Best Movies of 2022: Best of the Techs
Continuing my look back at the best movies of 2022, I am now going to look at the best technical achievements of 2022. I will be looking at the best screenplays, cinematography, production design, song, and other technical categories like that. Like Best of the Genres, each category will have five “nominees” (a.k.a my personal top five) with my “winner” (my favorite) in bold, followed by short reasoning as to why I chose it as the best of the year. Here are my picks for the best technical achievements of 2022.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Outfit
- The best screenplay of Martin McDonagh’s career perfectly balances humor, heart, and drama with some incredible dialog.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bones and All
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Women Talking
- It was a weaker year than usual for Best Adapted Screenplay, but Sarah Polley’s complex and powerful Women Talking and Rian Johnson’s delightfully fun Glass Onion: A Knive Out Mystery stood head-and-shoulders above the rest, with Women Talking coming out on top.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Fabelmans
- One of the best parts about Top Gun: Maverick is the air fighting and the planes flying. The sky camera work is excellent and the way they filmed inside the aircraft made it feel like we were right in the cockpit.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
After Yang
The Batman
The Outfit
The Woman King
- Kogonada’s tender sci-fi drama takes us to an imaginative and beautiful future filled with unique architecture.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Batman
Elvis
The Outfit
The Woman King
- While I loved the 1950s gangster stylings of The Outfit, the costuming in Elvis was fit for a king.
BEST EDITING
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Top Gun: Maverick
The Woman King
- Some tough calls here and while Top Gun: Maverick may not be as flashy as Avatar: The Way of Water or Everything Everywhere All at Once, the tight, crisp editing made the action soar even higher.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
Top Gun: Maverick
- One of the few no-brainer choices for me this year. James Cameron’s game-changing return to Pandora is one of the most visually stunning movies I have ever seen.
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
The Batman
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Northman
The Woman King
- Turning Colin Farrell into Oswald “Penguin” Cobblepot was one of the great magic tricks of 2022.
BEST SCORE
Babylon
The Batman
Devotion
Don’t Worry Darling
The Fabelmans
- I truly love all of these scores, but Michael Giacchino’s grandiose noir score is the only one I find myself actively humming and thinking about on a daily basis.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Lift Me Up” – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Vegas” – Elvis
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR
“Good Afternoon” – Spirited
“Hold My Hand” – Top Gun: Maverick
- Not only is “Naatu Naatu” an amazing, energetic song but it is also accompanied by one of the great movie scenes of 2022.
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