AwardsWatch’s International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Winners: Top Pick is Under the Skin Flick
Oscars, Schmoscars, The AwardsWatch INOCAs (International Online Cinema Awards) winners have been announced! Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel was the big winner, taking seven awards. It began with a field-best nine nominations, only losing Film Editing and Original Score. All while being infamously snubbed in Best Picture. Under the Skin won Best Picture and Best Score, Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) beat out Oscar winner Julianne Moore (Still Alice) for Best Actress and Edward Norton (Birdman) beat out Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). Suzanne Clément won Best Supporting Actress for Mommy (one of that film’s two wins) and Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) won Best Actor to go along with his AwardsWatch #1 Performance of 2014 and the International Cinephile Society (ICS) award for Best Actor.
Full list of winners:
BEST PICTURE Under the Skin
BEST DIRECTOR Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ACTOR Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ACTRESS Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Edward Norton – Birdman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Suzanne Clément – Mommy
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Gone Girl
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ANIMATED FILM The LEGO Movie & The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM Citizenfour
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM Mommy & Two Days, One Night
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY The Immigrant
BEST COSTUME DESIGN The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST FILM EDITING Whiplash
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Under the Skin
BEST ORIGINAL SONG Selma – “Glory”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST SOUND EDITING Whiplash
BEST SOUND MIXING Whiplash
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
WINNERS TALLY
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(7 WINS)
Whiplash
(3 WINS)
Mommy
(2 WINS)
Two Days, One Night
(2 WINS)
Under the Skin
(2 WINS)
Birdman
(1 WIN)
Citizenfour
(1 WIN)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
(1 WIN)
Gone Girl
(1 WIN)
The Immigrant
(1 WIN)
The Lego Movie
(1 WIN)
Selma
(1 WIN)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
(1 WIN)
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