Year-in Awards 2022

3^rd annual Year-in Awards

At last, weeks after the Academy Awards, we’re delivering on our curated list. To be fair and honest, the Year-In Awards are fairly expansive, listing each genre as best as we can—unless there’s simply not any solid films in a genre that year.

Moving forward we we’re able to add-upon the 2^nd annual list and added such things as: Best Childhood Actor, Romance (Genre). Alongside other small corrections or additions. It has been a different year in film, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted production schedules, and we’ve had to mention that many times within reviews, luckily we’re moving past that.

While we’d love to continue to tell you what changed or has been added, we could’ve… We’ll just present the list for 2022, the 3^rd is quite an achievement!

Who are the winners for 2022? Find out below.

Best Picture:

WINNER: After Yang (Kogonada)

Contenders:

The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)

Best Director:

WINNER: Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Contenders:

Robert Eggers (The Northman)

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Actor:

WINNER: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Contenders:

Colin Farrell (After Yang/ The Banshees of Inisherin)

Brendan Gleeson  (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Best Actress:

WINNER: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Contenders:

Hong Chau (The Whale)

Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice)
 

Best Childhood Actor/Actress:

WINNER: Sadie Sink (The Whale/Dear Zoe)

Contenders:

Violet McGraw (M3GAN)

Mason Thames (The Black Phone)

Best Production & Style:

WINNER: The Fabelmans

Contenders:

The Northman

Babylon

Best Editing:

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Contenders:

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Black Phone

Best Special Effects:

WINNER: Avatar: The Way of Water

Contenders:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Tragedy of Macbeth


Best Costuming:

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front

Contenders:

Babylon

The Whale

Best Sound/Music:

WINNER: Babylon

Contenders:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Northman
 

Expected Standout

Winner: Turning Red

Contenders:

The Northman

Nightmare Alley

Underdog

Winner: The Fallout

Contenders:

The Sea Beast

Sundown
 

Best in its Genre:

Action

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Contenders:

Bullet Train

Jolt

Adventure

WINNER: The Sea Beast

Contenders:

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Animation

WINNER: Turning Red

Contenders:

The Sea Beast

Wendell & Wild

Comedy

WINNER: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Contenders:

Bullet Train

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Crime

WINNER: Nightmare Alley

Contenders:

The Good Nurse

The Outfit

Drama

WINNER: After Yang

Contenders:

The Fallout

The Novice

Family

WINNER: The Sky is Everywhere

Contenders:

The Adam Project

Slumberland

Fantasy

WINNER: Wendell & Wild

Contenders:

Avatar: The Way of Water

Slumberland

Historical

WINNER: The Northman

Contenders:

Against the Ice

The Woman King

Horror

WINNER: The Black Phone

Contenders:

M3GAN

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Musical

WINNER: Spirited

Contenders:

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Cyrano

Romance

WINNER: Ali & Ava

Contenders:

Lotawana

I Want You Back

Sci-Fi

WINNER: Avatar: The Way of Water

Contenders:

M3GAN

Black Crab


Sports

WINNER: Hustle

Contenders:

The Swimmers

The Novice

Thriller

WINNER: Nightmare Alley

Contenders:

The Outfit

The Black Phone

War

WINNER: All Quiet on the Western Front

Contenders:

Operation Mincemeat

Narvik

Western

WINNER: Nope

Contenders:

Dog

Gold

Thanks for reading the list, as always we hope you enjoyed and agree with most of these choices! Perhaps you haven’t seen some of these and are able to go back and watch them.

Certain picks were technically released in 2021, but are included due to only appearing at film festivals before 2022.

The Year-In list won’t be edited after this publishing even if we might’ve missed a film that would’ve been included.

On to 2023!