THE FOURTH ANNUAL ICON AWARD NOMINEES

Moira Rose’s favourite season is coming to a close, but not before the finest two awards shows celebrate another iconic year of cinema.

That’s right, the Academy Awards are this weekend – but of course they’re being overshadowed for the fourth year in a row by the only voting body that matters: the ICON Awards.

The ICON Awards were created not only to celebrate the Blueprint’s favourite films of the year; but also to bring justice to film excellence that was somehow missed from this season’s major awards ceremonies; as well as honouring the less prestigious elements of the past year in filmmaking that made us enjoy our film watching experience so much more.

Each year the ICONs also award the coveted ICON of the Year award, wherein one individual’s contribution to cinema and the world throughout this past year is recognised. This too will be announced alongside our winners next Sunday!

Here are the nominees for the 4th annual ICON Awards.

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BEST ANIMAL

Snoop – Anatomy of a Fall 

The Cocaine Bear – Cocaine Bear

Geese – The Marvels

Chicken Dog – Poor Things

Abigail the Giraffe – Wonka

MOST ELIGIBLE BOYFRIEND

Archie Madekwe as Jann Mardenborough in Gran Turismo

David Harbour as Jack Salter in Gran Turismo

Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid

Mike Faist as Roger Sharpe in Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game

Jacob Elordi as Felix Catton in Saltburn

Mason Gooding as Chad in Scream VI

MOST ELIGIBLE GIRLFRIEND

Rachel McAdams in Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Havana Rose Liu in Bottoms

Samara Weaving in Chevalier

Rachel Zegler in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes

Ritu Arya in Polite Society

Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed in Scream VI/

NOT ELIGIBLE BUT REALLY HOT

Tom Blythe as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Pom Klementieff as Paris in Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Mike Colter as Louis in Plane

Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things

Barry Keoghan as Oliver in Saltburn

Margaret Qualley as Rebecca in Sanctuary

SCENE STEALER

Michael Cera in Barbie

Nicholas Galitzine in Bottoms

Pete Davidson in Dumb Money

Cara Jade Myers in Killers of the Flower Moon

Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

Rosamund Pike in Saltburn

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CHILD

Ariana Greenblatt in 65

Milo Machado Graner in Anatomy of a Fall

Abby Ryder Fortson in Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Kristen Cui in Knock at the Cabin

Lola Campbell in Scrapper

BIGGEST SURPRISE

65

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Gran Turismo

Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game

Polite Society

BEST MOVIE PARENT

Adam Driver in 65

Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers

Benny Safdie in Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Rachel McAdams in Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Uma Thurman in Red, White, & Royal Blue

BEST CHEMISTRY

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers

Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell in Anyone But You

Ayo Edibiri and Rachel Sennott in Bottoms

Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes

Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez in Red, White, and Royal Blue

Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley in Sanctuary

BEST KISS

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers

Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You

Ayo Edebiri and Havana Rose Liu in Bottoms

Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez in Red, White, and Royal Blue

Barry Keoghan and Alison Oliver in Saltburn

ONE TO WATCH

Tom Blyth

Archie Madekwe

Mia McKenna-Bruce

Dominic Sessa

Celine Song

BEST USE OF MUSIC

“Unwritten” in Anyone But You

The Barbie Soundtrack

“The Hanging Tree” in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes

“Titanium” in M3GAN

The Saltburn Soundtrack

“Camp Isn’t Home” in Theater Camp

BEST COSTUMING

Barbie

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes

Maestro

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

Saltburn

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Barbie

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird and Snakes

Maestro

Poor Things

Saltburn

BIGGEST SNUB

Andrew Scott for All of Us Strangers

Rachel McAdams for Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers

Zac Efron for The Iron Claw

Charles Melton in May December

Greta Lee in Past Lives

Saltburn for Best Cinematography

MOST OVERLOOKED PERFORMANCE

Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers

Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers

Mia McKenna-Bruce in How to Have Sex

Charles Melton in May December

John Magaro in Past Lives

Ramy Youssef in Poor Things

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Barbie

The Iron Claw

May December

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

Saltburn

BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE

Archie Madekwe in Gran Turismo

Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers

Tom Blyth in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Stanley Simons in The Iron Claw

Charles Melton in May December

Greta Lee in Past Lives

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

John Wick: Chapter 4

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

Priscilla

Saltburn

BEST SCREENPLAY

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

The Holdovers

May December

Past Lives

Poor Things

You Hurt My Feelings

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Jamie Bell in All of Us Strangers

Rachel McAdams in Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret?

Ryan Gosling in Barbie

Da’Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers

Dominic Sessa in The Holdovers

Charles Melton in May December

Robert Downey Jr in Oppenheimer

Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things

BEST DIRECTOR

Sean Durkin, The Iron Claw

Todd Haynes, May December

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Celine Song, Past Lives

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things

Emerald Fennell, Saltburn

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

Andrew Scott in All of Us Strangers

Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

Zac Efron in The Iron Claw

Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

Natalie Portman in May December

Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer

Emma Stone in Poor Things

Margaret Qualley in Sanctuary

PICTURE OF THE YEAR

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

May December

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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Congratulations to all the above nominees for their part in a truly spectacular year of cinema.

The ICON Award winners will be announced on Sunday 10th March, before the Oscars, right here on the Blueprint. 

Start your Oscar week off the right way by celebrating the ICON Awards, then join us over on Twitter on Sunday where will be live-tweeting the Oscars!

Happy ICONs week!