Best movies of 2017

[Chris Knipp]

The 2018 Village Voice Poll
Published Feb. 13, 2018. A notable thing is that Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama made the top ten. It made about $30,000 at the box office in the US. This is an independent and smart poll without being distractingly eccentric. D'Angelo pointed out "neither Nocturama nor A Quiet Passion placed in the top 50 of Indiewire’s poll." See the Voice page HERE.

Best Film:
1. Phantom Thread (348 points)
2. Lady Bird (326 points)
3. Get Out (318 points)
4. Call Me by Your Name (305 points)
5. The Florida Project (289 points)
6. Dunkirk (202 points)
7. Personal Shopper (169 points)
8. Nocturama (165 points)
9. A Quiet Passion (161 points)
10. The Shape of Water (152 points)

Best Lead Performance:
1. Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird (121 points)
2. Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name (108 points)
3. Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion (101 points)
4. Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread (86 points)
5. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper (85 points)
6. Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water (81 points)
7. Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread (77 points
8. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (72 points)
9 (tie). Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out (52 points)
9 (tie). Robert Pattinson, Good Time (52 points)

Best Supporting Performance:
1. Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird (199 points)
2. Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project (147 points)
3. Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip (132 points)
4. Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread (101 points)
5. Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name (74 points)
6. Allison Janney, I, Tonya (56 points)
7. Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer (52 points)
8. Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (49 points)
9 (tie). Mary J. Blige, Mudbound (43 points)
9 (tie). Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water (43 points)

Best Director:
1. Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (65 points)
2. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (52 points)
3. Jordan Peele, Get Out (51 points)
4. Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk (49 points)
5. Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name (42 points)
6. Sean Baker, The Florida Project (41 points)
7. Bertrand Bonello, Nocturama (37 points)
8. David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return (31 points)
9 (tie). Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (22 points)
9 (tie). Dee Rees, Mudbound (22 points)

Best First Feature:
1. Jordan Peele, Get Out (42 points)
2. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (15 points)
3. Kogonada, Columbus (10 points)
4. Eduardo Williams, The Human Surge (6 points)
5. Julia Ducournau, Raw (5 points)

Best Documentary:
1. Agnès Varda and JR, Faces Places (20 points)
2. Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, The Work (11 points)
3. Bill Morrison, Dawson City: Frozen Time (10 points)
4. Errol Morris, Wormwood (8 points)
5. Ceyda Torun, Kedi (7 points)

Best Screenplay:
1. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (22 points)
2. Jordan Peele, Get Out (17 points)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread (14 points)
4 (tie). Noah Baumbach, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (4 points)
4 (tie). Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion (4 points)
4 (tie). James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name (4 points)
4 (tie). Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (4 points)4 (tie). Ruben Östlund, The Square (4 points)

Best Animated Film:
1. Lee Unkrich, Coco (21 points)
2. Nora Twomey, The Breadwinner (13 points)
3. Chris McKay, The LEGO Batman Movie (11 points)
4. Makoto Shinkai, Your Name (8 points)
5. Sunao Katabuchi, In This Corner of the World (6 points)

The Voters:
Simon Abrams, Sam Adams, Siddhant Adlakha, Florence Almozini, Mallory Andrews, David Ansen, Ali Arikan, Sean Axmaker, Jason Bailey, Miriam Bale, Abbey Bender, Sheila Benson, Christian Blauvelt, Danny Bowes, Charles Bramesco, Sean Burns, Monica Castillo, Daryl Chin, Jaime Christley, Jake Cole, Sherilyn Connelly, Adam Cook, Jordan Cronk, Mike D’Angelo, Freja Dam, Morgan Leigh Davies, Peter Debruge, A.A. Dowd, Diana Drumm, Alonso Duralde, Bilge Ebiri, David Ehrenstein, Eric Eisenberg, Kate Erbland, Steve Erickson, Chris Evangelista, Molly Faust, David Fear, Jon Frosch, Cynthia Fuchs, Noah Gittell, Tim Grierson, Karen Han, Jesse Hassenger, Eric Henderson, Odie Henderson, Aaron Hillis, Jordan Hoffman, Eric Hynes, Caryn James, Ren Jender, Don Kaye, Ben Kenigsberg, Jonathan Kiefer, Nellie Killian, Dan Kois, Michael Koresky, Peter Labuza, Tomris Laffly, Joanna Langfield, Josh Larsen, Richard Lawson, Manuela Lazic, Will Leitch, Diego Lerer, Craig D. Lindsey, Phillip Lopate, Willow Maclay, Calum Marsh, Ben Mercer, Sean Mulvihill, Angelo Muredda, Noel Murray, Vikram Murthi, Sophia Nguyen, Michael Nordine, John Oursler, Gerald Peary, Sasha Perl-Raver, Ray Pride, Matt Prigge, C.J. Prince, Kristy Puchko, Jeff Reichert, Katey Rich, Vadim Rizov, Joshua Rothkopf, Mike Rubin, Nick Schager, Alan Scherstuhl, Michael Sicinski, David Sims, Matt Singer, Josh Spiegel, Emma Stefansky, David Sterritt, Elizabeth Stoddard, Alice Stoehr, Anne Thompson, Luke Thompson, Scott Tobias, Kyle Turner, Kathleen Walsh, Chris Wells, Matthew Wilder, Alissa Wilkinson, Alison Willmore, Charles Wilson, Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, Lara Zarum, Alan Zilberman, Esther Zuckerman