The Banshees of Inisherin Named Best Picture by San Diego Film Critics Society

Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin has been named Best Picture by the San Diego Film Critics Society. The film also picked up wins for Best Actor for Colin Farrell, Best Supporting Actor for Brendan Gleeson, Best Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon, and Best Original Screenplay.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
TÁR (runner-up)

Best Director

Edward Berger, All Quiet on the Western Front
Todd Field, TÁR
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (runner-up)

Best Actor

Austin Butler, Elvis (runner-up)
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, TÁR (runner-up)
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Regina Hall, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway (runner-up)
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mark Rylance, Bones and All

Best Supporting Actress

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nina Hoss, TÁR
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once (runner-up)
Lashana Lynch, The Woman King

Best Comedic Performance

Nicolas Cage, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Daniel Craig, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (runner-up)
Brian Tyree Henry, Bullet Train
Brad Pitt, Bullet Train
Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Best Youth Performance (for a Performer Under the Age of 16)

Jalyn Hall, Till (runner-up)
Madeleine McGraw, The Black Phone
Banks Repeta, Armageddon Time (runner-up)
Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, After Yang
Jaylin Webb, Armageddon Time

Best Original Screenplay

Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu, & Michael Reilly, Till
Todd Field, TÁR
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (runner-up)
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Seth Reiss & Will Tracy, The Menu

Best Adapted Screenplay

Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, & Ian Stokell, All Quiet on the Western Front
Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, & Matthew Robbins, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (runner-up)
Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale (runner-up)
David Kajganich, Bones and All (runner-up)
Sarah Polley, Women Talking (runner-up)

Best Animated Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (runner-up)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red (runner-up)
Wendell & Wild

Best Documentary

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love (runner-up)
Good Night Oppy
Navalny
Wildcat

Best Foreign Language Film

All Quiet on the Western Front
Close
Decision to Leave
Happening (runner-up)
RRR

Best Editing

David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin, & Ian Silverstein, Avatar: The Way of Water
Sarah Broshar & Michael Kahn, The Fabelmans (runner-up)
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen, the Banshees of Inisherin
Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa, Elvis (runner-up)
Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Cinematography

Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water
Ben Davis, The Banshees of Inisherin (runner-up)
Janus Kaminski, The Fabelmans
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Thirteen Lives
Linus Sandgren, Babylon

Best Production Design

Katie Byron, Don’t Worry Darling
Rick Carter, The Fabelmans (runner-up)
Rick Heinrichs, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Jason Kisvarday, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Florencia Martin, Babylon

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Top Gun: Maverick (runner-up)

Best Costume Design

Jenny Beavan, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (runner-up)
Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Catherine Martin & Rachelle Mejia, Elvis
Marci Rodgers, Till
Mary Zophres, Babylon

Best Sound Design

Avatar: The Way of Water
Bullet Train
Elvis (runner-up)
TÁR
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Use of Music

The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
The Fabelmans
TÁR (runner-up)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Breakthrough Artist

Jessie Buckley, Women Talking
Austin Butler, Elvis
Danielle Deadwyler, Till (runner-up)
Anna Diop, Nanny (runner-up)
Taylor Russell, Bones and All (runner-up)

Best Ensemble

The Banshees of Inisherin (runner-up)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Menu
Women Talking (runner-up)


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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.