Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the North Dakota Film Society!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The winners will be announced on January 16th!

Best Picture
AFTERSUN – Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, producers (A24)
BABYLON – Olivia Hamilton, Marc Platt, Matt Plouffe, producers (Paramount Pictures)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh, producers (Searchlight Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, producers (A24)
TÁR – Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, producers (Focus Features)

Best Director
Todd Field – TÁR (Focus Features)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24)
Martin McDonagh – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight Pictures)
Steven Spielberg – THE FABELMANS (Universal Pictures)
Charlotte Wells – AFTERSUN (A24)

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett – TÁR (Focus Features)
Mia Goth – PEARL (A24)
Margot Robbie – BABYLON (Paramount Pictures)
Taylor Russell – BONES AND ALL (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Michelle Yeoh – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24)

Best Actor
Austin Butler – ELVIS (Warner Bros.)
Colin Farrell – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight Pictures)
Brendan Fraser – THE WHALE (A24)
Felix Kammerer – ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Netflix)
Paul Mescal – AFTERSUN (A24)

Best Supporting Actress
Hong Chau – THE WHALE (A24)
Kerry Condon – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight Pictures)
Jamie Lee Curtis – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24)
Dolly De Leon – TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Neon)
Nina Hoss – TÁR (Focus Features)

Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight Pictures)
Barry Keoghan – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Searchlight Pictures)
Rory Kinnear – MEN (A24)
Ke Huy Quan – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24)
Mark Rylance – BONES AND ALL (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Best Screenplay
AFTERSUN – Charlotte Wells (A24)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Martin McDonagh (Searchlight Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (A24)
THE FABELMANS – Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg (Universal Pictures)
TÁR – Todd Field (Focus Features)

Best Production Design
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Dylan Cole, Vanessa Cole, Ben Procter (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON – Anthony Carlino, Florencia Martin (Paramount Pictures)
ELVIS – Bev Dunn, Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy (Warner Bros.)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Kelsi Ephraim, Jason Isvarday (A24)
THE NORTHMAN – Niamh Coulter, Craig Lathrop (Focus Features)

Best Cinematography
AFTERSUN – Gregory Oke (A24)
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – James Friend (Netflix)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Ben Davis (Searchlight Pictures)
TÁR – Florian Hoffmeister (Focus Features)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Claudio Miranda (Paramount Pictures)

Best Film Editing
AFTERSUN – Blair McClendon (A24)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen (Searchlight Pictures)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Paul Rogers (A24)
TÁR – Monika Willi (Focus Features)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures)

Best Visual Effects
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Muller, Frank Petzold (Netflix)
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon (20th Century Studios)
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Benjamin Brewer, Jeff Desom, Ethan Feldbau, Zak Stoltz (A24)
NOPE – Scott R. Fisher, Jeremy Robert, Guillaume Rocheron, Sreejith Venugopalan (Universal Pictures)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope (Paramount Pictures)

Best Sound
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Viktor Prášil (Netflix)
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Chris Boyes, Mike Hedges, Julian Howarth, Tony Johnson, Gary Summers, Gwen Whittle (20th Century Studios)
BABYLON – Ai-Ling Lee, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Steven Morrow, Andy Nelson (Paramount Pictures)
TÁR – Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke (Focus Features)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten (Paramount Pictures)

Best Costume Design
BABYLON – Mary Zophres (Paramount Pictures)
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Ruth E. Carter (Marvel Studios)
CORSAGE – Monika Buttinger (IFC Films)
DON’T WORRY DARLING – Arianne Phillips (Warner Bros.)
ELVIS – Catherine Martin (Warner Bros.)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Heike Merker (Netflix)
BABYLON – Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Heba Thorisdottir (Paramount Pictures)
ELVIS – Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas (Warner Bros.)
THE WHALE – Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot (A24)
X – Sarah Rubano (A24)

