Monday, August 18, 2025

2022 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • The Banshees of Inisherin (Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin & Martin McDonagh)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo & Jonathan Wang)
  • The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger & Tony Kushner)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie & David Ellison)
  • Women Talking (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Frances McDormand)
    (Honourable Mentions: Decision to Leave, Elvis, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Good Night Oppy, RRR)

Best Director

  • James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Joseph Kosinski - Top Gun: Maverick
  • Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Sarah Polley - Women Talking
  • Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
    (Honourable Mentions: Edward Berger - All Quiet on the Western Front, Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave, Baz Luhrmann - Elvis, Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin, S.S. Rajamouli - RRR)

Best Lead Actor

  • Austin Butler - Elvis
  • Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Brendan Fraser - The Whale
  • Gabriel LaBelle - The Fabelmans
  • Bill Nighy - Living
    (Honourable Mentions: Daniel Craig - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Tom Cruise - Top Gun: Maverick, Adam Driver - White Noise, Paul Mescal - Aftersun, Jeremy Pope - The Inspection)

Best Lead Actress

  • Cate Blanchett - Tár
  • Olivia Colman - Empire of Light
  • Danielle Deadwyler - Till
  • Jennifer Lawrence - Causeway
  • Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
    (Honourable Mentions: Jessica Chastain - The Good Nurse, Ana de Armas - Blonde, Margot Robbie - Babylon, Emma Thompson - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Tang Wei - Decision to Leave)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans
  • Brad Pitt - Babylon
  • Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Ben Whishaw - Women Talking
    (Honourable Mentions: Paul Dano - The Fabelmans, Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway, Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin, Eddie Redmayne - The Good Nurse, Mark Rylance - Bones and All)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Claire Foy - Women Talking
  • Carey Mulligan - She Said
  • Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
    (Honourable Mentions: Dolly De Leon - Triangle of Sadness, Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once, Janelle Monáe - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Jean Smart - Babylon)

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
  • Decision to Leave (Jeong Seo-kyeong & Park Chan-wook)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  • The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner)
  • Tár (Todd Field)
    (Honourable Mentions: Aftersun, The Menu, Nope, Saint Omer, Triangle of Sadness)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson; based on the characters created by Rian Johnson)
  • Living (Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the film "Ikiru" written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni)
  • She Said (Rebecca Lenkiewicz; based on the article by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey & Rebecca Corbett, and the book by Kantor & Twohey)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig & Justin Marks; based on the characters created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr., which was inspired by the article "Top Guns" by Ehud Yonay)
  • Women Talking (Sarah Polley; based on the novel by Miriam Toews)
    (Honourable Mentions: After Yang, All Quiet on the Western Front, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, The Quiet Girl, White Noise)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once [Sarah Finn] (Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong & Jamie Lee Curtis, et. al.)
  • The Fabelmans [Cindy Tolan] (Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters, Jeannie Berlin, Robin Bartlett, David Lynch & Judd Hirsch, et. al.)
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery [Bret Howe & Mary Vernieu] (Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson & Dave Bautista, et. al.)
  • Thirteen Lives [Nikki Barrett] (Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Pattarakorn Tangsupakul, Sukollawat Kanarot, Teerapat Sajakul & Tom Bateman, et. al.)
  • Top Gun: Maverick [Denise Chamian] (Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris & Val Kilmer, et. al.)
  • Women Talking [John Buchan & Jason Knight] (Rooney Mara, Carey Mulligan, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Ben Whishaw & Frances McDormand, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babylon, The Bad Guys, The Banshees of Inisherin, RRR)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Frankie Corio - Aftersun
  • Jalyn Hall - Till
  • Gabriel LaBelle - The Fabelmans
  • Bella Ramsey - Catherine Called Birdy
  • Sadie Sink - The Whale
    (Honourable Mentions: Vanessa Burghardt - Cha Cha Real Smooth, Catherine Clinch - The Quiet Girl, Eden Dambrine - Close, Gregory Mann - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Banks Repeta - Armageddon Time)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • All Quiet on the Western Front [Germany] (Edward Berger)
  • Decision to Leave [South Korea] (Park Chan-wook)
  • Holy Spider [Denmark] (Ali Abbasi)
  • The Quiet Girl [Ireland] (Colm Bairéad)
  • RRR [India] (S.S. Rajamouli)
    (Honourable Mentions: Argentina, 1985, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Close, EO, Saint Omer) 

Best Documentary Feature

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin, Howard Gertler & John Lyons)
  • Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, Shane Boris & Ina Fichman)
  • Good Night Oppy (Ryan White, Brandon Carroll, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank & Jessica Hargrave)
  • Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
  • Sr. (Chris Smith, Robert Downey, Jr., Susan Downey & Kevin Ford)
    (Honourable Mentions: All That Breathes, The Automat, Descendant, Navalny, Wildcat)

