Awards 2022 Nominees

The Columbus Film Critics Association is pleased to announce the nominees for its 21st annual awards. Winners will be announced on the evening of January 5th, 2023.

Best Film

  • Aftersun
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Glass Onion
  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • The Menu
  • Nope
  • Tár
  • Women Talking

Best Director

  • Todd Field, Tár
  • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Sarah Polley, Women Talking
  • Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Lead Performance

  • Cate Blanchett, Tár
  • Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
  • Danielle Deadwyler, Till
  • Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Ralph Fiennes, The Menu
  • Brendan Fraser, The Whale
  • Mia Goth, Pearl
  • Paul Mescal, Aftersun
  • Margot Robbie, Babylon
  • Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
  • Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Performance

  • Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
  • Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
  • Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion
  • Keke Palmer, Nope
  • Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Ensemble

  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Glass Onion
  • Women Talking

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

  • Hong Chau, The Menu and The Whale
  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Halloween Ends
  • Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Batman, and Thirteen Lives
  • Mia Goth, Pearl and X
  • Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and Three Thousand Years
    of Longing
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, Amsterdam, The Menu, and The Northman

Breakthrough Film Artist

  • Austin Butler, Elvis – (for acting)
  • Hong Chau, The Menu and The Whale – (for acting)
  • Zach Cregger, Barbarian – (for directing, screenwriting, and acting)
  • Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans – (for acting)
  • Charlotte Wells, Aftersun – (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

  • Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Ben Davis, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
  • Linus Sandgren, Babylon
  • Hoyte Van Hoytema, Nope

Best Film Editing

  • Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn, The Fabelmans
  • Bob Ducsay, Glass Onion
  • Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
  • A. Sreekar Prasad, RRR
  • Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate, and Nick Paley, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
  • Rian Johnson, Glass Onion
  • Rebecca Lenkiewicz, She Said
  • Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

  • Todd Field, Tár
  • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Jordan Peele, Nope
  • Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu
  • Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Score

  • Michael Abels, Nope
  • Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bones and All
  • John Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Documentary

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

Best Foreign Language Film

  • All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)
  • Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim)
  • RRR
  • Saint Omer

Best Animated Film

  • Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Mad God
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
  • Turning Red

Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy

  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Glass Onion
  • The Menu
  • Triangle of Sadness
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Best Overlooked Film

  • After Yang
  • Confess, Fletch
  • God’s Country
  • Men
  • The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent