Honoring films released in the USA in 2010.

Carlos, Olivier Assayas’ magnificent chronicle of the life and times of international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, leads this year’s ICS nominations with 9 nods, including Picture, Director, Actor (Édgar Ramírez) and Screenplay. Fast-talking its way right behind is David Fincher’s The Social Network with 7 nods, followed by cinematic jailhouse poem A Prophet and twisted ballet thriller Black Swan with 6 apiece. Banksy’s subversive debut film on hypocrisy and street art, Exit Through the Gift Shop, is the only documentary ever to grace our Best Picture list, which also boasts four foreign-language films for the first time. It’s been an innovative year at the movies!

Winners of the 8th ICS Awards will be announced on February 18, 2011.

PICTURE
• Another Year
• Black Swan
• Blue Valentine
• Carlos
• Everyone Else
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• I Am Love
• Inception
• A Prophet
• The Social Network

DIRECTOR
• Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
• Olivier Assayas – Carlos
• Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
• David Fincher – The Social Network
• Mike Leigh – Another Year

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• Carlos
• Dogtooth
• Everyone Else
• I Am Love
• Mother
• A Prophet
• Secret Sunshine
• Vincere
• White Material
• Wild Grass

Honorable Mentions: In a great year for foreign-language films, four made our Best Picture list (a record), and the competition for slots on the foreign-language list was truly fierce. This year it took almost twice as many votes to make it as in prior years. So we include here five honorable mentions: outstanding films that just missed, yet were passionately loved by a minority and certainly deserved this accolade.

• Alamar
• Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
• The Illusionist
• Our Beloved Month of August
• The Portuguese Nun 

ACTOR
• Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
• Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
• Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
• Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
• Édgar Ramírez – Carlos

ACTRESS
• Do-yeon Jeon – Secret Sunshine
• Lesley Manville – Another Year
• Giovanna Mezzogiorno – Vincere
• Natalie Portman – Black Swan
• Tilda Swinton – I Am Love
• Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Niels Arestrup – A Prophet
• Christian Bale – The Fighter
• Michael Fassbender – Fish Tank
• John Hawkes – Winter’s Bone
• Filippo Timi – Vincere

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Elle Fanning – Somewhere
• Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
• Naomi Watts – Mother and Child
• Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
• Olivia Williams – The Ghost Writer

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Another Year – Mike Leigh
• Blue Valentine – Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
• Carlos – Dan Franck, Olivier Assayas
• Everyone Else – Maren Ade
• A Prophet – Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• The Ghost Writer – Robert Harris, Roman Polanski
• The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
• True Grit – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• Wild Grass – Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet
• Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
• Carlos – Denis Lenoir, Yorick Le Saux
• I Am Love – Yorick Le Saux
• True Grit – Roger Deakins
• Vincere – Daniele Cipri

EDITING
• Blue Valentine – Jim Helton, Ron Patane
• Carlos – Luc Barnier, Marion Monnier
• Inception – Lee Smith
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
• The Social Network – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Carlos – François-Renaud Labarthe
• The Ghost Writer – Albrecht Konrad
• I Am Love – Francesca Balestra Di Mottola
• Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas
• Shutter Island – Dante Ferretti

ORIGINAL SCORE
• Black Swan – Clint Mansell
• The Ghost Writer – Alexandre Desplat
• Inception – Hans Zimmer
• The Social Network – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• White Material – Stuart Staples

ENSEMBLE
• Another Year
• Carlos
• The Kids Are All Right
• Mother and Child
• Please Give
• The Social Network

ANIMATED FILM
• Howl
• How to Train Your Dragon
• The Illusionist
• Summer Wars
• Toy Story 3

DOCUMENTARY
• Boxing Gym
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
• Restrepo
• Sweetgrass

BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2010
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
• Certified Copy
• Film Socialisme
• Heartbeats
• Honey
• I Killed My Mother
• Kosmos
• Meek’s Cutoff
• Mysteries of Lisbon
• Of Gods and Men
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives