'Dune' tops BAFTA 2022 nominees

This February 3, the list of nominees for the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) 2022 was known; The ceremony will take place at London’s Royal Albert Hall on March 13 and its host will be Rebel Wilson.

The science fiction film ‘Dune’ tops the list for this edition with eleven nominations. They are followed by ‘The Power of the Dog’, with eight, and ‘Belftast’, with five.

Next we tell you the nominees for the BAFTA 2022

Best film

• ‘Belfast’
• ‘Don’t Look Up’
• ‘dune’
• ‘Licorice Pizza’
• ‘The Power of the Dog’

best british film

• ‘After Love’
• ‘Ali & Ava’
• ‘Belfast’
• ‘Boiling Point’
• ‘cyrano’
• ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’
• ‘House of Gucci’
• ‘Last Night in Soho’
• ‘No Time To Die’
• ‘passing’

Best actress

• Lady Gaga, ‘House of Gucci’
• Alana Haim, ‘Licorice Pizza’
• Emilia Jones, ‘CODA’
• Renata Reinsve, ‘The Worst Person in the World’
• Joanna Scanlan, ‘After Love’
• Tessa Thompson, ‘Passing’

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best Actor

• Adeel Akhtar, ‘Ali & Ava’
• Mahershala Ali, ‘Swansong’
• Benedict Cumberbatch, ‘The Power of the Dog’
• Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Don’t Look Up’
• Stephen Graham, ‘Boiling Point’
• Will Smith, ‘King Richard’

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Caitriona Balfe, ‘Belfast’
• Jessie Buckley, ‘The Lost Daughter’
• Ariana DeBose, ‘West Side Story’
• Ruth Negga, ‘Passing’
• Aunjanue Ellis, ‘King Richard’
• Ann Dowd, ‘Mass’

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Mike Faist, ‘West Side Story’
• Ciarán Hinds, ‘Belfast’
• Troy Kotsur, ‘CODA’
• Woody Norman, ‘C’mon C’mon’
• Jesse Plemons, ‘The Power of the Dog’
• Kodi Smit-McPhee, ‘The Power of the Dog’

Best Director

• Aleem Khan, ‘After Love’
• Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, ‘Drive My Car’
• Audrey Diwan, ‘Happening’
• Paul Thomas Anderson, ‘Licorice Pizza’
• Jane Campion, ‘The Power of the Dog’
• Julia Ducournau, ‘Titane’

Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

• ‘After Love’
• ‘Boiling Point’
• ‘The Harder They Fall’
• ‘Keyboard Fantasies’
• ‘passing’

Best Adapted Screenplay

• ‘CODA’
• ‘Drive My Car’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The Lost Daughter’
• ‘The Power of the Dog’

Best Original Screenplay

• ‘Being the Ricardos’
• ‘Belfast’
• ‘Don’t Look Up’
• ‘King Richard’
• ‘Licorice Pizza’
• ‘Rising Star Award’
• ‘Harris Dickinson’
• ‘Millicent Simmonds’
• ‘Lashana Lynch’
• ‘Kodi Smit-McPhee’
• ‘Ariana DeBose’

Best Cinematography

• ‘dune’
• ‘Nightmare Alley’
• ‘No Time To Die’
• ‘The Power of the Dog’
• ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

best animated film

• ‘Charm’
• ‘flee’
• ‘Luca’
• ‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’

best documentary

• ‘Becoming Cousteau’
• ‘cow’
• ‘flee’
• ‘The Rescue’
• ‘Summer of Soul’ (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Foreign Language Film

• ‘Drive My Car’
• ‘The Hand of God’
• ‘Parallel Mothers’
• ‘Petite Maman’
• ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Best Costume Design

• ‘cruella’
• ‘cyrano’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The French Dispatch’
• ‘Nightmare Alley’

Best makeup and hairstyle

• ‘cruella’
• ‘cyrano’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’
• ‘House of Gucci’

original soundtrack

• ‘Being The Ricardos’
• ‘Don’t Look Up’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The French Dispatch’
• ‘The Power of the Dog’

best edit

• ‘Belfast’
• ‘dune’
• ‘Licorice Pizza’
• ‘No Time To Die’
• ‘Summer of Soul’ (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Best Production Design

• ‘cyrano’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The French Dispatch’
• ‘Nightmare Alley’
• ‘West Side Story’

best casting

• ‘Boiling Point’
• ‘dune’
• ‘The Hand of God’
• ‘King Richard’
• ‘West Side Story’

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'Power of the Dog' Tops Oscar Nominations With 12; 'Dune' Nabs 10

New York — 

Jane Campion’s gothic western “The Power of the Dog” led nominations to the 94th Academy Awards, where streaming services more than ever before swept over Hollywood’s top honors.

