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The Oscars opened on an unconventional note with a performance from one of the biggest stars on the planet: Beyonce.
Venus and Serena Williams were the first presenters on the stage, introducing the 40-year-old singer’s performance, from the same Compton tennis court where they learned the game they would come to dominate.
Beyonce delivered a powerful performance of Be Alive from Best Picture nominee King Richard, which she co-wrote with Dixson.
The singer’s daughter, 10-year-old Blue Ivy, was also spotted with her mother, wearing sunglasses and kneeling front and center in front of Beyonce for part of the performance.
Bey performs: The Oscars opened on an unconventional note with a performance from one of the biggest stars on the planet: Beyonce
Super star cameo! Beyonce’s daughter Blue Ivy (center) also appeared in the pre-taped segment
The video package began with a number of young men and women in lime green as they walked up to the courts.
Beyonce herself was rocking a lime green gown with matching lime green short shorts and matching heels.
She accessorized with sparkling diamond earrings while her backup dancers rocked matching crop tops and dresses.
Stunning: The ex-Destiny’s Child star looked flawless as she belted out the number
Courts: The video package began with a number of young men and women in lime green as they walked up to the courts
Performance: Beyonce delivered a powerful performance of Be Alive from Best Picture nominee King Richard, which she co-wrote with Dixson
Beyonce’s look: Beyonce herself was rocking a lime green gown with matching lime green short shorts and matching heels
During the performance she gave a shout-out to the City of Compton, where the Williams sisters grew up.
The singer’s performance was the first of four performances on Oscar Sunday, with Billie Eilish performing her title song from the James Bond film No Time to Die, Reba McEntire performing Somehow You Do from Four Good Days and Sebastian Yatra performing Dos Oruguitas from Encanto.
The fifth nominee, Van Morrison, was unable to perform Down to Joy from Belfast, due to his touring schedule.
Shout-out: During the performance she gave a shout-out to the City of Compton, where the Williams sisters grew up
First performance: The singer’s performance was the first of four performances on Oscar Sunday, with Billie Eilish performing her title song from the James Bond film No Time to Die, Reba McEntire performing Somehow You Do from Four Good Days and Sebastian Yatra performing Dos Oruguitas from Encanto
It was first reported last week that The Academy was in talks with Beyonce to perform, with Deadline reporting that she would only perform with a pre-taped performance if the other performers were given the option to do so.
The singer reportedly didn’t want, ‘special treatment’ for performing, though it’s unclear how many of the other performers will be pre-taped and which will be live.
Last year’s Oscars, which took place at both the Dolby Theater and at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, featured all of the Best Original Song performances pre-taped.
Talks: It was first reported last week that The Academy was in talks with Beyonce to perform, with Deadline reporting that she would only perform with a pre-taped performance if the other performers were given the option to do so
Special treatment: The singer reportedly didn’t want, ‘special treatment’ for performing, though it’s unclear how many of the other performers will be pre-taped and which will be live
Pre-taped: Last year’s Oscars, which took place at both the Dolby Theater and at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, featured all of the Best Original Song performances pre-taped
The pre-taped performance comes on the heels of the controversial choice to cut eight awards from the live telecast.
The eight categories – Documentary Short, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound and Score – were announced to be presented an hour before the live telecast.
Those segments were filmed and then edited seamlessly into the live telecast, in an effort to keep the show under three hours in length.
Flash! The star appeared to be wearing a garter as she sang the song
Pre-taped: The pre-taped performance comes on the heels of the controversial choice to cut eight awards from the live telecast
Live: The eight categories – Documentary Short, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound and Score – were announced to be presented an hour before the live telecast
Segments: Those segments were filmed and then edited seamlessly into the live telecast, in an effort to keep the show under three hours in length
OSCARS 2022: WINNERS
BEST PICTURE
Belfast (Focus Features)
Coda (Apple)
Don’t Look Up (Netflix)
Drive My Car (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Dune (Warner Bros)
King Richard (Warner Bros)
Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)
The Power Of The Dog (Netflix)
West Side Story (20th Century Studios)
On the saddle: Power Of The Dog received several nominations including Best Picture
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER
Judi Dench – Belfast
Kirsten Dunst- The Power Of The Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Ciaran Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – Coda – WINNER
Jesse Plemons – The Power Of The Dog
J.K Simmons – Being The Ricardos
Kodi Smitt-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog
COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella (Jenny Beavan) – WINNER
Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
Dune (Jacqueline West)
Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)
Jumping for joy: West Side Story was nominated for Best Costume Design
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND
Belfast
Dune – WINNER
No Time To Die
The Power Of The Dog
West Side Story
ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer) – WINNER
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA (Sian Heder)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
Loud and clear: Coda was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) – WINNER
Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt)
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs Of The Heart
Bestia
Box Ballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper – WINNER
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye – WINNER
On My Mind
Please Hold
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car – WINNER
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette)
Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
The Power of the Dog (Grant Major & Amber Richards)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)
West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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
Ace? Will Smith is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for King Richard
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
DIRECTING
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
At the helm: Jane Campion is nominated in the Best Director category for Power Of The Dog
FILM EDITING
Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)
Dune (Joe Walker) – WINNER
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)
MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
House Of Gucci
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto – WINNER
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells VS The Machine
Raya And The Lost Dragon
ORIGINAL SONG
Be Alive — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas — Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
Down to Joy — Van Morrison (Belfast)
No Time to Die — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
Somehow You Do— Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball – WINNER
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing with Fire
VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune – WINNER
Free Guy
No Time To Die
Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Stunning: Dune earned nods in both the Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography categories
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune (Greig Fraser) – WINNER
Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)
Source: dailymail
