Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2022 Winners

ORIGINAL POST DATE: December 18, 2022

This was my 4th year being a voting member of THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE (PFCC) for more on what this entails, check out posts (2019 Winners) (2020 Winners) (2021 Winners).

I did cover Sundance 2022, which is where I get a jump on seeing awards worthy films for the next coming season. And as always, I covered The Philadelphia Film Festival (31st Annual) which is crucial, as the screeners for a good number of films arrive after Thanksgiving, which this year gave us two short week to see about 10-15 additional films before submitting nominations.  I was also able to make it to almost every in theater screening, except for two: “Bones and All” & “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” because COVID finally caught up with me. Got sick at the end of PFF31. I was however, able to see these films as screeners.

My Best & Worst Films of 2022 List (click for Letterboxd, post coming soon) you’ll see there’s more similarities this year between my top 10 and what actually took top honors for PFCC. I’m not sure why that is, it could be just a happenstance of the movies that were released or the other member’s taste is starting to influence me.

I’ve been blessed to be able to run Tinsel & Tine for 12 years!  But it’s also crazy, considering the amount of time it takes up. Surely, it would have been much smarter to have been doing something lucrative during this time so that I’d now, more than likely, be able to retire early.  And it makes me wonder how long will I be doing this? Being a PFCC Member is great in many respects, but it’s also added pressure, you really have to schedule your life around seeing movies from October through the first 2 weeks of December.  Which often means turning down invitations or just not being able to get other stuff done.

There’s a movie I like with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson called THE BIG YEAR, where they play Birders (bird watchers). People who take this hobby to the next level and seek to spot a crazy number of bird species in a given year is termed “Doing A Big Year”. These birders have to spend a lot on travel to distant places; they hike, climb, neglect family and break social engagements; not to mention, it’s rather cut throat among the birding community and just tiring in general.  But in the end, they feel elated having achieved A Big Year! 

Being a film reviewer is not that consuming, but it’s damn close. And yet today, after having seen 160 movies, knowing my votes counted, and enjoying time spent with fellow PFCC members, is joyful and feels like an achievement.

HERE’S THE PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE WINNERS
and RUNNERS UP for 2022

Best Score or Soundtrack

Winner: RRR (Netflix)
Composer: M. M. Keeravani | Lahari Music

Runner-up: TÁR
Director: Todd Field

BEST SCRIPT 

Winner: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24) 
Screenplay Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
aka Daniels

Runner-up GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
Director: Rian Johnson
See Our PFCC Interview with the writer/director

  DIRECTORIAL DEBUT 
Winner: JOHN PATTON FORD
EMILY THE CRIMINAL (Roadside Attractions/Universal Pic)

Runner-up: Goran Stolevski  YOU WON’T BE ALONE (Focus Features)
See Our PFCC Interview with the writer/director

Best Breakthrough Performance
Winner: STEPHANIE HSU
Everything Everywhere All At Once  (A24)

Runner-up: Austin Butler ELVIS (Warner Bros Pics)

Best Cinematography
Winner KK Senthil Kumar
RRR (Netflix)

Runner-up: Claudio Miranda TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Paramount Pics)

  Best Documentary
GOODNIGHT OPPY (Amazon Studios)
Director Ryan White

Runner-up FIRE OF LOVE
Writer/Director Sara Dosa (Nat Geo /Neon)

Best Foreign Language
Winner: RRR
 Writer/Director SS Rajamouli

Runner-up: HOLY SPIDER
Writer/Director Ali Abbasi (Persian)

Best Animated
Winner: Guillermo del Toro’s PINOCCHIO

Writer/Director Guillermo del Toro (Netflix)

Runner-up: TURNING RED
 Writer/Director Domee Shi
 (Disney)

Best Supporting Actor
KE HUY QUAN

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Runner-up: Brendan Gleeson
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pics)

Best Supporting Actress

JANELLE MONÁE

GLASS ONION: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)

Runner-up: Stephanie Hsu

EEAAO

  Best Actor

BRENDAN FRASER

The Whale  (A24)

Runner-up: Bill Nighy
LIVING

Best Actress

CATE BLANCHETT

TÁR (Focus Features)

Runner-up: Michelle Yeoh
EEAAO

  Best Director

Winner(s): Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (aka DANIELS)

 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24) 
 

Runner-up Todd Field
TÁR

1st Annual PHILLY CHEESESTEAK AWARD
Sponsored by SQ PHILIP’S STEAKS
2234 W Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia, PA,19145

In Celebration of the Best Blockbuster Movie of the Year!

Winner: TOP GUN MAVERICK
(Paramount Pictures)

Director Joseph Kosinski 
 

Runner-up RRR

Writer/Director SS Rajamouli

THE ELAINE MAY AWARD
In Recognition of a film that focuses on issues facing Women

Winner: WOMEN TALKING
(United Artist Releasing)

Writer/Director Sarah Polley
 

Final category BEST PICTURE

 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Writer/Directors DANIELS

Runner-up: TÁR
Director: Todd Field

PFCC Awards Press Release

Thank you to PFCC Founders Rich Heimlich & Stephen Silver for running things during the year and Dan Tabor for Producing the Film Scribes Podcast