What were your 10 favorite movies of 2017? The best picture candidates and other nominees get trotted out Sunday, March 4, at the Academy Awards.
Here are some of my faves — good films all, regardless of whether they win — along with what they’re nominated for in this year’s Academy Awards.
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Nominations (7):
- Best Picture
- Actress In A Leading Role (Frances McDormand)
- Actor In A Supporting Role (Sam Rockwell)
- Actor In A Supporting Role (Woody Harrelson)
- Film Editing (Jon Gregory)
- Writing, Original Screenplay (Martin McDonagh)
- Music, Original Score (Carter Burwell)
2. Lady Bird
Nominations (5):
- Best Picture
- Directing (Greta Gerwig)
- Actress In A Leading Role (Saoirse Ronan)
- Actress In A Supporting Role (Laurie Metcalf)
- Writing, Original Screenplay (Greta Gerwig)
3. Get Out
Nominations (4):
- Best Picture
- Directing (Jordan Peele)
- Actor In A Leading Role (Daniel Kaluuya)
- Writing, Original Screenplay (Jordan Peele)
4. The Post
Nominations (2):
- Best Picture
- Actress In A Leading Role (Meryl Streep)
5. The Big Sick
Nominations (1):
- Writing, Original Screenplay (Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani)
6. Blade Runner 2049
Nominations (5):
- Cinematography
- Sound Mixing
- Visual Effects
- Sound Editing
- Production Design
7. The Shape of Water
Nominations (13):
- Best Picture
- Directing (Guillermo del Toro)
- Actress in a Leading Role (Sally Hawkins)
- Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer)
- Actor in a Supporting Role (Richard Jenkins )
- Best original screenplay (Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor)
- Best cinematography (Dan Laustsen)
- Best production design (Paul D. Austerberry)
- Best film editing (Sidney Wolinsky)
- Best original score (Alexandre Desplat)
- Best costume design (Luis Sequeira)
- Best sound editing (Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira)
- Best sound mixing
8. The Florida Project
Nominations (1)
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Willem Dafoe)
Newsweek says: “What makes (director Sean) Baker’s film such a transcendant experience is that he took a subject full of despair, as well as lives of desperation, and spun them into a powerful film that pulses with life, joy and natural beauty.”
9. Wind River
Nominations (0):
“Writer-director Taylor Sheridan stages this stirring murder-mystery against the backdrop of a desolate Indian reservation in central-western Wyoming, and he captures the snow-covered loneliness of the environment with a poetic punch,” writes the Detroit News.
10. ???
OK, I intentionally left this blank because it wasn’t an exceptional year for Hollywood — and I wanted to hear from you on what film I overlooked that I should definitely run out and see.
Honorable mentions
“The Snowman,” which came out Dec. 16, 2016, just missed the cut. Here are some other notable films from the past year.
- Dunkirk
- Darkest Hour
- Call Me By Your Name
- Molly’s Game
- Phantom Thread
- I, Tonya
- Kong: Skull Island
- Thor: Ragnarok
How about you? Which of your fave flicks did the Oscars diss, or which ones are you rooting for?
