Beyonce serves up an ace at the Oscars! Super star opens Academy Awards with pre-recorded performance of nominated King Richard hit from Compton tennis court where Venus and Serena played as girls

  • Venus and Serena Williams took to the Oscar stage first to present the first of four Oscar-nominated Best Original Song performances
  • The pre-taped performance of Be Alive took place at the same Compton tennis courts where Richard Williams taught his daughters Venus and Serena the game of tennis
  • Beyonce, 40, was joined by a number of members of the Compton community on the court for the performance
  • The singer reportedly requested that all of the performances would at least have the option to be pre-taped and not live at the Dolby Theater
  • The nomination is the first for Beyonce, who co-wrote the song with Dixson

The Oscars opened on an unconventional note with a performance from one of the biggest stars on the planet: Beyonce.

Venus and Serena Williams were the first presenters on the stage, introducing the 40-year-old singer’s performance, from the same Compton tennis court where they learned the game they would come to dominate.

Beyonce delivered a powerful performance of Be Alive from Best Picture nominee King Richard, which she co-wrote with Dixson. 

Bey performs: The Oscars opened on an unconventional note with a performance from one of the biggest stars on the planet: Beyonce

Performance: Beyonce delivered a powerful performance of Be Alive from Best Picture nominee King Richard, which she co-wrote with Dixson

The video package began with a number of young men and women in lime green as they walked up to the courts.

Beyonce herself was rocking a lime green  gown with matching lime green short shorts and matching heels.

She accessorized with sparkling diamond earrings while her backup dancers rocked matching crop tops and dresses. 

Courts: The video package began with a number of young men and women in lime green as they walked up to the courts

Beyonce’s look: Beyonce herself was rocking a lime green gown with matching lime green short shorts and matching heels

During the performance she gave a shout-out to the City of Compton, where the Williams sisters grew up.

The singer’s performance was the first of four performances on Oscar Sunday, with Billie Eilish performing her title song from the James Bond film No Time to Die, Reba McEntire performing Somehow You Do from Four Good Days and Sebastian Yatra performing Dos Oruguitas from Encanto.

The fifth nominee, Van Morrison, was unable to perform Down to Joy from Belfast, due to his touring schedule.

Shout-out: During the performance she gave a shout-out to the City of Compton, where the Williams sisters grew up

First performance:  The singer’s performance was the first of four performances on Oscar Sunday, with Billie Eilish performing her title song from the James Bond film No Time to Die, Reba McEntire performing Somehow You Do from Four Good Days and Sebastian Yatra performing Dos Oruguitas from Encanto

It was first reported last week that The Academy was in talks with Beyonce to perform, with Deadline reporting that she would only perform with a pre-taped performance if the other performers were given the option to do so.

The singer reportedly didn’t want, ‘special treatment’ for performing, though it’s unclear how many of the other performers will be pre-taped and which will be live.

Last year’s Oscars, which took place at both the Dolby Theater and at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, featured all of the Best Original Song performances pre-taped.

Talks: It was first reported last week that The Academy was in talks with Beyonce to perform, with Deadline reporting that she would only perform with a pre-taped performance if the other performers were given the option to do so

Special treatment: The singer reportedly didn’t want, ‘special treatment’ for performing, though it’s unclear how many of the other performers will be pre-taped and which will be live

Pre-taped: Last year’s Oscars, which took place at both the Dolby Theater and at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, featured all of the Best Original Song performances pre-taped

The pre-taped performance comes on the heels of the controversial choice to cut eight awards from the live telecast.

The eight categories – Documentary Short, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound and Score – were announced to be presented an hour before the live telecast.

Those segments were filmed and then edited seamlessly into the live telecast, in an effort to keep the show under three hours in length. 

Pre-taped: The pre-taped performance comes on the heels of the controversial choice to cut eight awards from the live telecast

Live: The eight categories – Documentary Short, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound and Score – were announced to be presented an hour before the live telecast

Segments: Those segments were filmed and then edited seamlessly into the live telecast, in an effort to keep the show under three hours in length

OSCARS 2022: WINNERS

 BEST PICTURE 

Belfast (Focus Features)

Coda (Apple)

Don’t Look Up (Netflix)

Drive My Car (Janus Films/Sideshow)

Dune (Warner Bros)

King Richard (Warner Bros)

Licorice Pizza (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures)

The Power Of The Dog (Netflix)

West Side Story  (20th Century Studios)

On the saddle: Power Of The Dog received several nominations including Best Picture

 

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE 

Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter 

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER

Judi Dench – Belfast 

Kirsten Dunst- The Power Of The Dog

Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard 

  

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE 

Ciaran Hinds – Belfast 

Troy Kotsur – Coda 

Jesse Plemons – The Power Of The Dog

J.K Simonns – Being The Ricardos 

Kodi Smitt-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog

COSTUME DESIGN 

Cruella (Jenny Beavan)

Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)

Dune (Jacqueline West)

Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)

West Side Story (Paul Tazewell) 

 

Jumping for joy: West Side Story was nominated for Best Costume Design

 

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND 

Belfast 

Dune – WINNER

No Time To Die 

The Power Of The Dog 

West Side Story 

 

ORIGINAL SCORE

Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell)

Dune (Hans Zimmer) – WINNER

Encanto (Germaine Franco)

Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)

The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Coda 

Drive My Car 

Dune 

The Lost Daughter 

The Power Of The Dog 

Loud and clear: Coda was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay

 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Belfast 

Don’t Look Up 

King Richard 

Licorice Pizza 

The Worst Person In The World   

 

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Affairs Of The Heart 

Bestia 

Box Ballet 

Robin Robin 

The Windshield Wiper – WINNER

 

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM 

Ala Kachuu — Take and Run

The Dress

The Long Goodbye – WINNER

On My Mind

Please Hold

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM 

Drive My Car

Flee

The Hand of God

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

The Worst Person in the World

 

PRODUCTION DESIGN

 Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette)

Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)

The Power of the Dog (Grant Major & Amber Richards)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh)

West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen)

 ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE 

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

Ace? Will Smith is nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for King Richard

 

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter

Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers

Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart – Spencer

 

DIRECTING 

Kenneth Branagh – Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car

Steven Spielberg – West Side Story  

At the helm: Jane Campion is nominated in the Best Director category for Power Of The Dog

 

FILM EDITING 

Don’t Look Up (Hank Corwin)

Dune (Joe Walker) – WINNER

King Richard (Pamela Martin)

The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)

Tick, Tick… Boom! (Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum)

 

 

MAKEUP AND HAIR STYLING

Coming 2 America 

Cruella 

Dune 

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye 

House Of Gucci

 

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 

Encanto 

Flee 

Luca 

The Mitchells VS The Machine 

Raya And The Lost Dragon 

 

ORIGINAL SONG

Be Alive — Beyoncé 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)

  

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Audible

Lead Me Home

The Queen of Basketball – WINNER

Three Songs for Benazir

When We Were Bullies

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Ascension

Attica

Flee

Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Writing with Fire

 

VISUAL EFFECTS 

Dune – WINNER

Free Guy 

No Time To Die 

 Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings

Spider-Man: No Way Home 

Stunning: Dune earned nods in both the Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography categories 

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY 

 Dune (Greig Fraser) – WINNER

Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)

The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)

West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)

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