Best Original Score
BABYLON – Justin Hurwitz (Paramount Pictures)
BONES AND ALL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
THE FABELMANS – John Williams (Universal Pictures)
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Alexandre Desplat (Netflix)
WOMEN TALKING – Hildur Guðnadóttir (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Best Original Song
“Ciao Papa” Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro – GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO (Netflix)
“Hold My Hand” Bloodpop, Lady Gaga – TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Paramount Pictures)
“Naatu Naatu” Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj – RRR (Variance Films)
“New Body Rhumba” LCD Soundsystem – WHITE NOISE (Netflix)
“(You Made It Feel Like) Home” Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – BONES AND ALL (MGM/United Artists Releasing)

Best International Feature
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Germany
CORSAGE – Austria
DECISION TO LEAVE – South Korea
EO – Poland
THE QUIET GIRL – Ireland

Best Documentary Feature
ALL THAT BREATHES – Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann, Shaunak Sen, producers (HBO Documentary Films/Sideshow)
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED – Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John S. Lyons, Laura Poitras, producers (Neon)
BAD AXE – Jude Harris, Diane-Moy Quon, David Siev, Katarina Vasquez, producers (IFC Films)
FIRE OF LOVE – Shane Boris, Sara Dosa, Ina Fichman, producers (National Geographic Documentary Films/Neon)
MOONAGE DAYDREAM – Brett Morgen, producer (Neon)

Best Animated Feature
APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD – Mike Blizzard, Bruno Felix, Richard Linklater, Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting, producers (Netflix)
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Alexander Bulkley, Corey Campodonico, Lisa Henson, Guillermo del Toro, Gary Ungar, producers (Netflix)
MAD GOD – Phil Tippett, producer (IFC Midnight/Shudder)
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON – Dean Fleischer-Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey, producers (A24)
TURNING RED – Lindsey Collins, producer (Pixar)

The Music City Film Critics Association Honors Everything!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Nashville-based Music City Film Critics Association has announced their picks for the best of 2022! You can check out the nominations by clicking here and you can see the winners below!

Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director
The Daniels – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Young Actor
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans

Best Young Actress
Frankie Corio – Aftersun

Best Acting Ensemble
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Music Film
Elvis

Best Animated Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Documentary
Good Night Oppy

Best International Film
RRR

Best Screenplay
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Song
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR

Best Score
Babylon

Best Sound
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Cinematography
Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Production Design
Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Editing
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Comedy Film
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Horror Film
Nope

Best Action Film
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Stunt Work
Top Gun: Maverick

The Jim Ridley Award
Nicole Kidman – The Northman

Banshees Wins in San Francisco!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle announced their picks for the best of 2022 today! You can check out the nominees by clicking here and you can see the winners below!

Best Picture
“The Banshees of Inisherin”

Honorable Mention: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Director
Todd Field, “TÁR”

Best Original Screenplay
Todd Field, “TÁR”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”

Best Actor
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, “TÁR”

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actress (TIE)
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Best Animated Feature
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

Best International Feature Film
“Decision to Leave”

Best Documentary Feature
“All That Breathes”

Best Cinematography
Florian Hoffmeister, “TÁR”

Best Production Design
Jason Isvarday (production designer), Kelsi Ephraim (set decorator), “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Film Editing
Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Original Score
Hildur Guðnadóttir, “Women Talking”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema
“Emergency”

Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the Seattle Film Critics Society

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The winners will be announced on January 17th!

