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Sinners Wins In Indiana

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Yesterday, the Indiana Film Journalists Association announced its picks for the best of 2025.  The winners are listed in bold.

BEST FILM
28 Years Later
Black Bag
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Friendship
Hamnet
Jay Kelly
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
The Phoenician Scheme
The Plague
Sinners (WINNER)
Splitsville
Superman
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

Other Best Film Finalists / Top 10 Films: (listed alphabetically)
Bob Trevino Likes It
Hamnet
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

BEST ANIMATED FILM
In Your Dreams
KPop Demon Hunters (WINNER)
The Legend of Hei 2 (RUNNER-UP)
Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
Ne Zha 2
Predator: Killer of Killers
Zootopia 2

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Cloud
It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice (WINNER)
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
Rental Family
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value (RUNNER-UP)
Universal Language
The Voice of Hind Rajab

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Are We Good?
Deaf President Now!
Disposable Humanity
Grand Theft Hamlet
Hacking at Leaves
Orwell: 2+2=5 (RUNNER-UP)
Pavements
The Perfect Neighbor
The Tenderness Tour (WINNER)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer – Jay Kelly
Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme (RUNNER-UP)
Ryan Coogler – Sinners (WINNER)
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin – Splitsville
Zach Cregger – Weapons
David Koepp – Black Bag
Tracie Laymon – Bob Trevino Likes It
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Charlie Polinger – The Plague

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Mike Flanagan – The Life of Chuck (RUNNER-UP)
Alex Garland – 28 Years Later
Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and Akiva Schaffer – The Naked Gun
James Gunn – Superman
Rian Johnson – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice
Will Tracy – Bugonia

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Clint Bentley – Train Dreams
Ryan Coogler – Sinners (RUNNER-UP)
Michael Angelo Covino – Splitsville
Zach Cregger – Weapons
James Gunn – Superman
Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice
Charlie Polinger – The Plague
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Everett Blunck – The Plague
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet (RUNNER-UP)
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (WINNER)
David Corenswet – Superman
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Michael Fassbender – Black Bag
Barbie Ferreira – Bob Trevino Likes It
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Liam Neeson – The Naked Gun
Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Emma Stone – Bugonia

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Pamela Anderson – The Naked Gun
Miles Caton – Sinners
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Nicholas Hoult – Superman
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
John Leguizamo – Bob Trevino Likes It
Amy Madigan – Weapons (RUNNER-UP)
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
French Stewart – Bob Trevino Likes It
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire And Ash
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Fantastic Four: First Steps (RUNNER-UP)
Will Patton – Train Dreams (WINNER)
Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi – Predator: Badlands
Zhu Jing – The Legend of Hei 2

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Black Bag
Bugonia
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
The Plague
Sinners (WINNER)
Superman
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

BEST EDITING
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Barry Alexander Brown and Allyson C. Johnson – Highest 2 Lowest
Mike Flanagan – The Life of Chuck
Jon Harris – 28 Years Later
Andy Jurgensen – One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
Kim Sang-bum – No Other Choice
Brian Scott Olds – The Naked Gun
Sara Shaw – Splitsville
Michael P. Shawver – Sinners (WINNER)
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners (WINNER)
Michael Bauman – One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
Steven Breckon – The Plague
Darius Khondji – Marty Supreme
Dan Laustsen – Frankenstein
Anthony Dod Mantle – 28 Years Later
Larkin Seiple – Weapons
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag
Fraser Taggart – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners (WINNER)
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger – Weapons
David Holmes – Black Bag
Johan Lenox – The Plague
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme
John Murphy and David Fleming – Superman
Nine Inch Nails – Tron: Ares
Young Fathers – 28 Years Later

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Wade Eastwood (second unit director / stunt coordinator) – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (WINNER)
Timothy Eulich (stunt coordinator) – Eddington
Tyler Hall (stunt coordinator / stunt driver) and Dave McKeown (stunt coordinator) – Splitsville
Brian Machleit (stunt coordinator) – One Battle After Another (RUNNER-UP)
Mandy Moore (choreographer) – The Life of Chuck
Alain Moussi (stunt coordinator), Brahim Chab (fight coordinator), László Kósa (stunt coordinator, Hungary) and Balázs Lengyel (fight coordinator, Hungary) – Fight or Flight
Celia Rowlson-Hall (choreographer) – The Testament of Ann Lee
Jacob Tomuri (stunt coordinator) – Predator: Badlands

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (VFX supervisors) and José Granell (miniatures / models supervisor) – Frankenstein (WINNER)
Jeff Capogreco (VFX supervisor), Dave Funston (VFX supervisor, OPSIS), Ross McCabe (VFX supervisor, Image Engine), Abishek Nair (VFX supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic / VFX supervisor, second unit), Vincent Papaix (VFX supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic) and Cameron Waldbauer (SFX supervisor) – Tron: Ares
Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé and Guy Williams (VFX supervisors) – Superman
Olivier Dumont and Sheldon Stopsack (VFX supervisors, Wētā), Kathy Siegel (VFX producer / co-producer) and Karl Rapley (animation supervisor, Wētā) – Predator: Badlands
Dan Glass, Chris McLaughlin and Stuart Penn (VFX supervisors) and Dominic Tuohy (SFX supervisor) – Mickey 17
Joe Letteri (senior VFX supervisor), Richard Baneham (VFX supervisor, Lightstorm / virtual second unit director), Eric Saindon (senior VFX supervisor, Wētā Digital) and Daniel Barrett (senior animation supervisor, Wētā Digital) – Avatar: Fire And Ash
Charlie Noble (VFX supervisor), David Zaretti (VFX supervisor, ILM), Russell Bowen (VFX supervisor, beloFX) and Brandon K. McLaughlin (SFX coordinator) – The Lost Bus
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl and Guido Wolter (VFX supervisors) and Donnie Dean (SFX coordinator) – Sinners (RUNNER-UP)
Scott Stokdyk (VFX supervisor, Marvel), Robert Allman (VFX supervisor, Framestore), Daniele Bigi (VFX supervisor, ILM), Theodore Bialek (VFX supervisor, SPI) and Alistair Williams (SFX supervisor) – The Fantastic Four: First Steps

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Clint Bentley (director / co-writer) – Train Dreams
Everett Blunck (performer) – The Plague
Miles Caton (performer) – Sinners (RUNNER-UP)
Aidan Delbis (performer) – Bugonia
Chase Infiniti (performer) – One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Jacobi Jupe (performer) – Hamnet
Tracie Laymon (director / writer) – Bob Trevino Likes It
Charlie Polinger (director / writer) – The Plague
Eva Victor (director / writer / performer) – Sorry, Baby
Alfie Williams (performer) – 28 Years Later

ORIGINAL VISION
Good Boy (WINNER)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
One Battle After Another
The Plague
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
The Testament of Ann Lee (RUNNER-UP)
Train Dreams

The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another 

Here Are The 2025 Nominations Of The Indiana Film Journalists Association!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here are the 2025 nominations of the Indiana Film Journalists Association.

There’s a lot of them.

BEST FILM
28 Years Later
Black Bag
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Friendship
Hamnet
Jay Kelly
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
The Plague
Sinners
Splitsville
Superman
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

BEST ANIMATED FILM
In Your Dreams
KPop Demon Hunters
The Legend of Hei 2
Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
Ne Zha 2
Predator: Killer of Killers
Zootopia 2

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Cloud
It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
Rental Family
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Universal Language
The Voice of Hind Rajab

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Are We Good?
Deaf President Now!
Disposable Humanity
Grand Theft Hamlet
Hacking at Leaves
Orwell: 2+2=5
Pavements
The Perfect Neighbor
The Tenderness Tour

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer – Jay Kelly
Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin – Splitsville
Zach Cregger – Weapons
David Koepp – Black Bag
Tracie Laymon – Bob Trevino Likes It
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Charlie Polinger – The Plague

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Mike Flanagan – The Life of Chuck
Alex Garland – 28 Years Later
Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and Akiva Schaffer – The Naked Gun
James Gunn – Superman
Rian Johnson – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar and Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice
Will Tracy – Bugonia

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley – Train Dreams
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Michael Angelo Covino – Splitsville
Zach Cregger – Weapons
James Gunn – Superman
Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice
Charlie Polinger – The Plague
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Everett Blunck – The Plague
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
David Corenswet – Superman
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Michael Fassbender – Black Bag
Barbie Ferreira – Bob Trevino Likes It
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Liam Neeson – The Naked Gun
Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Emma Stone – Bugonia

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Pamela Anderson – The Naked Gun
Miles Caton – Sinners
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Nicholas Hoult – Superman
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
John Leguizamo – Bob Trevino Likes It
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
French Stewart – Bob Trevino Likes It
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire And Ash
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Will Patton – Train Dreams
Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi – Predator: Badlands
Zhu Jing – The Legend of Hei 2

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Black Bag
Bugonia
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Plague
Sinners
Superman
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

BEST EDITING
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Barry Alexander Brown and Allyson C. Johnson – Highest 2 Lowest
Mike Flanagan – The Life of Chuck
Jon Harris – 28 Years Later
Andy Jurgensen – One Battle After Another
Kim Sang-bum – No Other Choice
Brian Scott Olds – The Naked Gun
Sara Shaw – Splitsville
Michael P. Shawver – Sinners
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners
Michael Bauman – One Battle After Another
Steven Breckon – The Plague
Darius Khondji – Marty Supreme
Dan Laustsen – Frankenstein
Anthony Dod Mantle – 28 Years Later
Larkin Seiple – Weapons
Steven Soderbergh – Black Bag
Fraser Taggart – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another
Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger – Weapons
David Holmes – Black Bag
Johan Lenox – The Plague
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme
John Murphy and David Fleming – Superman
Nine Inch Nails – Tron: Ares
Young Fathers – 28 Years Later

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Wade Eastwood (second unit director / stunt coordinator) – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Timothy Eulich (stunt coordinator) – Eddington
Tyler Hall (stunt coordinator / stunt driver) and Dave McKeown (stunt coordinator) – Splitsville
Brian Machleit (stunt coordinator) – One Battle After Another
Mandy Moore (choreographer) – The Life of Chuck
Alain Moussi (stunt coordinator), Brahim Chab (fight coordinator), László Kósa (stunt coordinator, Hungary) and Balázs Lengyel (fight coordinator, Hungary) – Fight or Flight
Celia Rowlson-Hall (choreographer) – The Testament of Ann Lee
Jacob Tomuri (stunt coordinator) – Predator: Badlands

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (VFX supervisors) and José Granell (miniatures / models supervisor) – Frankenstein
Jeff Capogreco (VFX supervisor), Dave Funston (VFX supervisor, OPSIS), Ross McCabe (VFX supervisor, Image Engine), Abishek Nair (VFX supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic / VFX supervisor, second unit), Vincent Papaix (VFX supervisor, Industrial Light and Magic) and Cameron Waldbauer (SFX supervisor) – Tron: Ares
Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé and Guy Williams (VFX supervisors) – Superman
Olivier Dumont and Sheldon Stopsack (VFX supervisors, Wētā), Kathy Siegel (VFX producer / co-producer) and Karl Rapley (animation supervisor, Wētā) – Predator: Badlands
Dan Glass, Chris McLaughlin and Stuart Penn (VFX supervisors) and Dominic Tuohy (SFX supervisor) – Mickey 17
Joe Letteri (senior VFX supervisor), Richard Baneham (VFX supervisor, Lightstorm / virtual second unit director), Eric Saindon (senior VFX supervisor, Wētā Digital) and Daniel Barrett (senior animation supervisor, Wētā Digital) – Avatar: Fire And Ash
Charlie Noble (VFX supervisor), David Zaretti (VFX supervisor, ILM), Russell Bowen (VFX supervisor, beloFX) and Brandon K. McLaughlin (SFX coordinator) – The Lost Bus
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl and Guido Wolter (VFX supervisors) and Donnie Dean (SFX coordinator) – Sinners
Scott Stokdyk (VFX supervisor, Marvel), Robert Allman (VFX supervisor, Framestore), Daniele Bigi (VFX supervisor, ILM), Theodore Bialek (VFX supervisor, SPI) and Alistair Williams (SFX supervisor) – The Fantastic Four: First Steps

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Clint Bentley (director / co-writer) – Train Dreams
Everett Blunck (performer) – The Plague
Miles Caton (performer) – Sinners
Aidan Delbis (performer) – Bugonia
Chase Infiniti (performer) – One Battle After Another
Jacobi Jupe (performer) – Hamnet
Tracie Laymon (director / writer) – Bob Trevino Likes It
Charlie Polinger (director / writer) – The Plague
Eva Victor (director / writer / performer) – Sorry, Baby
Alfie Williams (performer) – 28 Years Later

ORIGINAL VISION
Good Boy
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
One Battle After Another
The Plague
Reflection In A Dead Diamond
The Testament of Ann Lee
Train Dreams

The Substance Wins In Indiana

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association have announced their picks for the best of 2024!  The winners are in bold.
BEST FILM
Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
Longlegs
Mars Express
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The People’s Joker
A Real Pain
Rebel Ridge
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Look Back
Mars Express
Memoir of a Snail
The Wild Robot

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Aattam
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist
Los Frikis
Look Back
Mars Express
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Daughters
Ennio
Girls State
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Sixth
The Speedway Murders
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David – September 5
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Alex Garland – Civil War
Azazel Jacobs – His Three Daughters
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
Julio Torres – Problemista

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield – Sing Sing
Jay Cocks and James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
Chris Sanders – The Wild Robot
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington – The Piano Lesson

