It’s not surprising that the majority of the multi-nominated films on this list are headlined by women wth The Woman King the rare film to go toe-to-toe with Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin and almost come out on top.

Nominations Tallies

(11) Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Woman King
(9) The Banshees of Inisherin, Women Talking
(6) Aftersun
(5) Tár
(4) The Fabelmans, Till, Turning Red, The Whale
(3) She Said

The Nominations

Best Film

The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
The Woman King
Women Talking

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild

Best Director

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Actor

Austin Butler – Elvis
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Bill Nighy – Living
Jeremy Pope – The Inspection

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Tár
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Vicky Krieps – Corsage
Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Eddie Redmayne – The Good Nurse
Ben Whishaw – Women Talking

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
Hong Chau – The Whale
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original Screenplay

Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
The Woman King

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
She Said
The Whale
Women Talking
The Wonder

Best Editing

Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King
Women Talking

Best Cinematography

The Banshees of Inisherin
Empire of Light
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King

Best Non-English-Language Film

All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
Decision to Leave
Happening
RRR
Saint Omer

Best Documentary

All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Descendant
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
The Janes

Best Animated Female

Connie – Isabella Rossellini – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Izzy – Keke Palmer – Lightyear
Kat – Lyric Ross – Wendell & Wild
Kitty Softpaws – Salma Hayek – Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Mei – Rosalyn Chiang – Turning Red
Ming – Sandra Oh – Turning Red

Best Woman Director

Chinonye Chukwu – Till
Marie Kreutzer – Corsage
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
Maria Schrader – She Said
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Ensemble Cast

The Banshees of Inisherin
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Triangle of Sadness
The Woman King
Women Talking

Best Woman’s Breakthrough Performance

Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Thuso Mbedu – The Woman King
Amber Midthunder – Prey
Sadie Sink – The Whale

Most Daring Performance

Cate Blanchett – Tár
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Emma Thompson – Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Grand Dame Award

Jamie Lee Curtis
Viola Davis
Emma Thompson
Michelle Yeoh

Best Woman Screenwriter

Aftersun
Mothering Sunday
She Said
Turning Red
The Woman King
Women Talking
The Wonder

Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry

• Viola Davis – for getting The Woman King made as her lifetime passion project and creating opportunities for other women creatives
• Maria Giese and Nina Menkes – for making Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, analyzing and illustrating the misogynistic representation of women in Hollywood movies
• Shi Do Mee – for being the first woman to direct a film for Pixar and for becoming Pixar’s VP of Creative
• Jacqueline Stewart – for ongoing advocacy of the underrepresented and becoming president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

She Deserves a New Agent Award

Ana de Armas – Blonde
Bryce Dallas Howard – Jurassic World: Dominion
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Rebel Wilson – Senior Year

Most Egregious Lovers’ Age Difference Award

.Confess, Fletch – Jon Hamm, Lorenza Izzo
.Crimes of the Future – Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux]
.Deep Water – Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas
Eiffel – Romain Duris, Emma Mackey

Time Waster Remake or Sequel Award

Firestarter
Halloween Ends
Jurassic World: Dominion
Pinocchio

AWFJ Hall of Shame Award

.Alec Baldwin and the crew of Rust – for continuing to deny responsibility for the on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The situation is still messy. A wrongful death lawsuit was settled, but the criminal investigation continues. In November, Baldwin sued crew members for giving him the loaded prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. News reports say Baldwin also texted Hutchins’ husband, Matthew, saying that the gun was never meant to be fired at a particular camera angle
.Blonde and Andrew Dominik
.Will Smith for his behaviour at the Oscars and in the aftermath*
.Harvey Weinstein for everything and forever

Alliance of Women Film Journalists Data

Year Founded: 2006
First Awards: 2007 (16)