Las aspirantes a los Premios de la Academia se encuentran en las categorias de: largometraje documental, cortometraje documental, largometraje internacional, maquillaje y peluquería, música (partitura original), canción original, cortometraje de animación, Cortometraje de Live Action, Efectos de sonido y visuales.
Dentro de las diferentes categorías se han preseleccionado hasta quince filmes, los cuales se alistan para una clasificación final después de una selección entre cientos de postulantes.
Las votaciones finales comenzarán el 27 de enero y terminarán el 1 de febrero. Los nominados oficiales se anunciarán el 8 de febrero y finalmente el domingo 27 de marzo se celebrará la gran gala de entrega.
A continuación la shortlist de preseleccionados a los Premios de la Academia 2022
MEJOR DOCUMENTAL
- "Ascension"
- "Attica"
- "Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry"
- "Faya Dayi"
- "The First Wave"
- "Flee"
- "In the Same Breath"
- "Julia"
- "President"
- "Procession"
- "The Rescue"
- "Simple as Water"
- "Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)"
- "The Velvet Underground"
- "Writing with Fire"
MEJOR CORTO
- "Águilas"
- "Audible"
- "A Broken House"
- "Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis"
- "Coded: The Hidden Love of J. C. Leyendecker"
- "Day of Rage"
- "The Facility"
- "Lead Me Home"
- "Lynching Postcards: "Token of a Great Day""
- "The Queen of Basketball"
- "Sophie & the Baron"
- "Takeover"
- "Terror Contagion"
- "Three Songs for Benazir"
- "When We Were Bullies"
MEJOR LARGOMETRAJE INTERNACIONAL
- Austria, "Great Freedom"
Belgium, "Playground" - Bhutan, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"
- Denmark, "Flee"
- Finland, "Compartment No. 6"
- Germany, "I’m Your Man"
- Iceland, "Lamb"
- Iran, "A Hero"
- Italy, "The Hand of God"
- Japan, "Drive My Car"
- Kosovo, "Hive"
- Mexico, "Prayers for the Stolen"
- Norway, "The Worst Person in the World"
- Panama, "Plaza Catedral"
- Spain, "The Good Boss"
MEJOR MAQUILLAJE Y PEINADO
- "Coming 2 America"
- "Cruella"
- "Cyrano"
- "Dune"
- "The Eyes of Tammy Faye"
- "House of Gucci"
- "Nightmare Alley"
- "No Time to Die"
- "The Suicide Squad"
- "West Side Story"
MEJOR MUSICA ORIGINAL
- "Being the Ricardos"
- "Candyman"
- "Don’t Look Up"
- "Dune"
- "Encanto"
- "The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun"
- "The Green Knight"
- "The Harder They Fall"
- "King Richard"
- "The Last Duel"
- "No Time to Die"
- "Parallel Mothers"
- "The Power of the Dog"
- "Spencer"
- "The Tragedy of Macbeth"
MEJOR CANCION ORIGINAL
- "So May We Start?" from "Annette"
- "Down To Joy" from "Belfast"
- "Right Where I Belong" from "Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road"
- "Automatic Woman" from "Bruised"
- "Dream Girl" from "Cinderella"
- "Beyond The Shore" from "CODA"
- "The Anonymous Ones" from "Dear Evan Hansen"
- "Just Look Up" from "Don’t Look Up"
- "Dos Oruguitas" from "Encanto"
- "Somehow You Do" from "Four Good Days"
- "Guns Go Bang" from "The Harder They Fall"
- "Be Alive" from "King Richard"
- "No Time To Die" from "No Time to Die"
- "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" from "Respect"
- "Your Song Saved My Life" from "Sing 2"
MEJOR CORTO ANIMADO
- "Affairs of the Art"
- "Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice"
- "Bad Seeds"
- "Bestia"
- "Boxballet"
- "Flowing Home"
- "Mum Is Pouring Rain"
- "The Musician"
- "Namoo"
- "Only a Child"
- "Robin Robin"
- "Souvenir Souvenir"
- "Step into the River"
- "Us Again"
- "The Windshield Wiper"
MEJOR CORTO LIVE ACTION
- "Ala Kachuu - Take and Run"
- "Censor of Dreams"
- "The Criminals"
- "Distances"
- "The Dress"
- "Frimas"
- "Les Grandes Claques"
- "The Long Goodbye"
- "On My Mind"
- "Please Hold"
- "Stenofonen"
- "Tala’vision"
- "Under the Heavens"
- "When the Sun Sets"
- "You’re Dead Helen"
MEJOR SONIDO
- "Belfast"
- "Dune"
- "Last Night in Soho"
- "The Matrix Resurrections"
- "No Time to Die"
- "The Power of the Dog"
- "A Quiet Place Part II"
- "Spider-Man: No Way Home"
- "tick, tick...BOOM!"
- "West Side Story"
MEJORES EFECTOR VISUALES
- "Black Widow"
- "Dune"
- "Eternals"
- "Free Guy"
- "Ghostbusters: Afterlife"
- "Godzilla vs. Kong"
- "The Matrix Resurrections"
- "No Time to Die"
- "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"
- "Spider-Man: No Way Home"