Never expect less from the Indiana Film Journalists Association. Always expect more. And more is what they've duly delivered with the nominations for their 2022 awards. 20 movies vie for their Best Film prize, including usual suspects this season like The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans and Tar. EEAAO expectedly leads the pack with 12 nominations, but a couple movies overperform with far less expected double digit hauls: After Yang and The Northman. Winners will be announced on the 19th of December.
Best Film
Aftersun
After Yang
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ambulance
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Halloween Ends
Happening
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Northman
RRR
Tar
Till
Top Gun: Maverick
The Whale
Women Talking
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky (The Whale)
Michael Bay (Ambulance)
Audrey Diwan (Happening)
Robert Eggers (The Northman)
Todd Field (Tar)
Dean Fleischer-Camp (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Alex Garland (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Kogonada (After Yang)
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Park Chan Wook (Decision to Leave)
Jordan Peele (Nope)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King)
S. S. Rajamouli (RRR)
Matt Reeves (The Batman)
Steven Soderbergh (Kimi)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Ti West (X)
Best Lead Performance
Cate Blanchett (Tar)
John Boyega (Breaking)
Jessie Buckley (Men)
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Ram Charan (RRR)
Daniel Craig (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)
VIola Davis (The Woman King)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Colin Farrell (After Yang)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Mia Goth (Pearl)
Mia Goth (X)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Ambulance)
Rebecca Hall (Resurrection)
Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram)
Rory Kinnear (Men)
Zoe Kravitz (Kimi)
Paul Mescal (Aftersun)
Aubrey Plaza (Emily the Criminal)
Florence Pugh (The Wonder)
N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (RRR)
Adam Sandler (Hustle)
Alexander Skarsgard (The Northman)
Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Performance
Christopher Abbott (On the Count of Three)
Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)
Chau Hong (The Whale)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Essie Davis (Nitram)
Judy Davis (Nitram)
Colin Farrell (The Batman)
Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Dakota Johnson (Cha Cha Real Smooth)
Nicole Kidman (The Northman)
Lashana Lynch (The Woman King)
Thuso Mbedu (The Woman King)
Janelle Monae (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Justin H. Min (After Yang)
Quan Ke Huy (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Tim Roth (Resurrection)
Sadie Sink (The Whale)
David Howard Thornton (Terrifier 2)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Original Screenplay
Todd FIeld (Tar)
Alex Garland (Men)
Jeong Seo Kyeong and Park Chan Wook (Decision to Leave)
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch (On the Count of Three)
Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal)
Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth)
Seth Reiss and Will Tracy (The Menu)
Ti West (X)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Noah Baumbach (White Noise)
Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu and Michael Reilly (Till)
Audrey Diwan and Marcia Romano (Happening)
Robert Eggers and Sjon (The Northman)
Dean Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Nick Paley and Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale)
Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
David Kajganich (Bones and All)
Kogonada (After Yang)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
Best Cinematography
Jarin Blaschke (The Northman)
Matias Boucard (Athena)
Russell Carpenter (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Roberto de Angelis (Ambulance)
Michal Dymek (EO)
Greig Fraser (The Batman)
James Friend (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Rob Hardy (Men)
Florian Hoffmeister (Tar)
Janusz Kaminski (The Fabelmans)
Arseni Khatchaturan (Bones and All)
Kim Ji Yong (Decision to Leave)
K. K. Senthil Kumar (RRR)
Matthew Libatique (Don't Worry Darling)
Benjamin Loeb (After Yang)
Claudio Miranda (Top Gun: Maverick)
Larkin Seiple (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Laurent Tangy (Happening)
Hoyte van Hoytema (Nope)
Mandy Walker (Elvis)
Best Editing
Doug Brandt, Pietro Scalia and Calvin Wimmer (Ambulance)
Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn (The Fabelmans)
Tom Costain, Deguchi Keiko and Brian Robinson (Hustle)
Louise Ford (The Northman)
Eddie Hamilton (Top Gun: Maverick)
Kim Sang Bum (Decision to Leave)
Kogonada (After Yang)
Blair McClendon (Aftersun)
Joe Murphy (Barbarian)
A. Sreekar Prasad (RRR)
Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa (Elvis)
Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Steven Soderbergh (Kimi)
Monika Willi (Tar)
Best Musical Score
Michael Abels (Nope)
Lorne Balfe (Ambulance)
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury (Men)
Terence Blanchard (The Woman King)
Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough (The Northman)
Dan Deacon (Hustle)
Disasterpeace (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Danny Elfman (White Noise)
Michael Giacchino (The Batman)
Ludwig Goransson (Turning Red)
Hildur Gudnadottir (Women Talking)
Jo Yeong Wook (Decision to Leave)
Nathan Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Junkie XL (All Quiet on the Western Front)
M. M. Keeravani (RRR)
Cliff Martinez (Kimi)
Matsumiya Aska and Sakamoto Ryuichi (After Yang)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Bones and All)
Rob Simonsen (The Whale)
Son Lux (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
John Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Ensemble Acting
After Yang
Broker
The Duke
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Flux Gourmet
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Hit the Road
The Northman Soft & Quiet
What We Do Next
The Woman King
Women Talking
Best Stunt/Movement Choreography
Robert Alonzo and Daniel Arrias (The Batman)
Jon Vidar Arnthorsson and C. C. Smiff (The Northman)
Vicky Arora, Prem Rakshith and Raicho Vasilev (RRR)
Timothy Eulich, Andy Le and Brian Le (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Mike Gunther (Ambulance)
Daniel Hernandez, Grant Powell and Jenel Stevens (The Woman King)
Kevin LaRosa Jr. and Casey O'Neill (Top Gun: Maverick)
Steven McMichael (Prey)
David Neumann (White Noise)
Celia Rowlson-Hall (After Yang)
Best Animated Feature
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
The Bad Guys
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild
Best Documentary
Aftershock
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Chop & Steele
Fire of Love
I Didn't See You There
Navalny
Best Foreign Language Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Broker
Decision to Leave
EO
Happening
Hit the Road
RRR
You Won't Be Alone
Best Vocal / Motion-Capture Performance
Richard Ayoade (The Bad Guys)
David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)
Rosalie Chiang (Turning Red)
James Hong (Wendell & Wild)
Marc Maron (The Bad Guys)
Isabella Rossellini (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
J. K. Simmons (Glorious)
Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Christoph Waltz (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)
Breakout of the Year
Hanna Bergholm (Hatching)
Jerrod Carmichael (On the Count of Three)
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Beth de Araujo (Soft & Quiet)
Mariama Diallo (Master)
Audrey Diwan (Happening)
Amber Midthunder (Prey)
John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal)
Nick Richey (1-800-HOT-NITE)
Jane Schoenbrun (We're All Going to the World's Fair)
Shi Do Mee (Turning Red)
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Dallas Dupree Young (1-800-HOT-NITE)
Original Vision Award
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Flux Gourmet
Glorious
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
The Northman
Strawberry Mansion
We're All Going to the World's Fair