BEST DIRECTOR
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Robert Eggers – Nosferatu
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Alex Garland – Civil War
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Kirsten Dunst – Civil War
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Demi Moore – The Substance
Aaron Pierre – Rebel Ridge
Justice Smith – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Cage – Longlegs
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin – Sing Sing
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Dennis Quaid – The Substance
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
Tilda Swinton – Problemista
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Tom Hardy – Venom: The Last Dance
Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2
Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot
Pedro Pascal – The Wild Robot
Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2
Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail
Owen Teague – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Robbie Williams – Better Man

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
Sing Sing

BEST EDITING
Sean Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers
Jérôme Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat and Valentin Feron – The Substance
Nick Emerson – Conclave
Louise Ford – Nosferatu
Dávid Jancsó – The Brutalist
Nicholas Monsour – Nickel Boys
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Terilyn A. Shropshire – Twisters
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
Rob Hardy – Civil War
Benjamin Kračun – The Substance
Dan Mindel – Twisters
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Challengers
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Queer
Eric Yue – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Raffertie – The Substance
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Queer
Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow – Civil War
Alex Somers and Scott Alario – Nickel Boys
Umberto Smerilli – A Different Man
Benjamin Wallfisch – Twisters

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Bren Foster (action designer / fight choreographer) and Jaylan Foster, Jimmy Foster, Nick Harding, Jordan Petersen, Matthew Murgola and Mike Duncan (stunt team) – Life After Fighting
Muhammad Irfan (stunt coordinator / fight choreographer) – The Shadow Strays
Jeremy Marinas (fight coordinator and choreographer / second-unit director) – The Beekeeper
Lee Morrison (supervising stunt coordinator), Roger Yuan (fight coordinator / stunt coordinator) and Tanya Lapointe (second-unit director) – Dune: Part Two
Saifuddin Mubdy (stunt coordinator) and Brahim Chab (fight coordinator) – Monkey Man
Guy Norris (action designer / supervising stunt coordinator / second-unit director) and Richard Norton (fight choreographer / coordinator) – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Chris O’Hara (stunt coordinator and stunt designer) – The Fall Guy
Christopher Scott (choreographer) and Jo McLaren (stunt coordinator) – Wicked
Ashley Wallen (dance choreographer), Nicholas Daines (stunt coordinator), Slavisa Ivanovic (stunt coordinator), Tim Wong (fight choreographer) and Spencer Susser (second-unit director) – Better Man
Keith Woulard and Cory DeMeyers (stunt coordinators) – Rebel Ridge

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Mike Cheslik (visual effects) and Jerry Kurek (assistant effects artist) – Hundreds of Beavers
Bryan Jones (visual effects supervisor), Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (visual effects producer) and Jean Miel (special effects supervisor) – The Substance
Paul Lambert (visual effects production supervisor), Gerd Nefzer (special effects supervisor), Rhys Salcombe (visual effects supervisor) and Stephen James (visual effects supervisor) – Dune: Part Two
Damien Leone (writer / director), Phil Falcone (producer), Christien Tinsley (design and creation of prosthetics and makeup effects), Brian Van Dorn (Tinsley Studios production coordinator), Ryan Ward (on-set makeup effects department head), Heather Albert (on-set makeup effects artist), Josh Petrino (visual effects supervisor), Declan Boyle (lead visual effects artist), Lincoln Smith (senior visual effects artist), John Caglione, Jr. (Virgin Mary / demon sequence prosthetics supervisor), Jason Baker (Callosum Studios on-set effects supervisor) and Jason Milstein (post-production supervisor and visual effects artist) – Terrifier 3
Luke Millar (visual effects supervisor) and Scott MacIntyre (special effects supervisor) – Better Man
Kevin Smith (visual effects supervisor), Kevin Sherwood (visual effects producer), Bruce Bright (special effects supervisor) and Michael Meinardus (special effects supervisor) – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Ben Snow (visual effects supervisor), Florian Witzel (Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor), Charles Lai (ILM associate visual effects supervisor) and Scott Fisher (special effects supervisor) – Twisters
David White (prosthetic and makeup effects design), Angela Barson (visual effects supervisor) and Pavel Sagner (special effects supervisor) – Nosferatu (2024)
Erik Winquist and Stephen Unterfranz (VFX supervisors), Paul Story (senior animation supervisor) and Rodney Burke (special FX supervisor) – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Joanna Arnow (director / writer / editor / performer) – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Mike Cheslik (director / co-writer / editor / visual effects) – Hundreds of Beavers
Vera Drew (director / co-writer / editor / performer) – The People’s Joker
Mikey Madison (performer) – Anora
Chris Nash (director / writer) – In a Violent Nature
Katy M. O’Brian (performer) – Love Lies Bleeding
RaMell Ross (director / co-writer) – Nickel Boys
Maisy Stella (performer) – My Old Ass
Julio Torres (director / writer / performer) – Problemista
Malcolm Washington (director / co-writer) – The Piano Lesson

ORIGINAL VISION
Better Man
Emilia Pérez
Hundreds of Beavers
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
The People’s Joker
Problemista
Sasquatch Sunset
The Substance

The Indiana Film Journalists Nominate Everything

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association announced their nominations for the best of 2024 today.  They kept things simple by nominating everything.  The winners will be announced on December 16th.
BEST FILM
Anora
The Brutalist
Challengers
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
Longlegs
Mars Express
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The People’s Joker
A Real Pain
Rebel Ridge
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Look Back
Mars Express
Memoir of a Snail
The Wild Robot

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Aattam
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Evil Does Not Exist
Los Frikis
Look Back
Mars Express
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Daughters
Ennio
Girls State
No Other Land
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
The Sixth
The Speedway Murders
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David – September 5
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Alex Garland – Civil War
Azazel Jacobs – His Three Daughters
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
Julio Torres – Problemista

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield – Sing Sing
Jay Cocks and James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
Chris Sanders – The Wild Robot
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
Virgil Williams and Malcolm Washington – The Piano Lesson

BEST DIRECTOR
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Robert Eggers – Nosferatu
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Alex Garland – Civil War
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Aaron Schimberg – A Different Man
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Kirsten Dunst – Civil War
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Demi Moore – The Substance
Aaron Pierre – Rebel Ridge
Justice Smith – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Cage – Longlegs
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin – Sing Sing
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Dennis Quaid – The Substance
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
Tilda Swinton – Problemista
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Tom Hardy – Venom: The Last Dance
Maya Hawke – Inside Out 2
Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot
Pedro Pascal – The Wild Robot
Amy Poehler – Inside Out 2
Sarah Snook – Memoir of a Snail
Owen Teague – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Robbie Williams – Better Man

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Civil War
Conclave
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
His Three Daughters
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
A Real Pain
Saturday Night
Sing Sing

