2022 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards

The 7th Seattle Film Critics Society Awards were announced on January 17, 2023.

The nominations were announced on January 9, 2023, with Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the nominations with fourteen, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin with nine and Top Gun: Maverick with eight.

Everything Everywhere All at Once received the most awards with four wins, including Best Picture and Best Director, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin with three.

The awards were dedicated this year to Sheila Benson (Los Angeles Times) and John Hartl (The Seattle Times), two of the "finest" film critics to live and work in the Pacific Northwest. After her retirement from the Los Angeles Times in 1991, Benson wrote for several print publications and websites, at both the local and national level, while Hartl was a Seattle icon who spent his entire 52-year career writing for The Seattle Times. They will be missed for their "incisive contributions, as well as their warm and wise camaraderie at press screenings and festival events".

This year, a new category—Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking—was added to specifically honor Pacific Northwest filmmaking. The award is meant to celebrate the many talented filmmakers who call the region home and who produce work there. A nominating committee carefully considered a wide variety of feature films released during 2022 with strong connections to the region and selected five finalists. The winner was determined by a vote of the full membership and announced alongside the SFCS's other awards on January 17, 2023; the nominees were announced via YouTube on December 5, 2022.

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Best Director winners

Colin Farrell, Best Actor in a Leading Role winner

Cate Blanchett, Best Actress in a Leading Role and Villain of the Year winner

Ke Huy Quan, Best Actor in a Supporting Role winner

Kerry Condon, Best Supporting Actress winner

Martin McDonagh, Best Screenplay winner

Catherine Martin, Best Costume Design winner

Justin Hurwitz, Best Original Score winner

Park Chan-wook, Best International Film winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold

Aftersun (A24) The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV+) Decision to Leave (MUBI) The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) Nope (Universal Pictures) Tár (Focus Features) Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) | Best Director Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field – Tár Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin Charlotte Wells – Aftersun | | Best Actor in a Leading Role Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin

Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Calum Paterson | Best Actress in a Leading Role Cate Blanchett – Tár as Lydia Tár

Danielle Deadwyler – Till as Mamie Till-Mobley Mia Goth – Pearl as Pearl Margot Robbie – Babylon as Nellie LaRoy Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang | | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang

Paul Dano – The Fabelmans as Burt Fabelman Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway as James Aucoin Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Helen Brand / Cassandra "Andi" Brand Keke Palmer – Nope as Emerald "Em" Haywood | | Best Ensemble Cast Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bret Howe and Mary Vernieu, casting directors

The Banshees of Inisherin – Louise Kiely, casting director Everything Everywhere All at Once – Sarah Halley Finn, casting director Top Gun: Maverick – Denise Chamian, casting director Women Talking – John Buchan and Jason Knight, casting directors | Best Action Choreography RRR

Avatar: The Way of Water Everything Everywhere All at Once The Northman Top Gun: Maverick | | Best Screenplay The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh

Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson Tár – Todd Field | Best Animated Feature Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp, director

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, directors Mad God – Phil Tippett, director Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Joel Crawford, director; Januel Mercado, co-director Turning Red – Domee Shi, director | | Best Documentary Feature Fire of Love – Sara Dosa, director

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, director Good Night Oppy – Ryan White, director Navalny – Daniel Roher, director Sweetheart Deal – Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller, directors | Best International Film Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, director

All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, director EO – Jerzy Skolimowski, director RRR – S. S. Rajamouli, director Saint Omer – Alice Diop, director | | Best Cinematography Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda

Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter Decision to Leave – Kim Ji-yong Everything Everywhere All at Once – Larkin Seiple Nope – Hoyte van Hoytema | Best Costume Design Elvis – Catherine Martin

Babylon – Mary Zophres Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth E. Carter Everything Everywhere All at Once – Shirley Kurata The Northman – Linda Muir | | Best Film Editing Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers

Aftersun – Blair McClendon Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-beom Tár – Monika Willi Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton | Best Original Score Babylon – Justin Hurwitz

The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell The Batman – Michael Giacchino The Fabelmans – John Williams Nope – Michael Abels | | Best Production Design Babylon – Florencia Martin (Production Design); Anthony Carlino (Set Decoration)

Elvis – Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (Production Design); Bev Dunn (Set Decoration) Everything Everywhere All at Once – Jason Kisvarday (Production Design); Kelsi Ephraim (Set Decoration) The Northman – Craig Lathrop (Production Design); Niamh Coulter (Set Decoration) White Noise – Jess Gonchor (Production Design); Claire Kaufman (Set Decoration) | Best Visual Effects Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett

Everything Everywhere All at Once – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, and Jeff Desom Nope – Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan, and Scott R. Fisher RRR – Srinivas Mohan, Pete Draper, and Daniel French Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, and Bryan Litson | | Best Youth Performance Frankie Corio – Aftersun as Sophie Paterson

Vanessa Burghardt – Cha Cha Real Smooth as Lola Anna Cobb – We're All Going to the World's Fair as Casey Eden Dambrine – Close as Léo Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time as Paul Graff | Villain of the Year Lydia Tár – Tár (portrayed by Cate Blanchett)

Jean Jacket – Nope Pearl – X / Pearl (portrayed by Mia Goth) The Riddler / Edward Nashton – The Batman (portrayed by Paul Dano) Jobu Tupaki – Everything Everywhere All at Once (portrayed by Stephanie Hsu) | | Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking Sweetheart Deal (Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller's deeply moving portrait of sex workers on Seattle's Aurora Avenue seeking salvation from the spiral of addiction)

All Sorts (J. Rick Castañeda's absurdist office comedy set in the secret world of underground filing) Kimi (Steven Soderbergh's Seattle-set thriller starring Zoë Kravitz as an agoraphobic computer programmer enmeshed in a corporate scandal) Know Your Place (Zia Mohajerjasbi's slice of life drama about two teens traversing present-day Seattle) Sam Now (Reed Harkness's 25-years in the making story of brothers on a 2,000-mile road trip to solve a family mystery) | |

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