Pain & Glory is the ICS' film of 2019
Trust the International Cinephile Society every awards season to turn up late to the party and turn everybody else the fuck out! This time, the ICS has announced all its honours in one batch, as opposed to their former nominations-and-winners format, with Pedro Almodovar's Pain & Glory pipping Bong Joon Ho's fellow Cannes competitor Parasite to the Best Picture post. Third also goes to a Cannes title: Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which wins Best Director here.
All fairly fabulous, all infinitely superior to the majority of the same old trite choices made by the industry this season, and all worth the wait! Well done, ICS!
Best Picture
1. Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)
4. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
5. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
6. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
7. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
8. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
9. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais)
10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
11. Little Women
12. Transit
13. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
14. The Image Book
15. Uncut Gems
16. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
17. La Llorona
18. I Was at Home, But
19. La Flor
20. High Life
21. Martin Eden
22. The Souvenir
23. Leto
24. A Hidden Life
25. Ash Is Purest White
Best Director
1. CELINE SCIAMMA (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE)
2. Pedro Almodovar (Pain & Glory)
Other finalists
Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
Bong Joon Ho (Parasite)
Pedro Costa (Vitalina Varela)
Nadav Lapid (Synonyms)
Best Actress
1. VITALINA VARELA (VITALINA VARELA)
2. Zhao Tao (Ash Is Purest White)
Other finalists
Virginie Efira (Sibyl)
Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
Noemie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Lupita Nyong'o (Us)
Best Actor
1. ANTONIO BANDERAS (PAIN & GLORY)
2. Tom Mercier (Synonyms)
Other finalists
Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
Luca Marinelli (Martin Eden)
Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)
Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems)
Best Supporting Actress
1. ADELE HAENEL (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE)
2. Jo Yeo Jeong (Parasite)
Other finalists
Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
Sandra Huller (Sibyl)
Margarita Kenefic (La Llorona)
Fatma Mohamed (In Fabric)
Best Supporting Actor
1. JOE PESCI (THE IRISHMAN)
2. Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse)
Other finalists
Tom Burke (The Souvenir)
Asier Etxeandia (Pain & Glory)
Al Pacino (The Irishman)
Song Kang Ho (Parasite)
Best Original Screenplay
1. BONG JOON HO AND HAN JIN WON (PARASITE)
2. Pedro Almodovar (Pain & Glory)
Other finalists
Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story)
Haim Lapid and Nadav Lapid (Synonyms)
Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood)
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. CHRISTIAN PETZOLD (TRANSIT)
2. Greta Gerwig (Little Women)
Other finalists
Maurizio Braucci and Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden)
Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Tanaka Sachiko (Asako I & II)
Hu Bo (An Elephant Sitting Still)
Steven Zaillian (The Irishman)
Best Cinematography
1. LEONARDO SIMOES (VITALINA VARELA)
2. David Chizallet, Dong Jing Song and Yao Hung I (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
Other finalists
Jarin Blaschke (The Lighthouse)
Roger Deakins (1917)
Claire Mathon (Atlantics)
Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Best Film Editing
1. THOMAS MARCHAND (JUST DON'T THINK I'LL SCREAM)
2. Yang Jin Mo (Parasite)
Other finalists
Neta Braun, Francois Gedigier and Era Lapid (Synonyms)
Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems)
Jean-Luc Godard (The Image Book)
Thelma Schoonmaker (The Irishman)
Best Production Design
1. LEE HA JUN (PARASITE)
2. Barbara Ling (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood)
Other finalists
Antxon Gomez (Pain & Glory)
Francois-Renaud Labarthe (High Life)
Craig Lathrop (The Lighthouse)
Katharina Woppermann (Little Joe)
Best Sound Design
1. TOM JOHNSON, GARY RYDSTROM AND MARK ULANO (AD ASTRA)
2. Yasumoto Ken (Climax)
Other finalists
Eduardo Castillo, Lena Esquenazi, Javier Farina and Javier Umpierrez (Monos)
Mariusz Glabinski and Damian Volpe (The Lighthouse)
Warren Shaw (Uncut Gems)
Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate, Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson (1917)
Best Score
1. JAMES NEWTON HOWARD (A HIDDEN LIFE)
2. Alberto Iglesias (Pain & Glory)
Other finalists
Hildur Gudnadottir (Joker)
Daniel Lopatin (Uncut Gems)
Randy Newman (Marriage Story)
Max Richter (Ad Astra)
Best Ensemble
1. PARASITE
2. La Flor
Other finalists
The Irishman
La Llorona
Little Women
Pain & Glory
Best Animated Picture
1. I LOST MY BODY (JEREMY CLAPIN)
2. Bunuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Salvador Simo Busom)
Other finalists
Bombay Rose (Gitanjali Rao)
Children of the Sea (Watanabe Ayumu)
No. 7 Cherry Lane (Yonfan)
Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
Best Documentary
1. JUST DON'T THINK I'LL SCREAM (FRANK BEAUVAIS)
2. Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov)
Other finalists
Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)
For Sama (Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts)
M (Yolande Zauberman)
Varda by Agnes (Agnes Varda)
Best Debut Feature
1. JUST DON'T THINK I'LL SCREAM (FRANK BEAUVAIS)
2. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
Other finalists
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
The Chambermaid (Lila Aviles)
End of the Century (Lucio Castro)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)
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