The International Cinephile Society (ICS) has announced the nominations for its 22nd annual awards. The winners will be announced on February 9th. Here are this year’s nominees…
PICTURE
Afternoons of Solitude
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
The Beast
The Brutalist
Caught by the Tides
Challengers
Evil Does Not Exist
Grand Tour
Hard Truths
I Saw the TV Glow
Juror #2
Megalopolis
Misericordia
Nickel Boys
The Other Way Around
The Room Next Door
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Substance
To a Land Unknown
DIRECTOR
Bertrand Bonello – The Beast
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Miguel Gomes – Grand Tour
Alain Guiraudie – Misericordia
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow
ACTOR
Mahmood Bakri – To a Land Unknown
Adam Bessa – Ghost Trail
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Keith Kupferer – Ghostlight
Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story
ACTRESS
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Kani Kusruti – All We Imagine as Light
Demi Moore – The Substance
Léa Seydoux – The Beast
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov – Anora
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Aram Sabbagh – To a Land Unknown
Ricardo Teodoro – Baby
Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Michele Austin – Hard Truths
Joan Chen – Didi
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Chhaya Kadam – All We Imagine as Light
Aubrey Plaza – Megalopolis
Divya Prabha – All We Imagine as Light
ENSEMBLE
All We Imagine as Light
Anora
Conclave
Ghostlight
Hard Truths
Misericordia
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia
Anora – Sean Baker
Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes
Hard Truths – Mike Leigh
Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Beast – Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit, Guillaume Bréaud
Conclave – Peter Straughan
I’m Still Here – Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
Queer – Justin Kuritzkes
The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Afternoons of Solitude – Artur Tort
All We Imagine as Light – Ranabir Das
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Grand Tour – Guo Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças
Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
EDITING
Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra, Artur Tort
All We Imagine as Light – Clément Pinteaux
Caught by the Tides – Yang Chao, Matthieu Laclau, Xudong Lin
Challengers – Marco Costa
Grand Tour – Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
Mexico will no longer exist! – Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Beast – Katia Wyszkop
The Brutalist – Judy Becker
Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop
Queer – Stefani Baisi
The Room Next Door – Inbal Weinberg
The Substance – Stanislas Reydellet
SCORE
Blue Giant – Hiromi Uehara
The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Evil Does Not Exist – Eiko Ishibashi
Ghost Trail – Lucas Verreman, Yuksek
Nickel Boys – Scott Alario, Alex Somers
SOUND DESIGN
The Brutalist – Andy Neil, Steve Single
Challengers – Craig Berkey, Paul Carter
Dahomey – Nicolas Becker
Dune: Part Two – Richard King, Dave Whitehead
Pepe – Nahuel Palenque
The Substance – Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant
ANIMATED FILM
Blue Giant – Yuzuru Tachikawa
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis
Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliot
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass – Quay Brothers
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders
DOCUMENTARY
Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra
Alma del Desierto – Mónica Taboada Tapia
Dahomey – Mati Diop
A Fidai Film – Kamal Aljafari
Intercepted – Oksana Karpovych
No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
DEBUT FILM
Blue Sun Palace – Constance Tsang
Ghost Trail – Jonathan Millet
Janet Planet – Annie Baker
Mexico will no longer exist! – Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco
No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Problemista – Julio Torres
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Mahmood Bakri – To a Land Unknown
Jack Haven – I Saw the TV Glow
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Mikey Madison – Anora
Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story
Ryland Brickson Cole Tews – Hundreds of Beavers
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