JASON'S BEST: If I Voted For The Oscars 2022 (Return to Jason's Best Main Page)


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Here's the detailed list of my Oscar choices for 2022, if I were allowed to vote -- my choice for the winner is in bold -- in addition, I have also included a few additional categories worth mentioning...


Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Best Film of 2022

BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Retrograde
The Banshees of Inisherin
Tar

BEST ACTOR
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
Austin Butler in Elvis
Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ACTRESS
Danielle Deadwyler in Till
Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Cate Blanchett in Tar
Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano in The Fabelmans
Gabriel LaBelle in The Fabelmans
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Dolly De Leon in Triangle of Sadness
Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Keke Palmer in Nope
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST DIRECTOR
Baz Luhrmann for Elvis
Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans
Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Todd Field for Tar
Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Triangle of Sadness
Nope
Tar
The Fabelmans

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
White Noise
She Said
Top Gun: Maverick
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Women Talking

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino for The Batman
Hildur Guanadottir for Tar
Danny Elfman for White Noise
Son Lux for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Justin Hurwitz for Babylon
John Williams for The Fabelmans
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Empire of Light

BEST MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever -- Performed by Rihanna
"Carolina" from Where The Crawdads Sing -- Performed by Taylor Swift
"Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick -- Performed by Lady Gaga
"Time" from Amsterdam -- Performed by Giveon
"Vegas" from Elvis -- Performed by Doja Cat
"Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)" from Avatar: The Way of Water -- Performed by The Weeknd
"Naatu Naatu" from RRR -- Performed by M. M. Keeravani, Kalabhairava, Rahul Sipligunj
"On My Way" from Marry Me -- Performed by Jennifer Lopez
"This Is A Life" from Everything Everywhere All At Once -- Performed by David Byrne, Son Lux, & Mitski

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Batman
Empire of Light
Elvis
The Banshees of Inisherin
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST FILM EDITING
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Tar
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Babylon
White Noise
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Fabelmans

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Babylon
The Woman King
Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale

BEST SOUND
Elvis
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Women Talking
Triangle of Sadness

BEST SCENE OR SEQUENCE IN A 2023 MOTION PICTURE
Sammy showing his senior ditch day film which makes his bully a hero in The Fabelmans
IceMan (Val Kilmer) talking to Maverick (Tom Cruise) in Top Gun: Maverick
Lydia Tar teaching a class at Julliard confronting a student about Bach and cancel culture in Tar
Batman interrogating The Riddler in The Batman
Sammy meeting John Ford and their discussion about the horizon at the end of The Fabelmans
Evelyn and Jobu communicating in titles only as rocks in one existence in Everything Everywhere All At Once
The chilling scenes of Gordy killing humans on the set of a sitcom seen through the eyes of the child who survived in Nope
The dance in the supermarket during the end credits in White Noise
The suspenders dance performing "Naatu Naatu" in RRR
Maverick proving that the mission can be done in Top Gun: Maverick
Opening scene at dinner as the couple (who are both models) argue over paying the check in Triangle of Sadness

BEST FILM QUOTE OF THE YEAR
"You did not choose the life you've had but you can choose the life you want." from Redeeming Love
"When you have money, no one is ever really your friend." from Death on the Nile
"When the horizon's at the bottom, it's interesting. When the horizon's at the top, it's interesting. When the horizon's in the middle, it's boring as shit!" from The Fablemans
"Live the life you want to live. Be as weird as you want to be. Believe me, you will never find true happiness until you can truly accept who you are." from Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
"When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive." from Everything Everywhere All At Once
"Live always without fear for your fate is set and you cannot escape it." from The Norsemen
"If you're moved by something, it doesn't need explaining. If you're not, no explanation will move you. Trust your gut." from Love & Gelato
"People have all kinds of sides to them and some of them are messy. The point isn't to push the bad stuff away. It's to make room for it, live with it." from Turning Red
"If you sit in the question, the answer will find you." from Marry Me
"Our scars can destroy us, even after the physical wounds have healed. But if we survive them, they can transform us. They can give us the power to endure and the strength to fight." from The Batman
"The only thing that I do know is that we have to be kind. Please be kind." from Everything Everywhere All At Once

BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
The Batman
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick

BEST MOVIE POSTER
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The Fabelmans
She Said
Everything Everywhere All At Once