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B E S T   F I L M
 Everything Everywhere All At Once Everything Everywhere All at Once
dir Daniel Kwan
& Daniel Scheinert

There isn't a moment in this riotous action romp that goes as expected, so watching it is exhilarating. And there are so many levels of depth to the characters and story that it becomes vitally important too.

2. NO BEARS (Jafar Panahi)
3. THE QUIET GIRL (Colm Bairéad)
4. THE INSPECTION
    (Elegance Bratton)
5. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
    (Martin McDonagh)
6. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE
    BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras)
7. LIVING (Oliver Hermanus)
8. DECISION TO LEAVE
    (Park Chan-wook)
9. SHE SAID (Maria Schrader)
10.ELVIS (Baz Luhrmann)
11. RRR (SS Rajamouli)
12. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
13. Pamfir
      (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk)
14. Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi)
15. Athena (Romain Gavras)
16. Triangle of Sadness
      (Ruben Ostlund)
17. Skin Deep (Alex Schaad)
18. Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)
19. Piggy (Carlota Pereda)
20. Rock. Paper. Grenade.
      (Iryna Tsilyk)
21. Moonage Daydream
      (Brett Morgen)
22. Aisha (Frank Berry)
23. Private Desert (Aly Muritiba)
24. All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
25. Black Panther: Wakanda
      Forever (Ryan Coogler)
26. Blue Jean (Georgia Oakley)
27. Huda's Salon (Hany Abu-Assad)
28. The Fabelmans
      (Steven Spielberg)
29. Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)
30. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
31. Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick)
32. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
      (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
33. Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
34. The Blue Caftan
      (Maryam Touzani)
35. Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
36. Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)
37. A Distant Place (Park Kun Young)
38. Virga (Won Ho-Yeon,
      Jung Tae-Kyoung)
39. The Silent Twins
      (Agnieszka Smoczynska)
40. Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach)
41. Lynch/Oz (Alexandre O Philippe)
42. Close (Lukas Dhont)
43. Azor (Andreas Fontana)
44. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
45. The Damned Don't Cry
      (Fyzal Boulifa)
46. Nope (Jordan Peele)
47. Missing (Shinzo Katayama)
48. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
      (Pawo Choyning Dorji)
49. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
50. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
      (Eric Appel)

NB. I saw 498 films in 2022
See also:
SHADOWS HALL OF FAME
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director: park D I R E C T O R

Park Chan-wook
Decision to Leave
2. Romain Gavras - Athena
3. Charlotte Wells - Aftersun
4. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert -
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. Sarah Polley - Women Talking
6. Iryna Tsilyk - Rock. Paper. Grenade.
7. Baz Luhrmann - Elvis
8. Georgia Oakley - Blue Jean
9. Maryna Er Gorbach - Klondike
10. Lila Neugebauer - Causeway

screenplay: ishiguro S C R E E N W R I T E R

Kazuo Ishiguro
Living
2. Martin McDonagh -
    The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Jafar Panahi - No Bears
4. Marie Kreutzer - Corsage
5. Sarah Polley - Women Talking
6. Elegance Bratton - The Inspection
7. Rian Johnson - Glass Onion
8. Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert -
    Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. Dimitrij Schaad, Alex Schaad - Skin Deep
10. Lena Dunham - Sharp Stick, Catherine Called Birdy

actress: yeoh A C T R E S S

Michelle Yeoh
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Letitia Wright - Aisha, The Silent Twins,
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
3. Ana de Armas - Blonde, Deep Water, The Gray Man
4. Catherine Clinch - The Quiet Girl
5. Penelope Cruz - Official Competition,
    Immensity, On the Fringe, The 355
6. Cate Blanchett - Tár
7. Danielle Deadwyler - Till
8. Florence Pugh - The Wonder, Don't Worry Darling
9. Zar Amir Ebrahimi - Holy Spider
10. Jessie Buckley - Men, Women Talking

actor: farrell A C T O R

Colin Farrell
The Banshees of Inisherin,
After Yang, The Batman
2. Bill Nighy - Living
3. Jeremy Pope - The Inspection
4. Paul Mescal - Aftersun
5. Mehdi Bajestani - Holy Spider
6. Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway, Bullet Train
7. Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave
8. Oleksandr Yatsentyuk - Pamfir
9. Brendan Fraser - The Whale
10. Austin Butler - Elvis

supporting: chau S U P P O R T I N G
A C T R E S S

Hong Chau
The Whale, The Menu
2. Samantha Morton - The Whale, She Said
3. Nina Hoss - Tár
4. Dolly De Leon - Triangle of Sadness
5. Frankie Corio - Aftersun
6. Gabrielle Union - The Inspection
7. Judy Davis - Nitram
8. Kiyohiko Shibukawa - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
9. Lashana Lynch - The Woman King, Matilda the Musical
10. Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once,
      Halloween Ends

supporting: calva S U P P O R T I N G
A C T O R

Diego Calva
Babylon
2. Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Ben Whishaw - Women Talking
5. Andrew Bennett - The Quiet Girl
6. John Boyega - The Woman King
7. Anthony Bajon - Athena
8. Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
9. Russell Harvard - Causeway
10. Thomas Wodianka - Skin Deep

H A L L   O F   S H A M E

worst: samaritan W O R S T   F I L M
Samaritan
dir Julius Avery
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Jeff Fowler)
3. Padre Pio (Abel Ferrara)
4. Dear Zoe (Gren Wells)
5. Where the Crawdads Sing
    (Olivia Newman)
6. The 355 (Simon Kinberg)
7. The Bubble (Judd Apatow)
8. Moonfall (Roland Emmerich)
9. Mr Malcolm's List (Emma Holly Jones)
10. Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh)
11. Disenchanted (Adam Shankman)
12. Control (James Mark)
13. Agent Game (Grant S Johnson)
14. Father Stu (Rosalind Ross)
15. The Runner (Michelle Danner)
16. Escape the Field (Emerson Moore)
17. Unplugging (Debra Neil-Fisher)
18. I, Challenger (Paul Boyd)
18. The Long Night (Rich Ragsdale)
20. Expired (Ivan Sen)
21. Studio 666 (BJ McDonnell)
22. No Way Out (Azi Rahman)
23. You Are My Sunshine (David Hastings)
24. The Leech (Eric Pennycoff)
25. Glorious (Rebekah McKendry)
26. Devotion (JD Dillard)
27. The King's Daughter (Sean McNamara)
28. The Adam Project (Shawn Levy)
29. Tomorrow Morning (Nick Winston)
30. Un Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
disappointment:peninsula BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Top Gun: Maverick. The Son.
Disenchanted. Don't Worry Darling.
MOST PRETENTIOUS: Emancipation
Father Stu. Bardo. Saint Omer. Un Couple.
MOST DERIVATIVE: Black Adam
Clean. Agent Game. Escape the Field. Warriors of Future.
LAZIEST MOVIE: The 355
Ticket to Paradise. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Downton Abbey: A New Era.
MISSED OPPORTUNITY: The Bubble
The Railway Children Return. Don't Worry Darling. Eiffel.
MOST OVERBLOWN (THE MICHAEL BAY AWARD):
Ambulance. Moonfall. RRR. Warriors of Future. The Bubble.
MOST OVERSTUFFED: Amsterdam
Babylon. White Noise. Bardo.
MOST CYNICALLY PACKAGED: Mr Malcolm's List
Samaritan. Agent Game. Major.
LEAST 'SPECIAL' EFFECTS: Moonfall
Death on the Nile. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Ticket to Paradise.
LEAST FUNNY COMEDY: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The Bubble. Unplugging. I, Challenger.
LEAST SCARY THRILLER: The Black Phone
Jurassic World: Dominion. The Secrets of Dumbledore.
WORST TITLE: Warriors of Future.
MOST ANTI-CLIMACTIC REUNION:
Downton Abbey: A New Era. Disenchanted.
MOST THANKLESS ROLE:
Jennifer Connelly (Top Gun: Maverick)
Sebastian Stan (The 355). Bingbing Fan (The King's Daughter). Marton Czokas (Chevalier).
MOST ANNOYING VOICEOVER (THE MORGAN
FREEMAN AWARD): Adrien Brody (Clean)
MOST WASTEFUL DIRECTOR: Judd Apatow (The Bubble)
MOST WASTED DIRECTOR:
Adam Shankman (Disenchanted).
SHOULD RETIRE: Sylvester Stallone. Antoine Fuqua.
PLEASE STOP: Mega-blockbusters with idiotic plots
(Top Gun: Maverick, Jurassic World: Dominion, etc)
WORST MANAGEMENT:
Pierce Brosnan (The King's Daughter)

