AwardsWatch’s INOCA (International Online Cinema Awards) Nominations

AwardsWatch’s own awards extravaganza, the INOCAs, announced nominations for our 2013 awards with 12 Years a Slave leading the pack with 12 nominations. Gravity and Her followed with nine apiece.

The INOCAs are a long-standing forum tradition where we collectively show the entire film community what really are the best movies/performances/achievements of the year. With a voting body made up of AwardsWatch forum members, the INOCA’s are driven by a wide range of cineastes with an equally wide range of tastes. In our nominations you’ll find expected success with Oscar-nominated films as well as big support for Spring Breakers, Stoker and Blue is the Warmest Color.

75 ballots were submitted and tabulated to calculate this year’s INOCA nominees. The top 11 categories (Picture, Director, Acting, Writing, Animated Film, Documentary Film, and Non-English Language Film) were counted according to the “Academy method” of preferential balloting. The five films/performances in each category that achieved the “magic number” of ballots needed after all rounds of voting were completed became INOCA nominees.

The technical categories were counted using a simpler weighted ballot method, giving a ballot’s first choice 5 points, a ballot’s second choice 4 points and so forth. The five films in each category that accumulated the most points became INOCA nominees.

So, without further ado, the INOCA Nominations for 2013:

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek: Into Darkness

BEST SOUND EDITING
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
Stoker

BEST SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Rush
Stoker

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight
Blue is the Warmest Color
Short Term 12
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Blue Jasmine
Enough Said
Frances Ha
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Spring Breakers
12 Years a Slave

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
The Great Gatsby
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
12 Years a Slave

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Rush
12 Years a Slave

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Stoker
12 Years a Slave

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
James Franco – Spring Breakers
Matthew Goode – Stoker
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey – Mud

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Léa Seydoux – Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST FILM EDITING
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
Spring Breakers
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
All is Lost
Gravity
Her
Spring Breakers
12 Years a Slave

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Frozen – “Let It Go”
The Great Gatsby – “Young and Beautiful”
Her – “The Moon Song”
Inside Llewyn Davis – “Please Mr. Kennedy”
Short Term 12 – “So You Know What It’s Like”

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Croods
Ernest and Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Act of Killing
Blackfish
Cutie and the Boxer
Stories We Tell
20 Feet From Stardom

BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
Laurence Anyways
The Past

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Brühl – Rush
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Issac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix – Her

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Suzanne Clément – Laurence Anyways
Adèle Exarchopoulous – Blue is the Warmest Color
Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha
Brie Larson – Short Term 12

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
American Hustle
Frances Ha
Short Term 12
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Abdellatif Kechiche – Blue is the Warmest Color
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

BEST PICTURE
Blue is the Warmest Color
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

Nominations totals on next page…