If the influence of Netflix bears any fruit herein, it's that I no longer feel the need to cling to numerical limits. 2017 has been a brutal year across the board, and I have unlimited love for anyone who would A) think that they might find some joy in my hierarchical foolishness, and B) actually read the whole thing.
Everyone is dealing with too much. But in an ideal, non-fascist world, I think these selections would make for a great party and a great broadcast.
ACTOR
Claes
Bang, The Square
Damien
Bonnard, Staying Vertical
Timothee
Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
John
Cho, Columbus
Daniel
Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Michael
Fassbender, Alien: Covenant
Daniel
Kaluuya, Get Out
Kyle
Mooney, Brigsby Bear
ACTRESS
Eili
Harboe, Thelma
Anne
Hathaway, Colossal
Lee
Min-hee, On The Beach At Night Alone
Alice
Lowe, Prevenge
Melanie
Lynskey, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Rooney
Mara, A Ghost Story
Haley
Lu Richardson, Columbus
Octavia
Spencer, The Shack
Michelle
Williams, All The Money In The World
SUPPORTING
ACTOR
Armie
Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Woody
Harrelson, Three Billboards...
Benny
Safdie, Good Time
Michael
Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
Jason
Sudeikis, Colossal
Steve
Zahn, War for the Planet of the Apes
SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
Betty
Buckley, Split
Beanie
Feldstein, Lady Bird
Betty
Gabriel, Get Out
Mia
Goth, A Cure for Wellness
Tiffany
Haddish, Girls Trip
Vicky
Krieps, Phantom Thread
Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Good Time
Sophia
Lillis, It
Sigourney
Weaver, (Re)Assignment
Taliah
Lennice Webster, Good Time
DIRECTOR
Kathryn
Bigelow, Detroit
Macon
Blair, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Bong
Joon-ho, Okja
Liam
Gavin, A Dark Song
Greta
Gerwig, Lady Bird
Luca
Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Kogonada,
Columbus
Alice
Lowe, Prevenge
Jordan
Peele, Get Out
Joao
Pedro Rodrigues, The Ornithologist
Ridley
Scott, Alien: Covenant
EDITOR
William
Goldenberg and Harry Yoon, Detroit
Han
Mee-yeon and Yang Jin-mo, Okja
Gregory
Plotkin, Get Out
Elisabet
Ronaldsdottir, Atomic Blonde
Evan
Schiff, John Wick: Chapter 2
Lee
Smith, Dunkirk
Andrew
Weisblum, mother!
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bojan
Bazelli, A Cure for Wellness
Roger
Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
Peter
Flinckenberg, Woodshock
Sayombhu
Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name
Rui
Pocas, The Ornithologist
Brian
Sowell, Sequence Break
Dariusz
Wolski, Alien: Covenant
SCORE
Nathan
Barr, Flatliners
Ola
Flottum, Thelma
Jonny
Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Van
Hughes, Sequence Break
Clint
Mansell, The Foreigner
Mark
Mothersbaugh, Thor Ragnarok
Toydrum,
Prevenge
Benjamin
Wallfisch, A Cure for Wellness
ORIGINAL
SCREENPLAY
Paul
Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Justin
Benson, The Endless
Macon
Blair, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Rebecca
Blunt, Logan Lucky
Kevin
Costello and Kyle Mooney, Brisgbsy Bear
Ephthymis
Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Liam
Gavin, A Dark Song
Greta
Gerwig, Lady Bird
Emily
V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Jordan
Peele, Get Out
Steven
Sears and Bill Watterson, Dave Made a Maze
David
Branson Smith and Matt Spicer, Ingrid Goes West
Nacho
Vigalondo, Colossal
ADAPTED
SCREENPLAY
Sofia
Coppola, The Beguiled
James
Ivory, Call me By Your Name
Alejandro
Jodorowsky, Endless Poetry
FOREIGN
LANGUAGE FILM
Bad
Black
Bloodlands
BPM
Okja
On
the Beach At Night Alone
The
Ornithologist
Park
The
Square
Staying
Vertical
Thelma
The
Untamed
DOCUMENTARY
Beware
the Slenderman
Did
You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
Faces
Places
Filmworker
Industrial
Accident
Mansfield
66/67
Obit.
The
Road Movie
78/52
Whitney:
Can I Be Me?
PRODUCTION
DESIGN
Paul
D. Austerberry, The Shape of Water
Conor
Dennison, A Dark Song
Trisha
Gum and John Sumner, Dave Made a Maze
Dan
Hennah and Ra Vincent, Thor: Ragnarok
Jeremy
Hindle, Detroit
Alejandro
Jodorowsky, Endless Poetry
Chris
Seagers, Alien: Covenant
Eve
Stewart, A Cure for Wellness
Hugues
Tissandier, Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets
COSTUME
DESIGN
Miyako
Bellizzi and Mordechai Rubinstein, Good Time
Olivier
Beriot, Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets
Mark
Bridges, Phantom Thread
Patricia
Doria, The Ornithologist
Pascale
Montandon-Jodorowsky, Endless Poetry
Giulia
Piersanti, Call me By Your Name
Mayes
C. Rubeo, Thor: Ragnarok
ANIMATED FEATURE
Birdboy (Los Psiconautas)
Coco
The
Lego Batman Movie
VISUAL
EFFECTS
Alien:
Covenant
Blade
Runner 2049
A
Quiet Passion
UNDISTRIBUTED
Bad
Black
Bloodlands
Industrial Accident
Insomnium
Park
Show Yourself
Those
Who Make Revolution Only Halfway Dig Their Own Graves
We’ve
Forgotten More Than We Ever Knew
Without Name
BEST
FILMS
1
Call Me By Your Name
To
know that your first love matters. To live your life amidst
literature, and music, and art, and beauty, and those meals, and to
find yourself unmoored by the deepest kinds of love and hornitude,
and to know that in the end, it matters.
2
A Dark Song
As
if Clive Barker and David Simon had collaborated.
3
Colossal/Get Out
Unjust
systems, concealed in the soft touch of love, that feed on everything
distinctive and kind and interesting about you.
4
Phantom Thread
The
best Joseph Losey film since the death of Joseph Losey.
5
BPM/Columbus/Dave Made a Maze/Lady Bird/Thelma
Dismantling
the structures, figuratively and literally, with which the customs of
the past have shaped us and how we live with others.
6
Alien: Covenant/Faces Places
The
innate strength of humanity is to adapt and transform ourselves, and
the spaces in which we live. But our flaws cannot be escaped. Teach
the children well, to be sure. And leave the curmudgeonly old men
behind.
7
Blade Runner 2049/The Endless/Sequence Break
Innovation
and escape. A new way of looking at the linear and removing oneself
from its matrix. Resourceful thinking and a willingness to embrace
the strange and unusual.
8
The Square
"Tesla
of Justice."
9
I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore/mother!/The
Ornitholgist
Stumbling
around in a cosmic melodrama with no clear rules and no way to win.
But always hope. Always faith in the process. The best religious
pictures of the year.
10
The Beguiled/A Cure for Wellness/The Killing of a Sacred Deer
How
to dismantle the patriarchy. Expansive, historical, gruesome, and
deeply deeply satisfying.
WORST
FILMS:
1
Transformers: The Last Knight
2
Boo 2: A Madea Halloween
3
Rings
4
The Snowman
5
Caniba
6
Friend Request
7
Beach Rats
8
Fifty Shades Darker
9
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
10
Fate of the Furious