N O N - F I L M   P I C K S

tv: This Is Going to Hurt T V   S E R I E S
This Is Going to Hurt
BBC
2. Heartstopper (Netflix)
3. The White Lotus (HBO)
4. Derry Girls (C4)
5. Hacks (HBO)
6. Welcome to Chippendales (Hulu)
7. Acapulco (Apple)
8. Ozark (Netflix)
9. His Dark Materials (BBC)
10. The Great (Hulu)
11. Young Rock (NBC)
12. Peacemaker (HBO)
13. The Crown (Netflix)
14. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Prime)
15. Ms Marvel (Disney)
16. The Bear (FX)
17. Uncoupled (Netflix)
18. Big Boys (C4)
19. Our Flag Means Death (HBO)
20. The Conners (ABC)
21. Bridgerton (Netflix)
22. Minx (HBO)
23. Killing Eve (BBC)
24. Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
25. Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
26. Reboot (Hulu)
27. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney)
28. Loot (HBO)
29. Kevin Can F**k Himself (AMC)
30. The Sandman (Netflix)
GUILTY PLEASURES: The Traitors.
The Great British Bake-Off. Selling Sunset. The Circle.
RuPaul's Drag Race (plus All Stars, España, Canada, UK).
Strictly Come Dancing. Love Island.
WORST SERIES: Quantum Leap. The Gilded Age.
Becoming Elizabeth. Murderville. Andor
single: break my soul S I N G L E
Break My Soul
Beyoncé
2. Firebabe - Stormzy
3. Boyfriend - Dove Cameron
4. About Damn Time - Lizzo
5. Child of God - Chance the Rapper
6. Lift Me Up - Rihanna
7. Overthinking - Mabel & 24kGoldn
8. Oh My God - Adele
9. Bam Bam - Camila Cabello & Ed Sheeran
10. Psycho - Anne-Marie & Aitch
11. 2am - Foals
12. Beg for You - Charli XCX & Rina Sawayama
13. House on Fire - Mimi Webb
14. Big Energy - Latto
15. Crazy What Love Can Do - David Guetta,
      Becky Hill & Ella Henderson
16. Black Summer - Red Hot Chili Peppers
17. Stay - Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber
18. Hide & Seek - Stormzy
19. Head on Fire - Griff & Sigrid
20. She's All I Wanna Be - Tate McRae
21. Hallucination - Regard & Years and Years
22. As It Was - Harry Styles
23. Where Did You Go - Jax Jones & MNEK
24. Used to Know Me - Charli XCX
25. Run - Becky Hill & Galantis
26. Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift
27. Anyone for You - George Ezra
28. Light Switch - Charlie Puth
29. Go - Cat Burns
30. When You're Gone - Shawn Mendes

