AP's Top 25 Movies of 2022: By the numbers
The films in the inaugural AP Top 25 Movies ranking yield a host of numbers, facts, figures and trivia if examined perhaps a little too closely.
Here's a look at the money, the minutes, the men and women, the minutiae and the many, many animals involved in the best movies of 2022.
Longest running time: 3 hours, 12 minutes
"Avatar: The Way of Water" was the lengthiest, but "Babylon" (No. 18) and "RRR" (No. 6) also surpassed three hours.
Average running time: 2 hours, 11 minutes
The shortest is "EO" (No. 23) at one hour, 26 minutes.
Actors credited in multiple films on the list: 5
Cate Blanchett (pictured) plays the eponymous elite conductor Lydia Tár, and voices the monkey Spazzatura and puppets in "Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio" (No. 13).
Jenny Slate voices the titular "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" (No. 20) and plays Debbie the Dog Mom in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," while Samantha Morton is in both "She Said" (No. 19) and "The Whale" (tied for No. 16).
Jayme Lawson appears in "The Woman King" (No. 5) and "Till" (No. 22). James Hong provides a voice in "Turning Red" (No. 24) and is in "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
Age of the oldest lead actor: 67
Brendan Gleeson (pictured), the oldest leading actor on the list, is arguably the co-lead of "The Banshees of Inisherin" (No. 1) even though he is being promoted as a supporting actor for awards.
If the list's lone documentary, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" (No. 15), is considered, its subject — the photographer Nan Goldin — would be the oldest at 69.
Sexagenarians also found representation with Tom Cruise of "Top Gun: Maverick" and Michelle Yeoh of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," both 1962 babies.
Celebrity cameos in 'Glass Onion': 10
Spotted in the "Knives Out" sequel: Angela Lansbury (pictured), Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Grant, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Serena Williams, Ethan Hawke, Jake Tapper, Natasha Lyonne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt('s voice) and Yo-Yo Ma. Two — Lansbury and Sondheim — have since died.
Directors' debut features: 3
"Aftersun," directed by Charlotte Wells (pictured); "Turning Red," directed by Domee Shi and "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," directed by Dean Fleischer Camp.
Feature films directed by Steven Spielberg: 33
Of the directors with movies on the list, Steven Spielberg, at the helm of "The Fabelmans," (No. 8) has directed the most by far.
Age of the youngest director: 33
That's Domee Shi, the Canadian director of Pixar's "Turning Red."
Age of the oldest director: 84
And that's Jerzy Skolimowski of "EO."
Films with non-white directors: 9
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" (one of "the Daniels," Daniel Kwan, is Chinese American), No. 4 "Nope" (Jordan Peele), "The Woman King" (Gina Prince-Blythewood, pictured), "RRR" (S.S. Rajamouli), No. 12 "Decision to Leave" (Park Chan-wook), "Pinocchio," "Till" (Chinonye Chukwu), "Turning Red" and "No Bears" (Jafar Panahi).
Films directed by women: 7
"The Woman King," "Women Talking" (No. 9, directed by Sarah Polley, pictured), "Aftersun," "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" (Laura Poitras), "She Said" (Maria Schrader), "Till" and "Turning Red."
Sequels: 3
"Top Gun: Maverick" came 36 years after the original, and the story picks up after nearly that much time has passed. While an "Avatar" sequel took 13 years, it is conveniently set 15 years later. "Glass Onion" (pictured) was released in a more typical three years after the original "Knives Out."
Animated films: 3
"Pinocchio" and "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" use stop-motion animation, while "Turning Red" is computer animation.
About the photo: Animation director Kirsten Lepore, left, director/co-writer Dean Fleischer-Camp, center, and voice actor/co-writer Jenny Slate pose for a portrait at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles to promote their film "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On," on June 21, 2022.
Expert voters: 26
Our panel was sourced from top film experts at news outlets across the U.S.
Total films selected by panelists: 176
Of these, 76 appeared on only one ballot among the 26.
The Associated Press has unveiled its inaugural AP Top 25 Movies list, a compilation by a truly representative panel of 26 of the U.S.'s smartest movie experts.