St Louis, Dallas, Utah and more enter the multiverse of "All At Once"

by Nathaniel R

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE will need multiverses to contain all of its awards

Two non-location based groups, The Women's Film Critics Circle and The Online Association of Female Film Critics, have now named their "best of 2022". And fFive more regional critics groups have announced their winners with Dallas-Forth Worth, St Louis, Utah, Philadelphia, and Indiana chiming in. Ke Huy Quan and Everything Everywhere All At Once won at all of these organizations that have the traditional categories of Supporting Actor and Best Film. (Women's Film Critics Circle does not have traditional categories and instead focuses on depictions of women onscreen with She Said taking their top prize.) Complete lists of winners are after the jump...

PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (PFCC)

RRR

Philadelphia was super into RRR giving it three prizes (Score, Cinematography, and Foreign Film). They also gave that rare breakthrough filmmaker/debut prize to someone other than Charlotte Wells (a shock for this particular season!)

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTOR: Daniels– Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST ACTOR: Brendan Fraser – The Whale
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - TÁR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Janelle Monae - Glass Onion

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All At Once
DIRECTORIAL DEBUT John Patton Ford - Emily the Criminal
BEST ENSEMBLE: Glass Onion

BEST SCREENPLAY: Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: RRR 
BEST SCORE: RRR

CHEESESTEAK AWARD (BLOCKBUSTER): Top Gun Maverick
ELAINE MAY AWARD (WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE): Women Talking
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Good Night Oppy
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: RRR

UTAH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (UFCA)

The UFCA wins the "overkill" prize. Not only did they give Everything Everywhere All At Once three of their four main acting prizes but they also gave it two additional acting prizes (Ensemble & Performance in a Fantasy film, doubling up on some Ke Huy Quan). The Daniels film won 10 of their prizes in total. 

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTOR: Daniels– Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Yeoh- Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once
PERFORMANCE IN A FANTASY/SCI-FI OR HORROR FILM Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ENSEMBLE: Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY [TIE] Marcel the Shell With Shoes On and Women Talking
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY [TIE] The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once 

BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Top Gun Maverick
BEST SCORE: The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Wildcat
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: RRR

INDIANA FILM JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION (IFJA)

They went their own way with Best Documentary Feature and were also obviously fond of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTOR: Todd Field – TÁR
LEAD PERFORMANCE: Cate Blanchett – TÁR
SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
VOCAL MO-CAP PERFORMANCE: Jenny Slate - Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
BEST ENSEMBLE: Women Talking

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking - Sarah Polley
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: TAR - Todd Field
BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nope - Hoyte Van Hoytema
BEST SCORE: The Batman-Michael Giacchino
BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR: Charlotte Wells - Aftersun
BEST STUNT/MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY: RRR
ORIGINAL VISION: Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: I Didn't See You There
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: Decision to Leave

DALLAS FORTH WORTH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (DWFWCA)

Though it couldn't topple Everything Everywhere All At Once, the Texas group was really into Banshees of Inisherin

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Their complete top ten:

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. The Fabelmans
4. TÁR
5. Top Gun Maverick
6. Women Talking
7. The Whale
8. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
9. Babylon
10. The Woman King

BEST DIRECTOR: Daniels– Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett - TÁR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST SCREENPLAY: The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Avatar: The Way of Water - Russell Carpenter

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Elvis - Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Elvis - Catherine Martin
BEST SCORE: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio - Alexandre Desplat
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Good Night Oppy
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: Decision to Leave
RUSSELL SMITH AWARD / LOW BUDGET OR CUTTING EDGE INDIE: EO -

ST LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (SLFCA)

ELVIS

While St Louis was mostly into the usual winners, they did show a bit of their own personality by giving Elvis three prizes!

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTOR: Sarah Polley – Women Talking
BEST ACTOR: Brendan Fraser – The Whale
BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ENSEMBLE: Women Talking
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: She Said - Rebecca Lenkiewicz
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY [TIE]: The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh; Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once - Paul Rogers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Banshees of Inisherin - Ben Davis
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Elvis - Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Elvis - Catherine Martin
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar: The Way of Water - Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
BEST SCORE: Women Talking - Hildur Guðnadóttir
BEST SOUNDTRACK: Elvis
BEST ACTION FILM: Top Gun: Maverick
BEST COMEDY FILM: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
BEST HORROR FILM: Nope
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: Decision to Leave
BEST SCENE: Fabelmans - Sam meets one of his idols on the studio lot.

And they also gave out three non-competitive awards:

SPECIAL MERIT: Jafar Panahi - For the courage of the imprisoned Iranian director and all film professionals confronting political oppression in the pursuit of free speech, human rights, and artistic expression.
SPECIAL MERIT: Ashley Judd - For the bravery she demonstrated in portraying herself in She Said.
SPECIAL MERIT: David Bowie - For the expansive and continuing cinematic presence of the singer-songwriter and actor, whose life and music continues to permeate and enrich the cinema landscape.

And finally two non-regional critics groups, the Women Film Critics Circle and the Online Association of Femalee Film Critics have also announced their prizes. They have some overlapping members of course but they have very different categories, with the OAFFC having the usual sort of categories and the WFCC focusing mostly on depictions of women onscreen. 