A R T I S T I C   A C H I E V E M E N T   A W A R D S

ensemble: glass onion ENSEMBLE: Glass Onion
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Flux Gourmet
4. The Banshees of Inisherin
5. Women Talking
Special mention: Fire Island. Winners.
BREAKOUT FILMMAKER:
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
2. Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean)
3. Lila Neugebauer (Causeway)
4. Agnieszka Smoczynska
    (The Silent Twins)
5. Colm Bairead (The Quiet Girl)
BREAKOUT ACTOR:
Catherine Clinch (The Quiet Girl)
2. Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean)
3. Russell Harvard (Causeway)
4. Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)
5. Hazel Doupe (You Are Not My Mother)
music: tar MUSIC:
Tár (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
    (Carter Burwell)
3. Neptune Frost (Saul Williams)
4. Living (Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch)
5. RRR (MM Keeravani)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Athena (Matias Boucard)
2. Aftersun (Gregory Oke)
3. All That Breathes (Ben Bernhard)
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    (Larkin Seiple)
5. Top Gun: Maverick (Claudio Miranda)
EDITING:
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers)
2. Decision to Leave (Kim Sang-beom)
3. Blonde (Adam Robinson)
4. Nop (Nicholas Monsour)
5. Aftersun (Blair McClendon)
 design: pamfir PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Pamfir (Ivan Mikhailov)
2. Tar (Marco Bittner Rosser)
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    (Jason Kisvarday)
4. Don't Worry Darling (Katie Byron)
5. Strawberry Mansion
    (Becca Brooks Morrin)
COSTUMES: Elvis (Catherine Martin)
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
    (Shirley Kurata)
3. RRR (Rama Rajamouli)
4. Corsage (Monika Buttinger)
5. Aline (Catherine Leterrier)
MAKEUP & HAIR: The Whale
2. The Northman
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
4. Corsage
5. Elvis
animation: Eternal Spring ANIMATION: Eternal Spring
2. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
3. Wendell & Wild
4. The Spine of Night
5. The Silent Twins
EFFECTS:
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Avatar: The Way of Water
3. Neptune Frost
4. Nope
5. Crimes of the Future
SOUND DESIGN: Flux Gourmet
2. Dreamin' Wild
3. Athena
4. Everything Everywhere All at Once
5. The Quiet Girl
STUNTS: RRR
3. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Athena
5. Hunt

S U P E R L A T I V E S

underrated: athena MOST UNDERRATED: Athena
2. Blonde
3. Kimi
4. Fire Island
5. Causeway
MOST OVERRATED:
Top Gun: Maverick
2. Saint Omer
3. The Woman King
4. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
5. Tar
MOST IMPORTANT FILM:
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2. No Bears
3. Women Talking
4. Living
5. The Inspection
MOST INVENTIVE: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Aftersun. Skin Deep. Small Body. Neptune Frost.
MOST ORIGINAL TAKE ON A TIRED GENRE: Emergency
You Are Not My Mother. All My Friends Hate Me.
Blue Jean. Corsage. Catherine Called Birdy.
SMARTEST TAKE ON A COMPLEX ISSUE: No Bears
The Quiet Girl. Turning Red. Triangle of Sadness.
The Banshees of Inisherin. Winners.
important: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed MOST IMPORTANT DOC:
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Eleven Days in May. Hidden Letters.
Virga. All That Breathes.
MOST INVENTIVE DOC:
Taming the Garden