Best Picture
Aftersun (A24)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Apple TV+)
Decision to Leave (MUBI)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Nope (Universal Pictures)
TÁR (Focus Features)
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)

Best Director
Todd Field – TÁR
Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler – Elvis
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Paul Mescal – Aftersun

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett – TÁR
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Mia Goth – Pearl
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Paul Dano – The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Keke Palmer – Nope

Best Ensemble Cast
The Banshees of Inisherin – Louise Kiely, casting director
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Halley Finn, casting director
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bret Howe, Mary Vernieu, casting directors
Top Gun: Maverick – Denise Chamian, casting director
Women Talking – John Buchan, Jason Knight, casting directors

Best Action Choreography
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Northman
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson
TÁR – Todd Field

Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, directors
Mad God – Phil Tippett, director
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On – Dean Fleischer-Camp, director
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – Joel Crawford, director; Januel Mercado, co-director
Turning Red – Domee Shi, director

Best Documentary Feature
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras, director
Fire of Love – Sara Dosa, director
Good Night Oppy – Ryan White, directors
Navalny – Daniel Roher, director
Sweetheart Deal – Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller, directors

Best Film Not in the English Language
All Quiet on the Western Front – Edward Berger, director
Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, director
EO – Jerzy Skolimowski, director
RRR – S.S. Rajamouli, director
Saint Omer – Alice Diop, director

Best Cinematography
Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter
Decision to Leave – Kim Ji-yong
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Larkin Seiple
Nope – Hoyte van Hoytema
Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda

Best Costume Design
Babylon – Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter
Elvis – Catherine Martin
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Shirley Kurata
The Northman – Linda Muir

Best Film Editing
Aftersun – Blair McClendon
Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-beom
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers
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, 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, Daniel Barrett
Everything Everywhere All At Once – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, Jeff Desom
Nope – Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan, Scott R. Fisher
RRR – Srinivas Mohan, Pete Draper, Daniel French
Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson

Best Youth Performance (18 years of age or younger upon start of filming)
Vanessa Burghardt – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Anna Cobb – We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Eden Dambrine – Close
Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time

Villain of the Year
Jean Jacket – Nope
Jobu Tupaki – Everything Everywhere All At Once – portrayed by Stephanie Hsu
Lydia Tár – TÁR – portrayed by Cate Blanchett
Pearl – X/Pearl, portrayed by Mia Goth
The Riddler/Edward Nashton – The Batman – portrayed by Paul Dano

2022 Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking
All Sorts, J. Rick Castañeda
Kimi, Steven Soderbergh
Know Your Place, Zia Mohajerjasbi
Sam Now, Reed Harkness
Sweetheart Deal, Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller

Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the American Society of Cinematographers

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The American Society of Cinematographers announced their nominees for the best of 2022 today. Because this a guild award (as opposed to an awards from regional critics group), the list below is probably a pretty good guide to which films are actually in the Oscar conversation right now.

Here are the nominees. The winners will be announced on March 5th.

Feature
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC for “Empire of Light” (Searchlight Pictures)
Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS for “The Batman” (Warner Bros.)
Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC for “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Netflix)
Claudio Miranda, ASC for “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount Pictures)
Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS for “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)

Spotlight
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, DFF for “War Sailor” (DCM Film)
Kate McCullough, ISC for “The Quiet Girl” (Super)
Andrew Wheeler for “God’s Country” (IFC Films)

Documentary
Ben Bernhard and Riju Das for “All That Breathes” (HBO/HBO Max)
Adam Bricker for “Chef’s Table: Pizza” – “Franco Pepe” (Netflix)
Wolfgang Held, ASC for “This Stolen Country of Mine”

Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television
Todd Banhazl, ASC for “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” – “The Swan” (HBO/HBO Max)
Jeremy Benning, CSC for “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” – “The Outside” (Netflix)
Anastas Michos, ASC, GSC for “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” – “The Autopsy” (Netflix)
C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC, MySC for “Lost Ollie” – “Bali Hai” (Netflix)
Sean Porter for “The Old Man” – “I” (FX)

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Non-Commercial
John Conroy, ASC, ISC for “Westworld” – “Années Folles” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Catherine Goldschmidt for “House of the Dragon” – “The Lord of the Tides” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Alejandro Martinez for “House of the Dragon” – “The Green Council” (HBO/HBO MAX)
M. David Mullen, ASC for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” – “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” (Prime Video)
Alex Nepomniaschy, ASC for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”– “Everything is Bellmore” (Prime Video)
Nikolaus Summerer for “1899” – “The Calling” (Netflix)

Episode of a One-Hour Television Series – Commercial
Marshall Adams, ASC for “Better Call Saul” – “Saul Gone” (AMC)
Jesse M. Feldman for “Interview With the Vampire” – “Is My Very Nature That of the Devil” (AMC)
Christian “Tico” Herrera, CCR for “Snowfall” – “Departures” (FX)
Jules O’Loughlin, ASC, ACS for “The Old Man” – “IV” (FX)
Jaime Reynoso, AMC for Snowpiercer – “Bound by One Track” (TNT)

Episode of a Half-Hour Television Series
Adam Bricker for “Hacks” – “The Click” (HBO/HBO MAX)
Carl Herse for “Barry” – “Starting Now” (HB0/HBO MAX)
Stephen Murphy BSC, ISC for “Atlanta” – “New Jazz” (FX)
Ula Pontikos, BSC for “Russian Doll” – “Matryoshka” (Netflix)
Christian Sprenger, ASC for “Atlanta” – “Andrew Wyeth. Alfred’s World.” (FX)

Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the Denver Film Critics Society!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Awards season continued today, with the Denver Film Critics Society announcing their nominees for the best of 2022! The winners will be announced on January 16th.

Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Banshees of Inisherin
Women Talking
TAR
RRR

Best Director
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”
James Cameron, “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”

Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Cate Blanchett, “TAR”
Viola Davis, “The Woman King”
Mia Goth, “Pearl”
Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Austin Butler, “Elvis”
Ralph Fiennes, “The Menu”
Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

Best Supporting Actress
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Hong Chau, “The Whale”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Ben Whishaw, “Women Talking”
Judd Hirsch, “The Fabelmans”
Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

Best Sci-Fi/Horror
Nope
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Menu
Pearl
Barbarian

Best Animated Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Turning Red
The Bad Guys
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Comedy
The Banshees of Inisherin
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Menu
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Best Visual FX
Avatar: The Way of Water
Top Gun: Maverick
RRR
Nope
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Todd Field, “TAR”
Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”
Seth Reiss, Will Tracy, “The Menu”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”
Rian Johnson, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Rebecca Lenkewicz, “She Said”
David Kajganich “Bones and All”
Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

Best Documentary
Good Night Oppy
Fire of Love
Wildcat
Moonage Daydream
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Best Original Song
“Naatu Naatu,” “RRR”
“Hold My Hand,” “Top Gun: Maverick”
“Lift Me Up,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Ciao Papa,” “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“This Is a Life,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Score
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
The Fabelmans
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Foreign Language Film
RRR
All Quiet on the Western Front
EO
Close
Decision to Leave

Dark Future (1994, directed by Greydon Clark)

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Jedadiah Leland

This future is really dark.

A mysterious plague wiped out most of humanity and a group of fascist cyborgs took over. (They actually prefer to be called Synthetics but everyone knows that they’re actually cyborgs.) The remaining humans were exiled to an abandoned train station that was renamed the Forbidden Zone. In the Forbidden Zone, the human survive as bartenders and sex slaves for their cyborg overlords. If you want to enter or leave the Forbidden Zone, you have to put your hand on one of those balls of lightning that people used to buy at Spencer’s Gifts.

The humans have been told that they are all sterile, which is one reason why they are willing to accept living in such a dark future. When a baby is born in the Forbidden Zone, it blows up the sterility myth. Kendall (Darby Hinton, who co-wrote the script and who is best remembered for starring in Andy Sidaris’s Malibu Express) is a bartender who tries to protect the baby while rallying the other humans to rise up against the ~~cyborgs~~ Synthetics. The Synthetics want that baby for their own incoherent reasons. War breaks out between man and the half-machines.

