My awards picks for the films of 2022.

Only eligible films are ones released in the US in 2022. Releases can be streaming, theatrical, or home media, just not film festival exclusives. My categories are my own, not all are Oscar categories.

Previous Dazzies: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021

All eligible films are listed below. The notes lists each nomination and win. My complete ranking of the films is here.

Each category has 1 winner, 5 nominees, and 5 honourable mentions. Nominees and mentions listed alphabetically.

Best Film:

Decision to Leave - WINNER
Mad God
No Bears
The Novelist's Film
RRR

Honourable Mentions: The Batman; Benediction; Bones and All; In Front of Your Face; My Imaginary Country

Best English-Language Film:

The Batman - WINNER
Benediction
Blonde
Bones and All
Crimes of the Future

Honourable Mentions: Aftersun; Babylon; The Banshees of Inisherin; Tár; The Wonder
Note: documentaries and animation ineligible

Best Foreign-Language Film:

Decision to Leave - WINNER
In Front of Your Face
No Bears
The Novelist's Film
RRR

Honourable Mentions: Clara Sola; Paris, 13th District; The Quiet Girl; Reflection; Saloum
Note: documentaries and animation ineligible

Best Animated Film:

Mad God - WINNER
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Josep
Turning Red

Honourable Mentions: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; My Father's Dragon; Puss in Boots: The Last Wish; The Sea Beast; Wendell & Wild

Best Documentary Film:

My Imaginary Country - WINNER
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
The Metamorphosis of Birds

Honourable Mentions: Anonymous Club; The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft; A Letter from Yene; Navalny; What We Leave Behind

Best Director:

Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave - WINNER
Hong Sang-soo - The Novelist's Film
Jafar Panahi - No Bears
S. S. Rajamouli - RRR
Phil Tippett - Mad God

Honourable Mentions: Terence Davies (Benediction); Andrew Dominik (Blonde); Luca Guadagnino (Bones and All); Laura Poitras (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed); Matt Reeves (The Batman)

Best Actor:

Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin - WINNER
Caleb Landry Jones - Nitram
Jack Lowden - Benediction
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Park Hae-il - Decision to Leave

Honourable Mentions: Adeel Akhtar (Ali & Ava); Austin Butler (Elvis); Ram Charan (RRR); Adam Driver (White Noise); Bill Nighy (Living)

Best Actress:

Ana de Armas - Blonde - WINNER
Cate Blanchett - Tár
Wendy Chinchilla Araya - Clara Sola
Tang Wei - Decision to Leave
Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Honourable Mentions: Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider); Sofia Kappel (Pleasure); Keke Palmer (Nope); Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie); Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Best Supporting Actor:

Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin - WINNER
Colin Farrell - The Batman
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mark Rylance - Bones and All

Honourable Mentions: David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio); Paul Dano (The Fabelmans); Georg Friedrich (Great Freedom); Sean Harris (The Stranger); Justin Long (Barbarian)

Best Supporting Actress:

Dolly de Leon - Triangle of Sadness - WINNER
Hong Chau - The Whale
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
Zoë Kravitz - The Batman

Honourable Mentions: Judy Davis (Nitram); Nina Hoss (Tár); Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once); Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery); Samantha Morton (She Said)

Best Acting Ensemble:

The Banshees of Inisherin - WINNER
The Batman
Decision to Leave
Nitram
Tár

Honourable Mentions: Babylon; Benediction; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Nope; The Novelist's Film

Best Original Screenplay:

Decision to Leave - WINNER
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Benediction
Crimes of the Future

Honourable Mentions: Everything Everywhere All at Once; Nitram; No Bears; The Novelist's Film; Tár

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Batman - WINNER
Blonde
Bones and All
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Paris, 13th District

Honourable Mentions: After Yang; Both Sides of the Blade; Happening; Living; Women Talking

Best Editing:

Decision to Leave - WINNER
Aftersun
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Blonde
RRR

Honourable Mentions: The Batman; Benediction; Everything Everywhere All at Once; No Bears; Tár

Best Music:

Babylon - WINNER
The Batman
Blonde
RRR
Women Talking

Honourable Mentions: Bones and All; Decision to Leave; EO; Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon; Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Best Cinematography:

Decision to Leave - WINNER
Athena
The Batman
Blonde
RRR

Honourable Mentions: Aftersun; All That Breathes; Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths; EO; Tár

Best Sound:

Nope - WINNER
The Batman
Blonde
RRR
Tár

Honourable Mentions: Avatar: The Way of Water; Elvis; Flux Gourmet; History of the Occult; The Northman

