‘Call Me By Your Name,’ ‘Phantom Thread’ Top 15th International Cinephile Society (ICS) Winners
After a record-setting 11 nominations, Call Me By Your Name has won the International Cinephile Society’s Best Picture of 2017. The film also took top honors for Best Actor (Timothée Chalamet), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Stuhlbarg) and Best Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory).
Giving tremendous chase though was Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. In fact, the two films completely dominated the top eight categories. Phantom Thread won Director, Actress (Vicky Krieps), Supporting Actress (Lesley Manville) and Original Screenplay (Paul Thomas Anderson) and was the group’s top winner with five awards.
Other multiple winners included the 90s-era French AIDS drama BPM (Foreign Film, Ensemble) and Blade Runner 2049 (Cinematography and Production Design). Good Time found itself with the Film Editing win and a pair of runners-ups and The Lost City of Z was also a double-bridesmaid.
This year, the International Cinephile Society (of which I am a voting member) created a special 15th Anniversary Award for their all-time favorite best picture. All 14 prior winners competed in final-round voting, where Leos Carax’s Holy Motors came out victorious.
Here is the full list of winners and runners-up and the Best Picture ranking.
PICTURE
01. Call Me by Your Name
02. Phantom Thread
03. Personal Shopper
04. BPM
05. The Lost City of Z
06. On the Beach at Night Alone
07. Lady Bird
08. A Quiet Passion
09. Good Time
10. Nocturama
11. Blade Runner 2049
DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
runner-up: Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01. BPM
02. On the Beach at Night Alone
03. Nocturama
04. Visages Villages
05. The Death of Louis XIV
06. The Ornithologist
07. Staying Vertical
08. The Woman Who Left
09. Sieranevada
10. Raw
ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
runner-up: Robert Pattinson – Good Time
ACTRESS
Vicky Krieps – Phantom Thread
runner-up: Kim Min-hee – On the Beach at Night Alone
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
runner-up: Arnaud Valois – BPM
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
runner-up: Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson
runner-up: Get Out – Jordan Peele
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory
runner-up: The Lost City of Z – James Gray
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
runner-up: The Lost City of Z – Darius Khondji
EDITING
Good Time – Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie
runner-up: A Ghost Story – David Lowery
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner
runner-up: Phantom Thread – Mark Tildesley
SCORE
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
runner-up: Good Time – Daniel Lopatin as Oneohtrix Point Never
ENSEMBLE
BPM
runner-up: Lady Bird
ANIMATED FILM
The Girl Without Hands
runner-up: Coco
DOCUMENTARY (tie)
Visages Villages
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
runner-up: Dawson City: Frozen Time
15th ANNIVERSARY AWARD
Holy Motors
runner-up: Carol
BEST PICTURE NOT RELEASED IN 2017
• 24 Frames
• A Ciambra
• Bangkok Nites
• Braguino
• Claire’s Camera
• Closeness
• The Day After
• Giant
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
• Lean on Pete
• Les garçons sauvages
• Let the Sun Shine In
• Lover for a Day
• Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
• On Body and Soul
• The Rider
• Sicilian Ghost Story
• Western
• You Were Never Really Here
• Zama
About the ICS
Formed in 2003, the International Cinephile Society is an online group comprised of approximately 100 accredited journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals who cover film festivals and events on five continents. Led by ICS president Cédric Succivalli, each year the ICS honors the finest in American and international cinema.
In addition to award winners for the previous year announced each February, the ICS revealed a Top 100 Films of the 1990s in the first half of 2010. ICS has been accredited at the Festival de Cannes in 2010-2017, and also covers a number of other film festivals including Berlin, Toronto, New York, Vancouver, Rome, Venice, San Sebastian, San Francisco, AFI, Seattle, Rotterdam and TCM.
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.
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