I missed this when it happened but, on February 14th, the Set Decorators Society of America announced their picks for best of 2022! You can see their nominees by clicking here and you can check out the winners below!
Contemporary Film (TIE)
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
Period Film
Elvis
Fantasy/Science Fiction Film
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Musical/Comedy Film (TIE)
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Houston Film Critics Society has announced their picks for the best of 2022. You can see the nominees by clicking here and you can check out the winner below!
Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Director
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actor – Leading Role
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress – Leading Role
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Best Actor – Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actress – Supporting Role
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Screenplay
The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Animated Feature
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Best Cinematography
Top Gun: Maverick
Best Documentary
Good Night Oppy
Best Foreign Language Feature
RRR
Best Original Score
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Best Original Song
RRR, Naatu Naatu
Best Visual Effects
Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Stunt Coordination Team
RRR
Best Ensemble Cast
Women Talking
Texas Independent Film Award
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
The DGA may have gotten all the attention last night but the Art Directors Guild also announced their picks for the best of 2022!
And here they are:
PERIOD FEATURE FILM
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Production Designer: Christian M. Goldbeck)
“Babylon” (Production Designer: Florencia Martin)
“Elvis” (Production Designers: Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy
“The Fabelmans” (Production Designer: Rick Carter)
“White Noise” (Production Designer: Jess Gonchor)
FANTASY FEATURE FILM
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Production Designers: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter)
“The Batman” (Production Designer: James Chinlund)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Production Designer: Hannah Beachler)
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Production Designer: Jason Kisvarday)
“Nope” (Production Designer: Ruth De Jong)
CONTEMPORARY FEATURE FILM
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Production Designer: Eugenio Caballero)
“Bullet Train” (Production Designer: David Scheunemann)
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs)
“Tár” (Production Designer: Marco Bittner Rosser)
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Production Designers: Guy Davis, Curt Enderle)
“Lightyear” (Production Designer: Tim Evatt)
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” (Production Designer: Liz Toonkel)
“Puss In Boots: The Last Wish” (Production Designer: Nate Wragg)
“Turning Red” (Production Designer: Rona Liu )
ONE-HOUR PERIOD SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“The Crown: Ipatiev House” (Production Designer: Martin Childs)
“The Gilded Age: Never the New” (Production Designer: Bob Shaw)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Maisel vs. Lennon: The Cut Contest, How Do You Get to
Carnegie Hall?” (Production Designer: Bill Groom)
“Pachinko: Chapter One” (Production Designer: Mara LePere-Schloop)
Peaky Blinders: Black Day” (Production Designer: Nicole Northridge)
ONE-HOUR FANTASY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Andor: Rix Road” (Production Designer: Luke Hull)
“House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon” (Production Designer: Jim Clay)
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Adar” (Production Designer: Ramsey Avery)
“Stranger Things: “Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab” (Production Designer: Chris Trujillo)
“Wednesday: Woe is the Loneliest Number” (Production Designer: Mark Scruton)
ONE-HOUR CONTEMPORARY SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Better Call Saul: Wine and Roses, Nippy” (Production Designer: Denise Pizzini)
“Euphoria: You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can, The Theater and Its Double,
All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” (Production Designer: Jason Baldwin Stewart)
“Ozark: The Beginning of the End, Let the Great World Spin, City on the Make” (Production Designer: David Bomba)
“Severance: Good News About Hell” Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
“The White Lotus: Ciao” (Production Designer: Cristina Onori)
TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
“Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” (Production Designer: Tamara Deverell)
“Moon Knight” (Production Designer: Stefania Cella)
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” (Production Designers: Todd Cherniawsky, Doug Chiang)
“Pinocchio” (Production Designers: Doug Chiang, Stefan Dechant)
“Station Eleven” (Production Designer: Ruth Ammon)
HALF HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA SERIES
“Emily In Paris: What’s It All About…, How to Lose a Designer in 10 Days” (Production Designer: Anne Seibel)
“Hacks: Trust the Process” (Production Designer: Alec Contestabile)
“Only Murders in the Building: Framed” (Production Designer: Patrick Howe)
“Our Flag Means Death: Pilot” (Production Designer: Ra Vincent)
“What We Do in the Shadows: The Grand Opening, The Night Market, Pine Barrens” (Production Designer: Shayne Fox)
MULTI-CAMERA SERIES
“Bob Abishola: Inner Boss Bitch, Two Rusty Tractors, Estee Lauder and Goat Meat” (Production Designer: Francoise Cherry-Cohen)
“The Conners: Sex, Lies, and House Hunting, The Best Laid Plans, A Contrabassoon and A
Sinking Feeling” (Production Designer: Jerry Dunn)
“How I Met Your Father: Pilot” (Production Designer: Glenda Rovello)
“The Neighborhood: Welcome to the Remodel” (Production Designer: Wendell Johnson)
“United States of Al: Kiss/Maach, Divorce/Talaq, Sock/Jeraab” (Production Designer: Daren Janes)
VARIETY, REALITY OR COMPETITION SERIES
“A Black Lady Sketch Show: Anybody Have Something I Can Flog Myself With? Bounce Them Coochies, Y’All! Peaches and Eggplants for Errbody!” (Production Designers: Cindy Chao, Michelle Yu)
“Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: HBCYOU Band” (Production Designer: James McGowan)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Catwalk, 60’s Girl Groups, Daytona Wind” (Production Designer: Gianna Costa)
“Saturday Night Live: Jack Harlow Hosts Season 48 Episode 4, Jack Harlow Musical Guest” (Production Designers: Keith Raywood, Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, N. Joseph De Tullio)
“Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant: Honey” (Production Designer: Darcy E. Prevost)
VARIETY SPECIAL
“64th Annual Grammy Awards” (Supervising Art Director: Kristen Merlino)
“94th Annual Oscars” (Production Designer: David Korins)
“Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester” (Production Designer: Scott Pask)
“Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party” (Production Designer: Keith Raywood)
“Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would” (Production Designer: Star Theodos Kahn)
COMMERCIALS
“American Horror Stories: Dollhouse” Promo (Production Designer: Marc Benacerraf)
Bud Light Seltzer: “Land Of Loud Flavors” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
“Just Eat & Katy Perry: Did Somebody Say” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Title Announcement” (Production Designer: Brian Branstetter)
Paramount+: “Wildlife Promo” (Production Designer: Maia Javan)
SHORT FORMAT: MUSIC VIDEO OR WEBSERIES
Adele “I Drink Wine” (Production Designer: Liam Moore)
Coldplay x Selena Gomez “Let Somebody Go” (Production Designer: François Audouy)
Kendrick Lamar “Rich Spirit” (Production Designer: Scott Falconer)
Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero” (Production Designer: Ethan Tobman)
Taylor Swift “Bejeweled” (Production Designer: Ethan Tobman)
With each passing day, it becomes more and more likely that Everything Everywhere All At Once is going to win Best Picture. Last night, the DGA named the film the best of 2022. Traditionally, The Directors Guild is one of the most reliable precursors out there.
Here are the DGA winners:
NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Todd Field – Tár
Joseph Kosinski – Top Gun: Maverick
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM
Alice Diop – Saint Omer
Audrey Diwan – Happening
John Patton Ford – Emily The Criminal
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic – Murina
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DOCUMENTARY
Sara Dosa – Fire of Love
Matthew Heineman – Retrograde
Laura Poitras – All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
David Rohde – Navalny
Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN DRAMATIC SERIES
Jason Bateman – Ozark, “A Hard Way to Go”
Vince Gilligan – Better Call Saul, “Waterworks”
Sam Levinson – Euphoria, “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”
Aoife McCardle – Severance, “Hide and Seek”
Ben Stiller – Severance, “The We We Are”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN COMEDY SERIES
Tim Burton – Wednesday, “Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe”
Bill Hader – Barry, “710N”
Amy Sherman-Palladino – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?”
