Happening wins 2021 ICS Best Picture prize
The International Cinephile Society has today announced the winners and runners-up for its 2021 awards, and it's one of the year's top festival champs at the top of their own picks. Audrey Diwan's Happening takes two awards from the ICS: Best Picture, and Best Breakthrough Performance for lead Anamaria Vartolomei. She places as the runner-up in the Best Actress category, as Diwan does in Best Director, with the movie claiming four second place finishes in total. The Director prize instead goes to The Power of the Dog's Jane Campion, which ranks fifth in Best Picture, though that's its only award. The most-awarded title of the day is perhaps a minor surprise: Terence Davies' Benediction, which is third in Best Picture behind Happening and Drive My Car, winning the Best Actor award for Jack Lowden among its haul. Check out the 2021 ICS awards nominees here, and all the winners below.
Best Picture
1 HAPPENING
2 DRIVE MY CAR
3 BENEDICTION
4 WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?
5 THE POWER OF THE DOG
6 ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE
7 ANNETTE
8 BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
9 WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
10 THE SOUVENIR: PART II
11 PETITE MAMAN
12 MEMORIA
13 IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE
14 LICORICE PIZZA
15 WHO'S STOPPING US
16 RED ROCKET
17 TITANE
18 SPENCER
19 WEST SIDE STORY
20 HARUHARA-SAN'S RECORDER
Best Director
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Runner-up: Audrey Diwan (HAPPENING)
Best Actress
Lee Hye Yeong (IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE)
Runner-up: Anamaria Vartolomei (HAPPENING)
Best Actor
Jack Lowden (BENEDICTION)
Runner-up: Franz Rogowski (GREAT FREEDOM)
Best Supporting Actress
Ruth Negga (PASSING)
Runner-up: Anna Mouglalis (HAPPENING)
Best Supporting Actor
Anders Danielsen Lie (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD)
Runner-up: Vincent Lindon (TITANE)
Best Original Screenplay
BENEDICTION (Terence Davies)
Runner-up: BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude)
Best Adapted Screenplay
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Oe Takamasa)
Runner-up: HAPPENING (Marcia Romano and Audrey Diwan)
Best Cinematography
BENEDICTION (Nicola Daley)
Runner-up: ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLE (Tom Harari)
Best Editing
WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
Runner-up: BENEDICTION (Alex Mackie)
Best Production Design
THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Stephane Collonge, Byron Broadbent and Polly Davenport)
Runner-up: AFTER BLUE (Thomas Salabert)
Best Sound Design
MEMORIA (Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Raul Locatelli and Javier Umpierrez)
Runner-up: OUT OF SYNC (Oriol Tarrago and Marc Bech)
Best Score
ANNETTE (Ron Mael and Russell Mael)
Runner-up: WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Giorgi Koberidze)
Best Ensemble
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
Runner-up: DRIVE MY CAR
Best Animated Film
THE CROSSING (Florence Miailhe)
Runner-up: THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS (Patrick Imbert)
Best Documentary
MR. BACKMANN AND HIS CLASS (Maria Speth)
Runner-up: RETURNING TO REIMS (Jean-Gabriel Periot)
Best Debut Feature
PLAYGROUND (Laura Wandel)
Runner-up: PASSING (Rebecca Hall)
Best Breakthrough Performance
Anamaria Vartolomei (HAPPENING)
Runner-up: Alana Haim (LICORICE PIZZA) / Lucie Zhang (PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT)