10 shocking things that could happen at the 2022 Oscars

With the Best Picture competition perhaps too close and the Best Actress category involved in a real head-to-head, there’s more suspense than usual for the biggest awards of the night at the 2022 Oscars. But there’s no need to. to wait to see if QUEUE will triumph over The power of the dog for something unexpected to happen. We tried to imagine 10 truly shocking things that could happen – sure, they may not be certain – but it’s live TV, so it’s best to be prepared for anything.

Johnny Depp Wins Fan Favorite Award

The chaos in the #OscarsFanFavorite category, which it is not technically a category of the Oscars but it will be part of the broadcast in some still inexplicable way, it is truly limitless. The data suggests that Army of the Dead Of Zack Snyder was in the lead when the polls closed earlier this month, but it’s still highly likely that the under-seen Johnny Depp film Minamata will be celebrated on stage thanks to the strong power of Depp’s fan base, very active online.

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons and Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz win couple Oscar

Not only do we have two real-life couples nominated for Oscars in the same year, but they’re also all in different categories, meaning they could technically take home two Oscars per family.

Olivia Colman shocks, again

It is one thing to win Best Actress twice in the span of four years, which they have done Frances McDormand, Jodie Foster, Glenda Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, Luise Rainer and Bette Davis. Another thing is to do it twice by overtaking a repeatedly nominated actress who was expected to take home the win. She will succeed Olivia Colman to do a Jessica Chastain what he did to Glenn Close? You will have to tune in to find out.

Or, Jessica Chastain could bring her makeup artist to the stage

Chastain, who could very well win Best Actress, is one of the few stars to have confirmed she will be in attendance for the non-televised ceremony preceding the live ceremony, where her hair and makeup team for Eyes of Tammy Faye will announce its category. But given the controversy surrounding the eight categories that are presented before the broadcast, imagine if Chastain won Best Actress and used the time to bring the team to live TV.

DJ Khaled presents the tribute In Memoriam

Of all the unexpected people who will be conducting during Sunday’s show, as part of the producer’s effort Will Packer to “connect with the casual cinephile and the casual cinema fan”, DJ Khaled might be the most surprising. Of course, he could present the best original song, a category much more related to his career than him. But here we are thinking big; who doesn’t want to see DJ Khaled solemnly introduce the tribute to Hollywood luminaries who passed away during the year?

Lady Gaga doesn’t win an Oscar … but her personal hairdresser does

There is no need to remind you that the star of House of Gucci was neglected by the Academy this year, failing to get a Best Actress nomination for the biopic of Ridley Scott. At least he’s in august company: None of the other big shots of House of Gucci was named … with the exception of hairdressers and makeup artists Göran Lundström, AnnaCarin Lock And Frederic Aspiras. If the latter name sounds familiar to you, you might be a Little Monster: Aspiras has styled Gaga’s hair for nearly 15 years, including for her roles in A Star Is Born And American Horror Story. And as Gaga’s journey to the 2022 awards is over, her stylist could reach a very different conclusion.

QUEUE it breaks a precedent of nearly 100 years

The tender family comedy of Sian Heder, nominated for Best Picture, could be an innovative winner for several reasons. But Oscar statesmen are probably more interested in this: if QUEUE won the top prize, it would be the first film to win in that category with three or fewer total Oscar nominations since Grand Hotel, Best Picture of 1932 (which famously won Best Picture without being nominated in a single other category). Somewhere Greta Garbo’s ghost is … well, not really smiling, but he looks at us in an unfriendly way.

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley make history

Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix they both won Oscars for playing the Joker. Ariana DeBose, who inherited Anita’s role in West Side Story by the Oscar winner Rita Moreno, it is favored for such an enterprise. But two actors have never won an Oscar for playing the same character in the same films, as do candidates Colman and Buckley in The Lost Daughter. They are not, however, the only actors nominated for playing such roles; Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet they were both nominated for playing Rose in Titanic, while the Winslet e Judi Dench they were both nominated for playing the lead role in Iris 2001. If they win, however, Colman and Buckley will win for the first time.

Amy Schumer convinces Volodymyr Zelenskyy to show up after all

True story: The co-host of the Oscars for the first time wants to find a way to persuade the Ukrainian president, a former actor, to make a virtual appearance at the Oscars: «I would like to find a way to have Zelenskyy via satellite or to make a video or something like that, just because there are so many eyes on the Oscars, ”he explained to Drew Barrymore. Schumer hinted at Barrymore that the idea was scrapped. But who knows.

Diane Warren could finally end her losing streak

Maybe This Time is not a Diane Warren song, although it could very well be. The decorated hitmaker is one of the leading Oscar bridesmaids of the modern era, with 13 nominations and no wins. The competition this year is tough; it is against the quasi-EGOT Lin-Manuel Miranda, the dynamic duo of Billie Eilish And Finneas, the Grammy winner Van Morrison And Beyoncé. But if the Academy finally gives Warren what she deserves, she will sing a different tune.