The Year in Film: 2022

Best Picture

1. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
2. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
3. Tár (Todd Field)
4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
5. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)
6. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
7. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
8. Benediction (Terence Davies)
9. Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)
10. Living (Oliver Hermanus)

Honorable mention: Pinocchio (Guillermo Del Toro), Întregalde (Radu Muntean), Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook), Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise), Glass Onion (Rian Johnson), Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan), The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg), Hit the Road (Panah Panahi), Saint Omer (Alice Diop), Kimi (Steven Soderbergh), White Noise (Noah Baumbach), RRR (S S Rajamouli), A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano), Armageddon Time (James Gray), No Bears (Jafar Panahi), Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis), Fire of Love (Sara Dosa), Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff), Playground (Laura Wandel), Wildcat (Trevor Frost and Melissa Lesh), The Northman (Robert Eggers), Barbarian (Zach Cregger), The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes), One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve), We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun), and The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)

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Best Director

1. Todd Field (Tár)
2. Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
3. Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
4. Jerzy Skolimowski (EO)
5. S. S. Rajamouli (RRR)

Honorable mentions: Audrey Diwan (Happening), Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave), Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Davy Chou (Return to Seoul), Joanna Hogg (The Eternal Daughter)

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Best Actor

1. Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom)
2. Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
3. Bill Nighy (Living)
4. Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)
5. Vincent Lindon (Both Sides of the Blade)

Honorable mentions: Colin Farrell (After Yang), Tim Roth (Sundown), Austin Butler (Elvis), Park Hae-il (Decision to Leave), Daniel Kaluuya (Nope)

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Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett (Tár)
2. Vicky Krieps (Hold Me Tight)
3. Olivia Colman (Empire of Light)
4. Ana de Armas (Blonde)
5. Ji-Min Park (Return to Seoul)

Honorable mentions: Guslagie Malanga (Saint Omer), Vicky Krieps (Corsage), Keke Palmer (Nope), Sofia Kappel (Pleasure), Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)

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Best Supporting Actor

1. Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
2. Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
3. Andre Braugher (She Said)
4. Micheal Ward (Empire of Light)
5. Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness)

Honorable mentions: Brad Pitt (Babylon), Anthony Hopkins (Armageddon Time), Colin Farrell (Thirteen Lives), Rayan Sarlak (Hit the Road), Mark Rylance (Bones and All)

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Best Supporting Actress

1. Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)
2. Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
3. Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness)
4. Nina Hoss (Tár)
5. Claire Foy (Women Talking)

Honorable mentions: Aisling Franciosi (God’s Creatures), Noémie Merlant (Tár), Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion), Hong Chau (The Whale)

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Best Original Screenplay

1. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
2. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
3. Tár (Todd Field)
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan)
5. Return to Seoul (Davy Chou)

Honorable mentions: Saint Omer (Alice Diop, Amrita David, and Marie NDiaye), Decision to Leave (Jeong Seo-kyeong and Park Chan-wook), Great Freedom (Thomas Reider and Sebastian Meise), Armageddon Time (James Gray), The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner)

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Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Happening (Audrey Diwan, Marcia Romano, and Anne Berest)
2. Benediction (Terence Davies)
3. Living (Kazuo Ishiguro)
4. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
5. Pinocchio (Guillermo Del Toro and Patrick McHale)

Honorable mentions: After Yang (Kogonada), Women Talking (Sarah Polley), She Said (Rebecca Lenkiewicz), White Noise (Noah Baumbach), Both Sides of the Blade (Christine Angot and Claire Denis)

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Best Cinematography

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Larkin Seiple)
2. After Yang (Benjamin Loeb)
3. Tár (Florian Hoffmeister)
4. RRR (K. K. Senthil Kumar)
5. The Northman (Jarin Blaschke)

Honorable mentions: Empire of Light (Roger Deakins), Elvis (Mandy Walker), Neptune Frost (Anisia Uzeyman), Decision to Leave (Park Hae-il), Athena (Matias Boucard)

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Best Film Editing

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. RRR
3. Kimi
4. Glass Onion
5. Tár

Honorable mentions: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, Saloum, Decision to Leave, Athena

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Best Score

1. Close (Valentin Hadjadj)
2. Blonde (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis)
3. She Said (Nicholas Britell)
4. The Northman (Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough)
5. Till (Abel Korzeniowski)

Honorable mentions: Women Talking (Hildur Guðnadóttir), RRR (M. M. Keeravani), The Menu (Colin Stetson), Everything Everywhere All at Once (Son Lux), Tár (Hildur Guðnadóttir)

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Best Song

1. “Etthara Jenda” (RRR)
2. “Naatu Naatu” (RRR)
3. “Dosti” (RRR)
4. “This Is a Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
5. “Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)

Honorable mentions: “Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), “Somebody Desperate” (Cyrano), “New Body Rhumba” (White Noise), “Time” (Amsterdam), “(You Made It Feel) Like Home” (Bones and All)

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Best Production Design

1. Babylon
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Pinocchio
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Corsage

Honorable mentions: The Northman, RRR, Glass Onion, Elvis, Empire of Light

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Best Costume Design

1. Corsage
2. Babylon
3. Death on the Nile
4. RRR
5. Cyrano

Honorable mentions: Blonde, Living, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Three Thousand Years of Longing

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Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1. The Northman
2. Elvis
3. The Whale
4. Corsage
5. Babylon

Honorable mentions: Blonde, RRR, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Death on the Nile, Crimes of the Future

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Best Sound

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. RRR
3. Nope
4. Tár
5. Top Gun: Maverick

Honorable mentions: Kimi, Babylon, Bullet Train, The Northman, Avatar: The Way of Water

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Best Visual Effects

1. Avatar: The Way of Water
2. The Northman
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Nope
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once

Honorable mentions: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Thor: Love and Thunder, RRR, Bullet Train, Three Thousand Years of Longing

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Worst Film of the Year

The Munsters (Rob Zombie)

Dishonorable mentions: Alex’s War (Alex Lee Moyer), 2000 Mules (Dinesh D’Souza), Firestarter (Keith Thomas), Hellraiser (David Bruckner), Clean (Paul Solet), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (David Blue Garcia), The Bubble (Judd Apatow), Morbius (Daniel Espinosa), Strawberry Mansion (Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley)