2022 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle winners

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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 FilmEverything Everywhere All At Once (Runner-up: TÁR)
Philip’s Steaks Cheesesteak AwardTop 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 NighyLiving)
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 GleesonBanshees of Inisherin)
Best Foreign FilmRRR (Iran). Runner-up: Holy Spider (International production)
Best Animated Film: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (Runner-up: Turning Red)
Best DocumentaryGood 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 ScriptEverything Everywhere All At Once (Runner-up: Glass Onion)
Best Score/SoundtrackRRR (Runner-up: TÁR)
Best EnsembleGlass Onion (Runner-up: Everything Everywhere All at Once)

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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