Best Films of 2022 [Poll][Dead]

[BozoTyrannus]

[Hayden]

A new addition to my list is World War III — caught it last weekend. Fantastic choices for the Orizzonti at Venice. Should have landed main competition.

Surprised how many films I wanted to get around to still aren't quite available. Hoping to see Return To Seoul, The Eight Mountains, Tchaikovsky’s Wife, War Pony, Burning Days, The Worst Ones, and the (coincidentally similarly titled) RMN & Rimini. I'm assuming Showing Up just... isn't coming out any time soon for some reason.

Also watched Smoking Causes Coughing and No Bears, but I don't think either will make my final list. Unique works though— always refreshing to watch something different.

[Applerill]

Yeah, I saw World War III at the Siskel's Festival of Films From Iran this past February in a double feature with Godard's on-screen finale See You Friday Robinson, and I loved them both <3

Also, umm.... we're all listening to "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey this weekend, huh?

[AwaitingAndrew]

Films:
1. The Batman
2. All Quiet On The Western Front
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once
4. Top Gun: Maverick
5. RRR
6. Cha Cha Real Smooth
7. Decision to Leave
8. A Man Called Otto
9. The Fallout
10. The Adam Project

11. She Said
12. Ambulance
13. Nope
14. Aftersun
15. Mars One
16. Sr.
17. The Fabelmans
18. Sidney
19. The Banshees of Inisherin
20. Avatar: The Way of Water

21. The Gray Man
22. Spirited
23. Dylan & Zoey
24. Armageddon Time
25. Causeway
26. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
27. Emergency
28. The Whale
29. Barbarian
30. Till

31. The Outfit
32. Devotion
33. Raymond & Ray
34. Empire of Light
35. Women Talking
36. Mickey: The Story Of A Mouse
37. Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
38. After Yang
39. Chip ’N Dale: Rescue Rangers
40. The Survivor

41. Glass Onion
42. The Northman
43. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
44. Lightyear
45. The Quiet Girl
46. Thor: Love And Thunder
47. Watcher
48. The Menu
49. Joyland
50. Scream (V)

Male Performances:
1. Ryan Reynolds, The Adam Project
2. Colin Farrell, The Banshees Of Inisherin
3. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once
4. Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
5. Robert Pattinson, The Batman
6. Felix Kammerer, All Quiet On The Western Front
7. Paul Mescal, Aftersun
8. Cooper Raiff, Cha Cha Real Smooth
9. Tom Hanks, A Man Called Otto
10. Ram Charan, RRR

Female Performances:
1. Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Jenna Ortega, The Fallout
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Causeway
4. Keke Palmer, Nope
5. Dakota Johnson, Cha Cha Real Smooth
6. Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
7. Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
8. Claudia Doumit, Dylan & Zoey
9. Zoë Kravitz, The Batman
10. Tang Wei, Decision to Leave

Scores:
1. Michael Giacchino, The Batman
2. Volker Bertelmann, All Quiet On The Western Front
3. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Empire of Light
4. Vox Lux, Everything Everywhere All At Once
5. Oliver Coates, Aftersun

[Hayden]

Thanks Andrew—
Tallied

Tight list so far, and surprisingly less overlap than I predicted. Hoping for a few more submissions in the upcoming weeks.

[Hayden]

Two weeks left

[EyeKanFly]

I still have a few more films to watch and will probably update this list before the end of the tourney, but just in case I forget, here's my current list: https://letterboxd.com/eyekanfly/list/e...s-of-2022/

This includes short films, so to (hopefully) make it easier, here's the same list with everything under 40 minutes removed:
Films:

