2022 Austin Film Critics Association nominations

The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2022 awards nominations today where Everything Everywhere All at Once leads the pack with nominations in 11 categories including Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Best Original Screenplay.

Other films vying for multiple wins include The Banshees of Inisherin (nominations in 7 categories), TÁR, and RRR (nominations in 4 categories).

The 10 best films of 2022 will be revealed along with the rest of the winners on January 10.

Best Director

• Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Todd Field, TÁR
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
• S.S. Rajamouli, RRR

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett, TÁR
• Viola Davis, The Woman King
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Mia Goth, Pearl
• Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser, The Whale
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Best Supporting Actor

• Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
• Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Mark Rylance, Bones and All
• Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress

• Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Janelle Monae, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Keke Palmer, Nope

Best Ensemble

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Todd Fields, TÁR
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jordan Peele, Nope
• Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews, Women Talking
• Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• David Kajganich, Bones and All
• Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
• Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Cinematography

• Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Hoyte van Hotema, Nope
• Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
• Linus Sandgren, Babylon
• Larkin Seiple, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Editing

• Bob Ducsay, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
• A. Sreekar Prasad, RRR
• Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Monika Willi, TÁR

Best Original Score

• Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
• Michael Giacchino, The Batman
• M.M. Keeravani, RRR

Best International Film

• Close
• Decision to Leave
• EO
• Holy Spider
• RRR

Best Documentary

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Descendant
• Fire of Love
• Good Night Oppy
• Moonage Daydream

Best Animated Film

• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Mad God
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Turning Red

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance

• Stephen Lang, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Zoe Saldana, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Stunt Coordinator

• Timothy Neulich, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Kevin LaRosa Jr. and Casey O’Neill, Top Gun: Maverick
• Nick Powell, RRR
• Daniel Hernandez, The Woman King
• C.C. Smiff & Jón Viðar Arnþórsson, The Northman

Best First Film

• Aftersun, Charlotte Wells
• Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Dean Fleischer Camp
• Turning Red, Domee Shi
• Watcher, Chloe Okuno

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Frankie Corio, Aftersun
• Amber Midthunder, Prey
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Jenna Ortega, The Fallout, Scream, X, Studio 666

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