Christopher Storer – The Bear, “Review”
Mike White – The White Lotus, “BYG”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES
Eric Appel – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Deborah Chow – Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jeremy Podeswa – Station Eleven, “Unbroken Circle”
Helen Shaver – Station Eleven, “Who’s There?”
Tom Verica – Inventing Anna, “The Devil Wore Anna”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS
Ian Berger – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Globe Hungary for Democracy
Hamish Hamilton – Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show 2022
James Merryman – Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Marcus Raboy – Mark Twain Prize 2022: Celebrating Jon Stewart
Glenn Weiss – The 75th Annual Tony Awards
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING
Paul G. Casey – Real Time With Bill Maher, “Episode #2010”
Jim Hoskinson – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, “Episode #1333”
David Paul Meyer – The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, “Brandi Carlile Discusses Her New Deluxe Album and Performs “You and Me on the Rock”
Liz Patrick – Saturday Night Live, “Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow”
Paul Pennolino – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, “Afghanistan”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN REALITY PROGRAMS
Joseph H. Guidry – The Big Brunch, “Carb Loading Brunch”
Carrie Havel – The Go Big Show, “Only One Can Win”
Rich Kim – Lego Masters, “Jurassbrick World”
Michael Shea – FBoy Island, “Do You Like Cats?”
Ben Simms – Running Wild with Bear Grylls, “Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica”
OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS
Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever
Bonnie Hunt – Amber Brown, “I, Amber Brown”
Dean Israelite – Are You Afraid of the Dark?, “The Tale of Room 13”
Michael Lembeck – Snow Day The Musical
Anne Renton – Best Foot Forward, “Halloween”
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, for #ScarySocial, I will be hosting 1999’s The Rage: Carrie 2!
That’s right! It’s the most underrated horror sequel ever made!
If you want to join us on Saturday night, just hop onto twitter, start the film at 9 pm et, and use the #ScarySocial hashtag! The film is available on Prime, Tubi, and a few other streaming sites. I’ll be there co-hosting and I imagine some other members of the TSL Crew will be there as well. It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
And don’t watch alone!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, at 10 pm et, #FridayNightFlix has got 1985’s ROCKY IV!
Watch it and cheer for America!
If you want to join us this Friday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #FridayNightFlix hashtag! It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
Rocky IV is available on Prime and Netflix! See you there!
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle have announced their picks for the best of the year! You can see the nominees by clicking here and you can check out the winners below!
Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Director
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actor
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
Best Documentary
All the Beauty And the Bloodshed
Best Foreign Language Film
All Quiet on the Western Front
Proving the old adage of better late than never, the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance have announced their nominations for the best of 2022. The winners will be announced on February 26th!
Here are the nominees:
Best Picture
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Tár”
“Women Talking”
Best Director
Todd Field for “Tár”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Martin McDonagh for “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Sarah Polley for “Women Talking”
Park Chan-Wook for “Decision to Leave”
Best Actor
Austin Butler as Elvis Presley in “Elvis”
Colin Farrell as Pádraic Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brendan Fraser as Charlie in “The Whale”
Gabriel LaBelle as Samuel Fabelman in “The Fabelmans”
Paul Mescal as Calum in “Aftersun”
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár in “Tár”
Viola Davis as General Nanisca in “The Woman King”
Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till in “Till”
Mia Goth as Pearl in “Pearl”
Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano as Burt Fabelman in “The Fabelmans”
Brendan Gleeson as Colm Doherty in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brian Tyree Henry as James in “Causeway”
Barry Keoghan as Dominic Kearney in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett as Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Jessie Buckley as Mariche in “Women Talking”
Kerry Condon as Siobhán Súilleabháin in “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Nina Hoss as Sharon Goodnow in “Tár”
Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Best Ensemble
“Babylon”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“Women Talking”
Best Screenplay
“The Banshees of Inisherin” by Martin McDonagh
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” by Rian Johnson
“Tár” by Todd Field
“Women Talking” by Sarah Polley
Best Editing
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“Nope”
“Tár”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Cinematography
“The Batman”
“Elvis”
“Nope”
“Tár”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Music
“Babylon”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“The Batman”
“The Fabelmans”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Best Costume and Make-up
“Babylon”
“The Batman”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Best Production Design
“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“Babylon”
“The Batman”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Best Sound Work
“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“The Batman”
“Elvis”
“Nope”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Special Effects
“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“The Batman”
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”
“Nope”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Animated Feature
“Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
“Turning Red”
On the 12th, the Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild announced their picks for the best of 2022. Among the winners: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Elvis, and The Whale!
