2022 Phoenix Film Critics Society winners: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ ‘Babylon,’ ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,’ ‘The Whale’ share awards

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The Phoenix Film Critics Society, not to be confused with the Phoenix Critics Circle, has revealed their winners for the best in film for 2022, selecting Everything Everywhere All At Once for seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for The Daniels, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan.

Three films won two awards apiece: Babylon (Original Score and Production Design), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Original Song and Costume Design) and The Whale (Best Actor Brendan Fraser and Adapted Screenplay).

Austin Butler (Elvis) and Frankie Corio (Aftersun) won the Breakthrough Performer and Youth Actor awards, respectively.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor: Brendan Fraser, The Whale

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Ensemble Acting: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Screenplay: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Adapted Screenplay: Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

Overlooked Film of the Year: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Animated Film: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Documentary: Good Night Oppy

Best Foreign Language Film: All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Original Song: “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Original Score: Babylon

Best Cinematography: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Film Editing: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Production Design: Babylon

Best Costume Design: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water

Breakthrough Performance: Austin Butler, Elvis

Best Performance by a Youth: Frankie Corio, Aftersun

Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order)

Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
TÁR
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
The Whale
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking

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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