by Nathaniel R
We've reached the portion of film critics awards season where the groupthink is really kicking in despite a plethora of options avaiable to voters. I don't blame the critics groups so much as the process. Critics groups tend to be a lot more interesting if they all vote in a room together on winners (where they can discuss) than they do when they name nominations and do simple vote counts... you're bound to end up less adventurous with the second system. There is shockingly little variation in the winners from Chicago, Boston (Online) and Phoenix. The three latest groups to announce have the exact same winners for Picture (Banshees) Director (EEAAO), Actress (Blanchett), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Screenplay (Banshees), Score (Babylon), and Animated Feature (Pinocchio). There is no single category in which all three groups have a different winner....
CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (CFCA)
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Colin Farrell, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER Austin Butler, Elvis
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Women Talking
CINEMATOGRAPHY Decision to Leave
ART DIRECTION Everything Everywhere All At Once
COSTUME DESIGN Everything Everywhere All At Once
EDITING Everything Everywhere All At Once
USE OF VISUAL FX Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCORE Babylon
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
DOCUMENTARY Fire of Love
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM Decision to Leave
BOSTON ONLINE FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (BOFCA)
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
Their complete top ten is as follows
- Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere
- The Fabelmans
- Aftersun
- TÁR
- Top Gun Maverick
- Decision to Leave
- Nope
- Crimes of the Future
- Glass Onion
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Colin Farrell, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Kerry Condon, Banshees of Inisherin
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
CINEMATOGRAPHY Top Gun Maverick
EDITING Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCORE Babylon
ENSEMBLE Glass Onion
DOCUMENTARY All The Beauty and the Bloodshed
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM Decision to Leave
PHOENIX CRITICS CIRCLE (PCC)
Though they share no members with the Boston group their eight major categories were identical but for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress
PICTURE The Banshees of Inisherin
DIRECTOR Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TÁR
ACTOR Brendan Fraser, The Whale
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Keke Palmer, Nope
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
SCREENPLAY Banshees of Inisherin
CINEMATOGRAPHY Top Gun Maverick
SCORE Babylon
COMEDY Glass Onion
SCI-FI Everything Everywhere
HORROR Barbarian
DOCUMENTARY Fire of Love
ANIMATED FEATURE Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
INTERNATIONAL FILM RRR