The Indiana Film Journalists Association has voted Everything Everywhere All at Once as the Best Film of 2022. The fantasy / comedy / drama centered on a Chinese-American woman fighting a multi-dimensional battle won a total of four honors, including Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Performance, Paul Rogers for Best Editing and the Original Vision Award, which recognizes a film that is especially distinct and innovative.
Indian action / musical RRR was the runner-up for Best Film and also won Best Foreign Language Film and the new category of Best Stunt / Movement Choreography.
Eight other films were voted Finalists for Best Film. Along with the winner and runner-up, they represent the IFJA’s selection as the top 10 movies of the year.
Cate Blanchett won Best Lead Performance playing a complex, abusive musical director in TÁR. For the first time, IFJA has combined its leading and supporting acting awards into single gender-neutral categories.
TÁR also earned Best Director and Best Original Screenplay awards for Todd Field.
Sarah Polley won the Best Adapted Screenplay award for Women Talking, which was also recognized for Best Ensemble Acting.
Best Animated Film went to Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, which also took the Best Vocal / Motion Capture Performance award for Jenny Slate. In the Best Documentary category, Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There took the top prize.
Charlotte Wells took Breakout of the Year honors for her mature, layered debut as the writer-director of Aftersun. Michael Giacchino earned Best Musical Score for The Batman. Hoyte Van Hoytema won Best Cinematography for Nope.
The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award, which goes to a film or filmmaker with Indiana ties, went to Joshua Hull, co-writer of the horror film Glorious.
IFJA members issued this statement for the Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award:
“Joshua Hull is the rare Hoosier filmmaker who proved you don’t have to leave Indiana to make movies. He’s seen his career rise steadily as a writer, director and producer with local productions like Chopping Block. With the release of Glorious on the Shudder streaming platform, Hull has broken out with mainstream success in a highly inventive film that blurs the line between horror, fantasy and character study. The IFJA looks forward eagerly to his next efforts.”
In addition to the winner, IFJA recognizes a runner-up in each category (with one exception, noted below). Here is a complete list:
BEST FILM
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Runner-Up: RRR
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Runner-Up: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: RRR
Runner-Up: Decision to Leave
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: I Didn’t See You There
Runner-Up: Bad Axe
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Todd Field, TÁR
Runner-Up: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Runner-Up: Kogonada, After Yang
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Todd Field, TÁR
Runner-Up: Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Winner: Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Runner-Up: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Winner: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Runner-Up: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST VOCAL / MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Winner: Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Runner-Up: Isabella Rossellini, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Winner: Women Talking
Runner-Up: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Winner: Michael Giacchino, The Batman
Runner-Up: M.M. Keeravani, RRR
BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Charlotte Wells (writer-director), Aftersun
Runner-Up: Jane Schoenbrun (writer-director), We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope
Runner-Up: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
BEST EDITING
Winner: Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Runner-Up: Kim Sang-bum, Decision to Leave
BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Winner: Vicky Arora (action design and weapons trainer / stunt coordinator) and Raicho Vasilev (fight choreographer / stunt coordinator), and Prem Rakshith (dance choreographer), RRR
Runner-Up: Daniel Hernandez (stunt coordinator / fight coordinator), Grant Powell (stunt coordinator) and Jénel Stevens (fight choreographer), The Woman King
ORIGINAL VISION AWARD
Winner: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Runner-Up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
EDWARD JOHNSON-OTT HOOSIER AWARD
Winner: Joshua Hull, Glorious
(As a special honor named after IFJA founding member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott, no runner-up is named in this category.)
About IFJA: The Indiana Film Journalists Association was established in 2009 to celebrate cinema and promote quality film criticism in the Hoosier State. To be eligible, a film must have played theatrically in Indiana during the current calendar year, screened to IFJA critics in advance of a following year general release date, or play in a major Indiana film festival.
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