The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once Lead Houston Film Critics Society Nominations

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once lead this year’s nominations from the Houston Film Critics Society with nine nods each including Best Picture.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on February 19.

Best Picture
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Elvis”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“RRR”
“Tár”
“Till”
“Top Gun: Maverick”
“Women Talking”

Best Director
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Baz Luhrmann, “Elvis”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
Todd Field, “Tár”
Sarah Polley, “Women Talking”

Best Actor
Austin Butler, “Elvis”
Tom Cruise, “Top Gun: Maverick”
Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Jeremy Pope, “The Inspection”

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, “Tár”
Viola Davis, “The Woman King”
Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”
Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Mark Rylance, “Bones and All”
Ben Whishaw, Women Talking

Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley, “Women Talking”
Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Janelle Monáe, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”

Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, “The Fabelmans”
Todd Field, “Tár”
Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews, “Women Talking”

Best Animated Feature
“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”

Best Cinematography
Russell Carpenter, “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Linus Sandgren, “Babylon”
Hoyte Van Hoytema, ‘Nope”
Janusz Kamiński, “The Fabelmans”
Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Documentary
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”
“Bad Axe”
“Fire of Love”
“Good Night Oppy”
“Navalny”

Best Foreign Language Feature
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
“Argentina, 1985” 
“Close”
“Decision to Leave”
“RRR” 

Best Original Score
Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”
Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Empire of Light”
John Williams, “The Fabelmans”
Alexandre Desplat, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Hildur Guðnadóttir, “Women Talking”

Best Original Song
“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“Ciao Papa” from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
“Naatu Naatu,” from “RRR”
“Stand Up” from “Till”
“Hold My Hand,” from “Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Visual Effects

“Avatar: The Way of Water”
“The Batman”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
“RRR”
“Top Gun: Maverick”

Best Stunt Coordination Team

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

Best Ensemble Cast
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“Women Talking”

Texas Independent Film Award
“Acid Test”
“Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood”
“Conception”
“Deep in the Heart: A Texas Wildlife Story”
“Facing Nolan”

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.