Chicago Film Critics winners include ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once,’ ‘Decision to Leave’

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) has announced its awards with The Banshees of Inisherin taking the Best Picture prize, as well as awarding the film Best Actor (Colin Farrell), Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon), and Best Original Screenplay.

Though Banshees received four prizes, Everything Everywhere All at Once walked away with the most wins with six awards including Best Director (The Daniels), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave was the other multi-winner with two awards for Best Foreign Langauge Film and Best Cinematography.

Other notable winners include Cate Blanchett winning Best Actress for TÁR and Women Talking awarded Best Adapted Screenplay.

Here is the complete list of 2022 CFCA Award winners.

BEST PICTURE

• Aftersun
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Decision to Leave
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• TÁR

BEST DIRECTOR

• Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Todd Field, TÁR
• Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
• Sarah Polley, Women Talking
• S.S. Rajamouli, RRR

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett, TÁR
• Ana de Armas, Blonde
• Mia Goth, Pearl
• Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
• Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser, The Whale
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun
• Bill Nighy, Living

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Hong Chau, The Whale
• Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
• Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Mark Rylance, Bones and All

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Mad God
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Bad Axe
• Descendant
• Fire of Love
• Moonage Daydream

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• Happening
• RRR
• Saint Omer

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• After Yang by Kogonada
• Bones and All by David Kajganich
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery by Rian Johnson
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale
• Women Talking by Sarah Polley

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
• The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
• Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels
• The Fabelmans by Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
• TÁR by Todd Field

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Babylon, Linus Sandgren
• Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths, Darius Khondji
• Decision to Leave, Kim Ji-Yong
• Everything Everywhere All at Once, Larkin Seiple
• Top Gun: Maverick, Claudio Miranda

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
• The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell
• The Batman, Michael Giacchino
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
• RRR, M.M. Kreem

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

• After Yang
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Babylon
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Babylon, Mary Zophres
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ruth E. Carter
• Corsage, Monika Buttinger
• Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley Kurata
• The Northman, Linda Muir

BEST EDITING

• Aftersun, Blair McClendon
• Babylon, Tom Cross
• Decision to Leave, Kim Sang-beom
• Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul Rogers
• TÁR, Monika Willi

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Nope
• RRR
• Top Gun: Maverick

MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER

• Alice Diop, Saint Omer
• Audrey Diwan, Happening
• John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal
• Jane Schoenbrun, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
• Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Frankie Corio, Aftersun
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Amber Midthunder, Prey

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