Wunderbar! All Quiet wins Best Pic

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Written By Michael Augsberger

The International Catholic Film Critics Association has named All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) the Best Picture of 2022 at its annual Catholic Film Critics Awards.

The group’s unique and second-most prestigious award went to Thirteen Lives, winner of the Human and Gospel Values Award.

Five awards went to The Banshees of Inisherin, the most of any film this year. Todd Field through broke its dominance to claim Best Director for Tár, as did Cate Blanchett for Best Actress. The two films split all of the four acting awards.

All Quiet ended up with just the one award, but it was the most coveted one. It is the first time a film has won Best Picture without any other wins. In German, it’s also the first foreign-language film to win.

The Banshees of Inisherin also had the most nominations with eight. Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, and The Menu each began the campaign with five nominations. Only The Menu went home with no wins, as Top Gun: Maverick took Best Cinematography for its aerial attack action.

For the first time in the ICFCA’s short history, two nominees tied for an award. Kate O’Hare and Joe McAleer both received the same number of winning votes in the honor for Criticism, ICFCA Member. Meanwhile, the membership voted Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian as the year’s top critic overall.

Had traditional voting governed the Best Picture process, Top Gun would have added the prize to its Best Cinematography win. But after three rounds of instant runoff, All Quiet had the majority that Top Gun never quite reached.

The awards season started with nomination voting on January 11 and closed a week later. Members could cast winners’ ballots as early as February 24. The deadline was March 3.

The full Catholic Film Critics Awards 2022 winners and nominees are:

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Elvis

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

  • The Menu

  • Tár

  • Thirteen Lives

  • Top Gun: Maverick

Human and Gospel Values Award

Thirteen Lives

Awarded to the film that best reflects human and Gospel values as determined by Catholic critics.

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

  • Father Stu

Best Director

Todd Field, Tár

  • Ron Howard, Thirteen Lives

  • Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick

  • Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Best Actor

Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Austin Butler, Elvis

  • Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick

  • Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

  • Mark Wahlberg, Father Stu

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Tár

  • Ana de Armas, Blonde

  • Leah Purcell, The Drover’s Wife

  • Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu

  • Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Gérard Depardieu, Maison de Retraite

  • Mel Gibson, Father Stu

  • Edward Norton, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

  • Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actress

Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness

  • Charbli Dean, Triangle of Sadness

  • Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

  • Mariana Treviño, A Man Called Otto

Best Screenplay

Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Todd Field, Tár

  • Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

  • Sarah Polley, Women Talking

  • Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, The Menu

Best Cinematography

Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick

  • Russell Carpenter, Avatar: The Way of Water

  • Ben Davis, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Peter Deming, The Menu

  • Florian Hoffmeister, Tár

Best Documentary

Good Night Oppy

  • Aftershock

  • Hallelujah

  • A House Made of Splinters

  • Retrograde

Best Original Score

Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin

  • Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

  • Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga, Lorne Balfe, and Hans Zimmer, Top Gun: Maverick

  • Nathan Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

  • John Williams, The Fabelmans

Honor for Outstanding Criticism (Non-Member)

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  • Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

  • Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

  • Owen Gleiberman, Variety

  • Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

Honor for Outstanding Criticism (ICFCA Member)

Kate O’Hare

Joseph McAleer

  • Vince Kuna

  • Peter Malone

  • Hosea Rupprecht

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