2022 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle winners

The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle names Everything Everywhere All At Once Best Film of 2022, one of five awards for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert‘s film.

S. S. Rajamouli‘s RRR won three awards, for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Score/Soundtrack (M. M. Keeravani) and Best Cinematography (K. K. Senthil Kumar). And Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery won two awards, for Best Supporting Actress (Janelle Monáe), and the circle’s inaugural Best Ensemble award.

In addition, the Circle presented its Elaine May Award, for a deserving person or film that brings awareness to a story from a women’s perspective, to Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley.

For the first time, the Circle presented the Cheesesteak Award. Sponsored by Philip’s Steaks in South Philly, meant to recognize a blockbuster that’s hard to ignore, and this year’s winner was Top Gun: Maverick.

Full list of winners and runners-up:

Best Film: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Runner-up: TÁR)
Philip’s Steaks Cheesesteak Award: Top Gun: Maverick (Runner-up: RRR)

Best Director: The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once (Runner-up: Todd
Field, for TÁR)
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, TÁR (Runner-up, Everything Everywhere All at
Once)
Best Actor: Brendan Fraser, The Whale (Runner-up: Bill Nighy, Living)
Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monae, Glass Onion (Runner-up: Stephanie Hsu,
Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Yuan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
(Runner-up: Brendan Gleeson, Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Foreign Film: RRR (Iran). Runner-up: Holy Spider (International production)
Best Animated Film: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (Runner-up: Turning Red)
Best Documentary: Good Night Oppy (Runner-up: Fire of Love)
Best Cinematography: K.K. Senthil Kumar, RRR. Runner-up: Claudio Miranda,
Top Gun Maverick
Best Breakthrough Performance: Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At
Once (Runner-up, Austin Butler, for Elvis)
Best Directorial Debut: John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal (Runner-up: Goran
Stolevski, You Won’t Be Alone)
Best Script: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Runner-up: Glass Onion)
Best Score/Soundtrack: RRR (Runner-up: TÁR)
Best Ensemble: Glass Onion (Runner-up: Everything Everywhere All at Once)

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