Oscars 2022: Viewers ‘Wish’ the Academy Would Release Best Picture Nominee Rankings
The Oscars 2022 Best Picture nominees offer a variety of movies that generated buzz over the course of the previous year. However, the world only gets to hear about the winner on the film industry’s biggest night of the year. Some viewers “wish” that the academy would release the rankings of where each nominee placed in terms of voting. It certainly would make for some drama.
Oscars 2022 Best Picture nominees
The Oscars 2022 ceremony offers 10 Best Picture nominees. As a result, the voting members of the academy have the opportunity to voice their support for a more diverse group of movies. Each nominee has a following that justifies why it deserves to take home the most coveted award of the night.
The nominees include: Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story. It’s a big year for streamers, such as Netflix and Apple TV+, as well as foreign films, such as Drive My Car. Some categories are fairly easy for folks to predict, although the Best Picture category is a much tougher nut to crack. There is no guaranteed front-runner.
Viewers ‘wish’ to see the Academy Awards announce Best Picture nominee rankings
Many social media users mentioned that the Oscars 2022 should announce the ranking for the Best Picture category, which would list them from the winner to the least voted nominee. One Twitter user suggested this practice, including a GIF to emphasize the drama that it would bring to the awards season.
“I wish the Oscars told us what place each Best Picture nominee came in throughout the broadcast!,” the Twitter user wrote. “Like ‘in 10th place, Don’t Look Up!'”
When it comes down to two Oscars 2022 Best Picture nominees, the presenter would announce the winner of the category. It’s reminiscent of a reality television format that certainly wouldn’t capture the younger demographic the academy is targeting.
The tweet earned a thread of comments supporting the idea. One response explained how badly they have wanted this to happen for years. After all, who doesn’t enjoy the drama of eliminations? in previous years, the broadcast showcased the Best Picture nominees periodically throughout the show.
However, one response in the threat wrote, “I disagree purely because Don’t Look Up would be so depressingly high.” The film earned the most amount of backlash out of the nominees for not belonging in the category.
Meanwhile, another Twitter user thinks that Nightmare Alley would rank as the lowest Oscars 2022 Best Picture nominee.
Oscars 2022 divides social media
The Oscars 2022 Best Picture nominees created a lot of division on social media ever since the initial announcement. Belfast and The Power of the Dog were early frontrunners, although CODA snuck into the conversation after taking home surprise trophies at the SAG Awards, PGA Awards, and WGA Awards.
The Oscars 2022 takes place on March 27.
