Happy Oscar weekend! Here goes my personal awards for 2022 film season.
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BENEDICTION
"Benediction is an expansive movie of loss, isolation, and horror; it’s an energizing and inspiring movie about the vanity of existence itself. The physical design of the film—its décor, its costumes, its settings—coalesces with the actors’ diction and gestures, as well as with the historical characters in Sassoon’s circle who populate the action, and with the memory of love and the exaltation of art. The film brings the past to life with a vividness and an immediacy that seem wrenched from [Terence] Davies’s very soul." - Richard Brody
nominees
AFTERSUN
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
CLOSE
EO
THE FABELMANS
LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS
LOST ILLUSIONS
TÁR
VORTEX
Director
Terence Davies, BENEDICTION
"None of us can find redemption in other people or in other things. You have to find it yourself. At the end of his [Sassoon's] life, I think he was actually quite unfulfilled. That touched me enormously. All my films are about outsiders because I’m an outsider. I listened to everything because I’m the youngest of 10. I wasn’t aware of it at first, but as I got older I realized I’m not a participant in life. I observe it. And when you’re an outsider, you’re usually ignored." -Davies
nominees
Todd Field, TÁR
Jerzy Skolimowski, EO
Steven Spielberg, THE FABELMANS
Charlotte Wells, AFTERSUN
Actor
Paul Mescal, AFTERSUN
"I think he’s sitting in these feelings, and deeply confused and upset by why he’s not able to enjoy himself, or because everything else on paper is good. He’s with the person that he loves most in the world and he should be happier than he is, and that’s devastating." -Mescal
nominees
Colin Farrell, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Eden Dambrine, CLOSE
Caleb Landry Jones, NITRAM
Jack Lowden, BENEDICTION
Actress
Cate Blanchett, TÁR
"When I read it, I was so daunted by the ask of it — not just what was necessary to play the character, but also the depth of questioning in the screenplay and my relationship to it, which kept shifting depending on which scene we were shooting or which relationship we were focused on that day. When the cast started to come together, Nina Hoss elevated it yet again. Then Hildur Guðnadóttir got involved to do the music, and I thought it doesn’t get much better than this. My job was not just to rise to the occasion of the screenplay but the quality of the people I was working alongside." -Blanchett
nominees
Henriette Confurius, THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
Frankie Corio, AFTERSUN
Mia Goth, PEARL / X
Michelle Yeoh, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Supporting Actor
Barry Keoghan, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
"I'm always looking for, what's the kind of... what is it that we're trying to do that we can get across, that is the most... makes the audience relates so much. Is it being raw? Is it being real? Is it being vulnerable? What is it? I'm trying to figure that out. Is it the behaving part? I'm always trying to figure that out. That's the beauty of it as well, is I'm always trying to learn from the craft and what it is that we do. How can we take it another level up? So I'm always watching. I'm always watching." -Keoghan
nominees
Johnny Flynn, THE OUTFIT
Brendan Gleeson, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Brian Tyree Henry, CAUSEWAY
Ke Huy Quan, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Supporting Actress
Judy Davis, NITRAM
"No one who sees Nitram will forget the way Davis’s defensive face and posture finally dissolve into a rare kind of tender bewilderment and love that has been so beaten down so many times but still somehow exists. In real life, the woman she is playing in Nitram has retreated into denial, because there comes a point for any human being when pressure becomes so intense that it can no longer be endured. In the last shot of Mum, she sits stiffly outside her home, cigarette in hand, her face unreadable in profile but likely doing minute calculations underneath." -Dan Callahan
nominees
Nina Hoss, TÁR
Dakota Johnson, CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
Janelle Monáe, GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Brittany Snow, X
Ensemble
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
"I think that we all really slipped into this family dynamic quite seamlessly, and chemistry is very real, and I think it’s just this sort of unspeakable magic that you can’t quite know why." -Stephanie Hsu
nominees
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
BENEDICTION
THE FABELMANS
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Original Screenplay
Todd Field, TÁR
nominees
Terence Davies, BENEDICTION
Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg, THE FABELMANS
Martin McDonagh, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Ramon Zürcher & Silvan Zürcher, THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER
Adapted Screenplay
Xavier Giannoli & Jacques Fieschi, LOST ILLUSIONS
nominees
Mathieu Amalric, HOLD ME TIGHT
Claire Denis, Léa Mysius, & Andrew Litvack, STARS AT NOON
Robert Eggers & Sjón, THE NORTHMAN
Rian Johnson, GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
International Film
EO
nominees
CLOSE
LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS
LOST ILLUSIONS
VORTEX
Documentary
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
nominees
ALL THAT BREATHES
DESCENDANT
A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING
SR.
Cinematography
Ben Bernhard, Riju Das, & Saumyananda Sahi, ALL THAT BREATHES
nominees
Simone D'Arcangelo, THE TALE OF KING CRAB
Michał Dymek, EO
Ksusha Greenfield, A WOUNDED FAWN
Frédéric Noirhomme, PLAYGROUND
Film Editing
François Gédigier, HOLD ME TIGHT
nominees
Agnieszka Glińska, EO
Blair McClendon, AFTERSUN
Brett Morgen, MOONAGE DAYDREAM
Paul Rogers, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Score
Howard Shore, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
nominees
Michael Giacchino, THE BATMAN
Paweł Mykietyn, EO
Tindersticks, STARS AT NOON
Dan Wool, MAD GOD
Song
“Stars At Noon,” STARS AT NOON
nominees
“Hold My Hand,” TOP GUN: MAVERICK
“Keep Rising,” THE WOMAN KING
“Lift Me Up,” BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
“New Body Rhumba,” WHITE NOISE
Art Direction / Production Design
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
nominees
ELVIS
THE HOUSE
LOST ILLUSIONS
MAD GOD
Costume Design
Catherine Martin, ELVIS
nominees
Jenny Beavan, MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS
Ruth E. Carter, BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Pierre-Jean Laroque, LOST ILLUSIONS
Gersha Phillips, THE WOMAN KING
Make-Up & Hair
X
nominees
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
NEPTUNE FROST
THE WOMAN KING
YOU WON’T BE ALONE
Sound Design
TÁR
nominees
AFTERSUN
THE DREAM AND THE RADIO
EO
MOONAGE DAYDREAM
Visual Effects
MAD GOD
nominees
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
THE HOUSE
NOPE
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