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    Michael Phillips: 2022 Oscar nominations are in — what the Academy got right, and what it got wrong

    If Netflix is the big dog in Hollywood now, then “The Power of the Dog” is the dog behind the dog at this year’s Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday. The film’s 12 Oscar nominations include best picture, adapted screenplay, direction and all four key actors: the lead (Benedict Cumberbatch, who’ll win if Will Smith in “King Richard” doesn’t) plus three sizable supporting turns (Kirsten ...
    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Feb 08, 2022 5 minutes

    If Netflix is the big dog in Hollywood now, then “The Power of the Dog” is the dog behind the dog at this year’s Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday.

    The film’s 12 Oscar nominations include best picture, adapted screenplay, direction and all four key actors: the lead (Benedict Cumberbatch, who’ll win if Will Smith in “King Richard” doesn’t) plus three sizable supporting turns (Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jesse Plemons).

    Nominations for “The Power of the Dog” handed a second directorial nod,to screenwriter-director Jane Campion, following “The Piano” a generation ago. Campion’s Netflix-backed 1925-set chamber Western of repressive sexuality and expressive vistas premiered last summer at the Venice International Film Festival. After that, to quote “Popstar,” it never stopped not stopping.

    At this profoundly uncertain juncture in global screen culture, Campion’s film hit the mark, certainly

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