BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, HER, 12 YEARS A SLAVE TOP ICS AWARD NOMINEES

Honoring films released in the USA in 2013.

In a year replete with quality cinema, four different films led the nomination count for the ICS Awards, each with seven nods: Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, the vibrantly immersive story of two young women falling in and out of love; the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, which recounts the trials of a penniless musician guided through his folk song of a life by doppelganger cats; Her, Spike Jonze’s futuristic love letter to technology and human connection; and Steve McQueen’s devastating memoir of brutal servitude, 12 Years a Slave.

Our acting nominees ran the gamut from presumed Oscar frontrunners Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) and Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) to some more eclectic choices, such as Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément for Laurence Anyways and Anton Adasinsky for Faust. The latter two films illustrate the virtue of persistence, as two of a record nine holdovers from last year’s Unreleased Films list which were finally screened in the USA, and earned ICS nominations. Definitely worth the wait!

Winners of the 11th ICS Awards will be announced on February 23, 2014.

PICTURE
• 12 Years a Slave
• Before Midnight
• Blue is the Warmest Color
• Frances Ha
• Gravity
• The Great Beauty
• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Laurence Anyways
• Spring Breakers
• The Wolf of Wall Street

DIRECTOR
• Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
• Xavier Dolan – Laurence Anyways
• Spike Jonze – Her
• Abdellatif Kechiche – Blue is the Warmest Color
• Paolo Sorrentino – The Great Beauty

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• Beyond the Hills
• Blancanieves
• Blue is the Warmest Color
• Faust
• The Great Beauty
• The Hunt
• In the House
• Laurence Anyways
• The Past
• A Touch of Sin

ACTOR
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
• Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt
• Joaquin Phoenix – Her
• Melvil Poupaud – Laurence Anyways

ACTRESS
• Juliette Binoche – Camille Claudel 1915
• Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
• Suzanne Clément – Laurence Anyways
• Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Color
• Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Anton Adasinsky – Faust
• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
• James Franco – Spring Breakers
• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
• Matthew McConaughey – Mud

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
• Scarlett Johansson – Her
• Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
• Kristin Scott Thomas – Only God Forgives
• Léa Seydoux – Blue is the Warmest Color

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
• Frances Ha – Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig
• Her – Spike Jonze
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• Laurence Anyways – Xavier Dolan

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
• Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
• Blue is the Warmest Color – Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix
• In the House – François Ozon
• Short Term 12 – Destin Cretton

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Blancanieves – Kiko de la Rica
• Faust – Bruno Delbonnel
• Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
• Leviathan – Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

EDITING
• Blue is the Warmest Color – Sophie Brunet, Ghalia Lacroix, Albertine Lastera, Jean-Marie Lengelle, Camille Toubkis
• Frances Ha – Jennifer Lame
• Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
• Leviathan – Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
• Spring Breakers – Douglas Crise
• The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Blancanieves – Alain Bainée
• Faust – Elena Zhukova
• The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
• Her – K.K. Barrett
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Jess Gonchor

ORIGINAL SCORE
• 12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
• All is Lost – Alex Ebert
• Blancanieves – Alfonso de Vilallonga
• The Great Beauty – Lele Marchitelli
• Her – Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett

ENSEMBLE
• 12 Years a Slave
• American Hustle
• Frances Ha
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Short Term 12

ANIMATED FILM
• Ernest et Célestine
• From Up On Poppy Hill
• Frozen
• Monsters University
• The Wind Rises

DOCUMENTARY
• The Act of Killing
• At Berkeley
• Leviathan
• Room 237
• Stories We Tell

BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2013
• Child’s Pose
• The Congress
• Gloria
• Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision
• The Immigrant
• 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
• Young & Beautiful