Even by the normal standards of director Greydon Clark, this is low budget nonsense. The action’s slow, the story is incoherent, the acting is bad, you get the idea. There are a lot of scenes of people standing around fires that have been lit in barrels. There’s so many barrels on fire that the Forbidden Zone should have burned down years ago. Also, why is it called the Forbidden Zone when anyone can enter it whenever they want to? The humans aren’t allowed to leave the train station/night club/brothel so it seems like the rest of the world should be called the Forbidden Zone. The future is dark and not easily understood. So is this movie.

Humanity’s only hope, Kendall

Retro Television Reviews: Hang Time 3.9 “Not a D’Amata” and 3.10 “Kristy’s Other Mother”

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Mondays, I will be reviewing Hang Time, which ran on NBC from 1995 to 2000. The entire show is currently streaming on YouTube!

The Tornadoes go to California! But first, we have to sit through some crap about Vince and his brother….

Episode 3.9 “Not a D’Amata”

(Directed by Patrick Maloney, originally aired on October 11th, 1997)

It turns out that Vince has a bother named Nick (played by Michael Sullivan’s real-life brother, Billy). Where has Nick been over the past season and a half? He has been in Paris, at music school. When he returns from France, Vince is shocked to discover that Nick has gone from being just like Vince to being someone who wears a beret, speaks fluent French, and writes poetry! Vince is so upset that Nick has switched from being one stereotype to another, he rejects his brother. Fortunately, Michael points out that not everyone is a three-point shooter and not everyone is a …. well, he uses a lot of basketball terms. The important thing is that Vince accepts the new Nick.

(If this episode were made today, it would be about Nick coming out and Vince struggling to accept it. But, since this episode is from 1997, it’s instead about Vince freaking out over Nick wearing a beret.)

While this is going on, Mary Beth and Kristy throw a fund raiser for the library. Apparently, they’re going to raise money by having Coach Fuller throw balls through a basket. Unfortunately, Fuller keeps missing his shots. It looks the library is going to be closed! Fortunately, a real basketball player named Gary Payton shows up and goads Fuller into regaining his confidence. Not being a fan of the game, this whole storyline was weird to me. I just know the audience went crazy whenever anyone threw a basketball.

Episode 3.10 “Kristy’s Other Mother”

(Directed by Don Barnhart, originally aired on October 11th, 1997)

This episode opens with a shot of the Beverly Hills Hotel….

Wait a minute? Isn’t this show set in Indiana?

Well, it turns out that the Tornadoes have been invited to compete in a tournament in Los Angeles and, for some reason, they’re saying at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills. (Remember when Mary Beth spent a thousand dollars on sports bags and was told that she had spent all the money the team had in its annual budget? I imagine flying to California and getting rooms for the entire team at a luxury hotel costs a bit more than a thousand dollars.) Strangely, Kristy accompanies the team to Los Angeles but none of the other cheerleaders come with her. If you’re already wasting all that money on a hotel in Beverly Hills, why not bring the entire school? Seriously, if you’re going to get fired for fiscal incompetence, you might as well go all out.

(How much school are the Tornadoes skipping to go to this tournament?)

It turns out that Kristy has a reason beyond cheerleading to go to California. She wants to meet her birth mother, who turns to be a fabulously wealthy actress who is starring in a movie with Harrison Ford. (No, Harrison Ford does not make an appearance.) Kristy’s mom is like, “Move to California!” but Kristy ultimately decides that she prefers Indiana. Considering what lay head for California, Kristy made the right decision. That said, Kristy’s decision still doesn’t make much sense. What teenager is going to choose small town Indiana over a chance to live with a movie star in Beverly Hills?

Meanwhile, Vince, Danny, and Michael appear on a dating game show that’s being filmed at the hotel. Vince wins a date with a girl other than Mary Beth. Needless to say, Mary Beth is not amused. Wisely, Vince gives her a lot of presents.

This was a pretty silly and fairly mawkish episode but at least the hotel looked nice. This episode was directed by Don Barnhart, who directed several episodes of Saved By The Bell and California Dreams. It also ends with the Tornadoes still in California so I’m guessing this L.A. tournament thing is going to last for a few more episodes. We’ll find out if I’m right next week!

Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the Chicago Indie Critics!

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The official Chicago critics already had their say. Now, it’s tim for the Chicago Indie Critics to announce their nominees for the best of 2022! Winners will be announced on January 23rd!

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM (budgets under $25 million)
AFTERSUN – Producers: Adele Romanski, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins, and Mark Ceryak
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Producers: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Producers: Jonathan Wang, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, and Mike Larocca
WOMEN TALKING – Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Frances McDormand
X – Producers: Jacob Jaffke, Ti West, Kevin Turen, and Harrison Kreiss

BEST STUDIO FILM (budgets over $25 million)
THE FABELMANS – Producers: Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY – Producers: Ram Bergman and Rian Johnson
RRR – Producers: D.V.V. Danayya
TÁR – Producers: Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, and Scott Lambert
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and David Ellison

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BROKER – Producer: Eugene Lee
CLOSE – Producers: Michiel Dhont and Dirk Impens
DECISION TO LEAVE – Producers: Jisun Back, Park Chan-wook, KO Dae-sok
OFFICIAL COMPETITION – Producers: Jaume Roures
RRR – Producer: D.V.V. Danayya

BEST DOCUMENTARY
ALL THE BEAUTY AND BLOODSHED – Producers: Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, Clare Carter, and John Lyons
FIRE OF LOVE – Producers: Shane Boris, Sara Dosa, and Ina Fichman
GOOD NIGHT OPPY – Producers: Brandon Carroll, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Matthew Goldberg, Jessica Hargrave, Stephen Neely, and Ryan White
THE JANES – Producers: Daniel Arcana, Michael Kimbro, Jessica Levin, and Emma Pildes
NAVALNY – Producers: Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, and Shane Boris

BEST ANIMATED FILM
APOLLO 10½: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD – Producers: Richard Linklater, Mike Blizzard, Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Producers: Guillermo del Toro, Lisa Henson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley, and Corey Campodonico
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON – Producers: Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey, Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, and Terry Leonard
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH – Producers: Mark Swift
TURNING RED – Producers: Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky – THE WHALE
Park Chan-wook – DECISION TO LEAVE
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Sarah Polley – WOMEN TALKING
Steven Spielberg – THE FABELMANS

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN – Martin McDonagh
DECISION TO LEAVE – Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
THE FABELMANS – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
TÁR – Todd Field

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
AFTER YANG – Kogonada
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY – Rian Johnson
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Patrick McHale and Guillermo del Toro
THE WHALE – Samuel D. Hunter
WOMEN TALKING – Sarah Polley

BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler – ELVIS
Colin Farrell – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Brendan Fraser – THE WHALE
Jonathan Majors – DEVOTION
Jeremy Pope – THE INSPECTION

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – TÁR
Ana de Armas – BLONDE
Danielle Deadwyler – TILL
Mia Goth – PEARL
Michelle Yeoh – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano – THE FABELMANS
Brendan Gleeson – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Brad Pitt – BABYLON
Ke Huy Quan – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Ben Whishaw – WOMEN TALKING

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Angela Bassett – BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER
Hong Chau – THE WHALE
Kerry Condon – THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Stephanie Hsu – EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Janelle Monáe – GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Casting director: Sarah Halley Finn
THE FABELMANS – Casting director: Cindy Tolan
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY – Casting directors: Brett Howe and Mary Vernieu
THE WOMAN KING – Casting director: Aisha Coley
WOMEN TALKING – Casting directors: Jason Buchan and Jason Knight

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Russell Carpenter
DECISION TO LEAVE – Kim Ji-yong
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Larkin Seiple
RRR – KK Senthil Kumar
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Claudio Miranda

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole
THE BATMAN – James Chinlund and Lee Sandales
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Hannah Beachler and Lisa Sessions Morgan
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Jason Kisvarday and Kelsi Ephraim
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY – Rick Heinrichs and Elli Griff

