13th Goresy Awards

Welcome to the thirteenth annual Goresy Awards, a personal selection of the best in 2022 cinema! Eligibility requirement: a commercial U.S. release date, theatrical or digital, between January 1 and December 31, 2022 (which includes films with one-week NY/LA Oscar-qualifying runs). You may notice a few films mentioned here that I didn’t catch in time to include in my year-end list (notably, The Quiet Girl and Il buco). New this year are two additional acting categories (indicated with asterisks). Onto the selections!

FILM

Tár

HONORABLE MENTION: Click here to read more on 2022’s best films.

DIRECTOR

Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave

HONORABLE MENTION: Todd Field, Tár | Jordan Peele, Nope | Charlotte Wells, Aftersun | Jerzy Skolimowski, EO | Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl | S. S. Rajamouli, RRR | David Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future | Luca Guadagnino, Bones and All | Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral | Hlynur Pálmason, Nest

ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett, Tár

HONORABLE MENTION: Park Ji-min, Return to Seoul | Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once | Mia Goth, Pearl | Tang Wei, Decision to Leave | Lee Hye-young, In Front of Your Face | Taylor Russell, Bones and All | Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Keke Palmer, Nope | Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Holy Spider | Rebecca Hall, Resurrection

ACTOR

Paul Mescal, Aftersun

HONORABLE MENTION: Jack Lowden, Benediction | Franz Rogowski, Great Freedom | Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin | Park Hae-il, Decision to Leave | Daryl McCormack, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande | Jon Hamm, Confess, Fletch | Jeremy Pope, The Inspection | Daniel Kaluuya, Nope | Timothée Chalamet, Bones and All | Daniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

HONORABLE MENTION: Nina Hoss, Tár | Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness | Hong Chau, The Whale | Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once | Kíla Lord Cassidy, The Wonder | Rachel Sennott, Bodies Bodies Bodies | Zoe Kravitz, The Batman | Noémi Merlant, Tár | Carrie Crowley, The Quiet Girl | Nicole Kidman, The Northman | Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

HONORABLE MENTION: Matthew Maher, Funny Pages | Mark Rylance, Bones and All | Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin | Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once | Albrecht Schuch, All Quiet on the Western Front & Fabian: Going to the Dogs | Justin Long, Barbarian | Song Kang-ho, Broker | Steven Yeun, Nope | Anthony Hopkins, Armageddon Time | Georg Friedrich, Great Freedom

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER*

Park Ji-min, Return to Seoul

HONORABLE MENTION: Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness | Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Zolghadri, Funny Pages | Banks Repeta, Armageddon Time | Jaylin Webb, Armageddon Time | Kíla Lord Cassidy, The Wonder | Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans | Frankie Corio, Aftersun | Gracija Filipović, Murina

ONE-SCENE WONDER*

(Actor in a minor supporting role who makes a major impression with just a single scene)

Samantha Morton, She Said

HONORABLE MENTION: Michael Stuhlbarg, Bones and All | David Lynch, The Fabelmans

ACTING ENSEMBLE

The Banshees of Inisherin

HONORABLE MENTION: Everything Everywhere All at Once | Armageddon Time | Bones and All | Nope | Triangle of Sadness | The Batman | Tár | Confess, Fletch | Women Talking | The Quiet Girl | Catherine Called Birdy | The Northman | Funny Pages

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Todd Field, Tár

HONORABLE MENTION: Park Chan-wook & Jeong Seo-kyeong, Decision to Leave | David Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future | Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin | Julia Cho & Domee Shi, Turning Red | Jordan Peele, Nope | Charlotte Wells, Aftersun | Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral | Davy Chou, Return to Seoul | Zach Cregger, Barbarian | Colm Bairéad, The Quiet Girl

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

David Kajganich, Bones and All

HONORABLE MENTION: Greg Mottola & Zev Borow, Confess, Fletch | Matt Reeves & Peter Craig, The Batman | Dominik Graf & Constantin Lieb, Fabian: Going to the Dogs | Lena Dunham, Catherine Called Birdy | Marcia Romano & Audrey Diwan, Happening

EDITING

Blair McClendon, Aftersun

HONORABLE MENTION: Ricky D’Ambrose, The Cathedral | Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick | Kim Sang-bum, Decision to Leave | Monika Willi, Tár | Paul Rogers, Everything Everwhere All at Once | A. Sreekar Prasad, RRR | Agnieszka Glińska, EO | Nicholas Monsour, Nope | Nels Bangerter, Riotsville, U.S.A. | Julius Krebs Damsbo, Nest | Amy Foote, Joe Bini, & Brian A. Kates, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope

HONORABLE MENTION: Kim Ji-yong, Decision to Leave | Greig Fraser, The Batman | Kate McCullough, The Quiet Girl | Florian Hoffmeister, Tár | Arseni Khachaturan, Bones and All | Renato Berta, Il buco | Chayse Irvin, Blonde | Michal Dymek, EO | Matias Boucard, Athena | Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick | Gregory Oke, Aftersun | Alex Hasskerl, The Girl and the Spider

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Carol Spier, Crimes of the Future

HONORABLE MENTION: Dylan Cole & Ben Procter, Avatar: The Way of Water | Phil Tippett, Mad God | Guy Davis & Curt Enderle, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | James Chinlund, The Batman | Ruth De Jong, Nope | Roger Ford, Three Thousand Years of Longing | Jason Kisvarday, Everything Everywhere All at Once | Sabu Cyril, RRR | Florencia Martin, Babylon

EFFECTS & STUNTS

Avatar: The Way of Water

HONORABLE MENTION: Top Gun: Maverick | The Batman | RRR | Nope | The Northman | All Quiet on the Western Front

COSTUMES, HAIR, & MAKEUP

Everything Everywhere All at Once

HONORABLE MENTION: Crimes of the Future | Flux Gourmet | The Batman | Neptune Frost | The Northman | Babylon | Blonde

SOUND DESIGN

Nope

HONORABLE MENTION: Top Gun: Maverick | Flux Gourmet | Tár | Avatar: The Way of Water | Babylon | Moonage Daydream

ORIGINAL SCORE

Michael Giacchino, The Batman

HONORABLE MENTION: Paweł Mykietyn, EO | Howard Shore, Crimes of the Future | Oliver Coates, Aftersun | Matthew Herbert, The Wonder | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Blonde | Tindersticks, Stars at Noon | Nicolas Godin, Fire of Love

ORIGINAL SONG

“Naatu Naatu” - RRR

HONORABLE MENTION: “New Body Rhumba” - White Noise | “(You Made It Feel Like) Home” - Bones and All | “Nobody Like U” - Turning Red

DOCUMENTARY

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

HONORABLE MENTION: Fire of Love | Riotsville, U.S.A. | Navalny | Descendant | Moonage Daydream

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Decision to Leave

HONORABLE MENTION: Nest | EO | The Quiet Girl | RRR | Return to Seoul | Il buco | Great Freedom

ANIMATED FILM

Turning Red

HONORABLE MENTION: Avatar: The Way of Water | Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood | Mad God

THAT’S A WRAP ON 2022! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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