My Ranking of the Oscar Best Picture Nominees 2022

Since the Oscar voters have chosen ten films to vie for Best Picture this year, here is how I would be voting in this category, especially that it will be preferential voting, meaning any of the top 3 films in all the voters list will have a strong shot at winning.  

I have listed the nominated films from #1 to #10 with #1 as my favorite and #10 as least favorite.

I have just seen 'Dune' and 'CODA' and they caused some havoc in my list.  

I am impressed with how visually stunning 'Dune' is and it helped that my favorite actor Timothee Chalamet and favorite director Denis Villeneuve are the ones leading the movie.  I wished I could've seen it on the big screen last year.  They enter at #2.

I love the sweet story of 'CODA' and the fantastic performance of Troy Kotsur and Emilia Jones.  Emilia's audition scene in the end was truly an uplifting moment in the movie.  It enters at #4 in my current list.

'Power of the Dog' still tops my list as I will always try to vote for an LGBT-themed movie every time it gets nominated.  It is so hard to get nominated for Best Picture so every opportunity an LGBT-themed movie gets there, I will always put it at the top or near the top.

This is my final ranking of this year's nominees -

#1  The Power of the Dog

#2  Dune

#3 Don't Look Up

#4 CODA

#5 Belfast

#6 Licorice Pizza

#7 Drive My Car

#8 West Side Story

#9 Nightmare Alley *

#10 King Richard *

* I haven't seen these yet