Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2022 Awards Short Lists

Everything Everywhere All At Once. The A24 multiversal comedy is the most nominated movie in the Austin Film Critics Association's awards short list for 2022. (Image Courtesy of A24)

Austin's iteration of award season is officially on the calendar, as the Austin Film Critics Association has announced its short lists for its 2023 awards - including the five nominees for the Austin Film Award, given to a film directed by Austin residents.

Leading the field with an incredible 12 nominations, including a shared Best Director nod for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (aka Daniels), is the mind-bending dimension-hopping delight of Everything Everywhere All at Once. That's followed by Irish tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin with eight, including a duo of nominations for best supporting actor for both Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan.

The final winners will be announced on Jan. 10, including the full list of the AFCA's top 10 films of 2022.

Best Director

• Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels), Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Todd Field, TÁR
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
• S.S. Rajamouli, RRR

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett, TÁR
• Viola Davis, The Woman King
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Mia Goth, Pearl
• Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser, The Whale
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Best Supporting Actor

• Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
• Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Mark Rylance, Bones and All
• Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actress

• Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Janelle Monae, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Keke Palmer, Nope

Best Ensemble

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Fabelmans
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels), Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Todd Fields, TÁR
• Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jordan Peele, Nope
• Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews, Women Talking
• Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• David Kajganich, Bones and All
• Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
• Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Cinematography

• Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Hoyte van Hotema, Nope
• Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
• Linus Sandgren, Babylon
• Larkin Seiple, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Editing

• Bob Ducsay, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick
• A. Sreekar Prasad, RRR
• Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Monika Willi, TÁR

Best Original Score

• Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
• Michael Giacchino, The Batman
• M.M. Keeravani, RRR

Best International Film

• Close
• Decision to Leave
• EO
• Holy Spider
• RRR

Best Documentary

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Descendant
• Fire of Love
• Good Night Oppy
• Moonage Daydream

Best Animated Film

• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Mad God
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Turning Red

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance

• Stephen Lang, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Zoe Saldana, Avatar: The Way of Water
• Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Stunt Coordinator

• Timothy Neulich, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Kevin LaRosa Jr. and Casey O’Neill, Top Gun: Maverick
• Nick Powell, RRR
• Daniel Hernandez, The Woman King
• C.C. Smiff & Jón Viðar Arnþórsson, The Northman

Best First Film

• Aftersun, Charlotte Wells
• Emily the Criminal, John Patton Ford
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Dean Fleischer Camp
• Turning Red, Domee Shi
• The Watcher, Chloe Okuno

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award

• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Frankie Corio, Aftersun
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Amber Midthunder, Prey
• Jenna Ortega, The Fallout, Scream, X, Studio 666

Austin Film Award

• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story
• Descendant
• Shouting Down Midnight
• There There

Founded in 2005 by Cole Dabney & Bobby McCurdy, the AFCA includes critics for The Austin Chronicle, Bullz-Eye, But Why Tho?, Certified Forgotten, Cinapse, Consequence, Daily Grindhouse, Double Toasted, Dread Central, Edge Media Network, Fangoria, Film School Rejects, Indiewire, Horror’s Not Dead, Junkfood Cinema, KOOP 91.7 FM Radio, Mendowerks, One Movie Punch, One Of Us, Paste, The Playlist, Sightlines, Slashfilm, True View Reviews, Uproxx, and We Got This Covered.