The 2022 Sibleys

My would-be awards ballot for last year.

2021 was the year a fair few of us went *Tom Cruise voice* back to the movies, but also the year that the movies came back to us. While I found enough to enjoy in 2020 that perhaps wouldn’t have gotten the same level of attention in a more normal year, it was a somewhat lacking awards season as many, like Wes Anderson and Steven Spielberg, chose to push releases back. Which, by proxy now that their movies have come out in addition to everyone’s who has come to grips with shooting amidst a pandemic, means that this was an exceptionally tricky year to whittle down the (long) shortlists for the various categories — Petite Maman being the unfortunate one that got trimmed from three right at the end — but enough with what’s not on here, let’s see what is:

Best Picture

• Annette
• Bergman Island
• Days
• Spencer
• The French Dispatch
• The Matrix Resurrections
• The Power of the Dog
• The Souvenir: Part II
• Undine
• West Side Story

Best Director

• Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch
• Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
• Leos Carax for Annette
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
• Mia Hansen-Løve for Bergman Island
• Joanna Hogg for The Souvenir: Part II
• Pablo Larrain for Spencer
• Tsai Ming-Liang for Days
• Christian Petzold for Undine
• Steven Spielberg for West Side Story

Best Actor

• Benedict Cumberbatch for The Power of the Dog
• Adam Driver for Annette
• Clint Eastwood for Cry Macho
• Oscar Isaac for The Card Counter
• Len Kang-Sheng & Anong Houngeuangsy for Days
• Hidetoshi Nishijima for Drive My Car
• Keanu Reeves for The Matrix Resurrections
• Frank Rogowski for Undine
• Denzel Washington for The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress

• Carrie Anne-Moss for The Matrix Resurrections
• Paula Beer for Undine
• Kirsten Dunst for The Power of the Dog
• Vicky Krieps for Bergman Island
• Toko Miura for Drive My Car
• Kristen Stewart for Spencer
• Honor Swinton Byrne for The Souvenir: Part II
• Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo for Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar
• Rachel Zegler for West Side Story

Best Supporting Actor

• Richard Ayoade for The Souvenir: Part II
• Anders Danielsen Lie for Bergman Island
• Elkin Diaz for Memoria
• Jamie Dorman for Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar
• Mike Faist for West Side Story
• Kiyohiko Shibukawa for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
• M. Night Shyamalan for Old
• Masaki Okada for Drive My Car
• Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power of the Dog
• Jeffrey Wright for The French Dispatch

Best Supporting Actress

• Jessie Buckley for The Lost Daughter
• Ariana DeBose for West Side Story
• Kotone Furukawa, Katsuki Mori, Fusako Urabe & Aoba Kawai for Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
• Devyn McDowell for Annette
• Thomasin McKenzie for Old
• Tessa Thompson for Passing
• Mia Wasikowska for Bergman Island

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
• David Chase & Lawrence Konner for The Many Saints of Newark
• Patrick DeWitt for French Exit
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Lost Daughter
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car
• Joanna Hogg for The Souvenir: Part Two
• Tony Kushner for West Side Story
• David Lowery for The Green Knight
• M. Night Shyamalan for Old
• Lana Wachowski & David Mitchell & Aleksandar Hemon for The Matrix Resurrections

Best Original Screenplay

• Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch
• Leos Carax and Sparks for Annette
• Ryusuke Hamaguchi for Wheel of Fantasy and Fortune
• Mia Hansen-Løve for Bergman Island
• Steven Knight for Spencer
• Christian Petzold for Undine
• Paul Schrader for The Card Counter
• Céline Sciamma for Petite Maman
• Ed Solomon for No Sudden Move
• Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo for Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar

Best Cinematography

• Caroline Champetier for Annette
• Bruno Delbonnel for The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Alexander Dynan for The Card Counter
• Mike Gioulakis for Old
• Chang Jhong-yuan for Days
• Janusz Kamiński for West Side Story
• David Raedeker for The Souvenir: Part Two
• Steven Soderbergh for No Sudden Move
• Ari Wegner for The Power of the Dog
• Robert Yeoman for The French Dispatch

Best Costume Design

• Kirsty Cameron & Alice Baker for The Power of the Dog
• Milena Canonero & Patricia Colin for The French Dispatch
• Dave Davenport, Paul Tazewell, Megan Ehrling, Randi Featherstone & Tom Soluri for West Side Story
• Lindsay Pugh, Caroline Hill & Javier Arrieta for The Matrix Resurrections
• Malgosia Turzanska & Ciara McArdle for The Green Knight

Best Feature Documentary

• All Light, Everywhere
• Procession
• Swimming Out Until the Sea Turns Blue
• The Inheritance
• The Velvet Underground

Best Editing

• Sean Baker for Red Rocket
• Lee Chatametikool for Memoria
• Affonso Gonçalves & Adam Kurnitz for The Velvet Underground
• Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar for West Side Story
• Andrew Weisblum for The French Dispatch

Best Foreign Language Film

• Days
• Memoria
• Petite Maman
• Undine
• Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

• Judy Chin & Kay Georgiou for West Side Story
• Audrey Doyle & Eileen Buggy for The Green Knight
• Frances Hannon for The French Dispatch
• Heike Merker, Flora Moody & Shunika Terry for The Matrix Resurrections
• Cristina Waltz & Michelle Diamantides for Old

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat for The French Dispatch
• Jean-Baptiste de Laubier for Petite Maman
• Jonny Greenwood for Spencer
• Eiko Ishibashi for Drive My Car
• Sparks for Annette

Best Original Song

• “Edgar’s Prayer” from Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar by Jamie Dorman, Kristen Wiig & Annie Mumolo
• “Mercy of Man” from The Card Counter by Robert Levon Been feat. S.G. Goodman
• “No Time to Die” from No Time to Die by Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell
• “Remain” from Old by Saleka
• “So May We Start” from Annette by Sparks & Leos Carax

Best Live-Action Short

• All Too Well
• Hidden
• Nian
• Shangri-La
• Stump the Guesser!

Best Production Design

• Ephraim Asili for The Inheritance
• Stéphane Collonge for The Souvenir: Part Two
• Jade Healy for The Green Knight
• Adan Stockhausen for The French Dispatch & West Side Story

Best Sound

• Thomas Gauder, Paul Heymans, Katia Boutin, Maxence Dussère & Erwan Kezanet for Annette
• Skip Lievsay, Sean Garnhart & Chris Chae for Old
• Raúl Locatelli, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Richard Hocks & Javier Umpierrez for Memoria
• Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson & Shawn Murphy for West Side Story
• Tsao Yuan-Feng & Hsiang-Ling Ho for Days

Best Visual Effects

• Dan Glass, Huw J. Evans, Tom Debenham & J. D. Schwalm for The Matrix Resurrections
• Kelvin McIlwain, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner & Dan Sudick for The Suicide Squad
• Edwardo Mendez, Ryan Cunningham, Brian Budak & Cristin Pescosolido for Old
• Eric Saindon & Michael Cozens for The Green Knight
• Eric Schneider, Lev Kolobov & Simon Weisse for The French Dispatch