International Cinephile Society Nominees

The gayer, alien-body-snatching, delinquent-teenage-son, vampiric, in 3-D alternative to the Academy Awards.  The chilling, Hitchcockian penis-filled French film Stranger by the Lake led the field with 9 nomination, while Xavier Dolan's Mommy (which I loved) followed with 8 nominations.

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PICTURE
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Goodbye to Language
The Immigrant
Inherent Vice
Mommy
Mr. Turner
Only Lovers Left Alive
Strangers by the Lake
Two Days, One Night
Under the Skin

DIRECTOR
Xavier Dolan, Mommy
Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin
Jean-Luc Godard, Goodbye to Language
Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

ACTOR
Pierre Deladonchamps, Stranger by the Lake
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo, Selma
Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Mommy
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner

ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant
Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night
Anne Dorval, Mommy
Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Tilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive   

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Patrick d'Assumçao, Stranger by the Lake
Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Two Days, One Nigiht
Edward Norton, Birdman
Christophe Paou, Stranger by the Lake
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Suzanne Clément, Mommy
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Rene Russo, Nightcrawler
Tilda Swinton, Snowpiercer

London Film Critics Circle

FILM OF THE YEAR: Boyhood
DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
ACTOR OF THE YEAR: Michael Keaton, Birdman
ACTRESS OF THE YEAR: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood  
SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR: Citizenfour
FOREIGN FILM OF THE YEAR: Leviathan
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR: Mica Levi, Under the Skin (score)

BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR: Under the Skin 
BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR: Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner 
BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR: Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl and What We Did on Our Holiday 
YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR: Alex Lawther, The Imitation Game
BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILMMAKER: Yann Demange, ' 71

DILYS POWELL AWARD: Miranda Richardson

Gotham Independent Film Award Nominations

BEST FEATURE

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Love is Strange
• Under the Skin

BEST ACTOR

• Bill Hader, The Skeleton Twins
• Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
• Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year
• Michael Keaton, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Miles Teller, Whiplash

*The Gotham Award jury decided to give the male ensemble of Foxcatcher (Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo) a Special Jury Prize for Best Actor. 

BEST ACTRESS

• Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights
• Julianne Moore, Still Alice
• Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
• Mia Wasikowska, Tracks   

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Actress
• CITIZENFOUR
• Life Itself
• Manakamana
• Point & Shoot

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR

• Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• James Ward Byrkit, Coherence
• Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
• Eliza Hittman, It Felt Like Love
• Justin Simien, Dear White People

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

• Riz Ahmed, Nightcrawler
• Macon Blair, Blue Ruin
• Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
• Joey King, Wish I Was Here
• Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
• Tessa Thompson, Dear White People  

British Independent Film Award Nominations

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
Metro Manila
Philomena
The Selfish Giant
Starred Up
Le Week-End

BEST DIRECTOR
Jon S. Baird, Filth
Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Sean Ellis, Metro Manila
Jonathan Glazer, Under the Skin
David Mackenzie, Starred up

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR)
Charlie Cattrall, Titus
Tina Gharavi, I Am Nasrine
Jeremy Lovering, In Fear
Omid Nooshin, Last Passenger
Paul Wright, For Those in Peril

BEST ACTOR
Jim Broadbent, Le Week-End
Steve Coogan, Philamena
Tom Hardy, Locke
Jack O'Connell, Starred Up
James McAvoy, Filth 

BEST ACTRESS
Judi Dench, Philomena
Lindsay Duncan, Le Week-End
Scarlett Johansson, Under the Skin
Felicity Jones, The Invisible Woman
Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now 

Venice Film Festival Line-Up Announced

This year marks the 70th Venice Film Festival, one of the holy trifecta of fall festival season.  It was already announced that Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, his bold 3-D lost in space science fiction odyssey will be opening out of competition.  Here is the rest of the slate:

COMPETITION

Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin

Ana Arabia (Israel)- directed by Amos Gitai
Child of God (USA)- directed by James Franco- Just months after the Cannes premiere of Franco's Faulkner adaptation of As I Lay Dying, the actor-multi-hyphenate takes his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel to Venice; Franco co-stars with Tim Blake Nelson. 
Es-Stouh (France)- directed by Merzak Allouache
Joe (USA)- directed by David Gordon Green-  Nicolas Cage and The Tree of Life's Tye Sheridan star in Green's latest, a drama about the relationship between an ex-con and a 15-year-old boy.
La Jalousie (France)- directed by Philippe Garrel
L'intrepido (Italy)- directed by Gianni Amelio
Miss Violence (Greece)- directed by Alexandros Avranas
Night Moves (USA)- directed by Kelly Reichardt
Philomena (UK)- directed by Stephen Frears- As expected Frears is premiering his latest drama-- about a woman and her search for her adult son-- in competition here.  Frears previously took his The Queen, Dirty Pretty Things and Liam to Venice.
The Policeman's Wife- directed by Philip Groning
Sacro Gra (Italy)- directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Stray Dogs (Taiwan)- directed by Ming-liang Tsai
Tom at the Farm (Canada)- directed by Xavier Dolan- The latest gay drama from the director of Laurence Anyways and I Killed My Mother.
Tracks (UK)- directed by John Curran- This biographical drama starring Mia Wasikowski and Adam Driver about a young woman who goes on a 1,700 mile trek across the deserts of West Australia will also play Toronto.  Curran previously directed Stone, The Painted Veil and We Don't Live Here Anymore.
Under the Skin (USA/UK)- directed by Jonathon Glazen-  Scarlett Johansson stars as in alien in Glazen's follow-up to Birth, the Nicole Kidman oddity that came out nine years ago.
The Unknown Known: The Life & Times of Donald Runsfeld (USA)- directed by Errol Morris
Via Castellana Bandiera (Italy)- directed by Emma Dante
The Wind Rises (Japan)- directed by Hayao Miyazaki
The Zero Theorem (USA)- directed by Terry Gilliam-- Gilliam's latest surrealist fantasia stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz and Tilda Swinton and involves a computer hacker's goal to discover the key to human existence.

Full list here.