This year’s Oscar nominations include both surprises that have movie fans celebrating and snubs that have them venting their frustrations.

There was plenty of good news for some of the biggest movies of 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once got the most nominations at 11, and box office hits Avatar: The Way of Water, Top Gun: Maverick, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever also scored multiple nods.

Smaller films didn’t come up empty, either. Aftersun star Paul Mescal made it into the Best Actor category, and To Leslie lead Andrea Riseborough earned a Best Actress nomination after last-minute from many of her peers.

This year’s nominees are history-making:

Most Asian actors nominated in a single year: 4

There are no less than four actors: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu from Everything Everywhere All at Once and Hong Chau from The Whale.

But Oscar nomination day is never without its disappointments. The live announcement wasn’t even over by the time awards season followers brought the backlash to social media.

The Whale got 3 nominations.

Brendan Fraser was heavily favored to receive a nomination for Best Actor for The Whale, and his co-star Chau had been predicted as a Best Supporting Actress nominee.

In addition to those two, the film is also nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

The Whale has been accused of being fatphobic for the way it portrays Fraser’s character, Charlie, including his binge eating and the treatment he accepts from others. It’s also been called out for putting the star in a “fat suit” for the role, a practice that has become increasing controversial. The Best Makeup and Hairstyling nomination The Whale received is largely for the prosthetics and other tools used to turn Fraser into a 600-pound-man.

The Best Director category is usually populated with men, but the past two years were outliers. In 2022, Jane Campion won the Oscar for The Power of the Dog, and in 2021, Chloé Zhao won for Nomadland. Zhao was only the second woman to win the award and the first woman of color.

This year saw regression to all male nominees: Todd Field for Tár, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once, Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin, Ruben Östlund for Triangle of Sadness, and Spielberg for The Fabelmans.

Some of the women filmmakers who in the run this year include Sarah Polley for Women Talking (she received a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination and the movie is nominated for Best Picture), Charlotte Wells for Aftersun, and Gina Prince-Bythewood, who could have become the first Black woman nominated in the category for The Woman King.

Women in Film, a group that advocates for gender quality in the industry, responded to the imbalanced category: “Once again, Academy voters have shown that they don’t value women’a voices, shutting us out of the best director nomination.”

No Black women are nominated for Best Actress

The list of women in the run for the Best Actress Oscar was surprising. It had been expected that Viola Davis would be nominated for The Woman King, and that Danielle Deadwylerw would be considered for Till. Neither star was nominated, meaning that no Black women were nominated in the category for the second year in a row.

A woman of color has only won in this category once: Halle Berry for Monster’s Ball in 2002.

As with The Whale and Fraser, the backlash here isn’t towards star and Best Actress nominee Ana de Armas but the movie itself.

Blonde is inspired by the life of Marilyn Monroe but takes a lot of creative liberties in telling her story. Viewers found it offensive and sexist, with some of the most glaring issues including scenes in which a fetus speaks to Monroe, the film’s depiction of abortion, and scenes of graphic sexual violence.

The Academy usually favors movies about Hollywood, but that didn’t help Get Out director Jordan Peele’s most recent effort, Nope. Despite Peele’s win for Best Original Screenplay in 2018 for his feature debut, his ambitious 2021 sci-fi-horror movie failed to receive any Oscar love.

Fans were disappointed, as they thought Nope deserved to be recognized for Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, and for Keke Palmer’sperformance, just to name a few categories.

The Indian epic RRR has gained fan following since its release early 2022, and it seemed like the momentum might result in several Oscar nominations. It was nominated in five categories at the Critics’ Choice Awards, including Best Picture, and at the Golden Globes, it was nominated for Best Original Song (which it won) and Best Non-English Language Film.

Decision to Leave, the romantic thriller from South Korean director Park Chan-wook is not nominated in any category, despite being acclaimed by critics, and winning majir awards at Cannes Film Fest. Fans were hoping to see it up for Best Cinematography and Best Director and are surprised it didn’t make the cut for Best International Feature.

Instead the category includes All Quiet on the Western Front, Close, EO, The Quiet Girl, and Argentina, 1985.