by Nathaniel R

The Atlanta Film Critics have announced their winners for the 2022 film year with Everything Everywhere All At Once the big takeaway with 3 prizes (Film, Director, Supporting Actor). They agreed with the venerable NYFCC on 3 of the 4 performance awards though it's far too soon into the season to know if we have "critical sweeps" on our hands with Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, or Ke Huy Quan. The AFCC winners are after the jump...

BEST FILM  Everything Everywhere All At Once

They also do a top ten list and this year that's the following films

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once                       
2. The Fabelmans  
3. The Banshees of Inisherin                                                
4. Tár                                                          
5. RRR                                                              
6. Top Gun: Maverick                                        
7. Decision to Leave                                           
8. Women Talking                                              
9. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery               
10. Nope                                                              

BEST LEAD ACTOR: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST LEAD ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, Tár                       

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once                    

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Janelle Monae, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 

 She's second only to Daniel Craig in screen time in this ensemble comedy so between this and NYFCC's supporting award to leading lady Keke Palmer in Nope and Sunset Circle's supporting award to leading lady Carey Mulligan in She Said, critics groups are declaring war on smaller roles this year. At least so far. We'll see if this continues or if this is just a weird coincidence at the start of the season. 

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery                                  

BEST DIRECTOR: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once                       

BEST SCREENPLAY: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin                       

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Fire of Love                                      

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: RRR (India)                  

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio   

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick        

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Michael Giacchino, The Batman         

BEST STUNT WORK: Top Gun: Maverick                                      

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: Austin Butler, Elvis                   

BEST FIRST FEATURE FILM: Charlotte Wells,  Aftersun   

In short, a big FYC for Glass Onion,  expected praise for Everything Everywhere All At Once  (which everyone knew would do well in the critics portion of the season), and another notch in Top Gun Maverick's Best Cinematography belt. While the film is handsome looking and we've been predicting it in the category for awhile now, we can't say we expected critics to think of it as the best shot film of the year. 

Is there anything here that surprises you?