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

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