Precursor: 35th Chicago Critics Nominations (2022)

Dominating this year’s Chicago Film Critics Association nominations, Everything Everywhere All at Once has topped the list with 12 citations while The Banshees of Inisherin does quite well in second with seven. The Fabelmans only has two mentions.

Nominations Tallies

(12) Everything Everywhere All at Once
(7) The Banshees of Inisherin
(6) Aftersun
(5) Babylon, Decision to Leave, Tár
(4) RRR
(3) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

The Nominations

Best Picture

Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár

Best Animated Film

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Turning Red

Best Director

Todd Field – Tár
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Park Chan-Wook – Decision to Leave
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
S.S. Rajamouli – RRR

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Tár
Ana de Armas – Blonde
Mia Goth – Pearl
Andrea Riseborough – To Leslie
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
Mark Rylance – Bones and All

Best Supporting Actress

Hong Chau – The Whale
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

After Yang
Bones and All
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Women Talking

Best Original Score

Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
RRR

Best Editing

Aftersun
Babylon
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár

Best Cinematography

Babylon
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Art Direction

After Yang
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Costume Design

Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Corsage
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Northman

Best Use of Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Foreign Language Film

Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths
Close
Decision to Leave
Happening
RRR
Saint Omer

Best Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Descendant
Fire of Love
Moonage Daydream

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