Hawaii Film Critics Society awards nominations: 16 for Everything Everywhere All at Once

Bless the Hawaii Film Critics Society! They've announced the nominees for their 2022 awards, and they've done it in style... a specific style, that is, one that appears to be ranked in order of preference. They wouldn't be the first critics group to do this, and for sure I'm no stickler for strict alphabetization of nominations announcements, but it'll be... interesting(?) to see if the winners turn out to be mostly (or entirely) the movies at the top of these lists. Judge for yourself - I've kept them in their published order. As ever, there are some curious choices here: the good (Colin Farrell for The Batman!), the bad (Brad Pitt for Babylon) and the ugly (separate Best First Film and Best New Filmmaker categories with only two crossover titles; The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent now renamed The Unbearable Weight of Immeasurable Talent). The big story, however, is the stonking 16 nominations for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Winners will be announced... whenever the HFCS gets around to it, I guess.

Best Picture

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Top Gun: Maverick

The Menu

Tar

Babylon

Best Director

Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Todd Field (Tar)

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Damien Chazelle (Babylon)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Cate Blanchett (Tar)

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu)

Mia Goth (Pearl)

Best Actor

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Austin Butler (Elvis)

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)

Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)

Best Supporting Actress

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Jean Smart (Babylon)

Best Supporting Actor

Quan Ke Huy (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Brad Pitt (Babylon)

Colin Farrell (The Batman)

Best Original Screenplay

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Menu

Tar

The Fabelmans

Best Adapted Screenplay

Women Talking

Top Gun: Maverick

She Said

The Whale

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Cinematography

Babylon

Top Gun: Maverick

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Tar

Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Editing

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Top Gun: Maverick

Babylon

Elvis

Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Art Direction

Babylon

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

RRR

Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Costume Design

Babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

The Fabelmans

Best Sound

Top Gun: Maverick

Avatar: The Way of Water

Elvis

RRR

The Fabelmans

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water

RRR

Top Gun: Maverick

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Make-Up

The Batman

The Whale

Elvis

Babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Score

Babylon

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Batman

The Banshees of Inisherin

Women Talking

Best Song

"Lift Me Up" (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

"Ciao Papa" (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

"Naatu Naatu" (RRR)

"Hold My Hand" (Top Gun: Maverick)

"This Is a Life" (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Best Stunt Work

Top Gun: Maverick

RRR

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Avatar: The Way of Water

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The Bad Guys

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Turning Red

Best Documentary

Sr.

Good Night Oppy

Fire of Love

Three Minutes: A Lengthening

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Best Foreign Language Film

RRR

All Quiet on the Western Front

Decision to Leave

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Argentina, 1985

Best Comic Book Movie

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

The Batman

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Black Adam

DC League of Super-Pets

Best Horror Film

Pearl

The Black Phone

Barbarian

Smile

Terrifier 2

Best Sci-Fi Film

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nope

Prey

Lightyear

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Hawaiian Film

The Wind and the Reckoning (David L. Cunningham)

Waterman (Isaac Halasima)

Cane Fire (Anthony Banua-Simon)

Ala Moana Boys (Keli'i Grace)

Last Hawaiian Sugar (Deja Bernhardt)

Best First Film

Aftersun

Turning Red

Hunt

The Bad Guys

The Bob's Burgers Movie

Best Overlooked Film

After Yang

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

The Outfit

Emily the Criminal

Zero Fucks Given

Best New Filmmaker

John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal)

Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)

Elegance Bratton (The Inspection)

Lee Jung Jae (Hunt)

Carlota Pereda (Piggy)

Best Vocal / Motion Capture Performance

Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: The Way of Water)

Ewan McGregor (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

Zazie Beetz (The Bad Guys)

Rosalie Chiang (Turning Red)

Worst Film

Blonde

Morbius

Firestarter

The 355

Thor: Love and Thunder