Film critic RYAN JAY the morning after the 2022 OSCARS are handed out

The 2022 Academy Awards are upon us this Sunday night! Film critic Ryan Jay will analyze why the winners won, the losers lost and is even ready with a few choice comments on red carpet attire! Sign up now for a slot the morning after the Oscars - it's what everyone will be talking about that morning!

OSCAR WRITEUP AND NOMINATIONS RUNDOWN FROM VARIETY

A weekend trio of big wins for Netflix at the DGA, BAFTA and Critics Choice awards has given Jane Campion's "The Power of the Dog" the gas required to make it over the finish line. That's if it can keep its closest competitors - "Belfast" from Kenneth Branagh and "CODA" from Siân Heder - at bay.

Best Picture

"Belfast" (Focus Features)

"CODA" (Apple Original Films)

"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)

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, "Licorice Pizza"

Kenneth Branagh, "Belfast"

Jane Campion, "The Power of the Dog"

"Drive My Car" (Janus Films/Sideshow)

Steven Spielberg, "West Side Story" Best Actor

King Richard - Will Smith

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"

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" 

Olivia Colman, "The Lost Daughter"

Penélope Cruz, "Parallel Mothers" Nicole Kidman, "Being the Ricardos" Kristen Stewart, "Spencer"

Best Supporting Actor

Ciarán Hinds, "Belfast" 

Troy Kotsur, "CODA" 

Jesse Plemons, "The Power of the Dog"

J.K. Simmons, "Being the Ricardos"

Kodi Smit-McPhee, "The Power of the Dog"

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley, "The Lost Daughter"

Judi Dench, "Belfast"

Ariana DeBose, "West Side Story" 

Kirsten Dunst, "The Power of the Dog"

Aunjanue Ellis, "King Richard"

RYAN JAY BIO

Ryan Jay is one of America's most popular nationally syndicated film critics. Based on his website, RyanJayReviews.com, he is featured weekly as resident film critic on The Morning Blend and weekend newscasts on the NBC-TV affiliate in Milwaukee, WI (and previously on the FOX-TV affiliate in Fort Myers, FL). On radio, he can be heard live Friday mornings on FM stations across the country, in addition to recorded weekly movie review segments for Premiere Networks. Ryan is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association which annually awards excellence in film at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards; and the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association which annually hosts The Dorian Awards.

Most passionate about movies and the arts, Ryan has cultivated a career celebrating entertainment and sharing his unique perspective with TV and radio audiences. He was host of Digital Dish, a weekly, live, celebrity gossip show on Today's TMJ4 Facebook page and continues to spotlight performers of theater and the arts on his Ryan Jay Reviews Facebook page. Often on the red carpet at movie premieres and events, he has interviewed many of Hollywood's A-list celebrities. And every other week he can be found in the pages of Us Weekly magazine as Fashion Police. 

Inspired since childhood by his favorite film, The Wizard of Oz, Ryan has become an Oz historian, interviewing the casts and filmmakers of many Oz films, publishing articles and presenting multimedia lectures, celebrating the legacy of Oz to...