Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations

[Big Magilla]

Amazingly, the Chicago Critics' nominations proved the most prescient of all in the acting categories, giving nominations to 17 of the 20 furute Oscar nominees.

They agreed with all five Best Actors, and four out of five of the nominees for Best Actress while moving the fifth to Supporting Actress. They agreed with four of the five for Supporting Actor and three of the other four nominees for Supporting Actress.

They were the only group I could find to nominate both de Armis and Riseborough for Best Actress. In moving Williams to support, they gave the fifth slot with Mia Goth, not any of the perceived Oscar frontrunners.

Mark Rylance was their fifth choice for Supporting Actor, not Judd Hirsch.

With Williams getting the fourth Supporting Actress slot, they gave the fifth to Janelle Monae over both Bassett and Curtis.

[Reza]

The Winners

BEST PICTURE: The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST DIRECTOR: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TÁR
BEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking by Sarah Polley
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Fire of Love
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Decision to Leave
BEST ART DIRECTION: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jason Kisvarday & Amelia Brooke
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Decision to Leave, Kim Ji-Yong
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley Kurata
BEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul Rogers
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: Everything Everywhere All at Once
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, Elvis
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

[Big Magilla]

No Danielle Deadwyler as Chicago's own Mrs. Till in Best Actress from the Chicago Critics is shocking, but at least they covered her in Most Promising Performer.

Nice to see Top Gun: Maverick limited to Cinematography, although Tee may think even that is too much .

[Mateo]

Initial thoughts:

Best Actress is the biggest surprise. I expected Danielle Deadwyler to have a much stronger showing with the critics groups than she has up to this point. On the flip side, Ana de Armas is having an unexpectedly good day.

I think there's a strong chance their Best Actor lineup carries over to the Oscars.

Kudos to them for placing Michelle Williams in support. Having seen the film recently, I'm puzzled by her going lead.

Women Talking continues to underperform with acting nominations.

Weak showing for Avatar: The Way of Water but Chicago was cold to Cameron the first time around, as well, in 2009.

[Mateo]

BEST PICTURE
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Decision to Leave
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár

BEST DIRECTOR
Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Todd Field, Tár
Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
S.S. Rajamouli, RRR

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Mia Goth, Pearl
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Janelle Monae, Glass Onion
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mark Rylance, Bones and All

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Mad God
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Turning Red

BEST DOCUMENTARY
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Bad Axe
Descendant
Fire of Love
Moonage Daydream

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths Close
Decision to Leave
Happening
RRR
Saint Omer

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
After Yang by Kogonada
Bones and All by David Kajganich
Glass Onion by Rian Johnson
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale
Women Talking by Sarah Polley

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Aftersun by Charlotte Wells
The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels
The Fabelmans by Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
Tár by Todd Field

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Babylon, Linus Sandgren
Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths, Darius Khondji
Decision to Leave, Kim Ji-Yong
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Larkin Seiple
Top Gun: Maverick, Claudio Miranda

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babylon, Justin Hurwitz
The Banshees of Inisherin, Carter Burwell
The Batman, Michael Giacchino
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, Alexandre Desplat
RRR, M.M. Keeravani

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
After Yang
Avatar: The Way of WateR
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon, Mary Zophres
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ruth E. Carter
Corsage, Monika Buttinger
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley Kurata
The Northman, Linda Muir

BEST EDITING
Aftersun, Blair McClendon
Babylon, Tom Cross
Decision to Leave, Kim Sang-beom
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul Rogers
Tár, Monika Willi

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick

MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER
Alice Diop, Saint Omer
Audrey Diwan, Happening
John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal
Jane Schoenbrun, We're All Going to the World's Fair
Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Austin Butler, Elvis
Frankie Corio, Aftersun
Danielle Deadwyler, Till
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Amber Midthunder, Prey