EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE LEADS CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION 2022 AWARDS, WINS SIX HONORS
Martin McDonagh’s THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN earns Best Picture;
Park Chan-Wook’s DECISION TO LEAVE named Best Foreign Language Film
Chicago, IL (December 14, 2022) — The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2022 award winners. Claiming the organization’s top honor as Best Picture of the year is THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, directed by Martin McDonagh. The film also earned awards for Best Actor (Colin Farrell), Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon) and Best Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh). Earning the most overall honors is The Daniels’ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, with six awards, including Best Director (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Art Direction/Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Editing and Best Use of Visual Effects. Cate Blanchett earned the Best Actress award for TÁR; Sarah Polley’s WOMEN TALKING was named Best Adapted Screenplay.
Other highlights among the winners this year include: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO named Best Animated Feature; FIRE OF LOVE named Best Documentary; DECISION TO LEAVE named Best Foreign Language Film; and Charlotte Wells, writer/director of AFTERSUN, named recipient of the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. The complete list of 2022 Chicago Film Critics Award winners is as follows:
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
About the Chicago Film Critics Association
A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) was founded in 1990 to support and celebrate quality filmmaking that has something to say about our world, our lives, and our society. Membership includes Chicago-based journalists, broadcasters, critics and media personalities who actively work in the area of film across a wide variety of local, regional and national outlets. The annual Chicago Critics Film Festival presents a selection of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works from established voices and talented newcomers alike, curated by the CFCA membership. Every December, the CFCA votes on and announces their selections for best films of the year, contributing to the annual national discourse on cinema. Learn more at www.chicagofilmcritics.org.
