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The 2022 Matt Awards (Nominations)


Having been a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan since the mid-1990s, I was disappointed when he wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his role in Titanic (as in, I-was-about-to-riot disappointed). Thus, in early 1998, I began what was to become an annual tradition -- The Matt Awards. Perhaps one of the most egotistical things on God's green earth, every year I proceed to select the best in movie making, as a sort of consolation for the fact that very rarely do the Academy Awards align with my own yearly favorites.

I used to do both nominations and then, a few weeks later, pick the winners. After awhile I just went straight to the winners circle. This year, however, with the Oscars being pushed back a bit, and having been able to see a lot of really good films, I wanted to at least acknowledge several films and filmmakers with nominations. In a few weeks (before the Oscars ceremony), I will make announce the winners of The Matt Awards. No doubt you will all be on tenterhooks waiting to find out who will go home with the coveted Matt Prize.


Here, then, are the nominees:


Best Picture
C'mon C'mon
Dune
The Green Knight
I'm Your Man
The Tragedy of Macbeth


Best Director
Jane Campion  for   The Power of the Dog
Joel Coen  for  The Tragedy of Macbeth
Rebecca Hall  for  Passing
Mike Mills  for   C'mon C'mon
Denis Villeneuve  for   Dune


Best Actor
Nicolas Cage  for  Pig
Timothee Chalamet  for  Dune
Daniel Craig   for  No Time to Die
Dan Stevens  for  I'm Your Man
Denzel Washington  for  The Tragedy of Macbeth


Best Actress
Jessica Chastain   for   The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Maren Eggert   for   I'm Your Man
Alana Haim   for   Licorice Pizza
Rebecca Hall   for   The Night House
Tessa Thompson   for   Passing


Best Supporting Actor
Ciaran Hinds   for   Belfast
Tony Leung   for   Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Anders Danielsen Lie   for   Bergman Island
Kodi Smit-McPhee   for   The Power of the Dog
Woody Norman   for   C'mon C'mon


Best Supporting Actress
McKenna Grace   for   Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Gaby Hoffmann   for   C'mon C'mon
Olga Merediz   for   In the Heights
Ruth Negga   for   Passing
Diana Rigg   for   Last Night in Soho


Best Screenplay
Kenneth Branagh   for   Belfast
Julia Duncournau   for   Titane
Mia Hansen-Love   for   Bergman Island
Mike Mills   for   C'mon C'mon
Jan Schomburg & Maria Schrader   for   I'm Your Man


Best Cinematography
Paul Thomas Anderson & Michael Bauman   for   Licorice Pizza
Bruno Delbonnel   for   The Tragedy of Macbeth
Una Ni Dhonghaile   for   Belfast
Greig Fraser   for   Dune
Andrew Droz Palermo   for   The Green Knight


Best Score
Marco Beltrami, Anna Drubich & Marcus Trumpp   for   Fear Street: Part One - 1994
Carter Burwell   for   The Tragedy of Macbeth
Trevor Gureckis   for   Old
Daniel Hart   for   The Green Knight
Hans Zimmer   for   Dune


Best Editing
Bo Burnham   for   Bo Burnham: Inside
Joel Coen & Lucian Johnston   for   The Tragedy of Macbeth
Sabine Hoffman   for   Passing
Marion Mannier   for   Bergman Island
Hansjorg Weibrich   for   I'm Your Man


Best Non-English Language Film
Flee
I'm Your Man
Summer of 85
Titane


Best Animated Film
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines


Best Horror Movie
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do it
Fear Street: Part One - 1994
Malignant
The Night House
Psycho Goreman


Best Documentary
Flee
Julia
My Name is Pauli Murray
Remembering Anarcha


This list of nominees doesn't even scratch the surface of all the talent -- both in front of and behind the camera -- from 2021, but it helps me feel better to recognize at least a few of the people who helped make it such an enjoyable year for cinema.

As I mentioned earlier, the winners will be announced in a few weeks.
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