Best Original Score

  • Babylon (Justin Hurwitz)
  • The Batman (Michael Giacchino)
  • The Fabelmans (John Williams)
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Women Talking (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
    (Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front - Volker Bertelmann, The Banshees of Inisherin - Carter Burwell, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Ludwig Göransson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Nathan Johnson, Top Gun: Maverick - Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer & Lady Gaga)

Best Original Song

  • "Ciao Papa" - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro & Roeban Katz)
  • "Hold My Hand" - Top Gun: Maverick (Lady Gaga & Michael Tucker)
  • "Lift Me Up" - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Rihanna, Ludwig Göransson, Ryan Coogler & Temilade Openiyi)
  • "Naatu Naatu" - RRR (M.M. Keeravani, Kaala Bhairava & Rahul Sipligunj)
  • "Nobody Like U" - Turning Red (Billie Eilish & Finneas O'Connell)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Applause" - Tell It Like a Woman, "Carolina" - Where the Crawdads Sing, "New Body Rhumba" - White Noise, "Stand Up" - Till, "Time" - Armageddon Time)

Best Sound Design

  • Avatar: The Way of Water (Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Julian Howarth, Michael Hedges & Gary Summers)
  • The Batman (William Files, Douglas Murray, Andy Nelson & Stuart Wilson)
  • Elvis (Wayne Pashley, Fabian Sanjurjo, Andy Nelson, Michael Keller & David Lee)
  • Moonage Daydream (Nina Hartshone, John Warhurst, Paul Massey & David Giammarco)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Weingarten, Chris Burdon & Mark Taylor)
    (Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front, Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Nope)

Best Animated Feature

  • The Bad Guys (Pierre Perifel, Damon Ross & Rebecca Huntley)
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Lisa Henson & Alex Bulkley)
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Elisabeth Holm & Paul Mezey)
  • My Father's Dragon (Nora Twomey, Bonnie Curtis & Paul Young)
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Joel Crawford & Mark Swift)
    (Honourable Mentions: Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood, The Bob's Burgers Movie, Eternal Spring, Inu-Oh, The Sea Beast)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Gregory Mann - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio for voicing Pinocchio
  • Ewan McGregor - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio for voicing Sebastian J. Cricket
  • Wagner Moura - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish for voicing Death
  • Sam Rockwell - The Bad Guys for voicing Mr. Wolf
  • Jenny Slate - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On for voicing Marcel
    (Honourable Mentions: Antonio Banderas - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Angela Bassett - Wendell & Wild, David Bradley - Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Rosalie Cheng - Turning Red, Jared Harris - The Sea Beast)

Best Cinematography

  • Avatar: The Way of Water (Russell Carpenter)
  • Babylon (Linus Sandgren)
  • The Batman (Greig Fraser)
  • Empire of Light (Roger Deakins)
  • The Fabelmans (Janusz Kamiński)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (Claudio Miranda)
    (Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front - James Friend, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - Darius Khondji, Elvis - Mandy Walker, Nope - Hoyte van Hoytema)

Best Film Editing

  • Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron, David Brenner, John Refoua & Stephen E. Rivkin)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers)
  • The Fabelmans (Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton)
  • Women Talking (Christopher Donaldson & Roslyn Kalloo)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Banshees of Inisherin - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Decision to Leave - Kim Sang-beom, Elvis - Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Bob Duscay, Tár - Monika Willi)

Best Production Design

  • Babylon (Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino)
  • Elvis (Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy & Bev Dunn)
  • The Fabelmans (Rick Carter & Karen O'Hara)
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rick Heinrichs & Elli Griff)
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Curt Enderle & Guy Davis)
  • White Noise (Jess Gonchor & Claire Kaufman)
    (Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, RRR)

Best Costume Design

  • Babylon (Mary Zophres)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ruth E. Carter)
  • Corsage (Monika Buttinger)
  • Elvis (Catherine Martin)
  • Living (Sandy Powell)
    (Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Fabelmans, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, The Northman)

Best Makeup and Hair

  • All Quiet on the Western Front (Heike Merker)
  • The Batman (Naomi Donne, Mike Marino & Zoe Tahir)
  • Elvis (Mark Coulier, Jason Baird & Shane Thomas)
  • Thirteen Lives (Rick Findlater & Quinton Wallace)
  • The Whale (Adrien Morot, Judy Chin & Anne Marie Bradley)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Blonde, Emancipation, The Menu)

Best Visual Effects

  • Avatar: The Way of Water (Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon & Daniel Barrett)
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Janek Sirrs, Theo Bialek, Erik Winquist & Chris Corbould)
  • Good Night Oppy (Abishek Nair, Ivan Busquets, Patrick Longstreth & Steven Nichols)
  • Jurassic World Dominion (Paul Corbould, David Vickery, Cameron Waldbauer & Alex Wang)
  • Top Gun: Maverick (Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill & Bryan Litson)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Batman, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, RRR, Thirteen Lives)

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