My Old School. Eternal Spring.
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy. Anhell69.
MOST INSPIRING DOC:
Uýra: The Rising Forest
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Casa Susanna. Eternal Spring. Wildcat.
MOST ENTERTAINING DOC: My Old School.
Fire of Love. All That Breathes. The Tinder Swindler.
This Much I Know to Be True.
MOST DEPRESSING DOC: Eleven Days in May
The Princess. Virga.
MOST BLOOD-BOILING DOC: Free Chol Soo Lee
The Tinder Swindler.
biopic: Elvis BEST BIOPIC: Elvis
Corsage. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
The Fabelmans. The Silent Twins.
WORST BIOPIC: Major
Father Stu. Chevalier. Padre Pio. Devotion.
MOST HOLLYWOODISED BIOPIC: Eiffel
Prizefighter. The Woman King.
BEST BOOK-TO-FILM: The Quiet Girl
Rock Paper Grenade. The Wonder.
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.
WORST BOOK-TO-FILM:
Mr Malcolm's List
WORST COMIC-TO-FILM: DC League of Super-Pets
BEST TV-TO-FILM: Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
The Bob's Burgers Movie
BEST STAGE-TO-FILM: Matilda the Musical
The Whale. Much Ado.
BEST GAME-TO-FILM: Uncharted
WORST GAME-TO-FILM: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
 remake: Living BEST REMAKE: Living
Peter Von Kant. All Quiet on the Western Front. Ambulance. Much Ado.
MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL REMAKE: Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank. Laal Singh Chaddha.
BEST SEQUEL: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
WORST SEQUEL: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
The Railway Children Return.
Disenchanted. Top Gun: Maverick.
MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL SEQUEL: Jackass Forever. Scream.
BEST PREQUEL: Prey
BEST SPINOFF: Lightyear
BEST REBOOT: Confess, Fletch
WORST SPINOFF: Black Adam
BEST SHORT-TO-FEATURE: Anhell69
BEST SHORT: Jaagran
funniest: rrr FUNNIEST MOVIE: RRR
2. The Lost City
3. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
4. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
5. Fire Island.
NUTTIEST MOVIE: Aline
Flux Gourmet. The Scary of Sixty-First. Strawberry Mansion. Men.
SILLIEST MOVIE: Nude Tuesday
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. The Lost City. Ticket to Paradise. Samaritan.
SEXIEST MOVIE:
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Skin Deep. Private Desert. Don't Worry Darling. Emily.
YUMMIEST MOVIE: Don't Worry Darling. The Menu.
YUCKIEST MOVIE: Crimes of the Future
Studio 666. Men. Hatching. Bones and All.
TRASHIEST MOVIE (THE JOHN WATERS AWARD): Nitram. Rimini. Funny Pages. Deep Water
thriller: bruno reidal SCARIEST MOVIE: Bruno Reidal: Confession of a Murderer
She Said. Enys Men.
Bodies Bodies Bodies. Fall.
MOST THRILLING THRILLER: RRR
Kimi. Athena. Hunt. Holy Spider.
GRISLIEST MOVIE: The Northman
The Retaliators. Final Cut.
Crimes of the Future.
GIRLIEST MOVIE: Women Talking
Fall. The Woman King.
The Novice. Anais in Love.
MANLIEST MOVIE: Top Gun: Maverick
Private Desert. Fire Island. The Inspection.
All Quiet on the Western Front.
MOPIEST MOVIE (THE TWILIGHT AWARD):
Alone Together. The Listener.
THE FAMILY VALUES AWARD:
Everything Went Fine
Everything Everywhere All at Once. Vortex.
Armageddon Time. White Noise.
STRAIGHTEST GAY MOVIE (THE BROKEBACK AWARD): Downton Abbey: A New Era.
Nude Tuesday. The Damned Don't Cry.
GAYEST STRAIGHT MOVIE (THE BROMANCE AWARD): Top Gun: Maverick.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Wild Men. Babylon.

