Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2022

21st WAFCA Awards
21st WAFCA Awards
Date	December 12, 2022
Highlights
Best Film	Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Director	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actor	Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress	Cate Blanchett – Tár
	← 2021; WAFCA Awards; 2023 →;

The 21st Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 12, 2022.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on December 10, 2022.^[4]

Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Fabelmans led the nominations with eleven each, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin with eight.^[5]

Winners and nominees

Best Film	Best Director
Everything Everywhere All at Once The Banshees of Inisherin The Fabelmans Tár Top Gun: Maverick	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once Todd Field – Tár Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin Sarah Polley – Women Talking Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin* as Pádraic Súilleabháin** Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell Brendan Fraser – The Whale as Charlie Paul Mescal – Aftersun as Calum Paterson	*Cate Blanchett – Tár* as Lydia Tár** Viola Davis – The Woman King as General Nanisca Danielle Deadwyler – Till as Mamie Till-Mobley Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans as Mitzi Fabelman Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn Quan Wang
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once* as Waymond Wang** Paul Dano – The Fabelmans as Burt Fabelman Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin as Colm Doherty Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin as Dominic Kearney Ben Whishaw – Women Talking as August	*Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin* as Siobhán Súilleabháin** Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Queen Ramonda Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Deirdre Beaubeirdre Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery as Helen Brand / Cassandra "Andi" Brand
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner Nope – Jordan Peele Tár – Todd Field	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Patrick McHale and Guillermo del Toro She Said – Rebecca Lenkiewicz The Whale – Samuel D. Hunter Women Talking – Sarah Polley
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Turning Red Wendell & Wild	Good Night Oppy All That Breathes All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Descendant Fire of Love
Best International/Foreign Language Film	Best Cinematography
Decision to Leave All Quiet on the Western Front Close EO RRR	Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda Empire of Light – Roger Deakins Everything Everywhere All at Once – Larkin Seiple The Fabelmans – Janusz Kamiński Nope – Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Editing	Best Original Score
Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton Elvis – Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers The Fabelmans – Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar Tár – Monika Willi	The Batman – Michael Giacchino The Fabelmans – John Williams Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat Tár – Hildur Guðnadóttir Women Talking – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Best Production Design	Best Acting Ensemble
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Hannah Beachler (production designer); Lisa Sessions Morgan (set decorator) Elvis – Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy (production designers); Bev Dunn (set decorator) Everything Everywhere All at Once – Jason Kisvarday (production designer); Kelsi Ephraim (set decorator) The Fabelmans – Rick Carter (production designer); Karen O'Hara (set decorator) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Rick Heinrichs (production designer); Elli Griff (set decorator)	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Women Talking
Best Youth Performance	Best Voice Performance
*Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans* as Sammy Fabelman** Frankie Corio – Aftersun as Sophie Paterson Jalyn Hall – Till as Emmett Till Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time as Paul Graff Sadie Sink – The Whale as Ellie	*Jenny Slate – Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* as Marcel** Rosalie Chiang – Turning Red as Meilin "Mei" Lee Gregory Mann – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Pinocchio Ewan McGregor – Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Sebastian J. Cricket Sandra Oh – Turning Red as Ming Lee
Best Motion Capture Performance
*Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: The Way of Water* as Neytiri** Sigourney Weaver – Avatar: The Way of Water as Kiri Sam Worthington – Avatar: The Way of Water as Jake Sully

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
11	Everything Everywhere All at Once
11	The Fabelmans
8	The Banshees of Inisherin
6	Tár
5	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
5	Women Talking
4	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
4	Top Gun: Maverick
3	Avatar: The Way of Water
	Elvis
	Turning Red
	The Whale
2	Aftersun
	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
	Nope
	Till

The following films received multiple awards:

Wins	Film
4	Everything Everywhere All at Once
2	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
	Top Gun: Maverick

References

^ "The 2022 WAFCA Awards". Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. December 12, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2022). "Washington D.C. Critics go for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', 'Glass Onion', 'The Banshees of Inisherin'". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2022). "The 2022 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 13, 2022.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 10, 2022). "The 2022 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 10, 2022). "Washington D.C. Film Critics Nominations: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', 'The Fabelmans' lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 11, 2022.

External links

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

[1] "The 2022 WAFCA Awards". Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. December 12, 2022. Retrieved December 13, 2022.

[2] Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2022). "Washington D.C. Critics go for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', 'Glass Onion', 'The Banshees of Inisherin'". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 13, 2022.

[3] Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2022). "The 2022 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 13, 2022.

[4] Neglia, Matt (December 10, 2022). "The 2022 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 11, 2022.

[5] Anderson, Erik (December 10, 2022). "Washington D.C. Film Critics Nominations: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', 'The Fabelmans' lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 11, 2022.

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