We have to go back to the Academy Awards in 1972 when Cabaret took home 8 Oscars – including Best Director and two acting prizes – without the big prize, Best Picture. That went to The Godfather, which also conquered in Best Actor and Screenplay. As we digest the recently announced winners for the 4th Pandora International Film Critics awards, there’s almost an exact mirror of those events some 50 years ago. The Daniels’ mesmerising Everything Everywhere All At Once notched up an incredible 8 wins including Directing, Ensemble and three individual acting prizes. It was its season-long rival, The Banshees of Inisherin that took the English Language Motion Picture, as well as Lead Actor and Screenwriting Original.
Elsewhere, The Batman grabbed 3 wins, with the sleeper hit of 2022, Aftersun, snagging both Breakthrough awards. There were wins too for Top Gun: Maverick, Nope, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Fire of Love, RRR, Women Talking and Decision To Leave winning the big prize of International Motion Picture.
Check out the full list of winners here:
ANNA KARINA AWARD FOR WORLD CINEMA ICON
Mary Pickford
INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close
Corsage
Decision to Leave
EO
Happening
The Quiet Girl
RRR
Saint Omer
DOCUMENTARY MOTION PICTURE
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Fire of Love
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE
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
ENGLISH LANGUAGE MOTION PICTURE
Aftersun
The Banshess of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
She Said
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
EDITING
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick
CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at once
Top Gun: Maverick
SET DESIGN
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Woman King
HAIR & MAKEUP
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Woman King
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick
SOUND DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick
SCORE COMPOSING
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
The Fabelmans
Women Talking
SONG COMPOSING
“Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
“Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
“Naatu Naatu” (RRR)
“Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
“New Body Rhumba” (White Noise)
SCREENWRITING ADAPTED
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Living
She Said
Women Talking
SCREENWRITING ORIGINAL
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
TÁR
The Woman King
DIRECTING
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
S.S. Rajamouli (RRR)
Sarah Polley (Women Talking)
FILMMAKING BREAKTHROUGH
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Murina)
Nikyatu Jusu (Nanny)
Alice Diop (Saint Omer)
Maria Schrader (She Said)
ACTING BREAKTHROUGH
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Eden Dambrine (Close)
Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans)
Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening)
Catherine Clinch (The Quiet Girl)
ACTRESS LEAD
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)
Mia Goth (Pearl)
Cate Blanchett (TÁR)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Viola Davis (The Woman King)
ACTRESS SUPPORT
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Lashana Lynch (The Woman King)
Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)
Claire Foy (Women Talking)
ACTOR LEAD
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Diego Calva (Babylon)
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
ACTOR SUPPORT
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)
Paul Dano (The Fablemans)
Ben Wishaw (Women Talking)
ENSEMBLE CAST
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Woman King
Women Talking