20th International Cinephile Society (ICS) awards: ‘Trenque Lauquen’ wins Best Picture in clean sweep; ‘Pacifiction,’ ‘Aftersun’ earn top prizes

Erik Anderson February 12, 2023

Laura Citarella’s existential mystery Trenque Lauquen, in which a woman who keeps disappearing from her own life becomes a greater enigma than the creature living in the town’s lake, has been named Best Picture by the International Cinephile Society (ICS). The 4-hour Argentine saga tells the uncanny story of a woman who obsessively pursues one mystery after another, while her own disappearance is being investigated by two men who love her, but don’t really know her also won Best Original Screenplay and Best Ensemble, making it a clean sweep for the film of all of its nominations.

Citarella also shared the group’s Best Director award in a tie with Albert Serra for Pacifiction, the cheerfully sinister satire of an island paradise beset by mysterious naval forces and elusive diplomats, who may or may not intend to resume nuclear testing in the area. Pacifiction also won Best Cinematography and Best Sound Design among its nine nominations.

Nomination leader Aftersun, from Charlotte Wells, about a girl on vacation with her troubled father, and their bonding attempts and rites of passage as they struggle to connect – or even survive – in a quietly turbulent relationship, earned wins for Wells in Best Debut Feature, Paul Mescal for Best Actor, Frankie Corio for Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Film Editing.

Guslagie Malanda (Saint Omer) won lead actress for her stunning portrayal of a Senegalese immigrant accused of killing her child, as she is caught in the cultural divide between the French legal system and her belief that the baby was cursed by witchcraft. Supporting actress went to Kristen Stewart for her very strange turn as a surgery groupie in David Cronenberg’s return to body horror, Crimes of the Future. And in Patricia Mazuy’s dark thriller Saturn Bowling, the supporting actor winner Achille Reggiani gave a mind-blowing performance as a rejected son metamorphosing into a monster.

Winners of the adapted screenplay award were Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for Le Otto Montagne, their poetic rendering of the novel by Paolo Cognetti about a lifelong friendship. And EO, the wandering donkey movie, won best score for composer Pawel Mykietyn’s evocation of a little donkey’s emotional journey.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up of the 20th International Cinephile Society (ICS) awards.

BEST PICTURE (ranked)

1. Trenque Lauquen
2. Pacifiction
3. Aftersun
4. Saint Omer
5. TÁR
6. EO
7. The Fabelmans
8. Saturn Bowling
9. The Maiden
10. Godland
11. The Banshees of Inisherin
12. Crimes of the Future
13. Decision to Leave
14. Coma
15. Tommy Guns
16. The Novelist’s Film
17. Alcarràs
18. Unrest
19. Showing Up
20. You Have to Come and See It

BEST DIRECTOR (tie)
• Laura Citarella – Trenque Lauquen – WINNER
• Alice Diop – Saint Omer
• Todd Field – TÁR
• Patricia Mazuy – Saturn Bowling
• Albert Serra – Pacifiction – WINNER
• Jerzy Skolimowski – EO
• Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

BEST ACTOR
• Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Cosmo Jarvis – It Is In Us All
• Benoît Magimel – Pacifiction (runner-up)
• Luca Marinelli – Le Otto Montagne
• Paul Mescal – Aftersun – WINNER
• Park Hae-il – Decision to Leave

BEST ACTRESS
• Cate Blanchett – TÁR (runner-up)
• Vicky Krieps – Corsage
• Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer – WINNER
• Rosy McEwen – Blue Jean
• Park Ji-Min – Return to Seoul
• Tang Wei – Decision to Leave

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Alessandro Borghi – Le Otto Montagne
• Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Achille Reggiani – Saturn Bowling – WINNER
• Ingvar Sigurðsson – Godland (runner-up)
• Luis Zahera – As Bestas

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Hong Chau – Showing Up
• Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Dolly de Leon – Triangle of Sadness
• Pahoa Mahagafanau – Pacifiction (runner-up)
• Kristen Stewart – Crimes of the Future – WINNER
• Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

BEST ENSEMBLE
• Alcarràs (runner-up)
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• The Fabelmans
• Les Amandiers
• Trenque Lauquen – WINNER
• Triangle of Sadness

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Aftersun – Charlotte Wells
• The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh
• Pacifiction – Baptiste Pinteaux, Albert Serra
• Saint Omer – Amrita David, Alice Diop, Marie NDiaye (runner-up)
• TÁR – Todd Field
• Trenque Lauquen – Laura Citarella, Laura Paredes – WINNER

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• Bones and All – David Kajganich
• Both Sides of the Blade – Claire Denis
• EO – Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
• A Flower in the Mouth – Eric Beaudelaire, Anne-Louise Trividic (runner-up)
• Le Otto Montagne – Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen – WINNER
• Women Talking – Sarah Polley, Miriam Toews

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Aftersun – Gregory Oke
• Decision to Leave – Kim Ji-yong
• EO – Michal Dymek
• Godland – Maria von Hausswolff (runner-up)
• The Kings of the World – David Gallego
• Pacifiction – Artur Tort – WINNER

BEST EDITING
• Aftersun – Blair McClendon – WINNER
• Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-beom (runner-up)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers
• Moonage Daydream – Brett Morgen
• Pacifiction – Albert Serra, Artur Tort, Ariadna Ribas
• TÁR – Monika Willi

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths – Eugenio Caballero (runner-up)
• Coma – Anna Bonello, Gaston Portejoie, Daphné Yvon
• Crimes of the Future – Carol Spier, Dimitris Katsikis, Kimberley Zaharko – WINNER
• Decision to Leave – Ryu Seong-hie
• Pacifiction – Sebastian Vogler
• Saturn Bowling – Thierry François, Dorian Maloine

BEST SCORE
• Aftersun – Oliver Coates
• Crimes of the Future – Howard Shore
• Decision to Leave – Jo Yeong-wook (runner-up)
• EO – Pawel Mykietyn – WINNER
• Nope – Michael Abels
• Stars at Noon – Tindersticks

BEST SOUND DESIGN
• Aftersun – Jovan Ajder
• EO – Radoslaw Ochnio, Marta Weronska, Suraj Bardia
• Nope – Johnnie Burn, José Antonio Garcia
• Pacifiction – Jordi Ribas – WINNER
• TÁR – Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke
• Unrest – Roland Widmer, Miguel Moraes Cabral, Guido Keller (runner-up)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
• Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood – Richard Linklater
• Fairytale – Aleksandr Sokurov (runner-up)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro
• Inu-Oh – Masaaki Yuasa
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – Dean Fleischer Camp
• No Dogs or Italians Allowed – Alain Ughetto – WINNER

BEST DOCUMENTARY
• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras (runner-up)
• Anhell69 – Theo Montoya
• De Humani Corporis Fabrica – Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
• Malintzin 17 – Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Eugenio Polgovsky
• Moonage Daydream – Brett Morgen
• Tales of the Purple House – Abbas Fahdel – WINNER

BEST DEBUT FEATURE
• Aftersun – Charlotte Wells – WINNER
• Blue Jean – Georgia Oakley
• Eismayer – David Wagner
• It Is In Us All – Antonia Campbell-Hughes
• The Maiden – Graham Foy (runner-up)
• Safe Place – Juraj Lerotić
• Saint Omer – Alice Diop

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
• Frankie Corio – Aftersun – WINNER
• Eden Dambrine – Close
• Kayije Kagame – Saint Omer
• Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
• Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer (runner-up)
• Nadia Tereszkiewicz – Les Amandiers

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.