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
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