2017 JWD awards

Welp. It's February. Modern Cinema and Mostly British are on, so my time to catch up on 2017 films is limited. I'll go with what I've got, and hopefully catch a few more before March 4th.

A few things got some year-end recognition aren't properly out till 2018, so I'm saving these for next year: The Rider, Paddington 2, and The Death of Stalin.

Previous years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Best Film
Lady Bird
God's Own Country
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
Lady Macbeth
I Tonya
Call Me By Your Name
Molly's Game
The Florida Project
Una
Three Billboards
A Dragon Arrives!
Get Out
The Shape of Water

(Notable Omissions: Mudbound, The Post, Thelma, Personal Shopper, Okja, Good Time, Hostiles, First they Killed My Father, Columbus, BPM, A Quiet Passion, A Ghost Story)

Best Popcorn Flick
Wonder Woman
Colossal
Atomic Blonde
Their Finest
Handsome Devil
Baby Driver
Thor Ragnarok
The Incredible Jessica James
The Disaster Artist
The Beguiled
The Lure

(Notable Omissions: Girls Trip, Greatest Showman, Logan Lucky, War for Planet of the Apes, Valerian)

Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards
Saorsie Ronan, Lady Bird
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game
Rooney Mara, Una
Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread

(Notable Omissions: Ahn Seo-hyun, Okja; Paula Beer, Frantz; Ruth Wilson, Dark River; Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus; Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion; Carey Mulligan, Mudbound; Meryl Streep, The Post)

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Ben Mendelsohn, Una
Josh O'Connor, God's Own Country
Alec Secareanu, God's Own Country
Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Gray Oldman, Darkest Hour

(Notable Omissions: Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger; Christian Bale, Hostiles; Jason Clarke, Mudbound; Nahuel Perez Biscayart, BPM; Robert Pattinson, Good Time; Tom Hanks, The Post; Paddy Considine, Journeyman)

Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Betty Gabriel, Get Out
Allison Janney, I Tonya
Anne Heche, My Friend Dahmer
Brooklyn Prince, The Florida Project
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Kirsten Dunst, The Beguiled
Naomi Acki, Lady Macbeth

And the Judi Dench brief impact award goes to Helen McCrory - Their Finest

(Notable Omissions: Mary J. Blige, Mudbound; Tatiana Maslany, Stronger, Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip, Michelle Pfeiffer, mother!, Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time, Hong Chau, Downsizing)

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards
Fionn Whitehead, Dunkirk
Mark Rylance, Dunkirk
Richard Jenkins, Shape of Water
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Ben Mendelsohn, Darkest Hour
Jake Lacy, Their Finest
Idris Elba, Molly's Game
Ian Hart, God's Own Country
Tracy Letts, Lady Bird
Barry Keoghan, Killing of a Sacred Deer

(Notable Omissions: Garrett Hedlund, Mudbound; Jason Mitchell, Mudbound; Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World)

Best Ensemble
Get Out
Big Sick
Lady Bird
Three Billboards
Dunkirk
Shape of Water
Their Finest
I, Tonya
God's Own Country

(Notable Omissions: Mudbound, The Post)

Best Director
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro, Shape of Water
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Francis Lee, God's Own Country
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Petty Jenkins, Wonder Woman
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
William Oldroyd, Lady Macbeth

(Notable Omissions: Angelina Jolie, First They Killed My Father; Bong Joon Ho, Okja; Dee Rees, Mudbound; Kogonada, Columbus; The Safdies, Good Time)

Best Screenplay - Adapted
The Disaster Artist (In case you haven't seen this)
Call Me By Your Name
Molly's Game
The Beguiled
Wonder Woman

(Notable Omissions: Mudbound, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)

Best Screenplay - Original
Lady Bird
Shape of Water
Three Billboards
Get Out
Lady Macbeth
God's Own Country
Phantom Thread
The Florida Project

(Notable Omissions: Okja, The Post, Wind River, Columbus)

Best Animated
Coco

(Notable Omissions: The Breadwinner, Loving Vincent, Mary and the Witch's Flower, Lego Batman)

Best Documentary
Jane
Casting Jonbenet
El Mar la Mar
Let It Fall
Step
The Force
78/52
Donkeyote

(Notable Omissions: Icarus, Strong Island, Faces Places, Brimstone & Glory, Ex Libris, Chasing Coral, Dawson City, the Vietnam War, Rat Film)

Best Foreign
Graduation
The Lure
A Dragon Arrives!

Um....
British Isles/Commonwealth:
God's Own Country
Their Finest
Handsome Devil
Lady Macbeth
Mammal
Una

(There we go.)

