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

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

agreed

I think Chicago may have been the first to do that? Blame them

Yeah, Chicago has done that for a while.

Speaking of which, here's their winners (announced last night):

BEST PICTURE: "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST DIRECTOR: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, "TÁR"
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, "The Banshees of Inisherin"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "Women Talking" by Sarah Polley
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "The Banshees of Inisherin" by Martin McDonagh
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio"
BEST DOCUMENTARY: "Fire of Love"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Decision to Leave"
BEST ART DIRECTION: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Jason Kisvarday & Amelia Brooke
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "Decision to Leave," Kim Ji-Yong
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Shirley Kurata
BEST EDITING: "Everything Everywhere All at Once," Paul Rogers
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: "Babylon," Justin Hurwitz
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, "Elvis"
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, "Aftersun"

Banshees of Inisherin is not a good movie.

Film Comment's list

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2022/

I agree about Banshees, but I have never been on the McDonagh train

Dear god at that Film Comment #1!

Two Hongs in the top 10 is very much the move for 2022

I'm in clemenza and cryptosicko's corner re Women Talking.

Which means what?

A well-intentioned slog.

The world needs more well-intentioned rides

so long as the axles work

I also don't really understand the acclaim for EO, which struck me as a more pretentious The Littlest Hobo.

Donkeys, iirc

film comment list insanely good

There's a donkey in Banshees of Inisherin too.

But enough about Colin Farrell.

I'm gonna go ahead and blame the overrating of Banshees on the donkey, as well, yes

Listening to the first part of the Film Comment "live reveal" podcast that just dropped and a moment of unintentional comedy when all panelists admit that none of their own personal #1 choices of the year didn't even make the aggregate top 10.

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-film-comment-podcast-the-best-films-of-2022/

film comment list insanely good

― flamenco drop (BradNelson),

Insanely well-designed too.

I have been jealous of their template for some years now

I voted for Kristen Stewart in Best Supporting Actress fwiw

It's a bit crazy to compare the FC list to the one from 20 years ago to see just how much more diffuse and diverse (not a bad thing) critical consensus has become.

1. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, U.S.)
2. Adaptation (Spike Jonze, U.S.)
3. Y tu mama también (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
4. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
5. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, U.S.)
6. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France)
7. The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk, Canada)
8. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S.)
9. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Germany)
10. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, U.S.)
11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, U.S.)
12. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
13. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland)
14. I’m Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France)
15. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, U.K./Ireland)
16. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, Austria/France)
17. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France)
18. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, U.S.)
19. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, Poland/U.K./France)
20. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel)

Then again, maybe it's not so far off ... a lot of the names above were, in 2002, still pretty fresh on the scene.

Spirited Away is better than Punch-Drunk Love ffs

Their gushing over Far From Heaven messed with my head for years.

I get the reception for Gangs of New York in general back then but ... it's un-good

Spirited Away is better than Punch-Drunk Love ffs

Well it's better than all of the 19 other movies on this list, as we well know now

ANDELE ANDELE MAMI EO EO

Well one former ILXor is still in Ye's corner:

Chris Boeckmann (critic, programmer)

There Will Be No More Night
The Rehearsal
El gran movimiento
Mr. Bachmann and His Class
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Petite maman
We
TÁR
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
One Man Dies a Million Times
Jackass Forever
Friends and Strangers
Top Gun: Maverick
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Barbarian
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
Dog
I Didn't See You There
Deep Water
Dos Estaciones

there are a lot of films from the Film Comment list that I'm interested in seeing

I love when Keith unleashes the big guns, and am surprised this isn't a zero-star review:

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/babylon-review-damien-chazelle-margot-robbie-brad-pitt/

Babylon is all exclamation points.

Darren Aronofsky has company.