting Killed or Caught The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza SPECIAL AWARD: Best Film Made in Austin by a Non-Austin Filmmaker: Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford for Test Pattern
Founded in 2005, the Austin Film Critics Association is comprised of reviewers working in the Austin area, including critics from the Austin Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, Austin360.com, Bloody Disgusting, But Why Tho Podcast, Certified Forgotten, Cinapse, Daily Grindhouse, the Daily Dot, the Daily Texan, Double Toasted, Fangoria, Film School Rejects, FirstShowing.net, GotchaMovies, Hammer to Nail, Hill Country News, Horror’s Not Dead, KOOP 91.7 FM Radio, Movies.com, Nerdist, Next Projection, One Movie Punch, One Of Us, Slashfilm, Smells Like Screen Spirit, True View Reviews, and Uproxx. All films released between Feb. 27 and Dec. 24, 2021, were eligible for voting.
A new report claims that Apple is planning to greatly increase its Apple TV+ program library with at least one new show per week in 2022, plus it is currently spending half a billion on advertising.
As of May 2021, Apple TV+ was believed to have around 40 million subscribers, which beats Hulu and Paramount+, but leaves it far behind Netflix’s 208 million. Apple TV+ is also considered to have one of the smallest streaming libraries, but is reportedly now planning to greatly increase its quantity of original programs.
Disney: $24.5 Billion
Disney+ (103 million subscribers), Hulu (41.6 million), and ESPN+ (13.8 million) as well as ABC, Freeform, and Disney Channel.
WarnerMedia + Discovery: $20 Billion
Discovery (15 million subscribers) and WarnerMedia (64 million global HBO and HBO Max subscribers) . WarnerMedia’s properties also include Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Broadcasting (TBS, TNT), Adult Swim, and more.
NBCUniversal: $17.8 Billion
Peacock, NBCU NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, and others.
Netflix: $17 Billion
37 million new subscribers signed up to the service in 2020 alone.
ViacomCBS: $15 Billion
ViacomCBS has over 36 million streaming subscribers across Paramount+, Pluto TV, BET+, Showtime OTT and others. It also includes film studio Paramount Pictures and Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, as well as the vast CBS empire.
Amazon Prime Video: $9 Billion
Amazon spent $8.5 billion on film and television content last year and a billion of that was for it’s 5 season Lord of the Rings series.
Content spending among the nine leading media and technology companies will reach $140.5 billion in 2022, up about 10% year-over-year, according to new data from Wells Fargo.
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series The Handmaid’s Tale The Morning Show Squid Game Succession Yellowstone
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Brian Cox, Succession Billy Crudup, The Morning Show Kieran Culkin, Succession Lee Jung-Jae, Squid Game Jeremy Strong, Succession
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show Jung Ho-Yeon, Squid Game Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale Sarah Snook, Succession Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show
Steve Martin and Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building (Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu)
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series The Great Hacks The Kominsky Method Only Murders in the Building Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Elle Fanning, The Great Sandra Oh, The Chair Jean Smart, Hacks Juno Temple, Ted Lasso Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series Murray Bartlett, The White Lotus Oscar Isaac, Scenes from a Marriage Michael Keaton, Dopesick Ewan McGregor, Halston Evan Peters, Mare of Easttown
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus Cynthia Erivo, Genius: Erivo Margaret Qualley, Maid Jean Smart, Mare of Easttown Kate Winslet, Mare of Easttown
Golden Globe Ceremony – January 9 Grammy Award Ceremony – January 31
February 2022
Oscar Nominations Announcement – February 8 Award Ceremony of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards – February 13 Screen Actors Guild Awards Award Ceremony – February 27
March 2022
Award Ceremony of the Independent Film Spirit Awards – March 6 Award Ceremony of the 94th edition of the Oscars – March 27
Golden Globes won’t be here in 2022!
Golden Globes: NBC has announced that, in light of recent controversies regarding the lack of several voices within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the voting practices of the group, it will not broadcast the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony. The network is, however, open to broadcast the ceremony in 2023 if the HFPA faces criticism with significant reform.
Detailed List of 2022 Award Shows
January 2022
Jan. 9: Golden Globes ceremony* Jan. 11: NAACP Image Awards nominations announced Jan. 12: Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations announced Jan. 15: Oscars Governors Awards Jan. 21: American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards nominations announced Jan. 24: Art Directors Guild Awards nominations announced Jan. 26: Costume Designers Guild Awards nominations announced Jan. 27: Oscars nominations voting begins Jan. 27: Producers Guild of America Awards nominations announced Jan. 27: Directors Guild of America Awards nominations announced Jan. 27: Writers Guild of America Awards nominations announced Jan. 31: Grammys ceremony
*Golden Globes: Earlier this year, NBC announced that in light of recent controversies surrounding a lack of diverse voices within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as well as the group’s voting practices, it would not air the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony. In October, the HFPA announced that it will proceed with its annual awards presentation without NBC involvement, scheduling its 2022 ceremony for the same weekend as the Critics Choice Awards, drawing ire from the group. The CCAs were later postponed due to COVID concerns.
February 2022
Feb. 1: Oscars nominations voting ends Feb. 8: Oscars nominations announced Feb. 13: British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards ceremony Feb. 22: Annie Awards ceremony (See the nominees here) Feb. 26: American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards ceremony Feb. 26: Producers Guild of America Awards ceremony Feb. 26: NAACP Image Awards ceremony Feb. 27: Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony
March 2022
March 5: Art Directors Guild Awards ceremony March 6: Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony March 7: Oscar nominees luncheon March 9: Costume Designers Guild Awards ceremony March 12: Directors Guild of America Awards ceremony March 17: Final Oscars voting begins March 20: Writers Guild of America Awards ceremony March 22: Final Oscars voting ends March 27: 94th Oscars ceremony (Moved back from original scheduled air date of Feb. 27)
TBD
Critics Choice Awards ceremony (Originally scheduled for Jan. 9, postponed due to COVID concerns; see the nominees here)