Everything Everywhere All At Once Leads 2023 DiscussingFilm Critic Awards Nominations

Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the nominations for the 2023 DiscussingFilm Critic Awards with 14 nods including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, and Best Ensemble. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis each earned seven nominations.

Now in its fourth year, the DiscussingFilm Critic Awards celebrates the most noteworthy films of the year as voted by a diverse range of highly established film critics, awards pundits, and influential voices from around the globe, including journalists from notable outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Empire, The Wrap, Little White Lies, The Independent, and more.

Full list of nominations below. 

BEST PICTURE

Aftersun

The Banshees of Inisherin

Bones and All

Decision To Leave

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Pinocchio

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Women Talking

BEST DIRECTOR

Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Park Chan-wook, Decision To Leave

Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Speilberg, The Fabelmans

Todd Field, Tár

BEST ACTRESS

Taylor Russell, Bones and All

Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Cate Blanchett, Tár

Danielle Deadwyler, Till

Mia Goth, Pearl

BEST ACTOR

Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Park Hae il, Decision To Leave

Austin Butler, Elvis

Brendan Fraser, The Whale

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness

Hong Chau, The Whale

Claire Foy, Women Talking

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

Mark Rylance, Bones and All

Ben Whishaw, Women Talking

BEST ENSEMBLE

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Triangle of Sadness

The Woman King

Women Talking

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

David Kajganich, Bones and All

Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale

Sarah Polley & Miriam Toews, Women Talking

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong, Decision To Leave

Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field, Tár

Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Marcel The Shell with Shoes On

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Turning Red

Wendell & Wild

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

Descendant

Fire of Love

Moonage Daydream

Navalny

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

All Quiet on the Western Front

Bardo

Broker

Close

Corsage

Decision To Leave

EO

Holy Spider

RRR

Saint Omer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Linus Sandgren, Babylon

Greig Fraser, The Batman

Ji-yong Kim, Decision to Leave

Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope

Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick

BEST FILM EDITING

Babylon

Decision to Leave

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Babylon

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Woman King

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Whale

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Babylon

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

BEST SOUND

The Batman

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nope

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: The Way of the Water

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Babylon

The Batman

Bones and All

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Women Talking

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Lift Me Up”, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

“Vegas”, Elvis

“Ciao Papa”, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

“Naatu Naatu”, RRR

“Hold My Hand”, Top Gun: Maverick

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Aftersun

Fresh

The Inspection

Nanny

Turning Red

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Frankie Corio, Aftersun

Diego Calva, Babylon

Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness

BEST HORROR FILM

Barbarian

Bones and All

Nope

Pearl

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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.