| Number: | 7 |
| Award: | Seattle Film Critics Society Awards |
| Date: | January 17, 2023 |
| Site: | Seattle, Washington |
| Best Picture: | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| Most Wins: | Everything Everywhere All at Once (4) |
| Last: | 2021 |
| Next: | 2023 |
The 7th Seattle Film Critics Society Awards were announced on January 17, 2023.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The nominations were announced on January 9, 2023, with Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the nominations with fourteen, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin with nine and with eight.[5] [6] [7]
Everything Everywhere All at Once received the most awards with four wins, including Best Picture and Best Director, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin with three.[2] [8]
The awards were dedicated this year to Sheila Benson (Los Angeles Times) and John Hartl (The Seattle Times), two of the "finest" film critics to live and work in the Pacific Northwest. After her retirement from the Los Angeles Times in 1991, Benson wrote for several print publications and websites, at both the local and national level, while Hartl was a Seattle icon who spent his entire 52-year career writing for The Seattle Times. They will be missed for their "incisive contributions, as well as their warm and wise camaraderie at press screenings and festival events".[2]
This year, a new category—Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking—was added to specifically honor Pacific Northwest filmmaking. The award is meant to celebrate the many talented filmmakers who call the region home and who produce work there. A nominating committee carefully considered a wide variety of feature films released during 2022 with strong connections to the region and selected five finalists. The winner was determined by a vote of the full membership and announced alongside the SFCS's other awards on January 17, 2023; the nominees were announced via YouTube on December 5, 2022.[9]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold
| Everything Everywhere All at Once (A24) | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once | |
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin as Pádraic Súilleabháin
| Cate Blanchett – Tár as Lydia Tár
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Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once as Waymond Wang
| Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin as Siobhán Súilleabháin
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– Bret Howe and Mary Vernieu, casting directors
| RRR | |
The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
| Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp, director
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Fire of Love – Sara Dosa, director
| Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook, director
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| – Claudio Miranda | Elvis – Catherine Martin | |
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers
| Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
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Babylon – Florencia Martin (Production Design); Anthony Carlino (Set Decoration)
| – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
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Frankie Corio – Aftersun as Sophie Paterson
| Lydia Tár – Tár (portrayed by Cate Blanchett)
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Sweetheart Deal (Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller's deeply moving portrait of sex workers on Seattle's Aurora Avenue seeking salvation from the spiral of addiction)
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