2022 National Society of Film Critics Awards

57th NSFC Awards
Date	January 7, 2023
Highlights
Best Picture	TÁR

The 57th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 7 January 2023, honored the best in film for 2022. The awards were dedicated in the memory of former Los Angeles Times film critic Sheila Benson.

American film TÁR won Best Film and Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), and Best Screenplay for Todd Field.

Winners

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

Colin Farrell, Best Actor winner

Cate Blanchett, Best Actress winner

Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actor winner

Todd Field, Best Screenplay winner

Best Picture

1. TÁR (61 points)
2. Aftersun (49)
3. No Bears (32)

Best Director

1. Charlotte Wells - Aftersun (60 points)
2. Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave (47 points)
3. Jafar Panahi - No Bears (36 points)

Best Actor

1. Colin Farrell - After Yang / The Banshees of Inisherin (71)
2. Paul Mescal - Aftersun (55)
3. Bill Nighy - Living (33)

Best Actress

1. Cate Blanchett - TÁR (59)
2. Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once (38)
3. (tie) Tilda Swinton - The Eternal Daughter / Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans (27)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once (45)
2. Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway (35)
3. Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin (27)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin (57)
2. Nina Hoss - TÁR (43)
3. Dolly de Leon - Triangle of Sadness (35)

Best Screenplay

1. Todd Field - TÁR (61)
2. Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin (42)
3. James Gray - Armageddon Time (18)

Best Cinematography

1. Michał Dymek - EO (62)
2. Hoyte van Hoytema - Nope (37)
3. Kim Ji-yong - Decision to Leave (34)

Best Foreign Language Film

1. EO (43)
2. No Bears (37)
3. Decision to Leave (34)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (46)
2. Descendant (40)
3. All That Breathes (27)

Film Heritage Award

• Jeanine Basinger, "as one of our most esteemed and important film scholars, her work at Wesleyan University and beyond has continually bridged the divide between Hollywood and academia, film studies and movie love."

• Turner Classic Movies, "for a rich array of programming that ranges deep and wide in the history of cinema, a service too easily taken for granted by audiences and worthy of the utmost care and attention from its corporate owners."

• Screen Slate, published and edited by Jon Dieringer, an essential daily online publication that has done much to build and sustain the filmmaking, theatrical exhibition and film critical communities of New York City and by extension the world at large.