2022 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association winners

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Martin McDonaugh’s The Banshees of Inisherin tops the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) best of 2022 with five wins including Best Picture, Director, Colin Farrell for Lead Actor and Kerry Condon for Supporting Actress.

Everything Everywhere All At Once was right behind with four wins including the other top acting prizes: Lead Actress for Michelle Yeoh and Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan.

Here is the complete list of winners.

BEST PICTURE:

  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
  • The Batman
  • Decision to Leave
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Nope
  • TÁR
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • Women Talking

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

  • Athena (France)
  • Decision to Leave (South Korea) – WINNER
  • EO (Poland)
  • Happening (France)
  • RRR (India)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

  • Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  • Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – WINNER
  • Fire of Love
  • Good Night Oppy
  • Moonage Daydream
  • Sr.

BEST DIRECTOR:

  • Todd Field, TÁR
  • Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
  • Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
  • Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

LEAD ACTOR:

  • Austin Butler, Elvis
  • Diego Calva, Babylon
  • Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
  • Brendan Fraser, The Whale
  • Paul Mescal, Aftersun

LEAD ACTRESS:

  • Cate Blanchett, TÁR
  • Danielle Deadwyler, Till
  • Mia Goth, Pearl
  • Margot Robbie, Babylon
  • Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

  • Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
  • Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse
  • Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

  • Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
  • Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
  • Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  • Keke Palmer, Nope

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

  • Todd Field, TÁR
  • Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
  • Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong, Decision to Leave
  • Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

  • Ben Davis, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Florian Hoffmeister, TÁR
  • Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick – WINNER
  • Linus Sandgren, Babylon
  • Hoyte Van Hoytema, Nope

BEST EDITING:

  • Tom Cross, Babylon
  • Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
  • Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
  • Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond, Elvis
  • Monika Willi, TÁR

BEST SCORE:

  • Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Michael Giacchino, The Batman – WINNER
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir, Women Talking
  • Justin Hurwitz, Babylon

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

  • Vanessa Burghardt, Cha Cha Real Smooth
  • Austin Butler, Elvis
  • Frankie Corio, Aftersun
  • Danielle Deadwyler, Till
  • Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:

  • Audrey Diwan, Happening
  • Damien Leone, Terrifier 2
  • Lila Neugebauer, Causeway
  • Chloe Okuno, Watcher
  • Charlotte Wells, Aftersun – WINNER

Photo by Jonathan Hession. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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