E V E N   M O R E   P R I Z E S !

casting: i wanna dance with somebody BEST CASTING: Naomi Ackie
(I Wanna Dance with Somebody)
The Silent Twins. The Woman King.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Everything Everywhere All at Once.
WORST CASTING: Dwayne Johnson as an Egyptian (Black Adam)
BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Jenny & Sammy (The Banshees of Inisherin)
EO. Norbu (Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom). Sugarbaby (Strawberry Mansion). Alexander Skarsgard (The Northman). Keanu (Wildcat).
BEST HAIR: Penelope Cruz (Official Competition ).
Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever).
Nicole Kidman (The Northman). Valerie Lemercier (Aline).
Brad Pitt (The Lost City).
WORST HAIR: Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram)
Shia LaBeouf (Padre Pio). Asa Butterfield (Flux Gourmet). Timothee Chalamet (Bones and All).
Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story).
LEAST EXPRESSIVE FACE: Tom Hanks (Elvis)
BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE:
Isabella Rossellini (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On)
Richard E Grant (The Spine of Night).
Rebecca Hall (The Listener). Kate Winslet (Eleven Days in May). Kate McKinnon (DC League of Super-Pets)
MOST PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE:
Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice)
Austin Butler (Elvis). Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once). Alexander Skarsgard (The Northman).
Viola Davis (The Woman King).
babe: amber midthunder BABE OF THE YEAR:
Amber Midthunder (Prey)
Emma Thompson (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande). Zoe Kravitz (Kimi, The Batman).
Emma Mackey (Emily). Grace Caroline Currey & Virginia Gardner (Fall).
HUNK OF THE YEAR:
Tenoch Huerta Mejia (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Emily, Mr Malcolm's List). Alexander Skarsgard
(The Northman). Idris Elba (Beast).
NTR & Ram Charan Teja (RRR).
MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Julianne Nicholson
(Blonde, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story)
BEST CHEMISTRY:
Tang Wei & Park Hae-il (Decision to Leave)
Eden Dambrine & Gustav De Waele (Close).
Sandra Bullock & Channing Tatum (The Lost City).
Nicolas Cage & Pedro Pascal (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent). Xavier Samuel & Evan Williams (Blonde).
BEST VILLAIN:
Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Ray Stevenson & Alison Doody (RRR).
Burn Gorman (Watcher). Daniel Radcliffe (The Lost City).
Mark Rylance (Bones and All).
MOST LUDICROUS VILLAIN: Jason Flemyng (The 355)
scene stealer: brandon perea BEST SCENE-STEALING:
Brandon Perea (Nope)
Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey: A New Era). Nikki Amuka-Bird (The Outfit).
Pearse Egan (In From the Side).
Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans).
BEST SCENE-CHEWING:
Emma Thompson (Matilda the Musical)
Russell Crowe (Thor: Love and Thunder). Brad Pitt (The Lost City, Babylon).
Isabelle Adjani (Peter von Kant).
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever).
WORST SCENE-CHOMPING: Christian Bale (Amsterdam)
Billy Eichner (Bros). Shia LaBeouf (Padre Pio).
BEST COSTAR-CHEWING (THE ALIVE AWARD):
Bones and All. Jurassic World: Dominion. Beast.
BEST PHONED-IN PERFORMANCE:
Jacki Weaver (Father Stu)
Ryan Reynolds (The Adam Project).
Sharlto Copley (Beast). Mark Wahlberg (Uncharted).
James Marsden (Sonic the Hedgehog 2).
 guilty pleasure: rrr GUILTY PLEASURE: RRR
2. The Lost City
3. Beast
4. Bodies Bodies Bodies
5. Jackass Forever
NICEST SURPRISE:
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2. Vengeance
3. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
4. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
5. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
BEST HEART-STOPPER:
Laura Paredes in Argentina, 1985
Samantha Morton in She Said. The camerawork in Athena. Flying in Top Gun: Maverick.
BEST SHOW-STOPPER:
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Babylon's opening party.
BEST LINE OF DIALOG:
"You're not an actor, you're a movie star, Nick-effing-Cage" (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent)
"It's an island, word gets around" (The Banshees of Inisherin).
BEST TITLE: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
FILM HISTORY AWARD:
Desperate Souls, Dark City and
the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
Fragments of Paradise. The Real Charlie Chaplin.
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster. Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin. Lynch/Oz.
cameo: david lynch BEST CAMEO:
David Lynch (The Fabelmans)
Hugh Grant (Glass Onion).
Bjork (The Northman). Serena Williams (Glass Onion). Demi Moore (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent)
CAMEO-RAMA:
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Clerks III. Glass Onion.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
ONE CAMEO TOO MANY:
Downton Abbey: A New Era
Amsterdam. Babylon.
MOST POINTLESS CAMEO:
French & Saunders (Death on the Nile)
Edie Falco (Avatar: The Way of Water). John Lithgow
(The Bubble). Idris Elba (Thor: Love and Thunder).
Margaret Cho (I, Challenger).
WORST CAMEO: Nicole Byer (Unplugging)
MOST OVER-BILLED CAMEO:
Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar: The Way of Water)
EWAN McGREGOR GOLDEN LIGHT SABER AWARD:
Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande)
Rory Kinnear (Men). Damon Herriman (Nude Tuesday). Jemaine Clement (Nude Tuesday). Michael Thomas (Rimini)
hardest working: cruz THE HARDEST WORKING PERSON IN MOVIES:
Penelope Cruz (The 355, Official Competition, Immensity, On the Fringe)
BEST REINVENTION: Tobey Maguire (Babylon)
Johnny Depp (Minamata)
BEST NEW TREND:
Kaleidoscopic posters and super-long titles
(Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness).
Serious dramatic horror (The Good Nurse,
You Won't Be Alone, Nanny, Nocebo, Enys Men).
Personal filmmaker memoirs (The Fabelmans,
Armageddon Time, etc).
WORST NEW TREND: Slapdash sequel blockbusters (Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Disenchanted, see also Marvel).
MOST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2023:
Magic Mike's Last Dance. Oppenheimer. Barbie.
John Wick: Chapter 4. Creed III. The Little Mermaid.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3. The Flash.
LEAST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2023:
The Super Mario Bros Movie
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

S H A D O W S   S W E E P S T A K E S   2 0 2 3
The final standings on 14.Mar.23 with 187 awards tabulated to show the overall winners of the year...

