!!! Welcome to awards season 2022, CFCA members! The Chicago Film Critics Association's tastes this year might not be quite in line with my own, but they're not quite in line with any other critics' group this season to date, and I heartily welcome the unique and interesting choices they've made in their awards nominations. A diverse Best Picture lineup, Bill Nighy in Best Actor, a Best Actress list to die for, Mad God in Best Animated Feature!!!!! - what's not to love? The one manner in which they've thoroughly aligned with the critical consensus so far is in their nominations leader: Everything Everywhere All at Once lodges a gargantuan 12 mentions from the Chicago critics, and will likely go into tomorrow's (14 December) awards the runaway favourite. All the details below.
Best Picture
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Best Director
Todd Field (Tar)
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Park Chan Wook (Decision to Leave)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
S. S. Rajamouli (RRR)
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Tar)
Ana de Armas (Blonde)
Mia Goth (Pearl)
Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Actor
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Best Supporting Actress
Chau Hong (The Whale)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Janelle Monae (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Quan Ke Huy (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Mark Rylance (Bones and All)
Best Original Screenplay
Todd Field (Tar)
Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)
Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
David Kajganich (Bones and All)
Kogonada (After Yang)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Best Cinematography
Darius Khondji (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths)
Kim Ji Yong (Decision to Leave)
Claudio Miranda (Top Gun: Maverick)
Linus Sandgren (Babylon)
Larkin Seiple (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Editing
Tom Cross (Babylon)
Kim Sang Beom (Decision to Leave)
Blair McClendon (Aftersun)
Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Monika Willi (Tar)
Best Art Direction / Production Design
After Yang
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Costume Design
Monika Buttinger (Corsage)
Ruth E. Carter (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Shirley Kurata (Everyhing Everywhere All at Once)
Linda Muir (The Northman)
Mary Zophres (Babylon)
Best Use of Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Original Score
Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)
Michael Giacchino (The Batman)
Justin Hurwitz (Babylon)
M. M. Keeravani (RRR)
Best Animated Feature
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Turning Red
Best Documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Descendant
Fire of Love
Moonage Daydream
Best Foreign Language Film
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Close
Decision to Leave
Happening
RRR
Saint Omer
Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker
Alice Diop (Saint Omer)
Audrey Diwan (Happening)
John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal)
Jane Schoenbrun (We're All Going to the World's Fair)
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Most Promising Performer
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Amber Midthunder (Prey)