INTERNATIONAL CINEPHILE SOCIETY NOMINATIONS

Best Picture

·          Amour

·          Cloud Atlas

·          Django Unchained

·          Holy Motors

·          Lincoln

·          The Master

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

·          Tabu

·          Zero Dark Thirty

Best 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)

Best Actor

·          Anders Danielsen Lie (Oslo, August 31st)

·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

·          Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)

·          Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

·          Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead)

·          Jean-Louis Trintignant (Amour)

Best 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)

Best Supporting Actor

·          Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

·          Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Killer Joe)

·          Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

·          Yu Jun Sang (In Another Country)

Best Supporting Actress

·          Amy Adams (The Master)

·          Rosemarie DeWitt (Your Sister’s Sister)

·          Gina Gershon (Killer Joe)

·          Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy)

·          Edith Scob (Holy Motors)

Best Original Screenplay

·          Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)

·          Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

·          Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Leos Carax (Holy Motors)

·          Miguel Gomes and Mariana Ricardo (Tabu)

·          Michael Haneke (Amour)

Best Adapted Screenplay

·          Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain (Rust and Bone)

·          David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis)

·          Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea)

·          Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

·          Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt (Oslo, August 31^st)

Best Cinematography

·          Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

·          Fred Kelemen (The Turin Horse)

·          Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master)

·          Rui Poças (Tabu)

·          Gökhan Tiryaki (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)

Best Editing

·          Alexander Berner (Cloud Atlas)

·          William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty)

·          Leslie Jones and Peter McNulty (The Master)

·          Nelly Quettier (Holy Motors)

·          Andrew Weisblum (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Production Design

·          David Crank and Jack Fisk (The Master)

·          Sarah Greenwood (Anna Karenina)

·          Arthur Max (Prometheus)

·          Florian Sanson (Holy Motors)

·          Adam Stockhausen (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Original Score

·          Alexandre Desplat (Moonrise Kingdom)

·          Jonny Greenwood (The Master)

·          Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)

·          Dario Marianelli (Anna Karenina)

·          Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Ensemble

·          Holy Motors

·          Lincoln

·          Moonrise Kingdom

·          Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

·          Tabu

Best Animated Film

·          Arrietty

·          Frankenweenie

·          ParaNorman

·          Tatsumi

·          Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary

·          How to Survive a Plague

·          The Imposter

·          Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

·          The Queen of Versailles

·          This Is Not a Film

Best Film Not in the English Language

·          Alps

·          Amour

·          Holy Motors

·          The Kid With a Bike

·          Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

·          Oslo, August 31^st

·          Rust and Bone

·          Tabu

·          This Is Not a Film

·          The Turin Horse

Best Picture Not Released in 2012

·          The Angels' Share

·          The Atomic Age 

·          Berberian Sound Studio

·          Beyond the Hill

·          Beyond the Hills

·          Blancanieves

·          Caesar Must Die

·          Differently, Molussia

·          Faust

·          Frances Ha

·          The Hunt

·          In the House

·          Klip

·          Laurence Anyways

·          Leviathan

·          Lore

·          No

·          Our Children

·          Stories We Tell

·          Student

Reliably smart picks from the ICS. The Master leads, with Holy Motors close behind. A little surprising that Amour is missing a Best Director nomination for Michael Haneke, although the Director lineup is very strong; also, it doesn't match Oscar's lineup at all. Strong showings for foreign language films like Tabu and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia in addition to others, while Oscar favourites like Argo, Les Miserables, Silver Linings Playbook and, disappointingly, Life of Pi are entirely absent. Winners will be revealed on the 9th of February - I've decided to consider the ICS a critics' group this year, as it's about as much a critics' group as the NBR. The full critical report, thus, will be published thereafter. (The Chlotrudis Society honours only independent film, so it won't be included, despite being comprised of somewhat similar memberships).