The 94th Annual Oscar Nominations Are Out…

🎬🎥🍿 … and Netflix’s The Power of the Dog leads the pack with 12 total nods. Director Jane Campion made history, becoming the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director.

• Dune secured 10 noms, and West Side Story and Belfast each earned seven – the middle one making Spielberg the first to be nominated for Best Director across six different decades (!).
• Netflix got a total of 27 nominations, down from its 36 last year, while Apple managed six, up from two. Amazon fell to just four, down from a dozen. Hulu matched last year’s total with one.

+Looking ahead… The ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 27. A host hasn’t been named yet (Ricky Gervais 🤞).

+What we’re watching… Will people actually tune-in? Last year’s Oscars drew a record-low 9.85 million viewers, a 58% dropoff from 2020. In other words, 13.75 million less people tuned in last year.

+Dig deeper: See the full list of nominees.