Toni Erdmann, Elle, Moonlight Top 14th International Cinephile Society (ICS) Awards Winners

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Maren Ade’s Oscar-nominated Toni Erdmann led the 2017 International Cinephile Society (ICS) awards today with five wins; Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay and Film Not in the English Language. Sandra Hüller was the runner-up in Actress and was the only category the film lost of its six nominations. This was the first time in the group’s 14 years that a woman has won the Director prize. Toni Erdmann is up for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award at next week’s Oscars.

Right behind Toni Erdmann, Elle was a winner or runner-up almost every step of the way. The film was 2nd place in Picture and Director but triumphed in Actress for Isabelle Huppert, Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay. Huppert is Oscar-nominated in Actress in a Leading Role at next week’s Academy Awards.

Moonlight saw wins in Supporting Actor for André Holland over Oscar-nominee Mahershala Ali, giving the film yet another critics’ win in this category (Trevante Rhodes has also gotten some love this season) and the film won the group’s Ensemble award. Moonlight has eight nominations at next week’s Oscars.

Elle and Moonlight had led the nominations going in, with eight apiece. Silence, which was also tied with eight nods, managed just a pair of runner-up mentions in Cinematography (where it’s also Oscar-nominated0 and Production Design. Julieta, which came in with seven, went home empty-handed. Lily Gladstone (Certain Women) took home the Supporting Actress prize.

Here is the full list of winners of the 14th International Cinephile Society Awards:

PICTURE
01. Toni Erdmann
02. Elle
03. Moonlight
04. Things to Come
05. Manchester by the Sea
05. Silence
07. Julieta
08. Cemetery of Splendor
09. Certain Women
10. Jackie

DIRECTOR
• Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann
Runner-up: Paul Verhoeven – Elle

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
01.  Toni Erdmann
02.  Elle
03.  Things to Come
04.  Julieta
05.  Cemetery of Splendor
06.  Embrace of the Serpent
07.  Being 17
08.  Aquarius
09.  Mountains May Depart
10.  Cosmos
11.  The Handmaiden

ACTOR
• Peter Simonischek – Toni Erdmann
Runner-up: Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea

ACTRESS
• Isabelle Huppert – Elle
Runner-up: Sandra Hüller – Toni Erdmann

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• André Holland – Moonlight
Runner-up: Tom Bennett – Love & Friendship

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Lily Gladstone – Certain Women
Runner-up: Sandrine Kiberlain – Being 17

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Toni Erdmann – Maren Ade
Runner-up: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• Elle – David Birke
Runner-up: Love & Friendship – Whit Stillman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Embrace of the Serpent – David Gallego
Runner-up: Silence – Rodrigo Prieto

EDITING
• Elle – Job ter Burg
Runner-up: Arrival – Joe Walker

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• The Handmaiden – Seong-hie Ryu
Runner-up: Silence – Dante Ferretti

SCORE
• Jackie – Mica Levi
Runner-up: The Neon Demon – Cliff Martinez

ENSEMBLE
• Moonlight
Runner-up: Certain Women

ANIMATED FILM
• The Red Turtle
Runner-up: My Life as a Zucchini

DOCUMENTARY
• Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea)
Runner-up: No Home Movie

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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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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