2022 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards
Best Picture of the Year
Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24)
Aftersun (A24)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV+)
Decision to Leave (MUBI)
The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Nope (Universal Pictures)
Tár (Focus Features)
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Best Director
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Todd Field - Tár
Joseph Kosinski - Top Gun: Maverick
Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Charlotte Wells - Aftersun
Best Ensemble Cast
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Bret Howe and Mary Vernieu, casting directors
The Banshees of Inisherin - Louise Kiely, casting director
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Sarah Halley Finn, casting director
Top Gun: Maverick - Denise Chamian, casting director
Women Talking - John Buchan and Jason Knight, casting directors
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin
Austin Butler - Elvis as Elvis Presley
Tom Cruise - Top Gun: Maverick as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
Brendan Fraser - The Whale as Charlie
Paul Mescal - Aftersun as Calum Paterson
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett - Tár as Lydia Tár
Danielle Deadwyler - Till as Mamie Till-Mobley
Mia Goth - Pearl as Pearl
Margot Robbie - Babylon as Nellie LaRoy
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang
Paul Dano - The Fabelmans as Burt Fabelman
Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty
Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway as James Aucoin
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin
Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki
Janelle Monáe - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Helen Brand / Cassandra "Andi" Brand
Keke Palmer - Nope as Emerald "Em" Haywood
Best Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh
Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Rian Johnson
Tár - Todd Field
Best Film Editing
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
Aftersun - Blair McClendon
Decision to Leave - Kim Sang-beom
Tár - Monika Willi
Top Gun: Maverick - Eddie Hamilton
Best Cinematography
Top Gun: Maverick - Claudio Miranda
Avatar: The Way of Water - Russell Carpenter
Decision to Leave - Kim Ji-yong
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Larkin Seiple
Nope - Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Production Design
Babylon - Florencia Martin (Production Design); Anthony Carlino (Set Decoration)
Elvis - Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (Production Design); Bev Dunn (Set Decoration)
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Jason Kisvarday (Production Design); Kelsi Ephraim (Set Decoration)
The Northman - Craig Lathrop (Production Design); Niamh Coulter (Set Decoration)
White Noise - Jess Gonchor (Production Design); Claire Kaufman (Set Decoration)
Best Costume Design
Elvis - Catherine Martin
Babylon - Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ruth E. Carter
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Shirley Kurata
The Northman - Linda Muir
Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water - Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, and Jeff Desom
Nope - Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan, and Scott R. Fisher
RRR - Srinivas Mohan, Pete Draper, and Daniel French
Top Gun: Maverick - Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, and Bryan Litson
Best Original Score
Babylon - Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin - Carter Burwell
The Batman - Michael Giacchino
The Fabelmans - John Williams
Nope - Michael Abels
Best International Film
Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook, director
All Quiet on the Western Front - Edward Berger, director
EO - Jerzy Skolimowski, director
RRR - S. S. Rajamouli, director
Saint Omer - Alice Diop, director
Best Documentary Feature
Fire of Love - Sara Dosa, director
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Laura Poitras, director
Good Night Oppy - Ryan White, director
Navalny - Daniel Roher, director
Sweetheart Deal - Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller, directors
Best Animated Feature
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - Dean Fleischer Camp, director
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, directors
Mad God - Phil Tippett, director
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - Joel Crawford, director; Januel Mercado, co-director
Turning Red - Domee Shi, director
Best Youth Performance
Frankie Corio - Aftersun as Sophie Paterson
Vanessa Burghardt - Cha Cha Real Smooth as Lola
Anna Cobb - We're All Going to the World's Fair as Casey
Eden Dambrine - Close as Léo
Banks Repeta - Armageddon Time as Paul Graff
Best Action Choreography
RRR
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Northman
Top Gun: Maverick
Villain of the Year
Lydia Tár - Tár (portrayed by Cate Blanchett)
Jean Jacket - Nope
Pearl - X / Pearl (portrayed by Mia Goth)
The Riddler / Edward Nashton - The Batman (portrayed by Paul Dano)
Jobu Tupaki - Everything Everywhere All at Once (portrayed by Stephanie Hsu)
Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking
Sweetheart Deal (Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller's deeply moving portrait of sex workers on Seattle's Aurora Avenue seeking salvation from the spiral of addiction)
All Sorts (J. Rick Castañeda's absurdist office comedy set in the secret world of underground filing)
Kimi (Steven Soderbergh's Seattle-set thriller starring Zoë Kravitz as an agoraphobic computer programmer enmeshed in a corporate scandal)
Know Your Place (Zia Mohajerjasbi's slice of life drama about two teens traversing present-day Seattle)
Sam Now (Reed Harkness's 25-years in the making story of brothers on a 2,000-mile road trip to solve a family mystery)