Everything Everywhere All at Once leads the nominations for the 2022 Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) awards with a total of 11 nominations including Best Picture. With eleven total nominations, Everything Everywhere All at Once boasts recognition for both craft (Director, Screenplay, Editing and more) and the film’s entire lead ensemble, earning acting nominations for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu.
The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) revealed their winners and runners-up for 2022, naming Todd Field’s TÁR as Best Picture of the year, along with Best Actress for Cate Blanchett and Best Screenplay forTodd Field.
Janus Films revealed the official US trailer No Bears (خرس نیست), the Iranian drama directed by imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The film which was secretly filmed in Iran, stars Panahi along with Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani, and Reza Heydari, and tells two parallel love stories in which the lovers struggle with hidden and unavoidable obstacles.
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 66th BFI London Film Festival added the UK Premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance, to the 2022 program, screening in a Special Presentation. Bones and All is the tender story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey through Reagan’s America.
Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her crusade to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.
Prior to its world premiere in the official competition category of the 79th Venice Film Festival, No Bears, the film directed by Jafar Panahi, unveiled the first official poster
Ahead of the world premiere at Venice Film Festival, here is the first trailer for Jafar Panahi’s Iranian political thriller No Bears. Starring in the film are Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiyar Panjei, Mina Kavani and Reza Heydari.
New York Film Festival (NYFF) announced the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 60th edition of the festival taking place September 30–October 16, 2022.
Toronto International Film Festival announced the selections in the Gala and Special Presentations programs for the 47th edition taking place September 8–18, 2022. This list of films from the 2022 Official Selection features 18 Galas and 45 Special Presentations.
