The International Cinephile Society (ICS) and the Online Cinema Awards have announced winners. We went over who they were when they annouced their nominees. Some of them come from our forums. First up, Milk sweeps the INOCA’s:
BEST PICTURE
Milk
BEST DIRECTOR
Gus Van Sant, Milk
BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn, Milk
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kate Winslet, The Reader
BEST ENSEMBLE
Milk
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister
BEST EDITING
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Fall, Eiko Ishioka
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
The Wrestler, “The Wrestler”
BEST SOUND MIXING
The Dark Knight
BEST SOUND EDITING
Wall-E
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BEST MAKEUP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
And the ICS winners:
TOP 10 FILMS OF THE YEAR
01. Happy-Go-Lucky
02. Milk
03. A Christmas Tale
04. The Dark Knight
05. Hunger
06. WALL•E
07. Flight of the Red Balloon
08. The Wrestler
09. In Bruges
10. Rachel Getting Married
DIRECTOR (TIE):
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
AND Gus van Sant – Milk
TOP 10 FILMS NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01. Waltz With Bashir
02. A Christmas Tale
03. Flight of the Red Balloon
04. The Edge of Heaven
05. The Class
06. Gomorra
07. The Secret of the Grain
08. Still Life
09. Love Songs
10. Let The Right One In
ACTOR:
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
ACTRESS:
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Hanna Schygulla – The Edge of Heaven
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Wendy and Lucy – Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Paranoid Park – Christopher Doyle & Rain Kathy Li
EDITING:
Milk – Elliot Graham
PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Synecdoche, New York – Mark Friedberg
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Milk – Danny Elfman
ENSEMBLE:
A Christmas Tale
ANIMATED FILM:
Waltz with Bashir
DOCUMENTARY:
Waltz with Bashir