Columbus Film Critics Association nominations: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ leads

The Columbus Film Critics Association has announced the nominees for its 21st annual awards where The Banshees of Inisherin led with 12 mentions. Everything Everywhere All At Once was next with 10, followed by The Fabelmans with nine and The Menu and TÁR with seven.

Joining them for Best Film are Aftersun, Glass Onion, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Nope and Women Talking.

The group’s non-gendered acting nominees consist of 10 lead and 10 supporting performances featuring Cate Blanchett in TÁR, Mia Goth in Pearl, Paul Mescal in Aftersun, Dolly De Leon in Triangle of Sadness, Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin and Paul Dano in The Fabelmans among them.

Winners will be announced on the evening of January 5th, 2023. See the full list of nominees below.

Best Film

Aftersun
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Nope
TÁR
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
The Menu
Women Talking

Best Director

Todd Field, TÁR
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Lead Performance

Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Mia Goth, Pearl
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Performance

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion
Keke Palmer, Nope
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Screenplay

Todd Field, TÁR
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jordan Peele, Nope
Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Adapted Screenplay

Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate, and Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion
Rebecca Lenkiewicz, She Said
Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best Ensemble

The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion
Women Talking

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

Hong Chau – The Menu and The Whale
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once and Halloween Ends
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin, The Batman, and Thirteen Lives
Mia Goth – Pearl and X
Tilda Swinton – The Eternal Daughter, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and Three Thousand Years of Longing
Anya Taylor-Joy – Amsterdam, The Menu, and The Northman

Breakthrough Film Artist

Austin Butler, Elvis – (for acting)
Hong Chau, The Menu and The Whale – (for acting)
Zach Cregger, Barbarian – (for directing, screenwriting, and acting)
Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans – (for acting)
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun – (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
Ben Davis, The Banshees of Inisherin
Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
Linus Sandgren, Babylon
Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope

Best Film Editing

Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn, The Fabelmans
Bob Ducsay, Glass Onion
Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
A. Sreekar Prasad, RRR
Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Score

Michael Abels, Nope
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bones and All
John Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
Sr.

Best Foreign Language Film

All Quiet on the Western Front
Decision to Leave
RRR
Saint Omer

Best Comedy

The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion
The Menu
Triangle of Sadness
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Best Overlooked Film

After Yang
Confess, Fletch
God’s Country
Men
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

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