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Ruth Carter
ELVIS – Catherine Martin
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Shirley Kurata
THE NORTHMAN – Linda Muir
THE WOMAN KING – Gersha Phillips

BEST MAKEUP
THE BATMAN – Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Mike Fontaine
ELVIS – Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, Aldo Signoretti
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Michelle Chung and Anissa Salazar
X – Sarah Rubano
THE WHALE – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley

BEST EDITING
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, and James Cameron
BABYLON – Tom Cross
DECISION TO LEAVE – Kim Sang-beom
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Paul Rodger
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Eddie Hamilton

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
BABYLON – Justin Hurwitz
THE BATMAN – Michael Giacchino
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Ludwig Göransson
THE FABELMANS – John Williams
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Alexandre Desplat

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Ciao Papa” – GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO – Music by Alexandre Desplat and lyrics by Roeban Katz and Guillermo del Toro
“Hold My Hand” – TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Written and produced by Lady Gaga & Bloodpop
“Lift Me Up” – BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER – Music and lyrics by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Göransson
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR – Music by M.M. Keeravaani and lyrics by Chandrabose
“New Body Rhumba” – WHITE NOISE – Written by James Murphy, Pat Mahoney, and Nancy Whang

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
THE BATMAN – Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, and Dominic Tuohy
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, and Jeff Desom
RRR – V Srinivas Mohan
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, and Bryan Litson

BEST STUNTS
THE BATMAN – Robert Alonzo, Jacob Dewitt, Steve Griffin, and Samuel Le
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Timothy Eulich
RRR – Nick Powell
TOP GUN: MAVERICK – Casey O’Neill
THE WOMAN KING – Daniel Hernandez

BREAKOUT ARTIST
Austin Butler
Frankie Corio
Danielle Deadwyler
Mia Goth
Stephanie Hsu

SIGHT UNSEEN PERFORMANCE
David Bradley – GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Rosalie Chiang – TURNING RED
Ewan McGregor – GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Isabella Rossalini – MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
Jenny Slate – MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

IMPACT AWARD
Given to a person whose work has had a positive impact on the Chicagoland film community
Rebecca Fons (The Gene Siskel Film Center)
Morgan Harris (Acacia Consulting Group)
Chris Johnson (Classic Cinemas)
The late Sergio Mims (film critic)
The staff and management of the Music Box Theatre

Here Are The 2022 Nominations of the Portland Critics Association

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

This morning, The Portland Critics Association announced their nominations for the best of 2022. The winners will be announced on January 16th. Here are the nominees:

Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Tár
The Banshees of Inisherin
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
S.S. Rajamouli, RRR
Todd Field, Tár

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Adam Driver, White Noise
Austin Butler, Elvis
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Park Hae-il, Decision to Leave
Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Mia Goth, Pearl
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
Rory Kinnear, Men

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Hong Chau, The Whale
Keke Palmer, Nope
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Ensemble Cast
Amsterdam
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion
Jackass Forever
The Menu

Best Animated Feature
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Mad God
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Documentary Feature
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
Moonage Daydream

Best Film Not in the English Language
Athena
Decision to Leave
EO
Happening
RRR

Best Comedy Feature
Bros
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jackass Forever
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Triangle of Sadness
White Noise

Best Horror Feature
Barbarian
Bones and All
Men
Pearl
X

Best Science Fiction Feature
After Yang
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Prey

Best Screenplay
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jeong Seo-kyeong and Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion
Todd Field, Tár

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
Greig Fraser, The Batman
Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope
Kim Ji-yong, Decision to Leave
Linus Sandgren, Babylon
Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon
M.M. Keeravaani, RRR
Michael Giacchino, The Batman

Best Costume Design
Catherine Martin, Elvis
Mary Zophres, Babylon
Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Shirley Kurata, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Production Design
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion

Best Sound Design
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Stunts or Action Choreography
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
The Batman
Top Gun: Maverick