Everything Everywhere All At Once literally swept the 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards with seven wins including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Best Lead Performance for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Performance for Ke Huy Quan, Best Breakthrough Performance for Stephanie Hsu and Best Editing for Paul Rogers.
Inspection, Till, and Causeway are among the films recognized by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) at the 14th annual AAFCA Awards. Till received a special Impact Award along with Best Actress for Danielle Deadwyler and the Emerging Face award for Jaylin Hall.
The Woman King was named Best Film of 2022 by the Black Film Critics Circle, besting critics favorite Everything Everywhere All At Once which came in 4th. Other top honors went to Brendan Fraser for Best Actor for The Whale; Danielle Deadwyler for Best Actress for Till and Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The National Board of Review announced their 2022 honorees, with top awards including Top Gun: Maverick for Best Film; Steven Spielberg for Best Director for The Fabelmans; Colin Farrell for Best Actor for The Banshees of Inisherin; and Michelle Yeoh for Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Aftersun directed by Charlotte Wells was awarded the Fiction Feature Prize at the 2022 Montclair Film Festival (MFF). All the Beauty and the Bloodshed directed by Laura Poitras, was awarded the festival’s Bruce Sinosky Award for the Documentary Feature Competition.
Tár, Todd Field’s drama starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional renowned musician Lydia Tár, won the Overall Audience Favorite award at the 45th Mill Valley Film Festival. Other audience awards went to The Whale for Audience Favorite | US Cinema; Our Father, The Devil for Audience Favorite | US Indie; The Banshees of Inisherin for Audience Favorite | World Cinema; Close for Audience Favorite | World Cinema (foreign language); and The Grab for Audience Favorite | Documentary.
AFI Fest Film Festival 2022 today unveiled the full lineup of 125 films including Bones and All directed by Luca Guadagnino, Le Pupille directed by Alice Rohrwacher, Nanny directed by Nikyatu Jusu, SR. directed by Chris Smith, and Women Talking by writer and director Sarah Polley, which will all screen in the Special Screenings section. Of the official selections, 53% are directed by women, 32% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers and 11% are directed by LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.
The Mill Valley Film Festival announced the 3 films nominated for the 2022 Mind The Gap (MTG) Creation Prize of $10,000. Awarded to a first- or second-time Mind the Gap filmmaker, the prize recognizes exciting new voices in cinema who demonstrate creativity of vision and exceptional use of the film medium.
Indie Memphis Film Festival celebrates its 25th Anniversary from October 19th through 24th on the ground in Memphis, as well as virtually, with an intensely varied international lineup of new films, most of which with filmmakers in-person, as well as revival screenings that celebrate Memphis’ rich cultural history, and incredible restorations of film classics.
The 66th BFI London Film Festival (LFF) announced the full program line-up of films, series and immersive art works from over 63 countries with 41% of the program made by female and non-binary directors/creators or co-directors/creators and 34% made by ethnically diverse directors/creators.
Amazon Prime Video debuted the official trailer for Nanny, the psychological horror movie which world premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize in the US Dramatic Competition.
