Best movies of 2017

[Chris Knipp]

The San Francisco Critics Circle nominations.

This is a pretty standard list. My choices as far as I can make them from the options are indicated by an asterisk.
Their choices are marked by a -.

Best Picture
*CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
-THE FLORIDA PROJECT
GET OUT
-THE SHAPE OF WATER
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

Best Director
Sean Baker – THE FLORIDA PROJECT
-Guillermo del Toro – THE SHAPE OF WATER
Greta Gerwig – LADY BIRD
*Christopher Nolan – DUNKIRK
Jordan Peele – GET OUT

Best Actor
*Timothee Chalamet – CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
James Franco – THE DISASTER ARTIST
Daniel Kaluuya – GET OUT
Gary Oldman – DARKEST HOUR
-Andy Serkis – WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

Best Actress
Annette Bening – FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL
Sally Hawkins – THE SHAPE OF WATER
Frances McDormand – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
-Margot Robbie – I, TONYA
Saoirse Ronan – LADY BIRD

Best Supporting Actor
-Willem Dafoe – THE FLORIDA PROJECT
*Armie Hammer – CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Richard Jenkins – THE SHAPE OF WATER
Sam Rockwell – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Michael Stuhlbarg – CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

Best Supporting Actress
Holly Hunter – THE BIG SICK
Allison Janney – I, TONYA
*Melissa Leo – NOVITIATE
Lesley Manville – PHANTOM THREAD
-Laurie Metcalf – LADY BIRD

Best Foreign Language Film
-BPM
A FANTASTIC WOMAN
FRANTZ
IN THE FADE
THE SQUARE

Best Animated Feature
THE BREADWINNER
-COCO
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
*LOVING VINCENT
YOUR NAME

Best Documentary
BRIMSTONE & GLORY
*CITY OF GHOSTS
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
-FACES PLACES
JANE

Best Cinematography
-BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Roger Deakins
*DUNKIRK – Hoyte van Hoytema
THE FLORIDA PROJECT – Alexis Zabe
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Dan Laustsen
WONDER WHEEL – Vittorio Storaro

Best Production design
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Dennis Gassner
*DUNKIRK – Nathan Crowley
PHANTOM THREAD – Mark Tildesley
-THE SHAPE OF WATER – Paul D. Austerberry
WONDERSTRUCK – Mark Friedberg

Best Editing
-BABY DRIVER – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Joe Walker
*DUNKIRK – Lee Smith
THE POST – Michael Kahn
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Sidney Wolinsky

Best Screenplay (original)
THE BIG SICK – Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon
-GET OUT – Jordan Peele
*LADY BIRD – Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI – Martin McDonagh

Best Screenplay (adapted)
THE DISASTER ARTIST – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
*-CALL ME BY YOUR NAME – James Ivory
MOLLY’S GAME – Aaron Sorkin
MUDBOUND – Dee Rees and Virgil Williams
WONDERSTRUCK – Brian Selznick

Best Original Score
BLADE RUNNER 2049 – Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch
*DUNKIRK – Hans Zimmer
PHANTOM THREAD – Jonny Greenwood
THE SHAPE OF WATER – Alexandre Desplat
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES – Michael Giacchino

Special Citation (for that underappreciated indie gem)
-BRIMSTONE & GLORY
COLUMBUS
THE OTHER KIDS