Actress Halle Berry’s dream for one more African American girl to win the Finest Actress Oscar should wait one more yr.
No Black main girls had been nominated for the 94th Academy Awards, which had been introduced Tuesday.
Berry is the one girl of colour to have gained the Finest Actress award, successful in 2002 for her position as widowed waitress Leticia Musgrove in Monster’s Ball.
The nominations for 2022’s greatest feminine main position went to Nicole Kidman for taking part in comic Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos, Olivia Colman for her position as depressed mom Leda in The Misplaced Daughter, Jessica Chastain for her portrayal of glitzy televangelist Tammy Faye Messner within the biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Kristen Stewart for her transformation into Princess Diana in Spencer and Penelope Cruz for her position as photographer Janis within the switched-at-birth saga Parallel Moms.
Solely eight black girls have taken house an Oscar for Finest Supporting Actress.
The potential for a ninth may occur this yr with two Black nominees for greatest supporting feminine.
Aunjanue Ellis was nominated for her position because the mom of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams within the King Richard biopic.
Ariana DuBose was additionally given a nod for her position as Puerto Rican immigrant Anita in Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Facet Story.
If DuBose wins, she would additionally grow to be the primary queer girl of colour to take house the Academy Award.
Rounding out the Finest Supporting Actress nominations are Kirsten Dunst for The Energy of the Canine, Jessie Buckley in The Misplaced Daughter and Judi Dench for her position in Belfast.
On the lads’s facet, two Black actors headline the nominations for Finest Actor.
Will Smith bought the nod for taking part in the daddy of tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.
Denzel Washington acquired a nomination for his position as Normal Macbeth in The Tragedy of Macbeth.
The opposite nominations for greatest male lead embody Javier Bardem for Being the Ricardos, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Energy of the Canine and Andrew Garfield for Tick, Tick… Increase!
The nominees for Finest Supporting Actor embody Ciaran Hinds for Belfast, Troy Kotsur in CODA, each Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Energy of the Canine and J.Ok. Simmons in Being the Ricardos.
The sphere is crowded for this yr’s Finest Image Oscar, with 10 nominations, together with Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Automotive, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Energy of the Canine and West Facet Story.
The 94th Academy Awards happen March 27 in Hollywood.