NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS VOTES 52nd ANNUAL AWARDS
The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, January 6, 2018, chose LADY BIRD as Best Picture of the Year 2017.
See the following pages for all votes in Best Picture and other categories for outstanding film achievement.
The Society, which is made up of 59 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 52nd annual awards voting meeting as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, using a weighted ballot system. For the second year the Society enabled members across the country to vote live over the internet. Scrolls will be sent to the winners.
The National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics. Its purpose is to promote the mutual interests of film criticism and filmmaking.
Founded in 1966, the Society differs from other critical associations in a number of significant ways. First, it is truly national: the 59 members include critics from major papers in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Its members also include the critics not just of Time, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, but also of The Village Voice, Slate, and NPR. Second, membership is by election.
The Society represents movie criticism in the US by supplying the official critic delegate to the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and abroad as the official American representative to FIPRESCI, the international federation of members of the film press.
Besides responding to specific issues, such as colorization, film preservation, or the ratings system, the Society regularly meets early in January to vote on the Society’s awards for the finest film achievements of the year.
RESULTS
This year’s National Society of Film Critics awards are dedicated to Richard Schickel, the late film critic and founding member of the Society.
FILM HERITAGE AWARD:
“One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema, 1970-1991,” curated by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinématek.
Special commendation to Dan Talbot for his pioneering work as an exhibitor and distributor, in bringing world-wide cinema to the United States.
SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting U.S. distribution:
Spoor (Pokot), by Agnieska Holland.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Good Luck, by Ben Russell.
BEST ACTRESS:
*1. Sally Hawkins – 49 (The Shape of Water, Maudie)
- Saoirse Ronan – 44 (Lady Bird)
- Frances McDormand 24 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
- Cynthia Nixon – 24 (A Quiet Passion)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
*1. Laurie Metcalf – 74 (Lady Bird)
- Lesley Manville – 36 (Phantom Thread)
- Allison Janney – 24 (I, Tonya)
BEST ACTOR:
*1. Daniel Kaluuya – 44 (Get Out)
- Daniel Day-Lewis – 34 (Phantom Thread)
- Timothée Chalamet — 24 (Call Me by Your Name)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
*1. Willem Dafoe – 62 (The Florida Project)
- Michael Stuhlbarg – 25 (Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, The Post)
- Sam Rockwell – 23 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
*1. Blade Runner 2049 – 40 (Roger Deakins)
- Dunkirk – 39 (Hoyte van Hoytema)
- The Florida Project – 36 (Alexis Zabe)
BEST SCREENPLAY:
*1. Lady Bird – 50 (Greta Gerwig)
- Get Out – 49 (Jordan Peele)
- Phantom Thread – 31 (Paul Thomas Anderson)
BEST PICTURE:
*1. Lady Bird – 41
- Get Out – 39
- Phantom Thread – 28
BEST DIRECTOR:
*1. Greta Gerwig – 37 (Lady Bird)
- Jordan Peele – 36 (Get Out)
- Paul Thomas Anderson – 36 (Phantom Thread)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
*1. Graduation – 35 (Cristian Mungiu)
- Faces Places – 30 (Agnès Varda)
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) – 29 (Robin Campillo)
BEST NON-FICTION FILM
*1. Faces Places – 70 (Agnès Varda)
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library – 34 (Frederick Wiseman)
- Dawson City: Frozen Time – 32 (Bill Morrison)