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
   
2. Argentina, 1985
   
3. RRR
   
4. The Territory
   
5. Racionais MC's: From the Streets of São Paulo
   
6. Fire of Love
   
7. Prey
   
8. Mars One
   
9. The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
   
10. Tár
    
11. All Quiet on the Western Front
    
12. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
    
13. Stealing Raden Saleh
    
14. The Banshees of Inisherin
    
15. Bo Burnham: The Inside Outtakes*
    
16. Top Gun: Maverick
    
17. Werewolf by Night
    
18. The Bob's Burgers Movie
    
19. She Said
    
20. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
    
21. Turning Red
    
22. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
    
23. The Woman King
    
24. Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery*
    
25. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    
26. Entergalactic
    
27. Bullet Train
    
28. Kendrick Lamar's The Big Steppers Tour Live
    
29. The Elephant Whisperers
    
30. Missing Home
    
31. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
    
32. Descendant
    
33. Triangle of Sadness
    
34. Bros
    
35. Lightyear
    
36. Wendell & Wild
    
37. The Martha Mitchell Effect
    
38. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    
39. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
    
40. Where the Crawdads Sing
    
41. Thor: Love and Thunder
    
42. Don't Worry Darling
    

*these 2 "films" are over 40 minutes but to my knowledge don't appear anywhere other than for free on YouTube; I've included them here because I think they fit the criteria, but if either one or both don't fit, I can remove.

Actresses:

1. Michelle Yeoh / Everything Everywhere All at Once -as- Evelyn Wang
   
2. Cate Blanchett / Tár -as- Lydia Tár
   
3. Camilla Damião / Mars One -as- Eunice (Nina)
   
4. Angela Bassett / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever -as- Queen Ramonda
   
5. Amber Midthunder / Prey -as- Naru
   
6. Rejane Faria / Mars One -as- Tercia
   
7. Kerry Condon / The Banshees of Inisherin -as- Siobhán Súilleabháin
   
8. Zoe Kazan / She Said -as- Jodi Kantor
   
9. Janelle Monáe / Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery -as- Andi Brand
   
10. Stephanie Hsu / Everything Everywhere All at Once -as- Joy Wang

Actors:

1. Ke Huy Quan / Everything Everywhere All at Once -as- Waymond Wang
   
2. Ricardo Darín / Argentina, 1985 -as- Julio César Strassera
   
3. Barry Keoghan / The Banshees of Inisherin -as- Dominic Kearney
   
4. Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin -as- Pádraic Súilleabháin
   
5. Peter Lanzani / Argentina, 1985 -as- Luis Moreno Ocampo
   
6. N.T. Rama Rao Jr. / RRR / Komaram Bheem
   
7. Brendan Gleeson / The Banshees of Inisherin -as- Colm Doherty
   
8. Tenoch Huerta Mejía / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever -as- Namor
   
9. Felix Kammerer / All Quiet on the Western Front -as- Paul Bäumer
   
10. Ram Charan / RRR / Alluri Sitarama Raju

Scores:

1. Justin Hurwitz / Babylon
   
2. Son Lux / Everything Everywhere All at Once
   
3. Nicolas Godin / Fire of Love
   
4. M.M. Keervaani / RRR
   
5. Loren Bouchard, Nora Smith, Tim Davies / The Bob's Burgers Movie
   
6. Volker Bertelmann / All Quiet on the Western Front
   
7. Terence Blanchard / The Woman King
   
8. Brian Tyler / Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
   
9. Carter Burwell / The Banshees of Inisherin
   
10. Ludwig Göransson / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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[CA Dreamin]

^Hope to see Babylon on this list before the deadline

[EyeKanFly]

[Hayden]

Thanks EyeKanFly, tallied — out of everything, the music/score list is turning out to be quite the race. Not to be spoiler-y, but you're actually the first person to put Wendell & Wild on their list. Although it (just) missed mine, I feel it's going to go down as one of the more underappreciated films of the year. Not sure why reviews were so mixed— it's got some great stuff.

I got around to Return To Seoul last night. Not sure if it'll be landing my chart, but it was still a good film. Still have these on my watchlist for the year, hoping to get around to all of them—
Rodeo
The Blue Caftan
The Eight Mountains

and maybe Burning Days, but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere yet (???)

Anywho— 8 days left We're stickin' to schedule. (Which means I have to start whipping up a banner for our 70s list...)