(Jan. 3, 2022) – The North Carolina Film Critics Association is pleased to announce the winners for the eleventh annual awards for achievements in film. The following films were recognized in multiple categories: Everything Everywhere All at Once earning nine awards, with RRR gaining three honors, and Elvis, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and Nope each earning two.
Everything Everywhere All at Once garnered multiple accolades with awards for narrative film, director, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, acting ensemble, editing, and production design. Nine wins is the most for any film in the history of the North Carolina Film Critics Association’s Best of Cinema annual honors.
The NCFCA consists of sixty-seven film critics living and/or working in North Carolina.
The full list of winners is below in the following categories:
BEST NARRATIVE FILM
**Everything Everywhere All at Once** – Winner
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Nope
RRR
Tár
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
**Fire of Love** – Winner
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Good Night Oppy
Moonage Daydream
Navalny
BEST ANIMATED FILM
**Marcel the Shell With Shoes On** – Winner
Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
The Bad Guys
Turning Red
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
*RRR* – Winner
All Quiet on the Western Front
Close
Decision to Leave
EO
BEST DIRECTOR
**Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Todd Field (Tár)
Jordan Peele (Nope)
S.S. Rajamouli (RRR)
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
BEST ACTOR
**Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)** – Winner
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)
Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Daniel Kaluuya (Nope)
BEST ACTRESS
**Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Cate Blanchett (Tár)
Viola Davis (The Woman King)
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Mia Goth (Pearl)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
**Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Paul Dano (The Fabelmans)
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
**Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)
Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA
**Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On)** – Winner
Rosalie Chiang (Turning Red)
Ewan McGregor (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
Sandra Oh (Turning Red)
Sam Rockwell (The Bad Guys)
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
**Everything Everywhere All at Once** – Winner
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Woman King
Women Talking
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
**Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Todd Field (Tár)
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Jordan Peele (Nope)
Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner (The Fabelmans)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
**Sarah Polley (Women Talking)** – Winner
Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie (Top Gun: Maverick)
David Kajganich (Bones and All)
Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson, Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
**Hoyte van Hoytema (Nope)** – Winner
Russell Carpenter (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Claudio Miranda (Top Gun: Maverick)
Linus Sandgren (Babylon)
Larkin Seiple (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
BEST EDITING
**Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
Tom Cross (Babylon)
Eddie Hamilton (Top Gun: Maverick)
Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa (Elvis)
Monika Willi (Tár)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
**Ruth Carter (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)** – Winner
Shirley Kurata (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Catherine Martin (Elvis)
Gersha Phillips (The Woman King)
Mary Zophres (Babylon)
BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
**Shane Thomas, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Louise Coulston (Elvis)** – Winner
Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir (The Batman)
Camille Friend and Joel Harlow (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Anissa E. Salazar and Michelle Chung (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Heba Thorisdottir and Jaime Leigh McIntosh (Babylon)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
**Jason Kisvarday and Kelsi Ephraim (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner
James Chinlund and Lee Sandales (The Batman)
Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Rick Heinrichs and Elli Griff (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (Babylon)
BEST SCORE
**Michael Giacchino (The Batman)** – Winner
Carter Burwell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Justin Hurwitz (Babylon)
M. M. Keeravani (RRR)
John Williams (The Fabelmans)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
**“Naatu Naatu” (RRR)** – Winner
“Hold My Hand” (Top Gun: Maverick)
“new body rhumba” (White Noise)
“Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” (Avatar: The Way of Water)
“This is a Life” (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
BEST SOUND DESIGN
**Johnnie Burn and Jose Antonio Garcia (Nope)** – Winner
Brent Kiser, Andrew Twite, Stephen Nelson, Alexandra Fehrman, and Ian Chase (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor (Top Gun: Maverick)
Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson (The Batman)
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Michael Hedges, and Julian Howarth (Avatar: The Way of Water)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
**Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett (Avatar: The Way of Water)** – Winner
Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, and Dominic Tuohy (The Batman)
Guillaume Rocheron, Jeremy Robert, Sreejith Venugopalan, and Scott R. Fisher (Nope)
Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, and Jeff Desom (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, and Bryan Litson (Top Gun: Maverick)
BEST STUNT COORDINATION
**Nick Powell (RRR)** – Winner
Robert Alonzo (The Batman)
Timothy Eulich (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Danny Hernandez (The Woman King)
Casey O’Neill (Top Gun: Maverick)
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
**Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)** – Winner
Zach Cregger (Barbarian)
Parker Finn (Smile)
John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal)
Domee Shi (Turning Red)
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
**Austin Butler (Elvis)** – Winner
Frankie Corio (Aftersun)
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans)
Amber Midthunder (Prey)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: COMPOSER
**John Williams** – Winner
Carter Burwell
Danny Elfman
Ennio Morricone
Hans Zimmer
KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
**Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway, Bullet Train, Atlanta) – From Fayetteville, North Carolina** – Winner
Aldis Hodge (Black Adam, City on a Hill) – Born at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina
Jonathan Majors (Devotion) – Studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Earl Owensby – Owner of Earl Owensby Studios in Shelby, North Carolina
Evan Rachel Wood (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Phoenix Rising) – Born in Raleigh, North Carolina
Films with Multiple Wins:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (9)
RRR (3)
Elvis (2)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2)
Nope (2)
Films with Multiple Nominations:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (17)
Top Gun: Maverick (9)
The Banshees of Inisherin (8)
Nope (7)
Babylon (6)
The Batman (6)
The Fabelmans (6)
RRR (6)
Avatar: The Way of Water (5)
Elvis (5)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (5)
Tár (5)
Turning Red (4)
The Woman King (4)
Women Talking (4)
All Quiet on the Western Front (3)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (3)
Aftersun (2)
The Bad Guys (2)
Causeway (2)
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2)
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2)
** Additional Notes:
This was Cate Blanchett’s third nomination. She previously won a Best Actress award for Blue Jasmine (2013).
This was Paul Dano’s second nomination. The actor was previously nominated for Love & Mercy (2014).
This was Rian Johnson’s fourth nomination. He has been nominated previously for screenplay and direction (Looper and Knives Out). He won for Original Screenplay for Looper (2012).
This year marked Jordan Peele’s fourth nomination. He is a previous two-time winner for director and original screenplay for Get Out (2015).
This marked Steven Spielberg’s third nomination as director. He was previously nominated for the Post (2015) and West Side Story (2021).
Jessie Buckley is a two-time nominee. She was previously nominated for I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020).
Viola Davis is a previous NCFCA acting nominee for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020).
Nine NCFCA wins by Everything Everywhere All at Once is a record (as was the 17 nominations). Previous record wins went to The Power of the Dog (2021) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), each with six wins.
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