The 2022 Oscar nominations had snubs and surprises, including a lack of Lady Gaga

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On Tuesday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 2022 Oscar nominations. The lineup of nominees was full of predicted picks, but also plenty of surprises — and even a few disappointing snubs.

Netflix’s The Power of the Dog led the announcement with 12 nominations, followed by Dunewith 10. The under-seen Belfastand Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake tied at 7. Meanwhile a few films that may have entered award season with higher hopes left this morning disappointed. House of Gucci only managed one nomination, in Makeup and Hairstyling, and not a single nominee for Best Actress was from a Best Picture nominated film.

Here are some of the best and worst surprises of the 2022 Academy Award nominations:

The list of snubs has to start out with perhaps the most surprising one: Lady Gaga. The pop star and actress felt like a nomination lock for her performance in House of Gucci going into the announcements, but this morning seems to have been replaced with Kristen Stewart’s nomination for Spencer.

Gaga followed a Best Actress win at the New York Film Critics Circle with nominations at this year’s (nearly invisible) Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild, and the BAFTAs, all of which shut out Stewart. While both actresses were terrific and likely deserved nominations, it seems only one of them could take home a nomination since they didn’t don a full set of prosthetics and makeup like Jessica Chastain in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. (And yet the extra layers didn’t help Jared Leto pickup a Supporting Actor nom for his work in Gucci ...)

Another positive surprise this year was the success of Japan’s Oscar submission, Drive My Car. While international movies are a few years past having to prove