Everything Everywhere All at Once Leads Hawaii Film Critics Society Nominations

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once leads this year’s nominations from the Hawaii Film Critics Society with 16 nominations. Elsewhere, Damien Chazelle’s Babylon scored 11 nods, while Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick earned nine nominations.

Full list of nominations below.

BEST PICTURE :

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Top Gun: Maverick

The Menu 

Babylon 

TAR

BEST DIRECTOR:
The Daniels, Everything Everywhere all At Once 

Todd Field, TAR

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Damien Chazelle, Babylon

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans 

BEST ACTOR:
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Austin Butler, Elvis

Brendan Fraser, The Whale

Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ACTRESS:
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Cate Blanchett, TAR 

Margot Robbie, Babylon 

Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu

Mia Goth, Pearl

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

Brad Pitt, Babylon 

Colin Farrell, The Batman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin 

Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jean Smart, Babylon 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

The Banshees of Inisherin 

The Menu 

TAR 

The Fabelmans 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Women Talking 

Top Gun: Maverick 

She Said 

The Whale 

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Babylon 

Elvis 

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

RRR 

Avatar: The Way of Water 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Babylon 

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

Elvis 

The Fabelmans

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Babylon 

Top Gun: Maverick 

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

TAR

Avatar: The Way of Water 

BEST EDITING:

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Top Gun: Maverick 

Babylon 

Elvis 

Avatar: The Way of Water 

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

The Bad Guys 

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 

Turning Red 

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

Sr. 

Good Night Oppy 

Fire of Love 

Three Minutes: A Lengthening 

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

BEST MAKE-UP:

The Batman 

The Whale 

Elvis 

Babylon

Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SOUND:

Top Gun: Maverick 

Avatar: The Way of Water 

Elvis 

RRR 

The Fabelmans 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Babylon

Avatar: The Way of Water 

The Batman 

The Banshees of Inisherin 

Women Talking 

BEST SONG:

“Lift Me Up” (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

“Ciao Papa” (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)

“Naatu Naatu (Telugu)” (RRR

“Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick

“This Is A Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Avatar: The Way of Water 

RRR 

Top Gun: Maverick 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

BEST STUNT WORK:

Top Gun: Maverick 

RRR 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

Avatar: The Way of Water 

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

BEST NEW FILMMAKER:

John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal

Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Elegance Bratton, The Inspection

Lee Jung-jae, Hunt

Carlota Pereda, Piggy

BEST FIRST FILM:

Aftersun

Turning Red

Hunt

The Bad Guys

The Bob’s Burgers Movie

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM:

After Yang

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 

The Outfit 

Emily the Criminal 

Zero Fucks Given

BEST VOCAL/MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE:

Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: The Way of Water

Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Antonio Banderas, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Zazie Beetz, The Bad Guys

Rosalie Chiang, Turning Red

BEST HORROR FILM:
Pearl 

The Black Phone 

Barbarian 

Smile 

Terrifier 2 

BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE:

Black Panther: Wakanda 

The Batman 

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Black Adam 

DC League of Super-Pets 

BEST SCI-FI FILM:

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Nope 

Prey 

Lightyear

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

RRR (India)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)

Decision To Leave (South Korea)

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truth (Mexico)

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

BEST HAWAIIAN FILM:

The Wind and the Reckoning (dir. David L. Cunningham) (Hawaii)

Waterman (dir. Isaac Halasima) (Oahu)

Cane Fire (dir. Anthony Banua-Simon) (Kauai)

Ala Moana Boys (dir. Keli’i Grace) (Oahu)

Last Hawaiian Sugar (dir. Deja Bernhardt) (Maui)

WORST FILM OF 2022:

Blonde 

Morbius 

Firestarter 

The 355 

Thor: Love and Thunder 

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.