The multiverse-spanning “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was everything to the Utah Film Critics Association, which gave the movie awards in a record 10 categories.
The movie — about a laundromat owner who learns she’s at the epicenter of an epic battle across multiple universes — won Best Picture, directing and original screenplay for the team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, lead female performance for Michelle Yeoh, both supporting performance categories for Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, ensemble cast, film editing and visual effects.
Quan, enjoying a career resurgence after roles as a child actor in “The Goonies” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” also won the critics group’s Vice/Martin Award, given to an outstanding performance in a science-fiction, horror or fantasy film. (The award is named for deceased members of the critics group, Jeff Vice and Jimmy Martin.)
The critics’ group met Saturday at the Megaplex Theaters Jordan Commons in Sandy to vote on the best work in movies in 2022.
Director-writer Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” received awards for Colin Farrell’s lead performance as an Irish villager whose friendship (to Brendan Gleeson) is disintegrating, for McDonagh’s original screenplay (a tie with “Everything Everywhere All at Once”), and for Carter Burwell’s original score. Gleeson and Kerry Condon were runners-up in the supporting acting categories.
The runner-up for best picture was “Top Gun: Maverick,” the action sequel that put Tom Cruise back in the cockpit of a fighter jet. The movie won an award for Claudio Miranda’s cinematography.
Two films tied in the adapted-screenplay category: Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” about women in a religious community meeting over a momentous decision; and Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate for “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” an animated mock-documentary about a mollusk’s life. “Marcel” also won the award for animated feature.
The award for best non-English language picture went to “RRR,” the Indian action epic about two friends who become rivals in a battle against British oppressors in the days before India’s independence. S.S. Rajamouli was named runner-up in the directing category.
Here is the list of winners and runners-up:
Picture • Winner: “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: “Top Gun: Maverick.
Directing • Winner: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: S.S. Rajamouli, “RRR.”
Lead performance, male • Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Runner-up: Austin Butler, “Elvis.”
Lead performance, female • Winner: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler, “Till.”
Supporting performance, female • Winner: Stephanie Hsu, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Supporting performance, male • Winner: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Ensemble cast • Winner: “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: (tie) “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” and “Women Talking.”
Vice/Martin Award • Winner: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: Mia Goth, “Pearl.”
Original screenplay • Winner: (tie) Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Adapted screenplay • Winner: (tie) Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate, “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” and Sarah Polley, “Women Talking.”
Cinematography • Winner: Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick.” Runner-up: Larkin Seiple, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Film editing • Winner: Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: Eddie Hamilton, “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Visual effects • Winner: “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Runner-up: “Avatar: The Way of Water.”
Original score • Winner: Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin.” Runner-up: Michael Giacchino, “The Batman.”
Animated feature • Winner: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.” Runner-up: “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio.”
Documentary feature • Winner: “Wildcat.” Runner-up: “Good Night Oppy.”
Non-English language feature • Winner: “RRR” (India). Runner-up: (tie) “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” (Mexico) and “Close” (Belgium).
Editor’s note • Tribune culture editor Sean P. Means is a voting member of the Utah Film Critics Association.
