AWARDS: Our 2022 Winners

The ballots have been counted for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s fifth annual end-of-year Film Awards. We’ve chosen the below films as our collective favorites after engaging in a weighted scale voting process for Best Picture and fifteen other major categories. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released first-run theatrically/streaming in the United States during the 2022 calendar year.

Leading the way are THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (5 wins, including Best Picture) and EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (4 wins).

The 2022 GWNYFCA Film Awards Winners:

BEST PICTURE:

• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin – **WINNER**
• The Batman
• Decision to Leave
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans
• Nope
• Tár
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Women Talking

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• Athena (France)
• Decision to Leave (South Korea) – **WINNER**
• EO (Poland)
• Happening (France)
• RRR (India)

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

• Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – **WINNER**
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – **WINNER**
• Fire of Love
• Good Night Oppy
• Moonage Daydream
• Sr.

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Todd Field, Tár
• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin – **WINNER**
• Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
• Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

LEAD ACTOR:

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Diego Calva, Babylon
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin – **WINNER**
• Brendan Fraser, The Whale
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun

LEAD ACTRESS:

• Cate Blanchett, Tár
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Mia Goth, Pearl
• Margot Robbie, Babylon
• Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once – **WINNER**

SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
• Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse
• Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once – **WINNER**

SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin – **WINNER**
• Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Keke Palmer, Nope

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

• Tár (Todd Field)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
• The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) – **WINNER**
• Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong)
• Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale / story by Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins)
• The Whale (Samuel D. Hunter)
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) – **WINNER**
• Bones and All (David Kajganich)
• Women Talking (Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• The Banshees of Inisherin (Ben Davis)
• Tár (Florian Hoffmeister)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Claudio Miranda) – **WINNER**
• Babylon (Linus Sandgren)
• Nope (Hoyte Van Hoytema)

BEST EDITING:

• Babylon (Tom Cross)
• Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers) – **WINNER**
• Elvis (Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond)
• Tár (Monika Willi)

BEST SCORE:

• The Banshees of Inisherin (Carter Burwell)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat)
• The Batman (Michael Giacchino) – **WINNER**
• Women Talking (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
• Babylon (Justin Hurwitz)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

• Vanessa Burghardt, Cha Cha Real Smooth
• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Frankie Corio, Aftersun
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once – **WINNER**

BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR:

• Audrey Diwan, Happening
• Damien Leone, Terrifier 2
• Lila Neugebauer, Causeway
• Chloe Okuno, Watcher
• Charlotte Wells, Aftersun – **WINNER**

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