The Wallys: Best in film 2017

TOP TWENTY FILMS
1. LADY BIRD (U.S., Greta Gerwig)
2. TONI ERDMANN (Germany, Maren Ade)
3. PATERSON (U.S., Jim Jarmusch)
4. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Italy, Luca Guadagnino)
5. THE SHAPE OF WATER (U.S., Guillermo del Toro)
6. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (U.S., Sean Baker)
7. A GHOST STORY (U.S., David Lowery)
8. FACES, PLACES (France, Agnès Varda and JR)
9. COCO (U.S., Lee Unkrich)
10. GET OUT (U.S., Jordan Peele)
11. THE SQUARE (Sweden, Ruben Östlund)
12. PHANTOM THREAD (U.S., Paul Thomas Anderson)
13. BEATRIZ AT DINNER (U.S., Miguel Arteta)
14. GRADUATION (Romania, Cristian Mungiu)
15. GOOD TIME (U.S., The Safdie Brothers) 
16. MOTHER! (U.S., Darren Aronofsky)
17. BABY DRIVER (U.S., Edgar Wright)
18. DUNKIRK (U.K., Christopher Nolan)
19. STRONG ISLAND (U.S., Yance Ford)
20. TANNA (Vanuatu, Bentley Dean and Martin Butler)

• You can read my thoughts on these films here.

BEST PICTURE

Call Me By Your Name

Lady Bird

Paterson

The Shape of Water

Toni Erdmann

BEST DIRECTOR

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)

Jim Jarmusch (Paterson)

Honorable Mention: Darren Aronofsky (mother!), David Lowery (A Ghost Story), Agnès Varda and JR (Faces, Places)

BEST ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)

Adam Driver (Paterson)

Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)

Adrian Titieni (Graduation)

HM: James Franco (The Disaster Artist), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name), Robert Pattinson (Good Time)

BEST ACTRESS

Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)

Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner)

Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)

Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)

HM: Sonia Braga (Aquarius), Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game), Rebecca Hall (Christine), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)

Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)

Jason Mitchell (Mudbound)

Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World)

Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)

HM: Bill Paxton (Mean Dreams), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards…), Benny Safdie (Good Time)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)

Hong Chau (Downsizing)

Betty Gabriel (Get Out)

Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

Michelle Pfeiffer (mother!)

HM: Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), Elisabeth Moss (The Square)

BEST ENSEMBLE

Christine

The Florida Project

Good Time

Lady Bird

Tanna

HM: Beatriz at Dinner, Graduation, It, Mudbound, The Square

BEST BODY OF WORK

Adam Driver (Logan Lucky, Paterson and Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

Nicole Kidman (The Beguiled, “Big Little Lies," The Killing of a Sacred Deer and "Top of the Lake")

Tracy Letts (Christine, Lady Bird and The Lovers)

Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” The Square and “Top of the Lake”)

Lakeith Stanfield (Crown Heights, Get Out and War Machine)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

David Lowery (A Ghost Story)

Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (Coco)

Jordan Peele (Get Out)

HM: Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch (The Florida Project), Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth)

James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name)

Jim Jarmusch (Paterson)

HM: Dee Rees and Virgil Williams (Mudbound), Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Coco

Loving Vincent

Your Name

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Faces, Places

Fire at Sea

I Am Not Your Negro

Strong Island

HM: I Called Him Morgan, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Tower

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Aquarius

Graduation

The Square

Tanna

Toni Erdmann

HM: Land of Mine, Nocturama, Under the Shadow

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049)

Hoyte van Hoytema (Dunkirk)

Dan Laustsen (The Shape of Water)

Rachel Morrison (Mudbound)

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Call Me By Your Name)

HM: Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread), Chung Chung-hoon (It), Bill Pope (Baby Driver), Jonathan Sela (Atomic Blonde), Alexis Zabe (The Florida Project)

BEST EDITING

Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss (Baby Driver)

Walter Fasano (Call Me By Your Name)

Affonso Gonçalves (Paterson)

Andrew Weisblum (mother!)

Sidney Wolinsky (The Shape of Water)

HM: Toby Oliver (Get Out), Heike Parplies (Toni Erdmann), Dylan Tichenor (Phantom Thread)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Paul Austerberry, Nigel Churcher, Jeffrey Melvin and Shane Viaeu (The Shape of Water)

Stefania Cella, Kimberley Zaharko and Patricia Larman (Downsizing)

Dennis Gassner, Paul Inglis and Alessandra Querzola (Blade Runner 2049)

Philip Messina, Isabelle Guay and Larry Dias (mother!)

Claude Pare, Peter Grundy and Rosalie Board (It)

HM: Christine, The Lost City of Z, Paterson

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Mark Bridges (Phantom Thread)

Dinah Collin (My Cousin Rachel)

Jenny Eagan (Suburbicon)

Emma Potter (Christine)

Luis Sequeira (The Shape of Water)

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans (Christine)

Jonny Greenwood (Phantom Thread)

Oneohtrix Point Never (Good Time)

SQÜRL (Paterson)

Tamar-kali (Mudbound)

HM: Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water), Daniel Hart (A Ghost Story), Clint Mansell (Loving Vincent)

BEST SONG SCORE

Michael Giacchino, Germaine Franco, et. al. (Coco)

Michael Hill and Brian Ross (Lady Bird)

Lauren Marie Mikus (I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore)

Robin Urdang (Call Me By Your Name)

Edgar Wright and Kirsten Lane (Baby Driver)

BEST SONG

“I Get Overwhelmed” (A Ghost Story)

“Remember Me” (Coco)

“Un Poco Loco” (Coco)

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

mother!

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

War for the Planet of the Apes