NYC Movies Grab 2022 Oscar Nominations

Check out what New York City films nabbed Oscar nods. Spoilers: one of them is "Coming 2 America."

Matt Troutman,   Posted Tue, Feb 8, 2022   Reprinted from PATCH

NEW YORK CITY — A classic New York City story. A biopic of a Broadway legend. A documentary about a legendary Harlem music festival. And "Coming 2 America."

Those are the New York City-based films that nabbed 2022 Oscar nominations.

The remake of "West Side Story" nabbed a best picture nod along with a best supporting actress nod for its star Ariana DeBose. It also secured a best director nomination for Steven Spielberg.

Ariana DeBose attends the "West Side Story" New York Premiere at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center on Nov. 29.

Few films boast a New York pedigree quite like "West Side Story." The musical with music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim tells a story of love and war in a largely Puerto Rican neighborhood on the West Side in the 1950s. It started life on Broadway before being adapted into a classic 1961 film.

And other music-themed New York City films fared well in this batch of Oscar nods.

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” garnered a best actor nomination for Andrew Garfield, who portrayed Jonathan Larson, the legendary Broadway musician wrote "Rent" and the selfsame musical "Tick, Tick... Boom!"

This image released by Netflix shows Andrew Garfield in a scene from "Tick, Tick...Boom!"

A documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival — “Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” — scored a nod for best documentary.

The Big Apple nominations weren't all music-focused inclined. "Coming 2 America" — the sequel to the classic 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy — grabbed a nod for best makeup and hair styling.

Take a look through the Oscar nominations -

The nominees for best picture are: “Belfast”; “The Power of the Dog”; “Dune”; “Drive My Car”; “West Side Story”; “Don’t Look Up”; “Licorice Pizza”; “CODA”; “King Richard”; “Nightmare Alley.”

Nominees for best director are: Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”; Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”; Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”; Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story” and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car.”

Nominees for best actress are: Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”; Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”; Penélope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”; Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”; and Kristen Stewart for “Spencer"

The nominees for best actor are: Will Smith, “King Richard”; Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”; Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”; Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

The nominees for best supporting actress are: Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”; Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”; Judi Dench, “Belfast”; Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog” and Aunjanue Ellis, “King Richard.”

The nominees for best supporting actor are: Ciarán Hinds, “Belfast”; Troy Kotsur, “CODA”; Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”; Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog” and J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos.”

The nominees for original song are: “Be Alive” from “King Richard”; “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”; “Down To Joy” from “Belfast”; “No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”; “Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days.”

The nominees for best animated feature are: “Encanto”; “Flee”; "Luca”; “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” and “Raya and the Last Dragon.”

The nominees for documentary feature are: “Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”; “Flee”; “Attica”; “Ascension” and “Writing With Fire.”