F I L M
920 Everything Everywhere All At Once**++
802 The Banshees of Inisherin**+
772 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio**++
770 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*
707 All Quiet on the Western Front**
639 Aftersun*
621 Tar*+
585 Top Gun: Maverick*+
528 Navalny**++
511 Decision to Leave*
461 Marcel the Shell With Shoes On*+
455 All That Breathes*+
450 Fire of Love*+
437 Turning Red*+
431 The Fabelmans*+
D I R E C T O R
612 Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once**++
331 Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin*+
298 Todd Field - Tar*+
209 Gina Prince-Bythewood - The Woman King*
161 Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave*
S C R E E N P L A Y
607 The Banshees of Inisherin.** - Martin McDonagh
575 Everything Everywhere All At Once.**++ - Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
526 Women Talking**++ - Sarah Polley
363 Tar.*+ - Todd Field
276 The Fabelmans.*+ - Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner
E N S E M B L E
255 Everything Everywhere All At Once*++
197 Women Talking+
179 The Banshees of Inisherin++
178 Glass Onion+
161 The Fabelmans++
A C T R E S S
752 Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once**++
626 Cate Blanchett - Tar**+
366 Viola Davis - The Woman King*+
299 Danielle Deadwyler - Till*+
263 Ana de Armas - Blonde*+
A C T O R
675 Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin*+, After Yang, The Batman
509 Brendan Fraser - The Whale**++
464 Austin Butler - Elvis**+
352 Paul Mescal - Aftersun*, God's Creatures
331 Bill Nighy - Living*+
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T R E S S
429 Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin**+
420 Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*+
387 Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once**++
268 Hong Chau - The Whale*+, The Menu
214 Dolly De Leon - Triangle of Sadness*
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T O R
735 Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once**++
421 Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin**+
403 Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin*+
201 Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway*
150 Eddie Redmayne - The Good Nurse*+
B R E A K T H R O U G H   A C T O R
118 Frankie Corio - Aftersun
102 Emma Mackey - Emily**
98 Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once
91 Austin Butler - Elvis
76 Gabriel LaBelle - The Fabelmans
B R E A K T H R O U G H   F I L M M A K E R
452 Charlotte Wells - Aftersun**++
134 Alice Diop - Saint Omer+
129 Georgia Oakley - Blue Jean*
97 John Patton Ford - Emily the Criminal+
82 Katy Brand - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande*
A R T
1119 Elvis**++
732 Babylon**++
663 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever**++
535 Everything Everywhere All at Once++
463 All Quiet on the Western Front**+
M U S I C
421 Everything Everywhere All at Once*++ - Son Lux
359 RRR** - MM Keeravani
324 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio*++ - Alexandre Desplat
322 Babylon* - Justin Hurwitz
308 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*++ - Ludwig Goransson
C I N E M A T O G R A P H Y
331 Top Gun: Maverick*+ - Claudio Miranda
324 All Quiet on the Western Front**++ - James Friend
278 Elvis*++ - Mandy Walker
221 Empire of Light*+ - Roger Deakins
155 The Batman*+ - Grieg Fraser
T E C H
1271 Avatar: The Way of Water**++
873 Top Gun: Maverick**++
508 All Quiet on the Western Front**++
493 The Batman*+
436 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio++
E D I T I N G
549 Everything Everywhere All at Once**++ - Paul Rogers
303 Top Gun: Maverick*++ - Eddie Hamilton
270 Elvis*+ - Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
175 The Banshees of Inisherin*+ - Mikkel EG Nielsen
174 Tar*+ - Monica Willi
W O R S T   F I L M
416 Blonde
303 Disney's Pinocchio
280 Good Mourning
273 Morbius
229 Jurassic World: Dominion
151 The King's Daughter
129 Firestarter
98 The 355
95 Elvis
80 The Next 365 Days



Oscar/Bafta *nominees **winners
Guilds +nominees ++winners.
Numbers are cumulative points based on Shadows' secret scoring system, combining awards, Oscarwatchers and more.

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