Best Visual Effects:

Avatar: The Way of Water - WINNER
The Batman
Nope
The Northman
RRR

Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front; Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design:

The Northman - WINNER
Babylon
Mad God
RRR
Three Thousand Years of Longing

Honourable Mentions: The Batman; Blonde; Decision to Leave; Elvis; Pearl

Best Costumes:

Blonde - WINNER
Babylon
Elvis
The Northman
RRR

Honourable Mentions: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Bones and All; Corsage; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Three Thousand Years of Longing

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

The Batman - WINNER
Barbarian
Blonde
Crimes of the Future
The Northman

Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front; RRR; The Whale; The Woman King; X

Best Stunts and Choreography:

RRR - WINNER
Athena
The Batman
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick

Honourable Mentions: All Quiet on the Western Front; Avatar: The Way of Water; Nope; The Northman; Prey

Best Casting:

Aftersun - WINNER
Bones and All
Close
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nitram

Honourable Mentions: Babylon; The Batman; Clara Sola; Hit the Road; Playground

Best Scene:

RRR - Prison rescue - WINNER
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - Video call with Sacklers
Athena - Opening long take
The Fabelmans - John Ford
The Novelist's Film - Fourth wall breaking ending

Honourable Mentions: Ali & Ava (listening to music with headphones); Argentina, 1985 (closing argument); Barbarian (first investigating the hidden corridor); Navalny (phone call with assassin); RRR (Naatu Naatu)

Worst Film:

Jurassic World Dominion - WINNER
Empire of Light
Morbius
Sharp Stick
You Won't Be Alone

Dishonourable Mentions: Black Adam; Clerks III; Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore; Halloween Ends; Miracle Valley

Worst Director:

Colin Trevorrow - Jurassic World Dominion - WINNER
Lena Dunham - Sharp Stick
Daniel Espinosa - Morbius
Taika Waititi - Thor: Love and Thunder
David Yates - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Dishonourable Mentions: Jaume Collet-Serra (Black Adam); Sam Mendes (Empire of Light); Anthony & Joe Russo (The Gray Man); Kevin Smith (Clerks III); Goran Stolevski (You Won't Be Alone)

Worst Performance:

Jared Leto - Morbius - WINNER
Jeff Anderson - Clerks III
Ezra Miller - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Matt Smith - Morbius
Harry Styles - Don't Worry Darling

Dishonourable Mentions: Lena Dunham (Sharp Stick); Jason Mewes (Clerks III); Brian O'Halloran (Clerks III); Greg Sestero (Miracle Valley); Tessa Thompson (Thor: Love and Thunder)

Worst Screenplay:

Jurassic World Dominion - WINNER
Black Adam
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Morbius
Sharp Stick

Dishonourable Mentions: Bigbug; Empire of Light; Halloween Ends; Thor: Love and Thunder; You Won't Be Alone

Worst Scene:

Morbius - Credits scenes - WINNER
Black Adam - Paint It Black
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Any scene with Ross and Valentina
Jurassic World Dominion - Any moment without dinosaurs
Sharp Stick - Learning what porn is

Dishonourable Mentions: Athena (twist ending); Clerks III (crypto jokes); Cow (killing the cow); Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Clea credits scene); Don't Worry Darling (car chase finale)

Multiple Wins (excluding negative awards):
6 - Decision to Leave
3 - The Banshees of Inisherin; The Batman
2 - Blonde; RRR

Multiple Nominations (excluding negative awards):
12 - RRR
11 - The Batman
9 - Blonde; Decision to Leave
6 - The Banshees of Inisherin
4 - Aftersun; Bones and All; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Mad God; The Northman; The Novelist's Film
3 - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Athena; Babylon; Benediction; Crimes of the Future; Nitram; No Bears; Tár
2 - The Fabelmans; Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio; Nope

Multiple Mentions (excluding negative awards):
16 - The Batman
15 - RRR
11 - Blonde; Decision to Leave
10 - Everything Everywhere All at Once
8 - Bones and All; Tár
7 - Babylon; The Banshees of Inisherin; Benediction
6 - Aftersun; The Northman; The Novelist's Film
5 - Nitram; No Bears; Nope
4 - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Elvis; Mad God
3 - All Quiet on the Western Front; Athena; Avatar: The Way of Water; Barbarian; Clara Sola; Crimes of the Future; The Fabelmans; Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio; Three Thousand Years of Longing
2 - Ali & Ava; All That Breathes; EO; In Front of Your Face; Living; My Imaginary Country; Navalny; Paris, 13th District; Top Gun: Maverick; The Whale; Women Talking