From Women Talking to Women Telling: All 54 Oscar nominees ranked

On March 13, 2022, I fired up Disney+ and watched the much-buzzed-about new Pixar movie, Turning Red. That was the first movie I saw from 2022 that would go on to be nominated for an Academy Award. Over the next 12 months, I would see the other 53, shorts included. Five days shy of a year after watching Turning Red, my wife and I went to the theater to see Irish International Feature nominee The Quiet Girl. We then came home that same night and rented Documentary Feature nominee A House Made of Splinters on Amazon, and that was the completion of the journey.

There are many more good movies nominated this year than bad ones, and the 10 to 15 best are truly exceptional films. The bottom 10 to 15 are where things start to drop off, but even within that, there are things to recommend. All in all, I am grateful for a year like this when Academy members get so much right.

So, here they are, all 54 nominees at the 2022 Academy Awards, ranked for your amusement:

1. Women Talking

2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

3. The Banshees of Inisherin

4. TÁR

5. EO

6. Triangle of Sadness

7. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

8. All Quiet on the Western Front

9. Babylon

10. Fire of Love

11. Aftersun

12. Navalny

13. Ice Merchants

14. Haulout

15. The Quiet Girl

16. The Red Suitcase

17. All That Breathes

18. A House Made of Splinters

19. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

20. Living

21. Argentina, 1985

22. My Year of Dicks

23. Turning Red

24. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

25. An Irish Goodbye

26. Le Pupille

27. Close

28. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

29. How Do You Measure a Year?

30. The Fabelmans

31. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

32. The Elephant Whisperers

33. An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

34. The Batman

35. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

36. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

37. The Martha Mitchell Effect

38. The Flying Sailor

39. RRR

40. Avatar: The Way of Water

41. The Whale

42. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

43. Top Gun: Maverick

44. Ivalu

45. Empire of Light

46. Everything Everywhere All at Once

47. Night Ride

48. Elvis

49. Causeway

50. Stranger at the Gate

51. To Leslie

52. The Sea Beast

53. Blonde

54. Tell It Like a Woman

Next time: Final predictions