2022 DiscussingFilm Critic Awards (DFCA) winners: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ tops list with seven; ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ ‘Nope’ each win three
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once has topped the 2022 DiscussingFilm Critics Awards (DFCA) list as the Best Picture of 2022 among its seven wins that also included three of the four individual acting prizes: Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan) and Supporting Actress (Stephanie Hsu). Hsu also won the Breakthrough Performance award.
Brendan Fraser was named Best Actor for The Whale (Colin Farrell was runner-up for The Banshees of Inisherin) and the Best Ensemble awards went to Women Talking with Glass Onion as the runner-up. Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun won Best First Feature and was also the runner-up to Best Picture.
Jordan Peele’s Nope was a triple winner, with awards for Cinematography and Sound and as Best Horror Film, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio also won three: Animated Feature, Adapted Screenplay and Original Score.
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.
BEST PICTURE
- Aftersun – RUNNER-UP (Silver Award)
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Bones and All
- Decision To Leave
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- The Fabelmans
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- TÁR
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Women Talking
BEST DIRECTOR
- Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
- Park Chan-wook, Decision To Leave – RUNNER-UP
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
- Todd Field, TÁR
BEST ACTOR
- Paul Mescal, Aftersun
- Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin – RUNNER-UP
- Park Hae il, Decision To Leave
- Austin Butler, Elvis
- Brendan Fraser, The Whale – WINNER
BEST ACTRESS
- Taylor Russell, Bones and All
- Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Cate Blanchett, TÁR – RUNNER-UP
- Danielle Deadwyler, Till
- Mia Goth, Pearl
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
- Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin – RUNNER-UP
- Mark Rylance, Bones and All
- Ben Whishaw, Women Talking
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin – RUNNER-UP
- Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
- Hong Chau, The Whale
- Claire Foy, Women Talking
BEST ENSEMBLE
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – RUNNER-UP
- Triangle of Sadness
- The Woman King
- Women Talking – WINNER
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Bardo
- Broker
- Close
- Corsage
- Decision To Leave – WINNER
- EO
- Holy Spider
- RRR – RUNNER-UP
- Saint Omer
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- David Kajganich, Bones and All
- Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
- Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
- Sarah Polley & Miriam Toews, Women Talking – RUNNER-UP
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
- Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong, Decision To Leave
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once – RUNNER-UP
- Todd Field, TÁR
- Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
- Marcel The Shell with Shoes On – RUNNER-UP
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Turning Red
- Wendell & Wild
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- All The Beauty and the Bloodshed – RUNNER-UP
- Descendant
- Fire of Love – WINNER
- Moonage Daydream
- Navalny
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Linus Sandgren, Babylon
- Greig Fraser, The Batman
- Ji-yong Kim, Decision to Leave – RUNNER-UP
- Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope – WINNER
- Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
BEST FILM EDITING
- Babylon
- Decision to Leave – RUNNER-UP
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Top Gun: Maverick
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- Babylon – RUNNER-UP
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – WINNER
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Woman King
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
- The Batman – WINNER
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Elvis – RUNNER-UP
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Whale
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Babylon – WINNER
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – RUNNER-UP
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST SOUND
- The Batman
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Nope – WINNER
- Top Gun: Maverick – RUNNER-UP
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Avatar: The Way of the Water – WINNER
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – RUNNER-UP
- Top Gun: Maverick
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- Babylon – RUNNER-UP
- The Batman
- Bones and All
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
- Women Talking
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- “Lift Me Up”, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- “Vegas”, Elvis – RUNNER-UP
- “Ciao Papa”, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- “Naatu Naatu”, RRR – WINNER
- “Hold My Hand”, Top Gun: Maverick
BEST FIRST FEATURE
- Aftersun – WINNER
- Fresh
- The Inspection
- Nanny
- Turning Red – RUNNER-UP
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
- Frankie Corio, Aftersun
- Diego Calva, Babylon
- Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
- Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans – RUNNER-UP
- Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
BEST HORROR FILM
- Barbarian
- Bones and All – RUNNER-UP
- Nope – WINNER
- Pearl
- X
WIN TOTALS
- Everything Everywhere All at Once – 7 Wins
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – 3 Wins
- Nope – 3 Wins
- Aftersun – 1 Win
- Avatar: The Way of Water – 1 Win
- Babylon – 1 Win
- The Banshees of Inisherin – 1 Win
- The Batman – 1 Win
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – 1 Win
- Decision to Leave – 1 Win
- Fire of Love – 1 Win
- RRR – 1 Win
- The Whale – 1 Win
- Women Talking – 1 Win
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