The Boston Online Film Critics Association (BOFCA) awarded Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, the top honor of Best Picture of 2022. The film also received Best Actor for Colin Farrell, Best Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon, and Best Screenplay for McDonagh.
Greenwich Entertainment revealed the official trailer for The Man in the Basement, the French psychological thriller starring Jérémie Renier and Bérénice Bejo as a French Jewish couple who sells their basement to a former teacher (François Cluzet), an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. Also starring in the film are Jonathan Zaccaï, Victoria Eber, and Denise Chalem.
Phoenix Critics Circle awarded The Banshees of Inisherin, the top honor of Best Picture of 2022 along with Best Screenplay for Martin Mcdonagh.
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle also named Everything Everywhere All at Once the Best Film of 2022 at its sixth annual year-end awards. The film also snagged the honors of Best Director and Best Script for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Best Supporting Actor fpr Ke Huy Yuan and Best Breakthrough Performance for Stephanie Hsu.
Peacock revealed the official trailer for Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair, the biopic documentary film exploring the life of the WWE hall of famer.
The Utah Film Critics Association voted to award Everything Everywhere All At Once the top honor of Best Picture of 2022, along with Best Achievement in Directing and Original Screenplay by Daniel Kwan and Dan Scheinert, Best Lead Female Performance for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Female Performance for Stephanie Hsu, Best Supporting Male Performance for Ke Huy Quan, Ensemble Cast, Film Editing and Visual Effects.
Filmed in evocative black and white, A Perfect Day for Caribou, starring Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete; Looking for Alaska) and Jeb Berrier (First Cow; Shrill) will make its US premiere at Slamdance Film Festival. Also starring in the film are Rachael Perrell Fosket, Dana Millican, and Oellis Levine.
Ava DuVernay’a Array Releasing revealed the official trailer for Mars One (Marte Um), the family drama selected as Brazil’s official section for International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards. In the film starring Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, Camilla Damião and Cícero Lucas, a middle-class Black family in Brazil feels the strain of their new reality after a far-right politician takes power in Brazil.
Brainstorm Media debuted the official trailer for She Is Love, the intense and involving romantic drama starring Haley Bennett (Cyrano, The Girl on the Train & The Magnificent Seven) and Sam Riley (Control, Free Fire & On the Road) as a divorced couple who meet a decade after their split.
Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will receive the International Icon Award at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance on January 19 in Park City. Guadagnino will join previously announced honorees of the evening, Ryan Coogler, W. Kamau Bell, and Nikyatu Jusu. Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance will kick off the 2023 Sundance Film Festival by honoring inspiring and breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years while raising funds and awareness for the Institute.
David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, and Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun took the top spots among films released in 2022 on Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, and Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen received the top rankings.
Sometimes we find hope where we least expect it.