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The Films of 2022. The 23rd annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS - YOU ARE HERE | SPECIAL | SCENES

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AND THE NOMINEES ARE...

Breakthrough Performer This is not strictly an acting award. The basic criteria is being a) early in movie career and b) making us immediately want to see them in something else soon! (Note: Actors are not eligible for this category if they are nominated in one of the four traditional acting categories) discuss

Diego Calva BABYLON	Stephanie Hsu EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE	Aamu Milonoff GIRL PICTURE	Brandon Perea NOPE	Bella Ramsey CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY
Holds his own with superstars with intent and skill. And that face! Made for the movies	Funny, sad, silly, charismatic and great fun to watch in her insane dual role	Captivating. We're eager to see her stretch her acting muscles. C'mon European casting directors!	In a film full of charisma machines, he manages to steal focus anyway. Can't wait for more	Wickedly smart, great comic timing without sacrificing dramatic beats, and a joy to watch

Finalists: Gabriel Labelle brings young Spielberg to life in The Fabelmans, Eleonoora Kauhanen & Linnea Leino the other two thirds of the charismatic trio from Girl Picture (perhaps I should have cheated and included them all as one?), Anamaria Vartolomei is bewitching and marvelous as the protagonist of Happening. What a find! And finally Felix Kamerrer who is compelling as the focal point of All Quiet on the Western Front Semi Finalists: Tenoch Huerta Mejia grabs attention and raises alarm bells with fierce power in Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Daryl McCormack holds his own with genius Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You Leo Grande, and Amber Midhunter carries Prey through exciting skirmish after exciting skirmish

Best Actress in a Limited Performance or Cameo Role discuss

Sara Fazilat "Zinab" HOLY SPIDER	Shirley Henderson "Agatha Christie" SEE HOW THEY RUN	Samantha Morton "Zelda Perkins" SHE SAID	Anna Mougalis "Mme Riviere" HAPPENING	Lia Williams "Edith Sitwell" BENEDICTION
Completely catches you, and the Spider Killer off guard with her brazen spirit	A "dessert" if you will. Something sweet (but feisty) with your tea near movie's end	A pure shock of righteous anger. You can feel the years she's sat with it, waiting to tell stories	Frightfully brusque and impersonal -- but then you'd have to be -- doing this illegal work	"Deeply wounded" and highly amusing as a pretentious poet/performer friend of Siegfried's

Finalists: Sima Seyed filled with grief as "Gohra" in Holy Spider, Ariana Nazari disturbingly broken and lost as "?" in Holy Spider, Jeannie Berlin is a potent grandmother presence as "Hadassah Fabelman" in The Fabelmans Semi-Finalists: Olivia Hamilton controls the set as "Ruth Adler" in Babylon though even she isn't prepared for the sea change of sound, Jane Adams is delightful as hippie "Tamara" in Dog, Isabelle Laughlan is a welcome presence as "Becky" meeting an old school teacher in Good Luck to You Leo Grande, and Lihi Kornowski is haunting as "Djuna" in Crimes of the Future

Best Actor in a Limited Performance or Cameo Role discuss

Louis-do de Lencquesaing "Andre" RETURN TO SEOUL	Julian Glover "Andris Davis" TAR	Judd Hirsch "Uncle Boris" THE FABELMANS	David Lynch "John Ford" THE FABELMANS	Tyler Merritt "Shamus" THE INSPECTION
Magnetic as an arms dealer sizing up Frederique... but for what?	Amusing and over and above it as TAR's retired mentor	He packs gestural punch as a circus man imparting lessons	Eccentric and potent as the legendary filmmaker. What a note to end on!	Warm knowing and protective as an elder gay saying goodbye to French

Finalists: PJ Byrne is always a treat and he's delightfully on the verge of a breakdown as "Ruth's AD" in Babylon, Tobey Maguire over the top but with rotting purpose as "James McKay" in Babylon Semi Finalists: Bowen Yang as "Lawrence Grape" in Bros, Kelvin Harrison as "B.B. King" in Elvis, John Magaro as "Detective Chilmark" in Call Jane, Willem Dafoe as "Heimer the Fool" in The Northman, and Anthony Hopkins as "Peter's Father" in The Son

Best Vocal Only or MoCap Performance (new category - 3 nominees per year) discuss

	Lee Eddy "Mom" APOLLO 10½ : A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD	Wagner Moura "Death/Wolf" PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH	Jenny Slate "Marcel" MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
	Serving 70s mom realness, complete with guilt trips and deadpan comedy	Wickedly intimidating - pitched just right to give your child nightmares.	Still a marvelously realized character. Funny/sad... but sorta self-aware.

