The Oscar Nominations Are Here and (a Little Bit) Queer

After months of speculation about who would make the list this year, the 94th annual Academy Awards nominees have been announced. As usual, there are some surprises, some upsets, and a small number of queer folks and projects that received some well-deserved recognition.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that out actor Kristen Stewart received a nomination for Best Actress for her turn as Princess Diana in Spencer. But her snub by the SAG awards and the BAFTAS put that in question this year.

Fellow out actor Ariana DeBose scored a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story. DeBose took home the Golden Globe for her performance, and if she wins at the Oscars, she'll be the second actor to win in this role, as Rita Moreno earned an Academy Award for her performance as Anita in the original 1961 film.

Andrew Garfield also received a nod for Best Actor for his performance in Netflix's Tick, Tick...Boom! about straight ally and Rent mastermind Jonathan Larson. Award-winning trans actress Michaela Jae Rodriguez also appears in the film.

The queer-inclusive cowboy film The Power of the Dog cleaned up at the announcement ceremony, receiving nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Jane Campion, who's the first woman in the history of the awards to receive two nominations in this category), Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actress for Kirsten Dunst, Best Supporting Actors Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee, Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.

Flee, the animated documentary about a gay Afghan refugee, earned nods for Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature Film. The Mitchells vs. The Machines, which features a queer daughter, was also nominated for Best Animated Feature. And somewhat queer-coded Luca received a nomination in the category.

As to the queer snubs, it was surprising not to see Lady Gaga get the nod for House of Gucci and both Robin DeJesus from Tick, Tick...Boom! and Tessa Thompson from Passing being overlooked was disappointing, to say the least.

The Oscars are set to air Sunday, March 27. See the full list of Nominations below.

BEST PICTURE
Belfast
CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick... Boom!)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
Dune (Jacqueline West)
Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

BEST SOUND
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Don't Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA (Sian Heder)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay & David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
The Worst Person in the World (Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Ala Kachuu -- Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold

BEST FILM EDITING
Don't Look Up (Hank Corwin)
Dune (Joe Walker)
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
Tick, Tick... Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing With Fire

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Be Alive" -- Beyonce Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)
"Dos Oruguitas" -- Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
"Down to Joy" -- Van Morrison (Belfast)
"No Time to Die" -- Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell (No Time to Die)
"Somehow You Do" -- Diane Warren (Four Good Days)