The Year in Film: 2017

Best Picture

#1: Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
#2: Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
#3: Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
#4: Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
#5: Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#6: Get Out (Jordan Peele)
#7: LA 92 (Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin)
#8: The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
#9: Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
#10: Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

Honorable mentions: Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz), Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev), The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi), Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad), Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos), On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sangsoo), Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda), Ex Libris: New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman), The Lost City of Z (James Gray), Faces Places (Agnès Varda and JR), Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin), Contemporary Color (Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross), Uncertain (Anna Sandilands and Ewan McNicol), A Ghost Story (David Lowery), Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki), Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes), All These Sleepless Nights (Michal Marczak), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler), Okja (Bong Joon Ho), The Disaster Artist (James Franco), God’s Own Country (Francis Lee), The Shape of Water (Guillermo Del Toro), A Silent Voice (Naoko Yamada), Thelma (Joachim Trier), Jane (Brett Morgen), Happy End (Michael Haneke), Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro), The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), Behemoth (Zhao Liang), and Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green).


Best Director

#1: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
#2: Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
#3: Darren Aronofsky (Mother!)
#4: Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name)
#5: Josh and Benny Safdie (Good Time)


Best Actor

#1: Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
#2: Daniel Day Lewis (Phantom Thread)
#3: Javier Bardem (Mother!)
#4: Lior Ashkenazi (Foxtrot)
#5: Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman)


Best Actress

#1: Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread)
#2: Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper)
#3: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu (Félicité)
#4: Jennifer Lawrence (Mother!)
#5: Francis McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)


Best Supporting Actor

#1: Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name)
#2: Benny Safdie (Good Time)
#3: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
#4: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (BPM (Beats Per Minute))
#5: Tracy Letts (Lady Bird)


Best Supporting Actress

#1: Elisabeth Moss (The Square)
#2: Julianne Moore (Wonderstruck)
#3: Rooney Mara (A Ghost Story)
#4: Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
#5: Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread)


Best Original Screenplay

#1: Get Out (Jordan Peele)
#2: Good Time (Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie)
#3: Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
#4: Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#5: The Florida Project (Sean Baker)


Best Adapted Screenplay

#1: Call Me by Your Name (James Ivory)
#2: Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin)
#3: Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
#4: Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick)
#5: The Lost City of Z (James Gray)


Best Cinematography

#1: Blade Runner 2049 (Roger Deakins)
#2: Dunkirk (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
#3: Good Time (Sean Price Williams)
#4: Mother! (Matthew Libatique)
#5: The Lost City of Z (Darius Khondji)


Best Film Editing

#1: Dunkirk
#2: Atomic Blonde
#3: Good Time
#4: Mother!
#5: Baby Driver


Best Score

#1: Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)
#2: Good Time (Oneohtrix Point Never)
#3: Blade Runner 2049 (Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch)
#4: Phantom Thread (Jonny Greenwood)
#5: Hostiles (Max Richter)


Best Song

#1: “Mystery of Love” (Call Me by Your Name)
#2: “Visions of Gideon” (Call Me by Your Name)
#3: “I Get Overwhelmed” (A Ghost Story)
#4: “Genius Girl” (The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected))
#5: “The Pure and the Damned” (Good Time)


Best Production Design

#1: Blade Runner 2049
#2: Mother!
#3: Dunkirk
#4: Phantom Thread
#5: The Beguiled


Best Costume Design

#5: Phantom Thread
#2: Atomic Blonde
#3: Blade Runner 2049
#4: The Beguiled
#5: Murder on the Orient Express


Best Makeup

#1: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
#2: The Shape of Water

#3: Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi
#4: Darkest Hour
#5: Blade Runner 2049


Best Sound

#1: Blade Runner 2049
#2: Dunkirk
#3: Atomic Blonde
#4: Baby Driver
#5: Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi


Best Visual Effects

#1: Blade Runner 2049
#2: Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi
#3: The Shape of Water
#4: Ghost in the Shell
#5: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2


Worst Film of the Year

Lemon (Janicza Bravo)

Dishonorable Mentions: The Bye Bye Man (Stacy Title), 9/11 (Martin Guigui), Bright (David Ayer), Leatherface (Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo), Fallen (Scott Hicks), The Last Face (Sean Penn), Drone (Jason Bourque), Rings (F. Javier Gutiérrez), and The Mummy (Alex Kurtzman).