Awards season is about to come to a close, but not before the biggest ceremony of them all. Cancel your Oscar’s viewing party, it’s all about the ICONs.
Now in its third prestigious year, the ICON Awards aim to celebrate the Blueprint’s favourite films of the year, rectify major voting bodies’ clear snubs, and honour the seemingly “silly” things that make the films we love what they are. Think of us as the happy medium between the Oscars and the MTV Movie awards.
This year we are also welcoming four exciting new categories: Best Animated Film, Best Kiss, Best Makeup and Hair, and Not Eligible But Really Hot, in pairing with our existing Most Eligible Boyfriend and Girlfriend categories.
The ICONs also award one individual with the coveted ICON of the Year award, to recognise their contribution to cinema and the world throughout this past year. The recipient will be revealed alongside all the winners tomorrow evening, just before the far less exciting Academy Awards.
Here are this year’s ICON Award Nominees.
BEST ANIMAL
Tank the dog from Marry Me
Oscar Winner Olivia Colman in Do Revenge
Sox from Lightyear
Jenny from The Banshees of Inisherin
Benny the Monkey from The Fabelmans
MOST ELIGIBLE BOYFRIEND
Miles Teller as Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick
Danny Ramirez in Look Both Ways
Noah Centineo in Black Adam
Luke Macfarlane in Bros
Oliver Jackson-Cohen in Emily
Diego Calva in Babylon
MOST ELIGIBLE GIRLFRIEND
Zoë Kravitz in The Batman
Monica Barbaro in Top Gun: Maverick
Florence Pugh in Don’t Worry Darling
Janelle Monáe in Glass Onion
Alba Baptista in Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Li Jun Li in Babylon
NOT ELIGIBLE BUT REALLY HOT
Chris Pine in Don’t Worry Darling
Zane Phillips in Fire Island
Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All
Tenoch Huerta in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Sebastian Stan in Fresh
Jon Bernthal in Sharp Stick
SCENE STEALER
Brittany Snow in X
Sarah Silverman in Marry Me
Rachel Sennott in Bodies Bodies Bodies
Sophie Turner in Do Revenge
Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
Hong Chau in The Menu
Samantha Morton in She Said
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CHILD
Walker Scobell in The Adam Project
Frankie Corio in Aftersun
Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja in After Yang
Mateo Zoryan Francis-DeFord in The Fabelmans
Eden Dambrine in Close
BIGGEST SURPRISE
Not Okay
Tytöt tylöt tylöt
Black Adam
Meet Cute
Enola Holmes 2
Emily
BEST MOVIE PARENT
Owen Wilson in Marry Me
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Chord Overstreet in Falling for Christmas
Dakota Johnson in Cha Cha Real Smooth
BEST CHEMISTRY
Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz in The Batman
Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke in Do Revenge
Park Hae-il and Tang Wei in Decision to Leave
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All
Emma Mackey and Oliver Jackson-Cohen in Emily
Diego Calva and Margot Robbie in Babylon
BEST KISS
Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in Don’t Worry Darling
Sebastian Stan and Jessica Chastain in The 355
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All
Emma Mackey and Oliver Jackson-Cohen in Emily
Margot Robbie and Li Jun Li in Babylon
ONE TO WATCH
Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Charlotte Wells
Lila Neugebauer
Diego Calva
Gabriel LaBelle
BEST USE OF SONG
“Marry Me” from Marry Me
“Nobody Like U” from Turning Red
“I Ain’t Worried” from Top Gun: Maverick
The entire Do Revenge soundtrack
“Hot Girl” from Bodies Bodies Bodies
“My Girl’s Pussy” from Babylon
BEST COSTUMING
Marry Me
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Elvis
The Woman King
Bones and All
Babylon
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Babylon
Do Revenge
Elvis
The Batman
BIGGEST SNUB
Decision to Leave in Every Category
Danielle Deadwyler in Till
Aftersun in Best Picture
Charlotte Wells in Best Director
Everything Everywhere All At Once in Makeup and Hairstyling
Babylon in Best Editing
Nope in Best Cinematography
BEST SCENE
Christmas Special Sequence from Elvis
A Chef and Enough Champagne from Death on the Nile
Hallway Scene from The Fabelmans
Party Scene from Babylon
Hello, College from Babylon
Juilliard Masterclass from TÁR
MOST OVERLOOKED PERFORMANCE
Tang Wei in Decision to Leave
Emma Mackey in Emily
Christopher Abbott in On the Count of Three
Rooney Mara in Women Talking
Samantha Morton in She Said
Danielle Deadwyler in Till
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Woman King
Glass Onion
The Fabelmans
Babylon
Women Talking
BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Thuso Mbedu in The Woman King
Felix Kammerer in All Quiet on the Western Front
Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
Gabriel LaBelle in The Fabelmans
Diego Calva in Babylon
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Batman
Nope
Decision to Leave
Bones and All
Bardo
Babylon
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Turning Red
Pinocchio
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
BEST SCREENPLAY
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Aftersun
The Banshees of Inisherin
Tár
The Fabelmans
Women Talking
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Albrecht Schuch in All Quiet on the Western Front
Janelle Monáe in Glass Onion
Mark Rylance in Bones and All
Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
Paul Dano in The Fabelmans
Claire Foy in Women Talking
BEST DIRECTOR
Daniels – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
Damien Chazelle – Babylon
Todd Field – TÁR
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Austin Butler in Elvis
Thuso Mbedu in The Woman King
Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Park Hae-il in Decision to Leave
Cate Blanchett in Tár
Taylor Russell in Bones and All
Gabriel LaBelle in The Fabelmans
PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Elvis
Aftersun
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Decision to Leave
Bones and All
Tár
The Fabelmans
Babylon
Congratulations to all the nominees for another incredible year of cinema!
The ICON Award winners will be announced on Sunday 12th March, before the Oscars, right here on the Blueprint.
Here’s a breakdown of nominations for all the statistics lovers out there:
| Babylon | 15 |
| Everything Everywhere All At Once | 12 |
| The Fabelmans | 11 |
| Aftersun | 9 |
| Bones and All | 8 |
| Decision to Leave | 7 |
| Do Revenge | 6 |
| Elvis | 5 |
| Emily | 5 |
| Marry Me | 5 |
| TÁR | 5 |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | 5 |
| The Batman | 4 |
| The Woman King | 4 |
| Women Talking | 4 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | 3 |
| Don’t Worry Darling | 3 |
| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | 3 |
| Top Gun: Maverick | 3 |
| Black Adam | 2 |
| Bodies Bodies Bodies | 2 |
| Causeway | 2 |
| Nope | 2 |
| She Said | 2 |
| Till | 2 |
| Turning Red | 2 |
The following films each have one nomination:
After Yang, Bardo, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bros, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers, Close, Crimes of the Future, Death on the Nile, Enola Holmes 2, Falling for Christmas, Fire Island, Fresh, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Lightyear, Look Both Ways, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Meet Cute, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, Not Okay, On the Count of Three, Sharp Stick, The 355, The Adam Project, The Menu, Tylöt Tylöt Tylöt
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