(Notable Omissions: A Fantastic Woman, The Square, In the Fade, First They Killed My Father, BPM, Thelma, Raw, Foxtrot, The Wound, Racer and the Jailbird, Tom of Finland, Ayiti mon Amout, Song of Granite, A Ciambra, By the Time it Gets Dark,

Best Editing
Jane
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I Tonya
Molly's Game
Lady Bird
Call Me By Your Name
God's Own Country
Their Finest

(Notable Omissions: The Post, Good Time, On the Road, Personal Shopper, Thelma, Ex Libris)

Best Cinematography
Lady Macbeth
God's Own Country
Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Shape of Water
Darkest Hour
Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird
The Florida Project
Three Billboards
Phantom Thread
Wonderstruck
The Beguiled
Killing of a Sacred Deer

(Notable Omissions: Mudbound, A Quiet Passion, My Cousin Rachel, Nocturama, Thelma, A Ghost Story, Columbus, I Am Not a Witch, Jawbone)

Best Costumes
God's Own Country (#gheorghejumper > billowy)
Phantom Thread
Atomic Blonde (and this. And this. I mean, hello gorgeous.
Blade Runner 2049
I Tonya
Lady Bird
Lady Macbeth (and this one)
Their Finest (and. and. and.)
Wonder Woman (also. also.)
Three Billboards. Iconic.
Thor (also Hela, because jfc.)
Dunkirk (it was a big year in turtlenecks.)
The Beguiled

(Notable Omissions: My Cousin Rachel, Kingsman, Murder on the Orient Express, Greatest Showman, Personal Shopper, Beauty and the Beast, Victoria & Abdul)

Best Makeup
Shape of Water
I Tonya
Darkest Hour
Three Billboards (I just really enjoy Frances' undercut)
Atomic Blonde
Lady Macbeth
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Star Wars

(Notable Omissions: Wonder, Victoria & Abdul, Greatest Showman,

Best Production Design
Blade Runner 2049
Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
Wonder Woman
Lady Bird
Lady Macbeth

(Notable Omissions: Beauty & the Beast, Murder on the Orient Express, The Post, War for the Planet of the Apes, Downsizing)

Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Kong: Skull Island
Dunkirk
Shape of Water
Wonder Woman
Thor Ragnarok

(Notable Omissions: Okja, Valerian, Alien Covenant)

Best Score
Three Billboards
Phantom Thread
Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Blade Runner
Jane
Coco
Wonderstruck
Darkest Hour
Thor Ragnarok
Wonder Woman

(Notable Omissions: A Ghost Story, Mudbound, Good Time, Wind River, the Mountains Between Us, The Post, War for the Planet of the Apes, Loving Vincent, Loveless, King Arthur, Prevenge, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Rat Film, It Comes at Night, Alien Covenant, )

Best Song/Musical Moment
Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens - Call Me By Your Name
Visions of Gideon - Sufjan Stevens - Call Me By Your Name
The opening chase/Bellbottoms - Baby Driver
Remember Me - Coco
Jump - Cynthia Erivo - Step
You'll Never Know Just How Much I Love You - Shape of Water
Really any of the numbers in The Lure, but how about Abracadabra
Most of Atomic Blonde, but especially: killing the dudes in the tunnel to Major Tom, the fight before the window to Father Figure, Politics of Dancing in the club, the Kaleida cover of 99 luftballons at a pivotal moment, and, of course, I Ran during a chase scene. (I also love that there is no score at all for the stairway scene.)
The opening of Guardians 2. (Hi!) (This is also one of two scenes I can actually remember from this movie. What was it about again?)
Crash Into Me - DMB - Lady Bird (was there anything that brought back HS so strongly?!) (Runner up: Hand in my Pocket)
The WW theme on Electric Cello when she retakes the city. I mean. How great is this?

(Notable Omissions: Mudbound, Marshall, Greatest Showman, Beauty & the Beast, Dina, Pitch Perfect 3, Murder on the Orient Express, Chasing Coral, Patti Cake$)

Best Sound
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
Baby Driver
God's Own Country
Star Wars (really, just for this)

(Notable Omissions: War for the Planet of the Apes, Detroit, King Arthur)

Best Animated Short
World of Tomorrow 2.

(I mean, if you need some others:
Second to None
Summer Camp Island
Edge of Alchemy
History of Magic: Ensueno
But let's not kid ourselves.)

(Notable Omissions: the animated nominees which just came out this week.)

