Couples, Deaf Actors, Make 2022 Oscar Nominations List

2022 Oscar nominations are simply exceptional! This year’s nomination comes with double acknowledgment for two sets of couples.

On Tuesday, Penelope Cruz and her husband, Javier Bardem were both nominated for acting Oscars and so were Kirsten Dunst and her partner, Jesse Plemons.

Penelope Cruz, who has been married to Javier Bardem since 2010, was nominated for best actress for “Parallel Mothers” while Bardem got a best actor nod for “Being the Ricardos.” Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, who live together and have two sons, have been partners since 2016. They were nominated in the supporting categories for playing a married couple in “Power of the Dog.”

Troy Kotsur became just the second deaf actor to be nominated for an Oscar, with his role as the seafaring patriarch of a mostly deaf family whose lone hearing member wants to become a singer in “CODA.”

He’s the first since 1987 when Kotsur’s “CODA” co-star Marlee Matlin was nominated for “Children of a Lesser God.”

I feel like this is just the beginning,” Kotsur told the AP. “It’s like a thunderbolt.”

He said he has no idea what he’ll wear to the ceremony.

“I think I’ll ask Marlee for advice,” he said.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the Oscars, will reveal the winners at a live ceremony in Hollywood on March 27.

Andrew Garfield, who sang on screen for the first time in “tick tick…BOOM!” became the 26th man to be nominated for best actor for a role in a musical, a club he never dreamed he would join.

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“And now 26 with myself this morning,” he told the AP after hearing his name on the Oscar nomination announcements. “Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, James Cagney, it’s (expletive) amazing. I feel strangely really grateful for that. I hadn’t sung before and I hadn’t played piano or danced in any real way before.”

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With a win, Garfield would be the sixth of the 26 singing men to win, joining Crosby, Cagney, Rex Harrison, Yul Brynner, and Jeff Bridges.