BEST EDITING
Sean Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers
Jérôme Eltabet, Coralie Fargeat and Valentin Feron – The Substance
Nick Emerson – Conclave
Louise Ford – Nosferatu
Dávid Jancsó – The Brutalist
Nicholas Monsour – Nickel Boys
Jeremy Saulnier – Rebel Ridge
Terilyn A. Shropshire – Twisters
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
Rob Hardy – Civil War
Benjamin Kračun – The Substance
Dan Mindel – Twisters
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Challengers
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Queer
Eric Yue – I Saw the TV Glow

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Raffertie – The Substance
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Queer
Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow – Civil War
Alex Somers and Scott Alario – Nickel Boys
Umberto Smerilli – A Different Man
Benjamin Wallfisch – Twisters

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Bren Foster (action designer / fight choreographer) and Jaylan Foster, Jimmy Foster, Nick Harding, Jordan Petersen, Matthew Murgola and Mike Duncan (stunt team) – Life After Fighting
Muhammad Irfan (stunt coordinator / fight choreographer) – The Shadow Strays
Jeremy Marinas (fight coordinator and choreographer / second-unit director) – The Beekeeper
Lee Morrison (supervising stunt coordinator), Roger Yuan (fight coordinator / stunt coordinator) and Tanya Lapointe (second-unit director) – Dune: Part Two
Saifuddin Mubdy (stunt coordinator) and Brahim Chab (fight coordinator) – Monkey Man
Guy Norris (action designer / supervising stunt coordinator / second-unit director) and Richard Norton (fight choreographer / coordinator) – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Chris O’Hara (stunt coordinator and stunt designer) – The Fall Guy
Christopher Scott (choreographer) and Jo McLaren (stunt coordinator) – Wicked
Ashley Wallen (dance choreographer), Nicholas Daines (stunt coordinator), Slavisa Ivanovic (stunt coordinator), Tim Wong (fight choreographer) and Spencer Susser (second-unit director) – Better Man
Keith Woulard and Cory DeMeyers (stunt coordinators) – Rebel Ridge

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Mike Cheslik (visual effects) and Jerry Kurek (assistant effects artist) – Hundreds of Beavers
Bryan Jones (visual effects supervisor), Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (visual effects producer) and Jean Miel (special effects supervisor) – The Substance
Paul Lambert (visual effects production supervisor), Gerd Nefzer (special effects supervisor), Rhys Salcombe (visual effects supervisor) and Stephen James (visual effects supervisor) – Dune: Part Two
Damien Leone (writer / director), Phil Falcone (producer), Christien Tinsley (design and creation of prosthetics and makeup effects), Brian Van Dorn (Tinsley Studios production coordinator), Ryan Ward (on-set makeup effects department head), Heather Albert (on-set makeup effects artist), Josh Petrino (visual effects supervisor), Declan Boyle (lead visual effects artist), Lincoln Smith (senior visual effects artist), John Caglione, Jr. (Virgin Mary / demon sequence prosthetics supervisor), Jason Baker (Callosum Studios on-set effects supervisor) and Jason Milstein (post-production supervisor and visual effects artist) – Terrifier 3
Luke Millar (visual effects supervisor) and Scott MacIntyre (special effects supervisor) – Better Man
Kevin Smith (visual effects supervisor), Kevin Sherwood (visual effects producer), Bruce Bright (special effects supervisor) and Michael Meinardus (special effects supervisor) – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Ben Snow (visual effects supervisor), Florian Witzel (Industrial Light & Magic visual effects supervisor), Charles Lai (ILM associate visual effects supervisor) and Scott Fisher (special effects supervisor) – Twisters
David White (prosthetic and makeup effects design), Angela Barson (visual effects supervisor) and Pavel Sagner (special effects supervisor) – Nosferatu (2024)
Erik Winquist and Stephen Unterfranz (VFX supervisors), Paul Story (senior animation supervisor) and Rodney Burke (special FX supervisor) – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Joanna Arnow (director / writer / editor / performer) – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Mike Cheslik (director / co-writer / editor / visual effects) – Hundreds of Beavers
Vera Drew (director / co-writer / editor / performer) – The People’s Joker
Mikey Madison (performer) – Anora
Chris Nash (director / writer) – In a Violent Nature
Katy M. O’Brian (performer) – Love Lies Bleeding
RaMell Ross (director / co-writer) – Nickel Boys
Maisy Stella (performer) – My Old Ass
Julio Torres (director / writer / performer) – Problemista
Malcolm Washington (director / co-writer) – The Piano Lesson

ORIGINAL VISION
Better Man
Emilia Pérez
Hundreds of Beavers
I Saw the TV Glow
In a Violent Nature
The People’s Joker
Problemista
Sasquatch Sunset
The Substance

Poor Things Wins In Indiana

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association has named Poor Things the best film of 2023.

Listed below, in bold, are the winners in Indiana!

BEST FILM
American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (FINALIST)
Asteroid City
Barbie (FINALIST)
Beau is Afraid
BlackBerry
Dream Scenario
Fair Play
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers (FINALIST)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (FINALIST)
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon (FINALIST)
May December (FINALIST)
Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP)
Past Lives (FINALIST)
Poor Things (WINNER)
Robot Dreams (FINALIST)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
A Thousand and One

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Robot Dreams (RUNNER-UP)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One (RUNNER-UP)
Monster (2023)
Past Lives
Pathaan
The Promised Land (2023)
Suzume
When Evil Lurks
The Zone of Interest (WINNER)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Days in Mariupol (RUNNER-UP)
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Greener Pastures
Kokomo City (WINNER)
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson (screenplay / story) and Roman Coppola (story), Asteroid City
Kristoffer Borgli, Dream Scenario
Samy Burch (screenplay / story) and Alex Mechanik (story), May December (RUNNER-UP)
Chloe Domont, Fair Play
David Hemingson, The Holdovers (WINNER)
A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms
Celine Song, Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ari Aster, Beau is Afraid
Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie (RUNNER-UP)
Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Tony McNamara, Poor Things (WINNER)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin

BEST DIRECTOR
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
David Fincher, The Killer (2023)
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Todd Haynes, May December
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things (WINNER)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP)
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Chad Stahelski, John Wick: Chapter 4

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Phoebe Dynevor, Fair Play
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP)
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid
Natalie Portman, May December
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things (WINNER)
Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Viola Davis, Air
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP)
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Charles Melton, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things (WINNER)
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Oscar Isaac, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (RUNNER-UP)
Chloë Grace Moretz, Nimona
Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Air
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP)
Poor Things (WINNER)
A Thousand and One

BEST EDITING
Michael Andrews, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kirk Baxter, The Killer
Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Curt Lobb, BlackBerry
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Nathan Orloff, John Wick: Chapter 4
Franklin Peterson, Fair Play
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon (RUNNER-UP)
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4 (RUNNER-UP)
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Erik Messerschmidt, The Killer
Pawel Pogorzelski, Beau is Afraid
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Linus Sandgren, Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Gavin Brivik, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Killer
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon (RUNNER-UP)
Naoki Satō, Godzilla Minus One
Marcelo Zarvos, May December

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Laurent Demianoff (fight / stunt coordinator), John Wick: Chapter 4 (WINNER)
Wade Eastwood (stunt coordinator) and Wolfgang Stegemann (fight coordinator), Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One
Deven MacNair (stunt coordinator), Bottoms
Constanza Macras (choreographer), Poor Things
Noon Orsatti, Shane Habberstad, Leoš Stránský, Stanimir Stamatov and Thayr Harris (stunt coordinators) and Travis Gomez (fight choreographer) & Sunny Sun (fight coordinator), Extraction 2
Marcus Shakesheff (stunt coordinator) and Alison Faulk & Luke Broadlick (choreographers), Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer White (choreographer) and Lisa Welham (associate choreographer), Barbie (RUNNER-UP)

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Josiah Cross (performer), A Thousand and One
Chloe Domont (writer-director), Fair Play
Daniel Goldhaber (director / co-writer), How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson (writer-director), American Fiction
Marshawn Lynch (performer), Bottoms
Charles Melton (performer, May December (RUNNER-UP)
Dominic Sessa (performer), The Holdovers
Celine Song (writer-director), Past Lives (WINNER)
Iman Vellani (performer), The Marvels

ORIGINAL VISION
Barbie (RUNNER-UP)
Beau is Afraid
Dream Scenario
Enys Men
Infinity Pool
Poor Things (WINNER)
Robot Dreams
Smoking Causes Coughing

The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award*
Director Sam Mirpoorian, Greener Pastures

*As a special honor, no runner-up is named for the Hoosier Award. It is named after founding IFJA member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott.

Here Are The 2023 Nominations of the Indiana Film Journalists Association!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association announced their nominations for the best of 2023 today.  The winners will be announced on December 18th.

I like the IFJA nominations because they nominate every single movie that they like, without limiting themselves.  This may be the only critics group to nominate Godzilla Minus One for Best Picture.

BEST FILM
American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
BlackBerry
Dream Scenario
Fair Play
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
A Thousand and One

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Monster (2023)
Past Lives
Pathaan
The Promised Land (2023)
Suzume
When Evil Lurks
The Zone of Interest

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Greener Pastures
Kokomo City
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson (screenplay / story) and Roman Coppola (story), Asteroid City
Kristoffer Borgli, Dream Scenario
Samy Burch (screenplay / story) and Alex Mechanik (story), May December
Chloe Domont, Fair Play
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms
Celine Song, Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ari Aster, Beau is Afraid
Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin

BEST DIRECTOR
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
David Fincher, The Killer (2023)
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Todd Haynes, May December
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Chad Stahelski, John Wick: Chapter 4

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Phoebe Dynevor, Fair Play
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid
Natalie Portman, May December
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Viola Davis, Air
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Charles Melton, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Oscar Isaac, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Chloë Grace Moretz, Nimona
Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Air
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
A Thousand and One

BEST EDITING
Michael Andrews, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kirk Baxter, The Killer
Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Curt Lobb, BlackBerry
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Nathan Orloff, John Wick: Chapter 4
Franklin Peterson, Fair Play
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Erik Messerschmidt, The Killer
Pawel Pogorzelski, Beau is Afraid
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Linus Sandgren, Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Gavin Brivik, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Killer
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Naoki Satō, Godzilla Minus One
Marcelo Zarvos, May December

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Laurent Demianoff (fight / stunt coordinator), John Wick: Chapter 4
Wade Eastwood (stunt coordinator) and Wolfgang Stegemann (fight coordinator), Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One
Deven MacNair (stunt coordinator), Bottoms
Constanza Macras (choreographer), Poor Things
Noon Orsatti, Shane Habberstad, Leoš Stránský, Stanimir Stamatov and Thayr Harris (stunt coordinators) and Travis Gomez (fight choreographer) & Sunny Sun (fight coordinator), Extraction 2
Marcus Shakesheff (stunt coordinator) and Alison Faulk & Luke Broadlick (choreographers), Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer White (choreographer) and Lisa Welham (associate choreographer), Barbie

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Josiah Cross (performer), A Thousand and One
Chloe Domont (writer-director), Fair Play
Daniel Goldhaber (director / co-writer), How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson (writer-director), American Fiction
Marshawn Lynch (performer), Bottoms
Charles Melton (performer, May December
Dominic Sessa (performer), The Holdovers
Celine Song (writer-director), Past Lives
Iman Vellani (performer), The Marvels

ORIGINAL VISION
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
Dream Scenario
Enys Men
Infinity Pool
Poor Things
Robot Dreams
Smoking Causes Coughing

Indiana Honors Everything In 2022

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association have announced their picks for the best of 2022!  And here they are:

BEST FILM
After Yang (FINALIST)
Aftersun
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ambulance
The Banshees of Inisherin (FINALIST)
The Batman
Decision to Leave (FINALIST)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER)
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (FINALIST)
Halloween Ends
Happening
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (FINALIST)
The Northman
RRR (RUNNER UP)
TÁR (FINALIST)
Till
Top Gun: Maverick (FINALIST)
The Whale
Women Talking (FINALIST)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Broker
Decision to Leave (RUNNER UP)
EO
Happening
Hit the Road
RRR (WINNER)
You Won’t Be Alone

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
The Bad Guys
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (WINNER)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (RUNNER UP)
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Aftershock
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe (RUNNER UP)
Chop & Steele
Fire of Love
I Didn’t See You There (WINNER)
Navalny

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Alex Garland – Men
Todd Field – TÁR (WINNER)
John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal
Jeong Seo-kyong and Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch – On the Count of Three
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin (RUNNER UP)
Cooper Raiff – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Seth Reiss (screenplay) and Will Tracy (screenplay / story) – The Menu
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
Ti West – X

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach – White Noise
Dean Fleischer Camp (screenplay / story), Jenny Slate (screenplay / story), Nick Paley (screenplay / story), and Elisabeth Holm (story) – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
David Kajganich – Bones and All
Kogonada – After Yang (RUNNER UP)
Sarah Polley – Women Talking (WINNER)
Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu – Till
Marcia Romano and Audrey Diwan – Happening
Sjón and Robert Eggers – The Northman

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky – The Whale
Michael Bay – Ambulance
Dean Fleischer Camp – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Audrey Diwan – Happening
Robert Eggers – The Northman
Todd Field – TÁR (WINNER)
Alex Garland – Men
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Kogonada – After Yang
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once (RUNNER UP)
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
Jordan Peele – Nope
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
S.S. Rajamouli – RRR
Matt Reeves – The Batman
Steven Soderbergh – KIMI
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Ti West – X

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Cate Blanchett – TÁR (WINNER)
John Boyega – Breaking
Jessie Buckley – Men
Austin Butler – Elvis
Daniel Craig – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Colin Farrell – After Yang
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Mia Goth – Pearl
Mia Goth – X
Jake Gyllenhaal – Ambulance
Rebecca Hall – Resurrection
Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram
Rory Kinnear – Men
Zoë Kravitz – KIMI
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza – Emily the Criminal
Florence Pugh – The Wonder
N.T. Rama Rao, Jr. – RRR
Adam Sandler – Hustle
Alexander Skarsgård – The Northman
Ram Charan Teja – RRR
Anamaria Vartolomei – Happening
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once (RUNNER UP)

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Christopher Abbott – On the Count of Three
Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
Hong Chau – The Whale
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Essie Davis – Nitram
Judy Davis – Nitram
Colin Farrell – The Batman
Ralph Fiennes – The Menu
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin (RUNNER UP)
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Dakota Johnson – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Nicole Kidman – The Northman
Lashana Lynch – The Woman King
Thuso Mbedu – The Woman King
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Justin H. Min – After Yang
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER)
Tim Roth – Resurrection
Sadie Sink – The Whale
David Howard Thornton – Terrifier 2
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Richard Ayoade – The Bad Guys
David Bradley – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Rosalie Chiang – Turning Red
James Hong – Wendell & Wild
Marc Maron – The Bad Guys
Isabella Rossellini – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (RUNNER UP)
J.K. Simmons – Glorious
Jenny Slate – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (WINNER)
Christoph Waltz – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
After Yang
Broker
The Duke
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Flux Gourmet
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (RUNNER UP)
Hit the Road
The Northman
Soft & Quiet
What We Do Next
The Woman King
Women Talking (WINNER)

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Michael Abels – Nope
Lorne Balfe – Ambulance
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury – Men
Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front
Terence Blanchard – The Woman King
Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough – The Northman
Dan Deacon – Hustle
Disasterpeace – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Danny Elfman – White Noise
Michael Giacchino – The Batman (WINNER)
Ludwig Göransson – Turning Red
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
Jo Yeong-wook – Decision to Leave
Nathan Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
M.M. Keeravani – RRR (RUNNER UP)
Cliff Martinez – KIMI
Aska Matsumiya and Ryuichi Sakamoto – After Yang
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Bones and All
Rob Simonsen – The Whale
Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once
John Williams – The Fabelmans

BEST EDITING
Doug Brandt, Pietro Scalia and Calvin Wimmer – Ambulance
Tom Costain, Brian Robinson and Keiko Deguchi – Hustle
Louise Ford – The Northman
Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar – The Fabelmans
Kim Sang-bum – Decision to Leave (RUNNER UP)
Kogonada – After Yang
Blair McClendon – Aftersun
Joe Murphy – Barbarian
Akkineni Sreekar Prasad – RRR
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER)
Steven Soderbergh – KIMI
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
Monika Willi – TÁR

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – The Northman
Matias Boucard – Athena
Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water
Roberto De Angelis – Ambulance
Michal Dymek – EO
Greig Fraser – The Batman
James Friend – All Quiet on the Western Front
Rob Hardy – Men
Florian Hoffmeister – TÁR
Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans
Arseni Khatchaturan – Bones and All
Kim Ji-yong – Decision to Leave
KK Senthil Kumar – RRR
Matthew Libatique – Don’t Worry Darling
Benjamin Loeb – After Yang
Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick (RUNNER UP)
Larkin Seiple – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Laurent Tangy – Happening
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Nope (WINNER)
Mandy Walker – Elvis

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Robert Alonzo (supervising stunt coordinator) and Daniel Arrias (fight co-coordinator / trainer) – The Batman
Jón Viðar Arnþórsson (stunt coordinator) and C.C. Smiff (stunt coordinator) – The Northman
Vicky Arora (action design and weapons trainer / stunt coordinator) and Raicho Vasilev (fight choreographer / stunt coordinator), and Prem Rakshith (dance choreographer) – RRR (WINNER)
Timothy Eulich (stunt coordinator), Andy Le (fight choreographer) and Brian Le (fight choreographer) – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Mike Gunther (stunt coordinator) – Ambulance
Daniel Hernandez (stunt coordinator / fight coordinator), Grant Powell (stunt coordinator), and Jénel Stevens (fight choreographer) – The Woman King (RUNNER UP)
Kevin LaRosa, Jr. (aerial coordinator) and Casey O’Neill (stunt coordinator) – Top Gun: Maverick
Steven McMichael (stunt coordinator) – Prey
David Neumann (movement / dance choreographer) – White Noise
Celia Rowlson-Hall (dance choreographer) – After Yang

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Hanna Bergholm (director) – Hatching
Jerrod Carmichael (director / performer) – On the Count of Three
Frankie Corio (performer) – Aftersun
Beth de Araújo (writer-director) – Soft & Quiet
Mariama Diallo (writer-director) – Master
Audrey Diwan (director / co-writer) – Happening
John Patton Ford (writer-director) – Emily the Criminal
Amber Midthunder (performer) – Prey
Nick Richey (writer-director) – 1-800-HOT-NITE
Jane Schoenbrun (writer-director) – We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (RUNNER UP)
Domee Shi (director / co-writer) – Turning Red
Charlotte Wells (writer-director) – Aftersun (WINNER)
Dallas Dupree Young (performer) – 1-800-HOT-NITE

ORIGINAL VISION
Everything Everywhere All At Once (WINNER)
Flux Gourmet
Glorious
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (RUNNER UP)
The Northman
Strawberry Mansion
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

The Indiana Film Journalists Association Nominates Everything That Was Released in 2022!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Okay, maybe the headline is a bit hyperbolic.  That said, the Indiana Film Journalists Association did announce their 2022 nominations today and there are quite a few of them.  Personally, I like that approach.  Why limit yourself to ten when you can nominate 20 or 30?  Why ignore a good film just because it was the 11th best film of the year as opposed to being the 10th?

(That said, what the Hell is Halloween Ends doing on the list?)

The winners will be announced on December 19th!  Here are the nominees:

BEST FILM
After Yang
Aftersun
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ambulance
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Halloween Ends
Happening
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
The Northman
RRR
TÁR
Till
Top Gun: Maverick
The Whale
Women Talking

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Broker
Decision to Leave
EO
Happening
Hit the Road
RRR
You Won’t Be Alone

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
The Bad Guys
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Aftershock
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Chop & Steele
Fire of Love
I Didn’t See You There
Navalny

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Alex Garland – Men
Todd Field – TÁR
John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal
Jeong Seo-kyong and Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch – On the Count of Three
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Cooper Raiff – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Seth Reiss (screenplay) and Will Tracy (screenplay / story) – The Menu
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
Ti West – X

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Noah Baumbach – White Noise
Dean Fleischer Camp (screenplay / story), Jenny Slate (screenplay / story), Nick Paley (screenplay / story), and Elisabeth Holm (story) – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
David Kajganich – Bones and All
Kogonada – After Yang
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu – Till
Marcia Romano and Audrey Diwan – Happening
Sjón and Robert Eggers – The Northman

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky – The Whale
Michael Bay – Ambulance
Dean Fleischer Camp – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Audrey Diwan – Happening
Robert Eggers – The Northman
Todd Field – TÁR
Alex Garland – Men
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Kogonada – After Yang
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
Jordan Peele – Nope
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
S.S. Rajamouli – RRR
Matt Reeves – The Batman
Steven Soderbergh – KIMI
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Ti West – X

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Cate Blanchett – TÁR
John Boyega – Breaking
Jessie Buckley – Men
Austin Butler – Elvis
Daniel Craig – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Viola Davis – The Woman King
Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Colin Farrell – After Yang
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
Mia Goth – Pearl
Mia Goth – X
Jake Gyllenhaal – Ambulance
Rebecca Hall – Resurrection
Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram
Rory Kinnear – Men
Zoë Kravitz – KIMI
Paul Mescal – Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza – Emily the Criminal
Florence Pugh – The Wonder
N.T. Rama Rao, Jr. – RRR
Adam Sandler – Hustle
Alexander Skarsgård – The Northman
Ram Charan Teja – RRR
Anamaria Vartolomei – Happening
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Christopher Abbott – On the Count of Three
Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
Hong Chau – The Whale
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Essie Davis – Nitram
Judy Davis – Nitram
Colin Farrell – The Batman
Ralph Fiennes – The Menu
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Dakota Johnson – Cha Cha Real Smooth
Nicole Kidman – The Northman
Lashana Lynch – The Woman King
Thuso Mbedu – The Woman King
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Justin H. Min – After Yang
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Tim Roth – Resurrection
Sadie Sink – The Whale
David Howard Thornton – Terrifier 2
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Richard Ayoade – The Bad Guys
David Bradley – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Rosalie Chiang – Turning Red
James Hong – Wendell & Wild
Marc Maron – The Bad Guys
Isabella Rossellini – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
J.K. Simmons – Glorious
Jenny Slate – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Christoph Waltz – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
After Yang
Broker
The Duke
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Flux Gourmet
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Hit the Road
The Northman
Soft & Quiet
What We Do Next
The Woman King
Women Talking

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Michael Abels – Nope
Lorne Balfe – Ambulance
Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury – Men
Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front
Terence Blanchard – The Woman King
Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Robin Carolan and Sebastian Gainsborough – The Northman
Dan Deacon – Hustle
Disasterpeace – Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Danny Elfman – White Noise
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
Ludwig Göransson – Turning Red
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
Jo Yeong-wook – Decision to Leave
Nathan Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
M.M. Keeravani – RRR
Cliff Martinez – KIMI
Aska Matsumiya and Ryuichi Sakamoto – After Yang
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Bones and All
Rob Simonsen – The Whale
Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All At Once
John Williams – The Fabelmans

BEST EDITING
Doug Brandt, Pietro Scalia and Calvin Wimmer – Ambulance
Tom Costain, Brian Robinson and Keiko Deguchi – Hustle
Louise Ford – The Northman
Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar – The Fabelmans
Kim Sang-bum – Decision to Leave
Kogonada – After Yang
Blair McClendon – Aftersun
Joe Murphy – Barbarian
Akkineni Sreekar Prasad – RRR
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Steven Soderbergh – KIMI
Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
Monika Willi – TÁR

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – The Northman
Matias Boucard – Athena
Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water
Roberto De Angelis – Ambulance
Michal Dymek – EO
Greig Fraser – The Batman
James Friend – All Quiet on the Western Front
Rob Hardy – Men
Florian Hoffmeister – TÁR
Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans
Arseni Khatchaturan – Bones and All
Kim Ji-yong – Decision to Leave
KK Senthil Kumar – RRR
Matthew Libatique – Don’t Worry Darling
Benjamin Loeb – After Yang
Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick
Larkin Seiple – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Laurent Tangy – Happening
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Nope
Mandy Walker – Elvis

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Robert Alonzo (supervising stunt coordinator) and Daniel Arrias (fight co-coordinator / trainer) – The Batman
Jón Viðar Arnþórsson (stunt coordinator) and C.C. Smiff (stunt coordinator) – The Northman
Vicky Arora (action design and weapons trainer / stunt coordinator) and Raicho Vasilev (fight choreographer / stunt coordinator), and Prem Rakshith (dance choreographer) – RRR
Timothy Eulich (stunt coordinator), Andy Le (fight choreographer) and Brian Le (fight choreographer) – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Mike Gunther (stunt coordinator) – Ambulance
Daniel Hernandez (stunt coordinator / fight coordinator), Grant Powell (stunt coordinator), and Jénel Stevens (fight choreographer) – The Woman King
Kevin LaRosa, Jr. (aerial coordinator) and Casey O’Neill (stunt coordinator) – Top Gun: Maverick
Steven McMichael (stunt coordinator) – Prey
David Neumann (movement / dance choreographer) – White Noise
Celia Rowlson-Hall (dance choreographer) – After Yang

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Hanna Bergholm (director) – Hatching
Jerrod Carmichael (director / performer) – On the Count of Three
Frankie Corio (performer) – Aftersun
Beth de Araújo (writer-director) – Soft & Quiet
Mariama Diallo (writer-director) – Master
Audrey Diwan (director / co-writer) – Happening
John Patton Ford (writer-director) – Emily the Criminal
Amber Midthunder (performer) – Prey
Nick Richey (writer-director) – 1-800-HOT-NITE
Jane Schoenbrun (writer-director) – We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Domee Shi (director / co-writer) – Turning Red
Charlotte Wells (writer-director) – Aftersun
Dallas Dupree Young (performer) – 1-800-HOT-NITE

ORIGINAL VISION
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Flux Gourmet
Glorious
The House
Mad God
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
The Northman
Strawberry Mansion
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Mass Wins in Indiana!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Indiana Film Journalists Association has named Mass as the best film of 2021!

Here are all the winners from Indiana:

BEST FILM
Winner: Mass
Runner-Up: Drive My Car

Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
Annette
The Card Counter
C’mon C’mon 
CODA
The Green Knight
The Last Duel
Pig
The Power of the Dog

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: Drive My Car
Runner-Up: Lamb

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Flee
Runner-Up: Luca

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Runner-Up: Procession

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Fran Kranz, Mass
Runner-Up: Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car
Runner-Up: Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, The Last Duel

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Runner-Up: Fran Kranz, Mass

BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Runner-Up: Jodie Comer, The Last Duel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Gaby Hoffmann, C’mon C’mon 
Runner-Up: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story

BEST ACTOR
Winner: Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
Runner-Up: Nicolas Cage, Pig

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Runner-Up: Jason Isaacs, Mass

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Winner: Olivia Colman, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Runner-Up: Tom Hardy, Venom: Let There Be Carnage

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Winner: Mass
Runner-Up: The Humans

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Winner: Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Runner-Up: Hans Zimmer, Dune

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Fran Kranz (writer / director), Mass
Runner-Up: Michael Sarnoski (director / co-writer), Pig

ORIGINAL VISION AWARD
Winner: Annette
Runner-Up: Titane

EDWARD JOHNSON-OTT HOOSIER AWARD
Winner: Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
(As a special award named after IFJA founding member Edward Johnson-Ott, no runner-up is declared in this category)

Here Are The 2021 Indiana Film Journalists Association Nominations!

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Judging by their nominations, the IFJA hedged their bets this year by nomination every single film that was released in Indiana over the past few months.  That’s not a bad strategy.

The winners will be announced on December 20th!

BEST FILM
Annette
Belfast
The Card Counter
C’mon C’mon
CODA
Cyrano
Disfluency
Drive My Car
Dune (2021)
Flee
The Green Knight
Halloween Kills
The Harder They Fall
The Humans
In the Heights
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
Luca
Mass
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Ninjababy
Petite Maman
Pig
The Power of the Dog
Red Rocket
Riders of Justice
Spencer
Titane
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story (2021)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car
Flee
A Hero
Lamb
Ninjababy
Petite Maman
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Riders of Justice
Titane
The Worst Person in the World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya And The Last Dragon
Ron’s Gone Wrong

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Flee
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
Mayor Pete
Procession
The Rescue
The Sparks Brothers
Storm Lake
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Val
The Velvet Underground

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Wes Anderson (screenplay / story), Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman (story),
The French Dispatch
Will Berson and Shaka King (screenwriters / story) and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas (story), Judas and the Black Messiah
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Mia Hansen-Løve, Bergman Island
Anders Thomas Jensen, Riders of Justice
Steven Knight, Spencer
Fran Kranz, Mass
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin, The Harder They Fall
Michael Sarnoski (writer) and Vanessa Block (story), Pig
Paul Schrader, The Card Counter
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Siân Heder, CODA
Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car
Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, The Last Duel
Quiara Alegría Hudes & Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Stephen Karam, The Humans
Tony Kushner, West Side Story (2021)
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth, Dune (2021)

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Sean Baker, Red Rocket
Anna Baumgarten, Disfluency
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Leos Carax, Annette
Jon M. Chu, In the Heights
Joel Coen, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Yngvild Sle Flikke, Ninjababy
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Siân Heder, CODA
Anders Thomas Jensen, Riders of Justice
Stephen Karam, The Humans
Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah
Fran Kranz, Mass
Pablo Larraín, Spencer
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Mike Mills, C’mon C’mon
Jeymes Samuel, The Harder They Fall
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Paul Schrader, The Card Counter
Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman
Ridley Scott, The Last Duel
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story (2021)
Denis Villeneuve, Dune (2021)
James Wan, Malignant
Joe Wright, Cyrano

BEST ACTRESS
Libe Barer, Disfluency
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Jodie Comer, The Last Duel
Rebecca Ferguson, Dune (2021)
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Vicky Krieps, Bergman Island
Frances McDormand, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Noomi Rapace, Lamb
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Millicent Simmonds, A Quiet Place Part II
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Tessa Thompson, Passing
Kristine Kujath Thorp, Ninjababy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Chelsea Alden, Disfluency
Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Cate Blanchett, Nightmare Alley (2021)
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story (2021)
Ann Dowd, Mass
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Dominique Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
Gaby Hoffmann, C’mon C’mon
Regina King, The Harder They Fall
Marlee Matlin, CODA
Tôko Miura, Drive My Car
Ruth Negga, Passing
Rita Moreno, West Side Story (2021)
Martha Plimpton, Mass

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage, Pig
Bradley Cooper, Nightmare Alley (2021)
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Peter Dinklage, Cyrano
Adam Driver, Annette
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
Jonathan Majors, The Harder They Fall
Mads Mikkelsen, Riders of Justice
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
Bob Odenkirk, Nobody
Dev Patel, The Green Knight
Joaquin Phoenix, C’mon C’mon
Anthony Ramos, In the Heights
Simon Rex, Red Rocket
Will Smith, King Richard
LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck, The Last Duel
Reed Birney, Mass
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Robin de Jesús, tick, tick…BOOM!
Colman Domingo, Zola
Jamie Dornan, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Mike Faist, West Side Story (2021)
Simon Helberg, Annette
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Jason Isaacs, Mass
Richard Jenkins, The Humans
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Riders of Justice
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jared Leto, House of Gucci
Vincent Lindon, Titane
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Masaki Okada, Drive My Car
Al Pacino, House of Gucci
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Stephanie Beatriz, Encanto
Olivia Colman, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Olivia Colman, Ron’s Gone Wrong
Zach Galifianakis, Ron’s Gone Wrong
Jack Dylan Grazer, Luca
Tom Hardy, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Ralph Ineson, The Green Knight
Abbi Jacobson, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Caleb Landry Jones, Finch
Danny McBride, The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Herman Tømmeraas, Ninjababy
Jacob Tremblay, Luca
Steven Vlahos, Psycho Goreman

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Belfast
CODA
Dune (2021)
The French Dispatch
The Green Knight
The Harder They Fall
The Humans
In the Heights
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Last Duel
The Lost Daughter
Mass
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Power of the Dog
No Sudden Move
Riders of Justice
The Suicide Squad
The Tragedy of Macbeth

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Robert Levon Been and Giancarlo Vulcano, The Card Counter
Carter Burwell, The Tragedy of Macbeth
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Halloween Kills
Jonny Greenwood, Licorice Pizza
Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood, Spencer
Harry Gregson-Williams, The Last Duel
Craig Harris and Mark Isham, Judas and the Black Messiah
Daniel Hart, The Green Knight
Nathan Johnson, Nightmare Alley (2021)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Candyman (2021)
Ron Mael and Russell Mael, Annette
Dan Romer, Luca
Jeymes Samuel, The Harder They Fall
Jim Williams, Titane
Hans Zimmer, Dune (2021)

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Anna Baumgarten (writer / director), Disfluency
Leslie Grace (actress), In the Heights
Alana Haim (actress), Licorice Pizza
Jude Hill (actor), Belfast
Emilia Jones (actress), CODA
Stephen Karam (writer / director), The Humans
Shaka King (director / co-writer), Judas and the Black Messiah
Fran Kranz (writer / director), Mass
Woody Norman (actor), C’mon C’mon
Michael Rianda (director / co-writer / actor), The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Agathe Rousselle (actress), Titane
Jeymes Samuel (director / co-writer / composer / songwriter), The Harder They Fall
Michael Sarnoski (director / co-writer), Pig
Rachel Zegler (actress), West Side Story (2021)

ORIGINAL VISION AWARD
Annette
The Green Knight
Mass
Pig
Titane