In nominations announced Tuesday, Campion’s film landed a leading 12 nominations, including nods for best picture, best director and all of its top actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

Campion, a nominee for 1993′s “The Piano,” became the first woman to ever be nominated twice for best director. Last year, Chloé Zhao became just the second woman to ever win the award. Campion’s director of photography, Ari Wegner, also became the second woman ever nominated for best cinematography. The only previous woman to do so was Rachel Morrison for “Mudbound” in 2018.

Denis Villeneuve’s majestic sci-fi epic “Dune” followed closely behind with 10 nominations.

The nominees for best picture are: “Belfast”; “The Power of the Dog”; “Dune”; “Drive My Car”; “West Side Story”; “Don’t Look Up”; “Licorice Pizza”; “CODA”; “King Richard”; “Nightmare Alley.”

Nominations were announced Tuesday morning in Los Angeles by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross.

A largely virtual awards season added some unpredictability to this year’s nominations, which are occurring later than usual. To make way for the Olympics, the Oscars will be held March 27 and will return to their usual venue, the Dolby Theatre.

The nominees for best actress are: Jessica Chastain, “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”; Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”; Penélope Cruz, “Parallel Mothers”; Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”; Kristen Stewart, “Spencer.”

The nominees for best actor are: Will Smith, “King Richard”; Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”; Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog” and Andrew Garfield, “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

The nominees for best supporting actress are: Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”; Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”; Judi Dench, “Belfast”; Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog” and Aunjanue Ellis, “King Richard.”

The nominees for best supporting actor are: Ciarán Hinds, “Belfast”; Troy Kotsur, “CODA”; Kodi Smit-McPhee, “The Power of the Dog”; Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog” and J.K. Simmons, “Being the Ricardos.”

The nominees for original song are: “Be Alive” from “King Richard”; “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”; “Down To Joy” from “Belfast”; “No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”; “Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days.”

The nominees for best animated feature are: “Encanto”; “Flee”; “Luca”; “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” and “Raya and the Last Dragon.”

The nominees for documentary feature are: “Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”; “Flee”; “Attica”; “Ascension” and “Writing With Fire.”

Nominees for best director are: Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”; Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”; Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”; Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story” and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car.”

The nominees for best original score are: “Don’t Look Up”; “Dune”; “Encanto”; “Parallel Mothers” and “The Power of the Dog.”

The nominees for costume design are: “Cruella”; “Cyrano”; “Dune”; “Nightmare Alley”; “West Side Story.”

The nominees for original screenplay are: “Belfast”; “Don’t Look Up”; “King Richard”; “Licorice Pizza” and “The Worst Person in the World.”

The nominees for adapted screenplay are: “CODA”; “Drive My Car”; “Dune”; “The Lost Daughter”; and “The Power of the Dog.”

In pulling from films released in myriad ways, these Oscar nominations reflect a tumultuous pandemic year for Hollywood that began with many theaters shuttered and ended with Sony Pictures’ “Spider-Man: No Way Home” smashing box-office records.

In between, much of the normal rhythm of the movie business was transformed, as studios pushed some of the biggest movies of the year to streaming services in a bid to lure subscribers. Films including “Dune” (despite the objections of its director), Pixar’s “Luca” and “King Richard” were among those that went straight to homes.

As COVID-19 cases surged in the last two months due to the omicron variant, much of Oscar season also turned virtual. Last year, the pandemic led the academy to host a delayed Oscars in a socially distanced ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station. Ratings plummeted to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers.

This year, the academy has yet to map out plans for its show, except that it will include a host for the first time since 2018. For better or worse, the Academy Awards will also be without its usual lead-in. The Golden Globes in January were an untelevised non-event after NBC said it wouldn’t air them in 2022 while the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press reformed itself after ethics and diversity criticism.

Other changes were more subtle but potentially impactful. For the first time, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ruled out hard-copy DVD screeners for its members, who instead could watch submissions on the academy’s streaming platform.

