THE COENS BITE BACK AT OSCAR WITH SUCCESS AT ICS

You can always rely on the International Cinephile Society. Sure, I had little to complain about when AMPAS announced its nominees for the best in film last year, but the ICS' even stronger picks have resulted in some equally strong choices for their awards. Only one of their outright winners in the top categories is even nominated for the Oscar: Alfonso Cuaron in Best Director for Gravity - a sign of the strength of Cuaron in that category is that Gravity is only the ICS' 7th favourite film of the year (only 7th?! It must be shit!). Preferred by voters were Inside Llewyn Davis, which wins four honours including Best Picture and places second for two further, and Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which also wins four and places just behind Llewyn in Picture. You can find their full nominations here.

Best Picture

1.        Inside Llewyn Davis

2.        Blue Is the Warmest Colour

3.        Her

4.        Frances Ha

5.        The Great Beauty

6.        Laurence Anyways

7.        Gravity

8.        Spring Breakers

9.        The Wolf of Wall Street

10.     12 Years a Slave

11.     Before Midnight

Best Director

1.        Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

2.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Actor

1.        Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

 Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)

2.        Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

Best Actress

1.        Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

2.        Juliette Binoche (Camille Claudel 1915)

Best Supporting Actor

1.        James Franco (Spring Breakers)

2.        Anton Adasinski (Faust)

Best Supporting Actress

1.        Léa Seydoux (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

2.        Scarlett Johansson (Her)

Best Original Screenplay

1.        Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)

2.        Spike Jonze (Her)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.     Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix (Blue Is the Warmest Colour)

2.        Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater (Before Midnight)

Best Cinematography

1.        Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)

2.        Bruno Delbonnel (Faust)

 Bruno Delbonnel (Inside Llewyn Davis)

Best Editing

1.        Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (Gravity)

2.        Douglas Crise (Spring Breakers)

Best Production Design

1.        K.K. Barrett (Her)

2.        Elena Zhukova (Faust)

Best Original Score

1.        Owen Pallett (Her)

2.        Alex Ebert (All Is Lost)

Best Ensemble

1.        Inside Llewyn Davis

2.        Frances Ha

Best Animated Film

1.        Ernest & Celestine

2.        The Wind Rises

Best Documentary

1.        Stories We Tell

2.        The Act of Killing

 Leviathan

Best Film Not in the English Language

1.        Blue Is the Warmest Colour

2.        The Great Beauty

3.        Laurence Anyways

4.        In the House

5.        A Touch of Sin

6.        Beyond the Hills

 Faust

8.        The Hunt

9.        The Past

10.     Blancanieves

Best Picture Not Released in 2013

·          Child’s Pose

·          The Congress

·          Gloria

·          Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

·          The Immigrant

·          Jeune & Jolie

·          Like Father, Like Son

·          Norte, the End of History

·          Only Lovers Left Alive

·          The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu

·          Snowpiercer

·          The Strange Little Cat

·          Stranger by the Lake

·          Stray Dogs

·          Tom at the Farm