THE MASTER, HOLY MOTORS DOMINATE ICS AWARD NOMINEES

Honoring films released in the USA in 2012.

What a superb year for film, both in Hollywood and internationally. The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s translucent saga of cult perfectionism vs. deeply imperfect humanity, led the International Cinephile Society Awards this year with 10 nominations. Next came Holy Motors, a glimpse into the surreal soul of filmmaker Leos Carax and his alter ego, Oscar (Denis Lavant serving up a moving feast of multiple identities), with 9 nods. Also featuring prominently on our ballots were Moonrise Kingdom, Tabu, Amour, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and Zero Dark Thirty, each with 5 or more mentions.

In a strong year for studio films, the little guys still managed to pull off some unexpected lone-actor nods: Matthias Schoenaerts for Bullhead, Greta Gerwig for Damsels in Distress, Nina Hoss for Barbara, Rosemarie DeWitt for Your Sister’s Sister, Jun-Sang Yu for In Another Country… and perhaps not so surprising, Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy. Meanwhile, this year’s tremendous depth of field in the director race produced a rare dichotomy, as not a single one of our directing nominees matched the Oscar lineup. There were 66 films mentioned in the Best Unreleased Film category, and since 20 of these got passionate support we want to highlight them all for priority viewing in 2013.

Winners of the 10th ICS Awards will be announced on February 11, 2013.

PICTURE
• Amour
• Cloud Atlas
• Django Unchained
• Holy Motors
• Lincoln
• The Master
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
• Tabu
• Zero Dark Thirty

DIRECTOR
• Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
• Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
• Leos Carax – Holy Motors
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
• Miguel Gomes – Tabu

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• Alps
• Amour
• Holy Motors
• The Kid With a Bike
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
• Oslo, August 31st
• Rust and Bone
• Tabu
• This Is Not a Film
• The Turin Horse

ACTOR
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
• Denis Lavant – Holy Motors
• Anders Danielsen Lie – Oslo, August 31st
• Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
• Matthias Schoenaerts – Bullhead
• Jean-Louis Trintignant – Amour

ACTRESS
• Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
• Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
• Greta Gerwig – Damsels in Distress
• Nina Hoss – Barbara
• Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
• Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Dwight Henry – Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
• Matthew McConaughey – Killer Joe
• Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
• Jun-Sang Yu – In Another Country

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Amy Adams – The Master
• Rosemarie DeWitt – Your Sister’s Sister
• Gina Gershon – Killer Joe
• Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy
• Edith Scob – Holy Motors

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Amour – Michael Haneke
• Holy Motors – Leos Carax
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
• Tabu – Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• Cosmopolis – David Cronenberg
• The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Davies
• Lincoln – Tony Kushner
• Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
• Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• The Master – Mihai Malaimare Jr.
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Gökhan Tiryaki
• Skyfall – Roger Deakins
• Tabu – Rui Poças
• The Turin Horse – Fred Kelemen

EDITING
• Cloud Atlas – Alexander Berner
• Holy Motors – Nelly Quettier
• The Master – Leslie Jones, Peter McNulty
• Moonrise Kingdom – Andrew Weisblum
• Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood
• Holy Motors – Florian Sanson
• The Master – David Crank, Jack Fisk
• Moonrise Kingdom – Adam Stockhausen
• Prometheus – Arthur Max

ORIGINAL SCORE
• Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
• Beasts of the Southern Wild – Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin
• Cloud Atlas – Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
• The Master – Jonny Greenwood
• Moonrise Kingdom – Alexandre Desplat

ENSEMBLE
• Holy Motors
• Lincoln
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
• Tabu

ANIMATED FILM
• Frankenweenie
• ParaNorman
• The Secret World of Arrietty
• Tatsumi
• Wreck-It Ralph

DOCUMENTARY
• How to Survive a Plague
• The Imposter
• Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
• The Queen of Versailles
• This Is Not a Film

BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2012
• The Angels’ Share
• The Atomic Age (L’âge atomique)
• Berberian Sound Studio
• Beyond the Hill (Tepenin Ardi)
• Beyond the Hills (Dupa dealuri)
• Blancanieves
• Caesar Must Die
• differently, Molussia
• Faust
• Frances Ha
• The Hunt (Jagten)
• In the House
• Klip
• Laurence Anyways
• Leviathan
• Lore
• No
• Our Children (A perdre la raison)
• Stories We Tell
• Student