In this year-end special report, Westporter Susan Granger presents her favorite cinematic releases, accomplishments and performances of 2022.

Picture:

Avatar; The Way Of Water

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Fabelmans

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris

RRR

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

The Woman King

Director:

James Cameron for Avatar; The Way Of Water

Anthony Fabian for Mrs Harris Goes To Paris

Todd Field for Tár

Ron Howard for Thirteen Lives

Joseph Kosinski for Top Gun: Maverick

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Baz Luhrmann for Elvis

Gina Prince-Bythewood for The Woman King

S.S. Rajamouli  for RRR

Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans

Actors:

Austin Butler for Elvis

Ram Charan for RRR

Tom Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick

Colin Farrell for The Banshees Of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser for The Whale

Tom Hanks for A Man Called Otto

Hugh Jackman for The Son

Gabriel Labelle for The Fabelmans

Bill Nighy for Living

N.T Rama Rau for RRR

Actresses:

Cate Blanchett for Tár

Viola Davis for The Woman King

Danielle Deadwyler for Till

Jennifer Lawrence for Causeway

Leslie Manville for Mrs Harris Goes To Paris

Margot Robbie for Babylon

Emma Thompson for Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Supporting Actors:

Paul Dano for The Fabelmans

Tom Hanks for Elvis

Judd Hirsch for The Fabelmans

Brendan Gleeson for The Banshees Of Inisherin

Barry Keoghan for The Banshees Of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry for Causeway

Miles Teller for Top Gun: Maverick

Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Supporting Actress:

Angela Bassett for Black Panther; Wakanda forever

Hong Chau for The Whale

Kerry Condon for The Banshees Of Inisherin

Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Stephanie Hsu for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Janelle Monae for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Keke Palmer for Nope

Sadie Sink for The Whale

Animated:

Apollo 10 ½: A Space Childhood 

Eternal Spring

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio 

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On

Minions: The Rise Of Gru

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

Turning Red

Wendell & Wild

Documentary:

All That Breathes

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

Descendant

Fire Of Love

Good Night Oppy

Last Flight Home

Let Me Be Me

Moonage Daydream

Navalny

Sr.

International Film:

All Quiet On The Western Front

Argentina, 1985

Bardo: False Chronicles Of A Handful Of Truths

Close

Decision To Leave

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