Finalists: Isabella Rosselini as "Connie" in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. That accent comes all the way from the garage! Semi Finalists: Antonio Banderas as "Puss" in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Miranda July as "Narrator" in Fire of Love, Zoe Saldana as "Neytiri" in Avatar: The Way of Water, Tilda Swinton as "Wood Sprite / Death " in Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Harvey Guillen as "Perrito" in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Angela Bassett as "Narrator" Good Night Oppy,

Best Juvenile Performance (Under 18)

Evan Assante "David" CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH	Catherine Clinch "Cait" THE QUIET GIRL	Frankie Corio "Sophie" AFTERSUN	Eden Dambrine "Léo" CLOSE	Gustav de Waele "Remi" CLOSE
Intuitive and thoughtful and heartbreakingly young when it comes to how he perceives his brother	The Quiet Girl's beautiful construction rests on her unique blend of anxiousness and calm	Deftly handles the complexities of a young girl just starting to think of her father as a full person	Much of the film's power rests on the gradations (and confusion) of his feelings. Assured work	A perfect screen partner to Dambrine. Their friendship and his anxiety feels heartbreakingly authentic

Finalists: Grace Jenkins precocious and a screen natural as "Trixie" in Deep Water, Jalyn Hall sweet and confident as "Emmett Till" in Till, and Mason Thames carrying Black Phone with ease as resourceful "Finney Blake" in Black Phone - he doesn't prove an easy victim. Semi Finalists: Banks Repeta as "Paul Graff" in Armageddon Time, Maya Vanderbeque & Gunter Duret as "Nora and Abel" in Playground, and Jaylin Webb as "Johnny Davis" in Armageddon Time

Best Ensemble Performance discuss

ARMAGEDDON TIME	THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN	EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE	FIRE ISLAND	TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Hathaway Hopkins Strong Repeta Webb Chastain etc... Surprisingly potent family dynamics, how far apart people can feel even in the same crowded house. Plus the power dynamics!	Farrell Condon Keoghan Gleeson Shortt Neachtain etc... All of them on the McDonagh wavelength and believably inside the tiny island world even if they chafe against it	Yeoh Quan Curtis Hsu Wong Shum Jr etc... Exciting interpseronal dynamics, while giving each core member room for siloed eccentricites. Cohensive within the chaos!	Yang Ricamora Booster Cho Scully Rogers etc... Found family chemistry without feeling sealed off and perfectly volleyed punchlines. Such warmth, wit, fun, and feeling.	De Leon Dickinson Buric Dean Berlin Eriksson etc... While Dolly De Leon was corectly singled out as Best in Show, this is a lot of actors deeply invested and sparking off the material

Finalists: Glass Onion and The Fabelmans both feature stellar performances (though some shine more than others) as well as some interesting duet chemistries within the group Semi-Finalists: *The Menu, Downton Abbey: A New Era, Benediction, The Woman King,* and Babylon

Best Casting discuss

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH Angela Demo	FIRE ISLAND Jessica Munks	EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sarah Finn	THE MENU Bret Howe & Mary Vernieu	TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Paula Hansson
Smart casting all around from sturdy comic support, to child finds, through to Dakota & Raul	Believable 'found family' dynamics and comic gifts abound. Bonus points: lots of authentic queer casting	For its core family dynamics, and ingenious deployments of two screen legends	An interesting and electric justright hodgepodge of stars and excellent character actors	A wide net cast found buried treasures and a game ensemble to work out the satire

Finalists: The discoveries of *Girl Picture* from Minna Sorvoja, The Banshees of Inisherin - Farrell & Gleeson were givesn but Louise Kiely fills out the island with so many authentic character actors and memorable faces, TÁR- A well populated rarified classical realm from the team of Simone Bar, Avy Kaufman, Jeremy Zimmermann Semi Finalists: *Benediction* - Lucy Rands, Emily the Criminal - Chelsea Ellis Bloch & Marisol Roncali, *Happening* - Elodie Demey, and *She Said* - Francine Maisler

BEST STUNTS / STUNT TEAMS

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE	THE NORTHMAN	RRR	TOP GUN MAVERICK	THE WOMAN KING
Looney tunes violence... now with more butt plugs!	Viking brutalism writ large	Cartoonish enjoyable boisterous heroics	Aerial wonders with the need ... the need for speed	Running leaps, lethal jabs, and warrior collisions

Finalists: Road rage insanity in AmbuLAnce -- even the camera thinks its a stuntman!, and the mo-capped Navi vs human action thrills of Avatar: The Way of Water Semi Finalists: Nope, The Batman, All Quiet on the Western Front, Prey , and Black Panther Wakanda Forever

The Films of 2022. The 23rd annual FiLM BiTCH Awards

PICTURE | ACTING | VISUALS | AURALS | EXTRAS - YOU ARE HERE | SPECIAL | SCENES

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