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NCFCA Names Best of 2022 in Cinema
NCFCA Names Best of 2022 in Cinema

Everything Everywhere All at Once earning nine awards, with RRR gaining three honors, and ElvisMarcel 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

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

**Fire of Love** – Winner

BEST ANIMATED FILM

**Marcel the Shell With Shoes On** – Winner

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

*RRR* – Winner

BEST DIRECTOR

**Daniels (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST ACTOR

**Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)** – Winner

BEST ACTRESS

**Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

**Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

**Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA

**Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On)** – Winner

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

**Everything Everywhere All at Once** – Winner

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

**Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

**Sarah Polley (Women Talking)** – Winner

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

**Hoyte van Hoytema (Nope)** – Winner

BEST EDITING

**Paul Rogers (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

**Ruth Carter (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)** – Winner

BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP

**Shane Thomas, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Louise Coulston (Elvis)** – Winner

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

**Jason Kisvarday and Kelsi Ephraim (Everything Everywhere All at Once)** – Winner

BEST SCORE

**Michael Giacchino (The Batman)** – Winner

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

**“Naatu Naatu” (RRR)** – Winner

BEST SOUND DESIGN

**Johnnie Burn and Jose Antonio Garcia (Nope)** – Winner

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

**Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett (Avatar: The Way of Water)** – Winner

BEST STUNT COORDINATION

**Nick Powell (RRR)** – Winner

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

**Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)** – Winner

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

**Austin Butler (Elvis)** – Winner

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: COMPOSER

**John Williams** – Winner

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD

**Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway, Bullet Train, Atlanta) – From Fayetteville, North Carolina** – Winner

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)

NCFCA Names Best of 2022 in Cinema
NCFCA Names Best of 2022 in Cinema
NOPE is NCFCA Award Winner
RRR Winner of multiple NCFCA Awards

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