All We Imagine as Light emerged victorious at the 22nd International Cinephile Society Awards winning the top prize of best picture along with best director for Payal Kapadia and best ensemble cast.

Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths dominated in the actress performance category winning best actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste and best supporting actress for Michele Austin who played her sister Chantelle. Leigh also personally won best original screenplay, bringing the total haul to 3 awards.

Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown swept the actor performance category, winning best actor for Mahmood Bakri and best supporting actor for Aram Sabbagh.

Other top awards went to Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow for best animated film, Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude won best documentary and Constance Tsang’s Blue Sun Palace won best debut film.

Winners of 22nd International Cinephile Society Awards

PICTURE

1. All We Imagine as Light
2. The Beast
3. Nickel Boys
4. Hard Truths
5. Misericordia
6. Afternoons of Solitude
7. To a Land Unknown
8. Grand Tour
9. Evil Does Not Exist
10. Caught by the Tides
11. The Other Way Around
12. The Room Next Door
13. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
14. The Brutalist
15. Challengers
16. Megalopolis
17. Anora
18. I Saw the TV Glow
19. Juror #2
20. The Substance

DIRECTOR

Winner: Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light
RU: Bertrand Bonello – The Beast

• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
• Miguel Gomes – Grand Tour
• Alain Guiraudie – Misericordia
• RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
• Jane Schoenbrun – I Saw the TV Glow

ACTOR

Winner: Mahmood Bakri – To a Land Unknown
Winner: Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story

• Adam Bessa – Ghost Trail
• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
• Daniel Craig – Queer
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Keith Kupferer – Ghostlight

ACTRESS

Winner: Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
RU: Léa Seydoux – The Beast

• Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
• Kani Kusruti – All We Imagine as Light
• Demi Moore – The Substance
• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Aram Sabbagh – To a Land Unknown
RU: Adam Pearson – A Different Man

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Ricardo Teodoro – Baby
• Brandon Wilson – Nickel Boys

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Michele Austin – Hard Truths
RU: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys

• Joan Chen – Didi
• Chhaya Kadam – All We Imagine as Light
• Aubrey Plaza – Megalopolis
• Divya Prabha – All We Imagine as Light

ENSEMBLE

Winner: All We Imagine as Light
RU: Hard Truths

• Anora
• Conclave
• Ghostlight
• Misericordia

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Winner: Hard Truths – Mike Leigh
RU: All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia

• Anora – Sean Baker
• Challengers – Justin Kuritzkes
• Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Winner: Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
RU: The Beast – Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit, Guillaume Bréaud

• Conclave – Peter Straughan
• I’m Still Here – Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
• Queer – Justin Kuritzkes
• The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner: Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray
RU: Afternoons of Solitude – Artur Tort

• All We Imagine as Light – Ranabir Das
• The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
• Grand Tour – Guo Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças
• Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke

EDITING

Winner: Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra, Artur Tort
RU: Caught by the Tides – Yang Chao, Matthieu Laclau, Xudong Lin

• All We Imagine as Light – Clément Pinteaux
• Challengers – Marco Costa
• Grand Tour – Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
• Mexico will no longer exist! – Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Winner: The Beast – Katia Wyszkop
RU: Queer – Stefani Baisi

• The Brutalist – Judy Becker
• Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop
• The Room Next Door – Inbal Weinberg
• The Substance – Stanislas Reydellet

SCORE

Winner: Blue Giant – Hiromi Uehara
RU: Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

• The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
• Evil Does Not Exist – Eiko Ishibashi
• Ghost Trail – Lucas Verreman, Yuksek
• Nickel Boys – Scott Alario, Alex Somers

SOUND DESIGN

Winner: Pepe – Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, Nahuel Palenque
RU: Dahomey – Nicolas Becker

• The Brutalist – Andy Neil, Steve Single
• Challengers – Craig Berkey, Paul Carter
• Dune: Part Two – Richard King, Dave Whitehead
• The Substance – Valérie Deloof, Victor Fleurant

ANIMATED FILM

Winner: Flow – Gints Zilbalodis
RU: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass – Quay Brothers

• Blue Giant – Yuzuru Tachikawa
• Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliot
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
• The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders

DOCUMENTARY

Winner: Afternoons of Solitude – Albert Serra
RU: No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

• Alma del Desierto – Mónica Taboada Tapia
• Dahomey – Mati Diop
• A Fidai Film – Kamal Aljafari
• Intercepted – Oksana Karpovych

DEBUT FILM

Winner: Blue Sun Palace – Constance Tsang
RU: Ghost Trail – Jonathan Millet

• Janet Planet – Annie Baker
• Mexico will no longer exist! – Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco
• No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
• Problemista – Julio Torres

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Winner: Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story
RU: Mikey Madison – Anora

• Mahmood Bakri – To a Land Unknown
• Jack Haven – I Saw the TV Glow
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Ryland Brickson Cole Tews – Hundreds of Beavers