WOMEN'S FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (WFCC) 

SHE SAID

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN She Said
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN Women Talking
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER (SCREENPLAY) Sarah Polley, Women Talking
BEST ACTRESS Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST ACTOR Brendan Fraser, The Whale
BEST FOREIGN FILM ABOUT WOMEN Happening (France)
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN The Janes
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES Good Luck To You Leo Grande
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE Meilin - Turning Red
BEST SCREEN COUPLE Michelle Yeoh & Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST TV SERIES [TIE] Yellowjackets and The Handmaid's Tale
ADRIENNE SHELLEY AWARD (depictions of opposition to violence against women) - Women Talking 
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD (representing the experiences of women of color  in America) - Till
KAREN MORLEY AWARD (women's place in history/society or search for identity) - Women Talking
ACTING AND ACTIVISM AWARD - Geena Davis
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD -Rita Moreno

They also have something called the Pauline Kael Jury Awards which we take it are not decided by their whole voting body (given the jury in the title)

FEMALE ACTION HERO: Keke Palmer, Alice
BEST DIRECTRESS, COURAGE IN FILMMAKING: Olivia Wilde, Don't Worry Darling
COURAGE IN ACTING: Danielle Deadwyler Till and Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening
WOMEN'S WORK ENSEMBLE CAST - The Woman King
INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD - Charmaine Bingwa, Emancipation
BEST KEPT SECRET - Amitabh Rezz Chowdbury, Rickshaw Girl and Nana Mensah, Queen of Glory
WOMEN SAVING THEMSELVES AWARD - The Janes
MOMMIE DEAREST - WORST SCREEN MOM: Julianne Nicholson as Gladys in Blonde

THE ONLINE ASSOCIATION OF FEMALE FILM CRITICS (OAFCC)

The Online Association of Female Film Critics were also very much staying on-consensus

BEST FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST DIRECTOR: Daniels– Everything Everywhere All At Once
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE Austin Butler - Elvis
BEST ENSEMBLE: Women Talking
BEST SCREENPLAY: Everything Everywhere All at Once - The Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nope
BEST EDITING Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST STUNTS RRR
BEST COSTUME DESIGN [TIE] Mrs Harris Goes to Paris and Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Avatar The Way of Water
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Fire of Love
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: RRR

Comments

[Mike in Canada]

Ke Huy Quan's likely eventual Oscar win is a totally cool thing that I can't get too mad at, but you know what would be cooler?
If he was a shoo-in for a best actor nomination for his lead performance opposite his equally perfect co-lead.
Just sayin'.

[charlea]

Mike in Canada: And I think it would be cooler for some critics groups to admit that there was more than one great supporting actor performance. It just sucks the fun out of all of this when everyone picks the same winner. Why have 5 million groups if they just do the same thing? And in the (unlikely) event that, say, the Globes pick a different supporting actor, they would get an endless amount of shit for daring to go against what everybody said MUST be the winner.
Also, I hadn’t actually thought about Quan being the lead but all I can say is that at least it’s not as bad as the Keke Palmer thing.

[par]

the original screenplay face-off between everything everywhere all at once and the banshees of inisherin is going to be a nail biter all the way through to oscar night

[Ryan T.]

Just really happy for Ke Huy Quan and that movie and its cast and crew. I also love the idea that a film that came out in MARCH (!) is becoming a frontrunner.

[Edwin]

@Ryan T. - If EEAAO actually wins Best Picture, I think that would make it the first time since The Silence of the Lambs that the Best Picture winner came out before the previous year’s Oscar ceremony.

[NATHANIEL R]

charlea -- 1000% agree. It's really unfortunate. If you claim that there was only one great performance in a year it also negates the specialness of giving that person a prize. groupthink be exhausting!

[Mr Ripley79]

Mostly boring groupthink awards

If you really have passion for one performance why not give it a boost,we all know by now Colin,Michelle,Kerry and Ke Huy are Oscar bound.

Why not throw someone from The Woman king a bone or Paul Mescal or Nina Hoss,shake the race up,get people to engage in other films rather than those with the loudest buzz.

Personally i'm praying for Dolly and Danielle and would put them first on my own ballot.

[Greg F]

How oh HOW do we fix this groupthink drudgery every.goddam.year. I am a big fan of EEAAO and all cast and crew involved, but this is insane overkill and makes their frontrunner status so much less exciting.

I'll also agree on Ke Huy as lead, it's borderline but verrrry borderline a la Michelle Williams in Fablemans where they probably should have gone lead. I'd be curious if anyone has his (and Yeoh's) screen time total.

[Harmodio Harmodio]

If all (or most) of the critics believe that Ke Huy Quan is the Best Supporting Actor of the year then they should recognize him even if it becomes an obvious or "boring" choice.

Greg F
The wonderful Matthew Stewart has taken the screen time of various performances and published on his page and in the case of Everything Everywhere All at Once it is:

- Michelle Yeoh - 1:35:16
- Ke Huy Quan - 58:33
- Stephanie Hsu - 42:18
- James Hong - 19:37
- Jamie Lee Curtis - 17:15

[NATHANIEL R]

Harmodio -- I agree in theory. But how, with the great diversity of human beings, would everyone think the same thing is the most deserving? It defies logic and the realities of taste (try getting a group of people to agree on anything in real life!) that everyone would just nod their heads along with everyone else no matter the size, city, group, or purpose of that awards organization?

[charlea]

To piggyback off of Nathaniel: I’m pretty sure it was Nathaniel that advocated at one time for all critics groups to announce winners on the same day as a way of seeing if they all truly think the best supporting actor was [name] or best director was [name]. Of course it’s just speculation but I totally agree that it would probably show that these groups just rubber stamp to go along and either:
A) want to become predictive rather than reflect true preference, or
B) are afraid to have independent thought for fear of internet backlash.