This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2022

Vanity Fair's top 10:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/best-movies-2022

01. TÁR
02. You Won’t Be Alone
03. Empire of Light
04. Benediction
05. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
06. Armageddon Time
07. One Fine Morning
08. Hit the Road
09. Saint Omer
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

NYFFC gets the ball rolling for Paul Mescal:

BEST ACTOR: Paul Mescal, Aftersun #NYFCC

— New York Film Critics Circle (@NYFCCC) December 2, 2022

Nice. I've had the best success promoting Aftersun in recent weeks.

Gah, fake account, disregard.

OK, a REAL award now for Aftersun

BEST FIRST FILM: Aftersun

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Nice. Was going to watch this weekend.

BEST NON-FICTION FILM: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Not surprised at the speed on this decision

I'm going to knock ^^^^ down this weekend

i'm not mad at marcel winning best animated feature but i gotta say it didn't stick to me at all. i frankly liked the minions movie more lol

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is easily in my top five of the year.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

More Claire Denis than René Clair.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 12 November 2022 02:15 (two weeks ago) link

My puissant powers of prediction prevail!

Wrong thread, never mind.

Props, but hasn't Clair been absent from these polls since 1962?

xp oh lol

I might finally try and get to EEAAO this weekend; been putting it off because I found Swiss Army Man so irritating.

were you irritated that it wasnt an hour longer and 10x more overwrought? bc if not...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Keke Palmer, Nope

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Borderline category fraud but we've all seen worse

All in on populism at this point:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: EO

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

OK this stinks

BEST SCREENPLAY: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

Oh dear

I mean, he's fine but

I'd rank the movie's performances Kerry; Barry; Colly; Brendy.

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TÁR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

And here's this year's requisite flex

BEST DIRECTOR: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

BEST FILM: TÁR

— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) December 2, 2022

African American Film Critics Association top 10

1. The Woman King
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
3. Till
4. Sidney
5. Emancipation
5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
6. Inspection
7. Causeway
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Wendell & Wild
10. Devotion

That's fucking rough.

National Bored of Review

Best Film: “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

Best Actor: Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Netflix)

Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, “All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix)

Breakthrough Performance: Danielle Deadwyler, “Till” (Orion/United Artists Releasing)

Breakthrough Performance: Gabriel LaBelle, “The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun” (A24)

Best Animated Feature: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (A24)

Best International Film: “Close” from Belgium (A24)

Best Documentary: “Sr.” (Netflix)

Best Ensemble: “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)

NBR Freedom of Expression Awards: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon) and “Argentina, 1985” (Amazon Studios)

Top Films (in alphabetical order):

“Aftersun” (A24)
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios)
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
“The Fabelmans” (Universal Pictures)
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Netflix)
“RRR” (Variance Films)
“Till” (Orion/United Artists Releasing)
“The Woman King” (Sony Pictures)
“Women Talking”
Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Germany)
“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)
“Decision to Leave” (South Korea)
“EO” (Poland)
“Saint Omer” (France)
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):

“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon)
“All That Breathes” (HBO)
“Descendant” (Netflix)
“Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Wildcat” (Amazon Studios)
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):

“Armageddon Time” (Focus Features)
“Emily the Criminal” (Roadside Attractions/Vertical Entertainment)
“The Eternal Daughter” (A24)
“Funny Pages” (A24)
“The Inspection” (A24)
“Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“A Love Song” (Bleecker Street)
“Nanny” (Amazon Studios)
“The Wonder” (Netflix)
“To Leslie” (Momentum Pictures)

oh well Aftersun

To me it always felt like more of an Indie Spirit Awards kinda movie than a critics' awards kind of movie

I was genuinely surprised at what ended up our collective #1:

https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-25-best-films-of-2022/

(Sorry for click baiting there. Our #1 was The Fabelmans. But click thru anyway because I wrote the capsule.)

AFI Awards top 10

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
ELVIS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE FABELMANS
NOPE
SHE SAID
TÁR
TOP GUN: MAVERICK
THE WOMAN KING
WOMEN TALKING

xp good capsule and good intro!

WINNER, Best Ensemble: A TIE

WOMEN TALKING
JACKASS FOREVER

— Boston Society of Film Critics (@TheBSFC) December 11, 2022

Tons of updates over the last few days

Starting with the rest of the Boston Society ...

