‘Tár’ and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Named Best Picture by L.A. Film Critics

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named both Everything everywhere, everything at once and Tár as his best image for 2022.

On Sunday, the critics association announced its winners for the best films of 2022. To live actor Bill Nightly and Deposit star Cate Blanchett was named best lead performance. This was the first year LAFCA introduced gender-neutral acting categories, including two awards for Best Lead Performance and two for Best Supporting Performance.

Deposit it took home several awards, including Todd Field for best director and best screenplay.

Best supporting performance went to Dolly De Leon in triangle of sadness and Ke Huy Quan in Everything everywhere at once.

by Jerzy Skolimowski EO won the award for best film not in the English language, and that of Laura Poitras All the beauty and the bloodshed it won the award for best documentary/nonfiction film.

The best animated film went to Pinocchio and EO from William the Bull Michał Dymek took home the best photograph.

The organization previously selected writer-director Claire Denis as this year’s lifetime achievement award recipient. Denis made her film debut in 1988 with chocolate. Some of her other film credits include Good work (1999), The intruder (2004), 35 shots of rum (2008) and white matter (2009). During his career, Denis has received several awards at international festivals and also won the Berlin International Film Festival directing award for Both sides of the sheet and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for stars at noon.

“We are delighted to honor Claire Denis, one of the greatest living film auteurs and a master at depicting the identity crises faced by both the colonizer and the colonized,” LAFCA President Claudia Puig said ahead of the event. “A distinctive sociopolitical point of view and anti-patriarchal sensibility infuse her work, which is deeply evocative, often tender and intimate, but never sentimental, and always uncompromising.”

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association includes Los Angeles-based professional film critics working in print and electronic media. Members hold their annual awards vote to honor on-screen excellence on and off camera.

For the first time in three years, the organization will hold an in-person awards event on January 14, 2023 to honor the winners.

A complete list of winners is included below.

Best Picture (tie): Everything everywhere at once Y Deposit

Best film not in English language: EO

runner-up: Saint Omer

Best Director: field Todd, Deposit

runner-up: HH Rajamouli

Best Documentary/Nonfiction: All the beauty and the bloodshed

runner-up: fire of love

Best Lead Performance: cate blanchett, Deposit and Bill Nighty, To live

runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler, Until and Michelle Yeoh, Everything everywhere at once

Best screenplay: field Todd, Deposit

runner-up: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Animation: Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro

runner-up: Marcel the shell with his shoes on

Best edit: Blair McClendon, After the sun

runner-up: Monica Willy, Deposit

Best Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, Avatar: The Path of Water

runner-up: jason kisvarday, Everything everywhere at once

Best Music/Score: MM Keeravani, RRR

runner-up: Pawel Mykietyn, EO

Best Supporting Actor: dolly de leon triangle of sadness and Ke Huy Quan, Everything everywhere at once

runner-up: jessie buckley, women talking and Brian Tyree Henry, raised causeway

Best photography: Michal Dymek, SO

runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope

New generation: Davy Chou and Park Ji Min, return to seoul

Lifetime Achievement Award: claire dennis

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award: Of the Structure of the Human Body