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.
• 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
• Cate Blanchett, TÁR
• Viola Davis, The Woman King
• Danielle Deadwyler, Till
• Mia Goth, Pearl
• Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
• Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser, The Whale
• Paul Mescal, Aftersun
• 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
• 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
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Fabelmans
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Women Talking
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
• Son Lux, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
• Michael Giacchino, The Batman
• M.M. Keeravani, RRR
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• EO
• Holy Spider
• RRR
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• Descendant
• Fire of Love
• Good Night Oppy
• Moonage Daydream
• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Mad God
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Turning Red
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Austin Butler, Elvis
• Frankie Corio, Aftersun
• Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Amber Midthunder, Prey
• Jenna Ortega, The Fallout, Scream, X, Studio 666
• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
• Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story
• Descendant
• Shouting Down Midnight
• There There
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