2022 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) winners
The North Carolina Film Critics Association has announced the winners for their 11th annual awards for achievements in film. Everything Everywhere All at Once topped the list, earning nine awards, with RRR winning three, and Elvis, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and Nope each earning two.
Everything Everywhere All at Once won for narrative film, director, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, acting ensemble, editing, and production design. Nine wins is the most for any film in the history of the North Carolina Film Critics Association’s Best of Cinema annual honors. Previous record wins went to The Power of the Dog (2021) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), each with six wins.
The group’s Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award nominees, which honors an artist from North Carolina, went to Brian Tyree Henry for his work in Causeway and Bullet Train.
The NCFCA consists of sixty-seven film critics living and/or working in North Carolina. Here is the complete list of winners.
Best Narrative Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Nope
RRR
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Best Director
Todd Field, TÁR
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Jordan Peele, Nope
S.S. Rajamouli, RRR
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Best Actor
Austin Butler, Elvis
Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin – WINNER
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Daniel Kaluuya, Nope
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Viola Davis, The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Mia Goth, Pearl
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jessie Buckley, Women Talking
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Vocal Performance in Animation or Mixed Media
Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – WINNER
Rosalie Chiang, Turning Red
Sandra Oh, Turning Red
Sam Rockwell, The Bad Guys
Best Acting Ensemble
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Woman King
Women Talking
Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Jordan Peele, Nope
Todd Field, TÁR
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley, Women Talking – WINNER
Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, Top Gun: Maverick
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
David Kajganich, Bones and All
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, She Said
Best Animated Film
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – WINNER
The Bad Guys
Turning Red
Best Documentary Film
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love – WINNER
Good Night Oppy
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
Best Foreign Language Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Close
EO
RRR – WINNER
Decision to Leave
Best Cinematographer
Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
Larkin Seiple, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope – WINNER
Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
Linus Sandgren, Babylon
Best Editing
Tom Cross, Babylon
Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa, Elvis
Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Monika Willi, TÁR
Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
Best Costume Design
Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – WINNER
Catherine Martin, Elvis
Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Gersha Phillips, The Woman King
Mary Zophres, Babylon
Best Production Design
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once – WINNER
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Batman
Best Hair and Makeup
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis – WINNER
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Batman
Best Score
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Michael Giacchino, The Batman – WINNER
M. M. Keeravani, RRR
John Williams, The Fabelmans
Best Original Song
“Naatu Naatu” (RRR) – WINNER
“Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
“new body rhumba” (White Noise)
“This is a Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
“Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Best Sound Design
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope – WINNER
The Batman
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Special Effects
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Avatar: The Way of Water – WINNER
The Batman
Best Stunt Coordination
Timothy Eulich, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nick Powell, RRR – WINNER
Robert Alonzo, The Batman
Danny Hernandez, The Woman King
Casey O’Neill, Top Gun: Maverick
Best Directorial Debut
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun – WINNER
Domee Shi, Turning Red
John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal
Parker Finn, Smile
Zach Cregger, Barbarian
Best Breakthrough Performance
Amber Midthunder, Prey
Austin Butler, Elvis – WINNER
Frankie Corio, Aftersun
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans
Lifetime Achievement: Composer
Carter Burwell
Danny Elfman
Ennio Morricone
John Williams – WINNER
Hans Zimmer
The Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award
Aldis Hodge (Black Adam)
Earl Owensby (Owner of Earl Owensby Studios)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway, Bullet Train)
Jonathan Majors (Devotion)
Evan Rachel Wood (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Phoenix Rising)
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