US National Debt Tops $30 Trillion for First Time in History

Washington — 

The Treasury Department this week reported that the total national debt of the United States surpassed $30 trillion for the first time in history, an amount equal to nearly 130% of America’s yearly economic output, known as gross domestic product. The eye-popping figure makes the U.S. one of the most heavily indebted nations in the world.

The federal debt has been high and rising for decades, but the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, which involved massive infusions of cash into the U.S. economy, greatly accelerated its growth.

At the end of 2019, prior to the pandemic, the national debt stood at $22.7 trillion. One year later, it had risen by an additional $5 trillion, to $27.7 trillion. Since then, the nation has added more than $2 trillion in further debt.

A grim reminder

While the $30 trillion figure, by itself, has no significant meaning, it may serve to focus attention on what some see as a major concern for the future health of the country.

“Hitting the $30 trillion mark is a reminder of just how high our debt is and just how much we’ve been borrowing,” said Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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“Debt held by the public, which is the measure we prefer to use, is about as large as the economy,” Goldwein told VOA. “In a decade, it’ll be larger than any time since World War II. Meanwhile, we have the highest inflation rate we’ve had in 40 years, and there doesn’t seem to be any sign that the borrowing is going to let up.”

Different debtors

The $30 trillion in outstanding debt is owed to a wide variety of creditors, including the federal government itself.

According to the Treasury Department, as of January 31, $6.5 trillion of the national debt was classified as “intragovernmental holdings.” This includes Treasury securities held by various agencies of the federal government, most prominently the Social Security Administration, which maintains a trust fund to provide income to senior citizens.

The far larger portion of the debt is classified as debt held by the public, which amounts to $23.5 trillion. The term “public” can be somewhat misleading because the category includes not just the debt instruments held by individual investors but also the debts held by the Federal Reserve, large investment funds and foreign governments.

According to the Treasury Department, foreign governments hold about $7.7 trillion in U.S. debt, though no country holds more than 5% of the total. As of the end of November, the most recent data available, Japan was the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, with $1.3 trillion. China was the second-largest holder of U.S. debt, with $1.1 trillion, while the United Kingdom was in distant third place, with $622 billion.

The cost of debt

The cost of servicing the country’s outstanding debt has become a major part of the federal budget as the outstanding debt has grown. In 2021, the government made $562 billion in interest payments on outstanding debt. That is more than the annual budget of every individual federal agency except for the Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services (which manages the Medicare and Medicaid government health insurance programs), and the Department of Defense.

Surprisingly, during the early part of the pandemic, the federal government’s interest payments fell even as the debt increased, because of a broad decline in interest rates.

FILE – The Federal Reserve building is seen before the Federal Reserve board is expected to signal plans to raise interest rates, as it focuses on fighting inflation in Washington, Jan. 26, 2022.

However, with the Federal Reserve poised to begin raising interest rates in an attempt to ward off rising inflation, the rate the Treasury has to pay on newly issued debt will likely rise, meaning that the overall cost of servicing the federal debt will likely go up in the relatively near future.

Comparison with other countries

The United States’ ratio of debt to GDP, the measure most commonly used to gauge a country’s level of indebtedness, places it among the most indebted countries in the world.

According to data gathered by the World Bank in October, the country with the world’s highest debt-to-GDP ratio is Japan, which carries debt equivalent to 257% of its economic output. Other developed economies with very high debt-to-GDP ratios include Greece, at 207%, and Italy, at 155%.

With a ratio of 133%, the U.S. is the 12th most indebted country overall, and the fourth most indebted among the developed economies that make up the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD average is an 80% debt-to-GDP ratio.

Both parties added to debt

The national debt is the cumulative total of annual federal deficits. The U.S. has seen federal surpluses in just four of the past 50 years, from 1998 to 2001, encompassing the last three years of the administration of Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and the first year of the administration of George W. Bush, a Republican.

In recent decades, both Democrats and Republicans have contributed to the rising levels of federal borrowing, with the debt increasing on a regular basis, regardless of which party controlled Congress and the White House.

It’s a fact that causes some members of Congress to express frustration with their colleagues over a seeming lack of concern about the problem.

“$30 trillion in debt is an obscene number, but what’s even more depressing is the fact that most politicians in both parties don’t really care,” Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican, said in a statement. “Someone is going to have to pay that money when these politicians are long gone, and — spoiler alert — it won’t be paid by them but instead by our kids.”