Best Contemporary Make-Up, Feature-Length Motion Picture
“The Batman” (Naomi Donne, Doone Forsyth, Norma Webb, Jemma Carballo)
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” (Michelle Chung, Erin Rosenmann, Dania A. Ridgway)
“The Menu” (Deborah LaMia Denaver, Mazena Puksto, Donna Cicatelli, Deb Rutherford)
“Nope” (Shutchai Tym Buacharern, Jennifer Zide-Essex, Eleanor Sabaduquia, Kato De Stefan)
“Spirited” (Monica Huppert, Autumn J. Butler, Vivian Baker)
Best Period and/or Character Make-Up, Feature-Length Motion Picture
“Amsterdam” (Nana Fischer, Miho Suzuki, Jason Collins)
“Babylon” (Heba Thorisdottir, Shaunna Bren Chavez, Jean Black, Mandy Artusato)
“Blonde” (Tina Roesler Kerwin, Elena Arroy, Cassie Lyons)
“Elvis” (Shane Thomas, Angela Conte)
“Till” (Denise Tunnell, Janice Tunnell, Ashley Langston)
Best Special Make-Up Effects, Feature-Length Motion Picture
“The Batman” (Michael Marino, Mike Fontaine, Yoichi Art Sakamoto, Göran Lundström)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Joel Harlow, Kim Felix)
“Elvis” (Mark Coulier, Jason Baird)
“Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” (Barrie Gower, Emma Faulkes, Chloe Muton-Phillips)
“The Whale” (Adrien Morot, Kathy Tse, Chris Gallaher)
Best Contemporary Hair Styling, Feature-Length Motion Picture
“The Batman” (Zoe Tahir, Melissa Van Tongeran, Paula Price, Andrea Lance Jones)
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Camille Friend, Evelyn Feliciano, Marva Stokes, Victor Paz)
“Everything Everywhere All At Once” (Anissa E. Salazar, Meghan Heaney, Miki Caporusso)
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (Jeremy Woodhead, Tracey Smith, Leslie D. Bennett)
“The Menu” (Adruitha Lee, Monique Hyman, Kate Loftis, Barbara Sanders)
Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling, Feature-Length Motion Picture
“Amsterdam” (Adruitha Lee, Lori McCoy-Bell, Cassandra L. Russek, Yvette Shelton)
“Babylon” (Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Ahou Mofid, Aubrey Marie)
“Blonde” (Jaime Leigh McIntosh, Lynnae Duley, Ahou Mofid, Robert Pickens)
“Elvis” (Shane Thomas, Louise Coulston)
“The Woman King” (Louisa Anthony, Jamika Wilson, Plaxedes Kelias, Charity Gwakuka)
Of the winners, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Elvis, and The Whale are all nominated for the Best Makeup and Hair-Styling Oscar, along with All Quiet On The Western Front and The Batman. The Whale is favored by most Oscar prognosticators and it did win an award from the Guild. But, Elvis won two awards.
We’ll see who wins the Oscar on March 12th!
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1976’s Moving Violation! Selected and hosted by me, this film features car chases, nudity, small town corruption, nudity, and a timely message about creeping authoritarianism! The movie starts at 8 pm et! Here’s the playlist!
Following #MondayActionMovie, Brad and Sierra will be hosting the #MondayMuggers live tweet. They will be watching Damon Wayans in 1995’s Major Payne! This film is available on Prime!
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto twitter, start the Moving Violation playlist at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! Then, at 10 pm et, start Major Payne, and use the #MondayMuggers hashtag! The live tweet community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
Hope to see you there!
Through the Shattered Lens 