2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards


The 24th Fangoria Chainsaw Awards was an award ceremony presented for horror films that were released in 2021. The nominees were announced on January 4, 2022.

Winners and nominees

Best Wide ReleaseBest Limited Release

  • PG: Psycho Goreman − Directed by Steven Kostanski
  • *Come True − Directed by Anthony Scott Burns
  • *Hurt − Directed by Sonny Mallhi
  • *In the Earth − Directed by Ben Wheatley
  • *Werewolves Within − Directed by Josh Ruben
    • Best Streaming PremiereBest Foreign Film
  • Fear Street Part Three: 1666 − Directed by Leigh Janiak
  • *The Boy Behind the Door − Directed by Justin Powell and David Charbonier
  • *Lucky − Directed by Natasha Kermani
  • *The Power − Directed by Corinna Faith
  • *Violation − Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer
  • Titane − Directed by Julia Ducournau
  • *Detention − Directed by John Hsu
  • *Lamb − Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson
  • *The Queen of Black Magic − Directed by Kimo Stamboel
  • *The Feast − Directed by Lee Haven Jones
    • Best First FeatureBest Director
  • Saint Maud − Directed by Rose Glass
  • *Censor − Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
  • *My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To − Directed by Jonathan Cuartas
  • *The Stylist − Directed by Jill Gevargizian
  • *The Vigil − Directed by Keith Thomas
  • Edgar Wright − Last Night in Soho
  • *Prano Bailey-Bond − Censor
  • *David Bruckner − The Night House
  • *Anthony Scott Burns − Come True
  • *Julia Ducournau − Titane
  • *Rose Glass − Saint Maud
    • Best Lead PerformanceBest Supporting Performance
  • Yahya Abdul-Mateen II − Candyman as Anthony McCoy
  • *Niamh Algar − Censor as Enid Baines
  • *Morfydd Clark − Saint Maud as Katie/Maud
  • *Barbara Crampton − Jakob's Wife as Anne Fedder
  • *Rebecca Hall − The Night House as Beth Parchin
  • *Thomasin McKenzie − Last Night in Soho as Eloise "Ellie" Turner
  • *Agathe Rousselle − Titane as Alexia/Adrien
  • *Madeleine Sims-Fewer − Violation as Miriam
  • *Julia Sarah Stone − Come True as Sarah
  • *Anya Taylor-Joy − Last Night in Soho as Alexandra "Sandie" Collins
  • Millicent Simmonds − A Quiet Place Part II as Regan Abbott
  • *Luke David Blumm − Son as David
  • *Jennifer Ehle − Saint Maud as Amanda Köhl
  • *Larry Fessenden − Jakob's Wife as Pastor Jakob Fedder
  • *Vincent Lindon − Titane as Vincent
  • *Diana Rigg − Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins
  • *Bill Sage − Wrong Turn as Venable/Ram Skull
  • *Jeremy T. Thomas − Antlers as Lucas Weaver
  • *Suzanne Voss − Dementia Part II as Suzanne Goldblum
    • Best ScreenplayBest Score
  • The Night House − Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski
  • *Prano Bailey-Bond and Anthony Fletcher, Censor
  • *Detention − John Hsu, Fu Kai-ling, and Chien Shih-keng
  • *Saint Maud − Rose Glass
  • *Violation − Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli
  • Halloween Kills − John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies
  • *Come True − Electric Youth and Pilotpriest
  • *Hurt − Tom Schraeder and CJ Johnson
  • *In the Earth − Clint Mansell
  • *The Night House − Ben Lovett
    • Best Makeup FXBest Creature FX
  • Halloween Kills − Christopher Nelson
  • *Blood Red Sky − Mark Coulier
  • *Hurt − Tara Brawley
  • *Kandisha − Oriane de Neve/CLSFX Atelier 69
  • *Spiral: From the Book of Saw − Francois Dagenais
  • PG: Psycho Goreman − Steven Kostanski/MastersFX
  • *Antlers − Shane Mahan/Legacy Effects
  • *Black Friday − Robert Kurtzman
  • *The Green Knight − Barrie Gower
  • *V/H/S/94 − Magee FX/Gaslight Studio
    • Achievement In Non-FictionBest Documentary
  • The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
  • *Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special, Special
  • *The Boulet Brothers' Dragula
  • Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
  • *Mail Order Murder
  • *Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story
    • Best Costume DesignBest Series
  • Last Night in Soho − Odile Dicks-Mireaux
  • *Bingo Hell − Eulyn Colette Hufkie
  • *Candyman − Lizzie Cook
  • *Prisoners of the Ghostland − Chieko Matsumoto
  • *Slumber Party Massacre − Neil McClean
  • Midnight Mass
  • *Brand New Cherry Flavor
  • *Chucky
  • *Creepshow
  • *I Know What You Did Last Summer
    • Best Kill -
  • The Bread Slicer – Fear Street Part One: 1994
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