2022 Seattle Film Critics Society nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ leads with 14

Erik Anderson January 9, 2023

The Seattle Film Critics Society has announced nominations for their 2022 Awards, honoring the year’s best in film and leading the field with 14 nominations is The Daniels’ multiverse-spanning Everything Everywhere All At Once, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh) Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay, Best Action Choreography, Best Cinematography, as well as a Supporting Actress nomination for Stephanie Hsu, whose performance as Jobu Tupaki also earned a nod for Villain of the Year.

The Banshees of Inisherin, Martin McDonagh’s tragicomic story of a severed friendship in rural 1923 Ireland, earned 9 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Colin Farrell), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (for both Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kerry Condon), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

Joseph Kosinski’s blockbuster air ballet fantasia Top Gun: Maverick earned 8 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Cruise), Best Ensemble Cast, Best Action Choreography, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects.

NOPE, Jordan Peele’s incisive social horror film, earned 6 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Keke Palmer), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, and a Villain of the Year nod for the mysterious and terrifyingJean Jacket.

TÁR, Todd Field’s precise study of an EGOT conductor’s downfall, landed 6 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cate Blanchett), Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, as well as a nod to Blanchett’s performance in the title role of Lydia Tár as Villain of the Year.

Aftersun, Charlotte Wells’s affecting story of a woman reflecting on a childhood vacation with her young father, earned 5 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Mescal), Best Film Editing, and Best Youth Performance (Frankie Corio).

Park Chan-wook’s criminal romance Decision to Leave is also nominated for Best Picture among 5 total nominations that include Best Screenplay, Best Film Not in the English Language, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing.

Cooper Raiff’s dramedy Cha Cha Real Smooth, Steven Spielberg’s semi-memoir The Fabelmans, and Rian Johnson’s comic mystery Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery complete the year’s Best Picture lineup. Cha Cha Real Smooth also earned a Best Youth Performance nomination for Vanessa Burghardt. The Fabelmans also received nominations for Paul Dano (Best Supporting Actor) and Best Original Score. Glass Onion is also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Janelle Monáe), Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Screenplay.

A new award introduced this year, the Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking honors and recognizes films made in and connected to the Pacific Northwest. This year’s nominees include the absurdist workplace comedy All Sorts, Steven Soderbergh’s tech thriller Kimi, the moving slice of life drama Know Your Place about two teens traversing present-day Seattle, and documentaries Sam Now and Sweetheart Deal. Nominees for this award were previously announced on December 6, 2021.

Other films earning multiple nominations include: Babylon, 4 nominations; Avatar: the Way of Water, Elvis, The Northman, and RRR, 3 nominations each; The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Pearl, and Sweetheart Deal with 2 apiece.

This year’s awards are dedicated to Sheila Benson (The Los Angeles Times) and John Hartl (The Seattle Times), two of the finest film critics to live and work in the Pacific Northwest. After her retirement from The Los Angeles Times in 1991, Benson wrote for several print publications and websites, at both the local and national level, while Hartl was a Seattle icon who spent his entire 52-year career writing for the Seattle Times. We miss their incisive contributions, as well as their warm and wise camaraderie at press screenings and festival events.

Winners of the 2022 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards will be announced on Monday, January 17, 2023, starting at 9:00 a.m. PST via the Seattle Film Critics Society’s Twitter (@seattlecritics).

The 2022 Seattle Film Critics Society Nominations

Best Picture

Aftersun (A24)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV+)
Decision To Leave (MUBI)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
The Fabelmans (Universal)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Nope (Universal Pictures)
TÁR (Focus Features)
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)

Best Director

Todd Field – TÁR
Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Austin Butler – Elvis
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Paul Mescal – Aftersun

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Cate Blanchett – TÁR
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Mia Goth – Pearl
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Keke Palmer – Nope

Best Ensemble Cast

The Banshees of Inisherin – Louise Kiely, casting director
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Halley Finn, casting director
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bret Howe, Mary Vernieu, casting directors
Top Gun: Maverick – Denise Chamian, casting director
Women Talking – John Buchan, Jason Knight, casting directors

Best Action Choreography

Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Northman
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson
TÁR – Todd Field

Best Animated Feature

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, directors
Mad God – Phil Tippett, director
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On – Dean Fleischer-Camp, director
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Joel Crawford, director; Januel Mercado, co-director
Turning Red – Domee Shi, director

Best Documentary Feature

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, director
Fire of Love – Sara Dosa, director
Good Night Oppy – Ryan White, directors
Navalny – Daniel Roher, director
Sweetheart Deal – Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller, directors

Best Film Not in the English Language

All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, director
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, director
EO – Jerzy Skolimowski, director
RRR – S.S. Rajamouli, director
Saint Omer – Alice Diop, director

Best Cinematography

Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter
Decision to Leave – Kim Ji-yong
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Larkin Seiple
Nope – Hoyte van Hoytema
Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda

Best Costume Design

Babylon – Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter
Elvis – Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Shirley Kurata
The Northman – Linda Muir

Best Film Editing

Aftersun – Blair McClendon
Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-beom
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers
TÁR – Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton

Best Original Score

Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
The Batman – Michael Giacchino
The Fabelmans – John Williams
Nope – Michael Abels

Best Production Design

Babylon – Florencia Martin (Production Design); Anthony Carlino (Set Decoration)
Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy (Production Design); Bev Dunn (Set Decoration)
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Jason Kisvarday (Production Design); Kelsi Ephraim (Set Decoration)
The Northman – Craig Lathrop (Production Design); Niamh Coulter (Set Decoration)
White Noise – Jess Gonchor (Production Design); Claire Kaufman (Set Decoration)

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, Jeff Desom
Nope – Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan, Scott R. Fisher
RRR – Srinivas Mohan, Pete Draper, Daniel French
Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson

Best Youth Performance (18 years of age or younger upon start of filming):

Vanessa Burghardt – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Anna Cobb – We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Eden Dambrine – Close
Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time

Villain of the Year:

Jean Jacket – Nope
Jobu Tupaki – Everything Everywhere All At Once – portrayed by Stephanie Hsu
Lydia Tár – TÁR – portrayed by Cate Blanchett
Pearl – X/Pearl, portrayed by Mia Goth
The Riddler/Edward Nashton – The Batman – portrayed by Paul Dano

2022 Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking:

All Sorts, J. Rick Castañeda
Kimi, Steven Soderbergh
Know Your Place, Zia Mohajerjasbi
Sam Now, Reed Harkness
Sweetheart Deal, Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller

NOMINATION COUNT PER FILM:

14: Everything Everywhere All At Once

9: The Banshees of Inisherin

8: Top Gun: Maverick

6: Nope, TÁR

5: Aftersun, Decision to Leave

4: Babylon, Glass Onion

3: Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, The Fabelmans, The Northman, RRR

2: The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Pearl, Sweetheart Deal

1: All Quiet on the Western Front, All Sorts, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Armageddon Time, Causeway, Close, EO, Fire of Love, Good Night Oppy, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Kimi, Know Your Place, Mad God, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Navalny, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Saint Omer, Sam Now, Till, Turning Red, The Whale, Women Talking, X, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, White Noise

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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.