2022 Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) winners

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The Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC), the 2nd oldest professional film critics association in the U.S., has announced its winners and runners-up for the best in film for 2022 with Everything Everywhere All At Once coming out on top with seven wins, including Best Film, director, actress and supporting actor.

Nope was a double winner with awards for cinematography and score, the latter of which was a tie with RRR, another double winner. Jackass Forever was the org’s top documentary of the year and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was named best animated film.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

Best Film: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director: The Daniels – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Best Lead Actor: Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Runner-Up: Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Best Lead Actress: Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: Cate Blanchett – TÁR

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Runner-Up: Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking
Runner-Up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Cinematography: Nope
Runner-Up: Top Gun Maverick

Best Original Score (tie): Nope and RRR

Best Animated Feature: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Runner-Up: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Foreign Language Film: RRR
Runner-Up: All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Documentary: Jackass Forever
Runner-Up: Good Night Oppy

Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner-Up: Prey

Best Tom Poe Award for LGBTQ Film: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Runner Up: The Whale

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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