La Film Critics 2022 Award Winners List

Competition was stiff, given this year’s particularly wide field of Oscar contenders. Voters will have to choose between arthouse dramas from elite directors (Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Todd Field’s “TÁR”), critically acclaimed blockbusters (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), and bold international films (“RRR,” “Decision to Leave”). The awards ended up being relatively evenly split between arthouse films and those with more popular sensibilities. “TÁR” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” shared the award for Best Film in a tie, and they both notched signature wins elsewhere in the competition. “TÁR” writer-director Todd Field won both Best Screenplay and Best Director, and Cate Blanchett shared Best Lead Performance with Bill Nighy (“Living”). And Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Performance (a category he also won at the Gotham Awards), sharing the honor with Dolly de Leon (“Triangle of Sadness”).

Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO” also had a strong showing, winning Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Cinematography. The film’s composer Paweł Mykietyn was the runner-up for Best Music/Score, losing to M.M. Keeravani for “RRR.” Last year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Haruki Murakami adaptation “Drive My Car” won Best Picture before going on to receive four Oscar nominations and one win for Best International Feature. Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” was runner-up, and Campion was awarded Best Director. Simon Rex won Best Actor for his performance in “Red Rocket” and Penelope Cruz received Best Actress for “Parallel Mothers.” Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “West Side Story” (a category she also won at the Oscars), and the organization’s Best Supporting Actor award ended up being a tie between Kodi Smit-McPhee for “The Power of the Dog” and Vincent London for “Titane.” Claire Denis was honored with the organization’s annual lifetime achievement award, an honor that has gone to the likes of Mel Brooks, Doris Day, and Elaine May in recent years. “We are thrilled to be honoring Claire Denis, one of the best living film auteurs and a master at depicting the identity crises faced by both the colonizer and the colonized,” LAFCA president Claudia Puig said in a statement when the news was first announced. “A distinctive sociopolitical point of view and anti-patriarchal sensibility infuse her work, which is deeply evocative — often tender and intimate but never sentimental — and always uncompromising.”

Keep reading for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s 2022 picks for the best films and performances of the year. 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” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.

title: “La Film Critics 2022 Award Winners List” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-10” author: “Eloise Bobadilla”

Competition was stiff, given this year’s particularly wide field of Oscar contenders. Voters will have to choose between arthouse dramas from elite directors (Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” Todd Field’s “TÁR”), critically acclaimed blockbusters (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), and bold international films (“RRR,” “Decision to Leave”). The awards ended up being relatively evenly split between arthouse films and those with more popular sensibilities. “TÁR” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” shared the award for Best Film in a tie, and they both notched signature wins elsewhere in the competition. “TÁR” writer-director Todd Field won both Best Screenplay and Best Director, and Cate Blanchett shared Best Lead Performance with Bill Nighy (“Living”). And Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Performance (a category he also won at the Gotham Awards), sharing the honor with Dolly de Leon (“Triangle of Sadness”).

Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO” also had a strong showing, winning Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Cinematography. The film’s composer Paweł Mykietyn was the runner-up for Best Music/Score, losing to M.M. Keeravani for “RRR.” Last year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Haruki Murakami adaptation “Drive My Car” won Best Picture before going on to receive four Oscar nominations and one win for Best International Feature. Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” was runner-up, and Campion was awarded Best Director. Simon Rex won Best Actor for his performance in “Red Rocket” and Penelope Cruz received Best Actress for “Parallel Mothers.” Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “West Side Story” (a category she also won at the Oscars), and the organization’s Best Supporting Actor award ended up being a tie between Kodi Smit-McPhee for “The Power of the Dog” and Vincent London for “Titane.” Claire Denis was honored with the organization’s annual lifetime achievement award, an honor that has gone to the likes of Mel Brooks, Doris Day, and Elaine May in recent years. “We are thrilled to be honoring Claire Denis, one of the best living film auteurs and a master at depicting the identity crises faced by both the colonizer and the colonized,” LAFCA president Claudia Puig said in a statement when the news was first announced. “A distinctive sociopolitical point of view and anti-patriarchal sensibility infuse her work, which is deeply evocative — often tender and intimate but never sentimental — and always uncompromising.”

Keep reading for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s 2022 picks for the best films and performances of the year. 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” Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.