2017: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
Personal Shopper (dir: Olivier Assayas; US release date)
The Lost City of Z (dir: James Gray; US release date)
God's Own Country (dir: Francis Lee)
Marjorie Prime (dir: Michael Almendreya)
Get Out (dir: Jordan Peele)
Lady Bird (dir: Greta Gerwig)
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): After the Storm (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda), Baby Driver (dir: Edgar Wright), The Beguiled (dir: Sofia Coppola), Call Me by Your Name (dir: Luca Guadagnino), Columbus (dir: Kogonada), Detroit (dir: Kathryn Bigelow), The Florida Project (dir: Sean Baker), Hounds of Love (dir: Ben Young), , A Quiet Passion (dir: Terence Davies), Person to Person (dir: Dustin Guy Defa), Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (dir: Angela Robinson), The Salesman (dir: Asghar Farhadi) and Song to Song (dir: Terrence Malick)
Best Film of the Year: Phantom Thread
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Megan Ellison
US Distributor: Focus Features
Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of Phantom Thread
Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread
Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas' Personal Shopper
Best Actress:
Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
2. Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
3. Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus
4. Jennifer Lawrence, mother!
5. Emma Booth, Hounds of Love
Willem Dafoe and Brooklynn Prince in Sean Baker's The Florida Project
Best Supporting Actor:
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
2. Jack Black, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
3. Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name
4. Daniel Craig, Logan Lucky
5. Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Geena Davis in Michael Almereyda's Marjorie Prime
Best Supporting Actress
Geena Davis, Marjorie Prime
2. Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
3. Sienna Miller, The Lost City of Z
4. Allison Williams, Get Out
5. Jennifer Ehle, A Quiet Passion
Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams in Jordan Peele's Get Out
Best Original Screenplay
Get Out — Jordan Peele
2. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
3. The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi
4. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
5. After the Storm — Hirokazu Koreeda
Robert Pattinson and Charlie Hunnam in James Gray's The Lost City of Z
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Lost City of Z — James Gray
2. Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory
3. The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
4. Molly's Game — Aaron Sorkin
5. Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049
Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 — Roger Deakins
2. Good Time — Shawn Price Williams
3. Dunkirk — Hoyte van Hoytema
4. Call Me by Your Name — Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
5. The Lost City of Z — Darius Khondji
Robert Pattinson and Taliah Webster in Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie's Good Time
Best Original Score
Good Time — Daniel Lopatin
2. Phantom Thread — Jonny Greenwood
3. Marjorie Prime — Mica Levi
4. Wonderstruck — Carter Burwell
5. It Comes at Night — Brian McOmber
Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Eiza Gonzalez, and Jon Hamm in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver
Best Film Editing
Baby Driver — Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
2. Good Time — Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
3. Dunkirk — Lee Smith
4. Phantom Thread — Dylan Tichenor
5. God's Own Country — Chris Wyatt
Octavia Spencer and Sally Hawkins in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water
Best Production Design
The Shape of Water — Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau
2. Phantom Thread — Mark Tildesley and Veronique Melery
3. Ghost in the Shell — Jan Roelfs, Elli Griff, Calvin Tsoi and Kitt Van Der Kidd
4. Blade Runner 2049 — Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola
5. mother! — Phillip Messina, Martine Giguère-Kazemirchuk, and Larry Dias
Gina McKee in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread
Best Costume Design
Phantom Thread — Mark Bridges
2. Murder on the Orient Express — Alexandra Byrne
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — Olivier Beriot
4. The Lost City of Z – Sonia Grande
5. Atomic Blonde — Cindy Evans
Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
2. The Shape of Water
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Best Sound
Dunkirk
2. Baby Driver
3. Blade Runner 2049
Best Makeup
The Shape of Water
2. Darkest Hour
3. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Julian Assange in Laura Poitras' Risk
Best Documentary Feature
Risk — Laura Poitras
2. Jane — Brett Morgen
3. Faces Places — Agnes Varda and JR
Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner
Best Animated Feature:
The Breadwinner — Nora Twomey
2. Coco — Lee Unkirk and Adrian Molina
3. Loving Vincent — Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
Amanda Seyfried and Mädchen Amick in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return
Best Limited Series
Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch and Mark Frost
2. Godless — Scott Frank
3. Alias Grace — Mary Harron and Sarah Polley
Ryan White’s The Keepers
Best Documentary Series
The Keepers — Ryan White
2. The Vietnam War — Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Geoffrey C. Ward, and Sarah Botstein
3. Wormwood — Errol Morrois, Kieran Fitzgerald, Steven Hathaway, Molly Rokosz
Best Ensemble Cast:
Lady Bird
Best First Feature:
Francis Lee, God’s Own Country
(left) Lady Bird (dir: Greta Gerwig; in alphabetical order): Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges (pictured), Stephen McKinley Henderson, Tracy Letts, Jake McDorman, Laurie Metcalf, Saoirse Ronan (pictured), Odeya Rush and Lois Smith
(right) Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu in Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country
RECAP
W I N S :
Phantom Thread — 4,
Blade Runner 2049 — 2, The Shape of Water — 2, Baby Driver — 1, The Breadwinner — 1, The Florida Project — 1, Get Out — 1, God’s Own Country — 1, Good Time — 1, The Keepers — 1, The Lost City of Z — 1, Lady Bird — 1, Majorie Prime — 1, Personal Shopper — 1, Risk — 1, Twin Peaks: The Return — 1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
Phantom Thread — 9,
The Shape of Water — 6, Get Out — 5, Good Time — 5, The Lost City of Z — 5, Blade Runner 2049 – 4, Call Me By Your Name — 4, Marjorie Prime — 4, Dunkirk – 3, God’s Own Country — 3, Lady Bird — 3, Personal Shopper — 3, Brawl in Cell Block 99 – 2, mother! — 2, The Salesman — 2, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — 2
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