Film: Return to Seoul
English-language Film: The Banshees of Inisherin
Actor: Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Actress: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Supporting actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Supporting actress: Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Director: Todd Field (TAR)
Ensemble (tie): Women Talking & Jackass Forever (????)
Adapted Screenplay: After Yang
Original Screenplay: The Banshees of Inisherin
Cinematography: Pearl
Score: RRR (runner-up: Women Talking)
Editing (tie): Aftersun & Decision to Leave (this category went six rounds, one reason for the overall slowness)
Animated feature: Turning Red
Documentary: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
New Filmmaker: Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)

Here's Los Angeles:

BEST FILM

Winners: “TÁR” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (tie)

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Winner: “EO”
Runner-up: “St. Omer”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner: Michael Dymek, “EO”
Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, “Nope”

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMER

Winners: Dolly de Leon, “Triangle of Sadness” and Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, “Women Talking” and Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway”

BEST MUSIC/SCORE

Winner: M.M. Keeravani, “RRR”
Runner-up: Paweł Mykietyn, “EO”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Winner: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

BEST EDITING

Winner: Blair McClendon, “Aftersun”
Runner-up: Monika Willi, “TÁR”

BEST ANIMATION

Winner: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Runner-up: “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”

DOUGLAS EDWARDS EXPERIMENTAL FILM PRIZE

“De Humani Corporis Fabrica”

BEST SCREENPLAY

Winner: Todd Field, “TÁR”
Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

Winners: Cate Blanchett, “TÁR” and Bill Nighy, “Living”
Runners-up: Danielle Deadwyler, “Till” and Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION

Winner: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
Runner-up: “Fire of Love”

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: “Todd Field,” “TÁR”
Runner-up: S.S. Rajamouli, “RRR”

NEW GENERATION

Winner: Davy Chou and Park Ji-Min, “Return to Seoul”

And, finally, the dumb Golden Globe nominations:

Best Picture, Drama
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Actress, Drama
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
Viola Davis, The Woman King
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Actor, Drama
Austin Butler, Elvis
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Hugh Jackman, The Son
Bill Nighy, Living
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion
Triangle of Sadness

Best Actor, Musical Comedy
Diego Calva, Babylon
Daniel Craig, Glass Onion
Adam Driver, White Noise
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Anya Taylor Joy, The Menu
Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You Leo Grande
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere all at Once
Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Carey Mulligan, She Said

Best Director
Jame Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Screenplay
Todd Field, Tár
Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Women Talking
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
John Williams, The Fabelmans
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Song
“Carolina,” Where the Crawdads Sing
“Ciao Papa,” Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Hold My Hand,” Top Gun: Maverick
“Lift Me Up,” Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Naatu Naatu,” RRR

Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
Inu-oh

Best Non-English-Language Film
RRR (India)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
Close (Belgium)
Decision to Leave (South Korea)

The hell is it with Banshees? I want more comedy acknowledged, but come now.

I want a cumulative count of how many actual laughs are in those five movies in best picture-musical/comedy; to say nothing of how many musical numbers.

Here's one that's new to me. The Women Film Critics Circle:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
She Said
The Woman King
Till
Women Talking

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Don’t Worry Darling – Olivia Wilde
Till – Chinonye Chukwu
The Woman King – Gina Prince-Bythewood
Women Talking – Sarah Polley

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (Screenwriting Award)
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
Dana Stevens (and Maria Bello, story) – The Woman King
Sarah Polley – Women Talking

BEST ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps – Corsage
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Cate Blanchett – TAR

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bill Nighy – Living
Brendan Fraser – The Whale

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Corsage
Girl
Happening
Murina
Rickshaw

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Aftershock
Gabby Giffords
The Janes
Lucy and Desi
Won’t Back Down

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Fire of Love
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
The Woman King

BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Izzy Hawthorne – Lightyear
Belle Bottom – Minions: The Rise of Gru
Meilin – Turning Red

BEST SCREEN COUPLE
Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward – Empire of Light
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver – The Good House
Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack – Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

BEST TV SERIES
Dead to Me
The Handmaid’s Tale
Julia
Yellowjackets

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD – For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: Adrienne Shelly was a promising actress and filmmaker who was brutally strangled in her apartment in 2006 at the age of forty by a construction worker in the building, after she complained about noise. Her killer tried to cover up his crime by hanging her from a shower rack in her bathroom, to make it look like suicide. He later confessed that he was having a “bad day.” Shelly, who left behind a baby daughter, had just completed her film Waitress, which she also starred in, and which was honored at Sundance after her death.