Best Live Action Short
Ten Meter Tower (full video)
Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments (full video)
A Brief History of Princess X
Red Apples
The Good Time Girls (full video)
5 Films about Technology (full video!!)
American Paradise (full video)
Hot Seat

(Notable Omissions: the live action nominees which just came out this week.)

Best Debut Film
Get Out
Lady Bird
God's Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Molly's Game

(Notable Omissions: Jawbone, I Am Not a Witch, Menashe, Columbus, Novitiate, Patti Cake$, Wind River)

Film I didn't get to that I am most looking forward to
Mudbound
A Quiet Passion
Columbus
Personal Shopper
Hostiles
BPM
First They Killed My Father
Raw
Manifesto
A Ghost Story
Hounds of Love
Chasing Coral
Good Time
Kedi
My Cousin Rachel
Nocturama
Okja
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
School Life
Thelma
T2
Stronger
Logan Lucky

(This category needs to be renamed; "the films I'll be adding to my list of shame when I don't get them next year, either.")

Best Trailer
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dunkirk
Wonder Woman
Atomic Blonde
Baby Driver
Kong Skull Island

Best Quote
“The tea is leaving, but the interruption is staying right here with me.” - Phantom Thread

"You read the Crucible?" "Yeah, everyone's right. It's great." - Molly's Game

"You can't un-fuck what's been fucked." - Atomic Blonde

"But it's what I'm going to do." - Wonder Woman

"Don't you think they are the same thing - love and attention?" - Lady Bird

"If I could, I would have voted for Obama for a third term." - Get Out

"Don't say what, Dixon, when she comes in calling you a "fuckhead." - Three Billboards

"Our children are dying, but yes, I can make you mashed potatoes." - Killing of a Sacred Deer

Just about everything Taika wrote for Thor. (See A, B, C, D)

"What did you DO?" - Call Me by Your Name

Best Poster
Alien Covenant (the other version isn't bad either)
The Bad Batch
Free Fire
mother!
It Comes at Night
Thor Ragnarok
Wonder Woman
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Lost City of Z (I actually had never seen this before, but it is lovely)
Shape of Water
Human Flow

(Logan almost would have worked, until you noticed how CREEPY LONG Laura's fingers were photoshopped to be.)

Unforgettable Moment Award [SPOILERS]
The phone call - Star Wars
The silence - Star Wars
No Man's Land - Wonder Woman
The men on the pier noticing the bombers - Dunkirk
The credits - Call Me by Your Name
Michael Stuhlbarg's monologue - Call Me By Your Name
The ending run - The Florida Project
Willem Dafoe's basically monologue - The Florida project (also, shooing away the Sandhill Cranes)
The shocking death - Their Finest
The phone call home - Lady Bird
The lambskin coat - God's Own Country
Eating the omelet - Phantom Thread

Bonus: Prior and Louis meeting on a park bench in Perestroika

Other Superlatives:
Best Animal: Porgs
Best Trailer for a 2018 film: Deadpool 2 (2nd teaser) (Ricky Baker!)
Best Female Action Star: Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde (Runner up: Gal Gadot, WW)
Best Villain: Allison Williams, Get Out
Best Action Scene: No Man's Land - WW (Runner up: Staircase - Atomic Blonde)
Movie you Wanted to Love but Just Couldn't: Lost City of Z
Best spaghetti: Killing of a Sacred Deer (notable omission: the Post)
Best mushrooms: Phantom Thread (Runners up: The Beguiled, Lady Macbeth)
Best tea: Get Out
Best peach: like you have to ask
Best dad: Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
Best Hair: Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread (Runner Up: Jane. Iconic.)
Most wasted potential of an idea: Free Fire
Best music cue: the strains of Jurassic Park in I Tonya (Runners up: Ace of Base in the Bad Batch and Die Antwoord in the Bad Batch)
Best cameo: Ben Browder, Guardians 2
Best new to me: Citizen Kane (Runners Up: The Ladykillers, All About Eve, Man with a Movie Camera, All through the Night, the League of Gentlemen, Lola, Maurice, Night of the Living Dead, Suspiria, and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Best Breakthrough: Florence Pugh - Lady Macbeth (Runners up: Brooklyn Prince - The Florida Project, Timothee Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name, Millicent Simmonds - Wonderstruck, Dafne Keen - Logan) (Notable Omission: Tiffany Haddish - Girls Trip)
Best ending (the McKayla Maroney Award): Lady Bird
Best opening: Baby Driver (like the fun twin of Drive...) (Runners up: Star Wars, It)
Best credits: Call Me By Your Name (obvs)
Most overrated: The Big Sick


Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL