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Consider This 2022: Noteworthy Films, Performances And Achievements


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We all know that time is limited (especially when there's so much stuff to watch) so here are films, performances and filmmaking achievements that shouldn't be forgotten during 2022 awards season, all in one neat article which will be updated during the season.

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PICTURE

All Quiet On The Western Front

Athena

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

The Batman

The Northman

The Quiet Girl

X


*Barbarian

*FRESH

*Happening

*Prey

***The Territory


DIRECTOR

Colm Bairéad (The Quiet Girl)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front)

Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King)

Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

Jordan Peele (Nope)

Matt Reeves (The Batman)

Robert Eggers (The Northman)

Romain Gavras (Athena)

Ti West (X/Pearl)


*Audrey Diwan (Happening)

*Dan Trachtenberg (Prey)

*Mimi Cave (FRESH)


LEAD ACTOR

Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman)

Aubrey Plaza (Emily The Criminal)

Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram)

Catherine Clinch (The Quiet Girl)

Dali Benssalah (Athena)

Felix Kammerer (All Quiet On The Western Front)

Keke Palmer (Nope)

Mia Goth (Pearl/X)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Zar Amir-Ebrahimi (Holy Spider)


*Amber Midthunder (Prey)

*Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)

*Rebecca Hall (Resurrection)

*Sebastian Stan (FRESH)


SUPPORTING ACTOR

Carrie Crowley (The Quiet Girl)

Dakota Johnson (Cha Cha Real Smooth)

Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)

Judy Davis (Nitram)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Lashana Lynch (The Woman King)

Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone)

Rory Kinnear (Men)

Samantha Morton (She Said)


VOICE PERFORMANCE

David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

Gaten Matarazzo (My Father's Dragon)

Jenny Slate (Marcel The Shell With Shoes On)

Sandra Oh (Turning Red)

Zaris-Angel Hator (The Sea Beast)


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Benediction

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Holy Spider

X


*Barbarian

*FRESH

*Great Freedom


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

The Northman

The Quiet Girl


*Happening

*Prey


INTERNATIONAL (OR NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE) FILM

All Quiet On The Western Front (Germany)

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Holy Spider (Denmark)

The Blue Caftan (Morocco)

The Quiet Girl (Ireland)


**Athena (France)

**Great Freedom (Austria, Germany)

**Happening (France)


ANIMATED FILM

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

My Father's Dragon

The Sea Beast

Turning Red


CINEMATOGRAPHY

Athena

Nope

The Batman

The Northman

The Quiet Girl


PRODUCTION DESIGN

All Quiet On The Western Front

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

The Northman


EDITING

Argentina, 1985

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Pearl

The Black Phone


*FRESH

***The Territory


COSTUME DESIGN

Enola Holmes 2

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

The Northman

The Woman King


MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

All Quiet On The Western Front

Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Batman

The Woman King

X


SCORE

Athena

The Batman

The Northman

The Outfit

The Quiet Girl


*Prey


SOUND

All Quiet On The Western Front

Nope

The Batman

The Northman

The Sea Beast


VISUAL EFFECTS

All Quiet On The Western Front

Athena

Beast

Nope

The Batman


*Prey



*No qualifying release for Academy Awards

**Not chosen by its country for Academy Awards, qualifies elsewhere

***With the caveat that I have not seen enough documentaries

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