Don’t Worry Darling
Holy Spider
She Said
Women Talking

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD – For best expressing the woman of colour experience in America

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: The daughter of a laundress and a musician, Baker overcame being born black, female and poor, and marriage at age fifteen, to become an internationally acclaimed legendary performer, starring in the films Princess Tam Tam, Moulin Rouge and Zou Zou. She also survived the race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois as a child, and later expatriated to France to escape US racism. After participating heroically in the underground French Resistance during WWII, Baker returned to the US where she was a crusader for racial equality. Her activism led to attacks against her by reporter Walter Winchell who denounced her as a communist, leading her to wage a battle against him. Baker was instrumental in ending segregation in many theaters and clubs, where she refused to perform unless integration was implemented.

Alice
Master
Nanny
Till

KAREN MORLEY AWARD – For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: Karen Morley was a promising Hollywood star in the 1930s, in such films as Mata Hari and Our Daily Bread. She was driven out of Hollywood for her leftist political convictions by the Blacklist and for refusing to testify against other actors, while Robert Taylor and Sterling Hayden were informants against her. And also for daring to have a child and become a mother, unacceptable for female stars in those days. Morley maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.

Alice
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Woman King
Women Talking

ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD
Geena Davis
Frances McDormand
Nichelle Nichols

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Angela Lansbury
Rita Moreno

I tried: http://www.floridafilmcritics.com/2022/12/14/2022-ffcc-nominations/

I found EEAAO reasonably enjoyable, but the year-end praise is making me turn against it.

"reasonably enjoyable" is about right

I agree about EEAAO

regional film critics' groups should just announce their winners, like NYFC and LAFC, not their nominations

Thought One Fine Morning was okay--so determined to be quiet and observant, though, that it could have used...I really don't know; something. I liked Eden from a few years ago better.

Now that Everything Everywhere All At Once has won the DGA, PGA and SAG awards, it will inevitably win the Oscar. I really liked the speeches given by the winners at the SAG awards

It got three of the four acting wins as well as Ensemble. The Jamie Lee Curtis win was a surprise, and she gave a great speech

SAG award winner Biff Wiff

Agreed that EEAAO has solidified its chances as the Oscar favorite, though there's an argument that All Quiet missed out on guild nominations only because it crested too late and, now that people have seen it, it has the momentum to take Best Picture. I'm skeptical of that, but also not 100% sure about EEAAO.

Can't remember the last time that 3/4 acting nominees felt so up in the air before the Oscars.

Was gonna say just that … for even two to be real toss ups in the final stages is really rare at this point

All Quiet on the Western Front won't win Best Picture.

I think Cate Blanchett gave the best performance of the year, in any category. It was so fierce and memorable

I also really liked Michelle Yeoh and will be happy if either of them wins

my favorites are

Cate Blanchett

Colin Farrell, give him the Oscar already

Brian Tyree Henry, who I think illuminated a believable and lived-in character who revealed who he was without many words but with a mesmerizing performance

Stephanie Hsu or Jamie Lee Curtis or Kerry Condon, can't decide

Meantime, an urgent and key thread

In honour of the fact that there is now one week left until the Oscars, here is Kate Bush as each of the ten Best Picture nominees. 🧵

— 𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕤 (@cinema_gay) March 5, 2023

I maybe obliged to do that, but with Björk, before the week is up

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/oscars-brutally-honest-ballot-top-gun-riseborough-1235342054/

2022's Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominees

I maybe obliged to do that, but with Björk, before the week is up

Done.

Alright, let's do this. Björk as each of the ten Best Picture nominees. 🧵

— Eric Henderson (@ephender) March 10, 2023

a state of emergency!

The Quiet Girl is very quiet. I liked its quiet better than One Fine Morning's--I should see it again, as my mind tends to wander these days. Some beautiful images and moments.

ooh I've been looking to talk to someone about One Fine Morning. It's rare for me to have a reaction as unabashed as I did last weekend -- I loved it.