Everything Everywhere All at Once Named Best Independent Film by Chicago Indie Critics

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once has been named Best Independent Feature by the Chicago Indie Critics. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.

Winners in bold below.

Best Independent Film (budgets under $25 million)

Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Women Talking
X

Best Studio Film (budgets over $25 million)

The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
RRR
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky, The Whale
Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Actor

Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Jonathan Majors, Devotion
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Mia Goth, Pearl
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Dano, The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ben Whishaw, Women Talking

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original Screenplay

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung, Decision to Leave
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, TÁR

Best Adapted Screenplay

Kogonada, After Yang
Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Patrick McHale and Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best Animated Film

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
Good Night Oppy
The Janes
Navalny

Best Foreign Language Film

Broker
Close
Decision to Leave
Official Competiton
RRR

Best Ensemble

Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Woman King
Women Talking

Best Cinematography

Avatar: The Way of Water
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Editing

Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design

Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Costume Design

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Northman
The Woman King

Best Makeup

The Batman
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
X
The Whale

Best Original Score

Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Fabelmans
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Original Song

“Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
”Naatu Naatu” from RRR
“New Body Rhumba” from White Noise

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Stunts

The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King

Breakout Artist

Austin Butler
Frankie Corio
Danielle Deadwyler
Mia Goth
Stephanie Hsu

Sight Unseen Performance

David Bradley, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Rosalie Chiang, Turning Red
Ewan McGregor, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Isabella Rossalini, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Impact Award

Rebecca Fons, Gene Siskel Film Center
Morgan Harris, Acacia Consulting Group
Chris Johnson, Classic Cinemas
The late film critic Sergio Mims
The staff and management of the Music Box Theatre


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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.