Hawaiʻi Film Critics Society

HFCS Best of 2022 Nominees

BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
The Menu
Babylon
TÁR

BEST DIRECTOR:
The Daniels, Everything Everywhere all At Once
Todd Field, TÁR
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Damien Chazelle, Babylon
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

BEST ACTOR
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Austin Butler, Elvis
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu
Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ACTRESS
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu
Mia Goth, Pearl

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Colin Farrell, The Batman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jean Smart, Babylon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Everything Everywhere All at Once **
The Banshees of Inisherin

The Menu
TÁR
The Fabelmans

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Women Talking
Top Gun: Maverick
She Said
The Whale
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery*

BEST ART DIRECTION
Babylon
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
Avatar: The Way of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon Everything Everywhere All at Once
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Fabelmans

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
*Babylon
Top Gun: Maverick *

*Everything Everywhere All at Once *

TÁR

*Avatar: The Way of Water *

BEST EDITING:

*Everything Everywhere All at Once *

*Top Gun: Maverick *

*Babylon *

*Elvis *

*Avatar: The Way of Water *

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

*The Bad Guys *

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish **
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

*"Sr." (dir. Chris Smith)
Good Night Oppy (dir. Ryan White)
Fire of Love *(dir. Sara Dosa)

*Three Minutes: A Lengthening *(dir. Bianca Stigter)

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (dir. Laura Poitras)

BEST MAKE-UP:

***The Batman ***

***The Whale ***

***Elvis ***

Babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SOUND:

*Top Gun: Maverick **
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis *

RRR **
The Fabelmans

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Babylon

*Avatar: The Way of Water *

*The Batman *

The Banshees of Inisherin **
Women Talking

BEST SONG:

"Lift Me Up" (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
"Ciao Papa" (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)
"Naatu Naatu (Telugu)" (RRR)
"Hold My Hand" (Top Gun: Maverick)
"This Is A Life" (Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

*Avatar: The Way of Water **
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever *

*Everything Everywhere All at Once *

BEST STUNT WORK:

*Top Gun: Maverick **
RRR
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Avatar: The Way of Water *

*Everything Everywhere All at Once *

BEST NEW FILMMAKER:

John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal

Charlotte Wells, Aftersun
Elegance Bratton, The Inspection

Lee Jung-jae, Hunt

Carlota Pereda, Piggy

BEST FIRST FILM:

Aftersun

Turning Red

Hunt

The Bad Guys

The Bob's Burgers Movie

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM:

After Yang

*The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent *

*The Outfit *

Emily the Criminal **
Zero Fucks Given

BEST VOCAL/MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE:

Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water

Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Antonio Banderas, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Zazie Beetz, The Bad Guys

Rosalie Chiang, Turning Red

BEST HORROR FILM:
*Pearl
The Black Phone *

*Barbarian *

*Smile *

*Terrifier 2 *

BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE:

*Black Panther: Wakanda
The Batman
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Black Adam *

*DC League of Super-Pets *

BEST SCI-FI FILM:

***Everything Everywhere All at Once ***

***Nope ***

***Prey ***

Lightyear

***Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ***

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

RRR *(India)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Decision To Leave (South Korea)
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth* (Mexico)*
Argentina, 1985 *(Argentina)

BEST HAWAIIAN FILM
The Wind and the Reckoning (dir. David L. Cunningham) (Hawaii)
Waterman (dir. Isaac Halasima) (Oahu)
Cane Fire (dir. Anthony Banua-Simon) (Kauai)
Ala Moana Boys (dir. Keli'i Grace) (Oahu)
Last Hawaiian Sugar (dir. Deja Bernhardt) (Maui)

WORST FILM OF 2022:
Blonde
Morbius
Firestarter
The 355
Thor: Love and Thunder