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'The Power of the Dog' leads Oscar nominations with 12
Jane Campion's gothic Western The Power of the Dog led the Oscars nominations Tuesday with 12 nods, including best director and best picture.
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(From L) US actress Kirsten Dunst, New Zealand's director Jane Campion and British actor Benedict Cumberbatch arrive for the screening of the film 'The Power of the Dog' presented in competition during the 78th Venice Film Festival, on September 2, 2021 at Venice Lido. (AFP/Miguel Medina)
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ane Campion's gothic Western The Power of the Dog led the Oscars nominations Tuesday, as the Netflix film fended off big-screen studio movies from a year in which Covid-weary audiences slowly headed back into theaters.
The eerie, psychological drama about a repressed 1920s cattle rancher in Montana earned 12 nods ahead of next month's Oscars gala, including best director -- making Campion the first female auteur nominated twice in Academy Award history.
The Power of the Dog was also nominated for best picture, and landed acting nods for Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Campion was last nominated 28 years ago for The Piano.
The streaming film held off a number of giant cinematic spectacles -- many of which were pushed back into 2021 as theaters remained closed during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic -- in this year's diverse race for Hollywood's biggest awards.
Sprawling sci-fi epic Dune, which premiered in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously, landed in second place overall with 10 nods, including one for best picture.
As expected, the adaptation of Frank Herbert's popular 1965 novel set on a desert planet plagued by monstrous sandworms scored well across technical categories including cinematography, visual effects and sound.
