Washington DC Critics go for ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ ‘Glass Onion,’ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) have Everything Everywhere All At Once the best film of 2022, also awarding the sci-fi blockbuster Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay.
Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for TÁR, and The Banshees of Inisherin earned two acting awards; Colin Farrell for Best Actor and Kerry Condon for Supporting Actress. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was the Adapted Screenplay winner (as well as Ensemble) and in the youth acting, voice performance and motion capture performance categories the winners were Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans), Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) and Zoe Saldana (Avatar: The Way of Water), respectively.
In craft categories, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Top Gun: Maverick and The Batman were among the winners.
Here is the full list of 2022 WAFCA Award winners.
Best Film:
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once – WINNER
The Fabelmans
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Director:
Todd Field (TÁR)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once) – WINNER
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Best Actor:
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) – WINNER
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (TÁR) – WINNER
Viola Davis (The Woman King)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Best Supporting Actor:
Paul Dano (The Fabelmans)
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once) – WINNER
Ben Whishaw (Women Talking)
Best Supporting Actress:
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) – WINNER
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Best Acting Ensemble:
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – WINNER
Women Talking
Best Youth Performance:
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Jalyn Hall (Till)
Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) – WINNER
Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time)
Sadie Sink (The Whale)
Best Voice Performance:
Rosalie Chiang (Turning Red)
Gregory Mann (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
Ewan McGregor (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
Sandra Oh (Turning Red)
Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) – WINNER
Best Motion Capture Performance:
Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Zoe Saldaña (Avatar: The Way of Water) – WINNER
Best Original Screenplay:
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once) – WINNER
Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner (The Fabelmans)
Jordan Peele (Nope)
Todd Field (TÁR)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery) – WINNER
Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz [Based on the New York Times Investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett; and the book “She Said” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey] (She Said)
Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale)
Sarah Polley [Based upon the book by Miriam Toews] (Women Talking)
Best Animated Feature:
Apollo 10½
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – WINNER
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild
Best Documentary:
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Descendant
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy – WINNER
Best International/ Foreign Language Film:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Close
Decision to Leave – WINNER
EO
RRR
Best Production Design:
Hannah Beachler, Production Designer; Lisa Sessions Morgan, Set Decorator (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) – WINNER
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Production Designers; Bev Dunn, Set Decorator (Elvis)
Jason Kisvarday, Production Designer; Kelsi Ephraim, Set Decorator (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Rick Carter, Production Designer; Karen O’Hara, Set Decorator (The Fabelmans)
Rick Heinrichs, Production Designer; Elli Griff, Set Decorator (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Best Cinematography:
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (Empire of Light)
Larkin Seiple (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Janusz Kaminski (The Fabelmans)
Hoyte van Hoytema ASC, FSF, NSC (Nope)
Claudio Miranda, ASC (Top Gun: Maverick) – WINNER
Best Editing:
Matt Villa, ASE ACE; Jonathan Redmond (Elvis)
Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All At Once) – WINNER
Michael Kahn, ACE; Sarah Broshar (The Fabelmans)
Monika Willi (TÁR)
Eddie Hamilton, ACE (Top Gun: Maverick)
Best Original Score:
Michael Giacchino (The Batman) – WINNER
John Williams (The Fabelmans)
Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (TÁR)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Women Talking)
Photo: John Wilson/Netflix
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