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I've yet to see any new masterpieces this year or anything I'd rate more highly than 8/10, but we're more than three quarters of the way through the year, "Oscar season" is upon us, and there's a great number of strong films, performances, and filmmaking to appreciate so far. Of the 96 2017 releases I've seen, I've liked 41, so there's quality out there. Increasingly the best films of the year are available rapidly or even initially on streaming services (Endless Poetry and Good Time are the only films in my top 20 you can't legally and easily watch right now at home) and it's worth highlighting those readily accessible movies that may have flown under people's radars. To be updated as the year progresses. Share your picks for as many or as few categories as you feel like below.
Still need to see The Salesman, Graduation, A Quiet Passion, Staying Vertical, and The Lost City of Z, among others already released. I go by US commercial release for year eligibility.
BEST FILM
1.) A Ghost Story
2.) Manifesto
3.) The Meyerowitz Stories
4.) LA 92
5.) First They Killed My Father
6.) It Comes at Night
7.) Endless Poetry
8.) Risk
9.) Good Time
10.) I Am Not Your Negro
BEST DIRECTOR
1.) Julian Rosefeldt -Manifesto
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
4.) Josh & Benny Safdie -Good Time
5.) Bertrand Bonello -Nocturama
6.) Angelina Jolie -First They Killed My Father
7.) Jordan Peele -Get Out
8.) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -The Unknown Girl
9.) Trey Edward Shults -It Comes at Night
10.) Sean Baker -The Florida Project
BEST ACTOR
1.) Robert Pattinson -Good Time
2.) Daniel Kaluuya -Get Out
3.) Hugh Jackman -Logan
4.) Roger Guenever Smith -Rodney King
5.) Kyle Mooney -Brigsby Bear
6.) Michael Fassbender -Alien: Covenant
7.) John Cho -Columbus
8.) Ben Stiller -The Meyerowitz Stories
9.) Kelvin Harrison Jr. -It Comes at Night
10.) Tom Holland -Spider-Man: Homecoming
BEST ACTRESS
1.) Cate Blanchett -Manifesto * (the performance of the year so far)
2.) Adele Haenel -The Unknown Girl
3.) Sreymoch Sareum -First They Killed My Father
4.) Haley Lu Richardson -Columbus
5.) Aubrey Plaza -Ingrid Goes West
6.) Brooklyn Prince -The Florida Project
7.) Florence Pugh -Lady Macbeth
8.) Melanie Lynskey -I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
9.) Anne Hathaway -Colossal
10.) Garance Marillier -Raw
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1.) Paul Dano -Okja
2.) Christopher Abbott -It Comes at Night
3.) Willem Dafoe -The Florida Project
4.) Dustin Hoffman -The Meyerowitz Stories
5.) Ray Romano -The Big Sick
6.) O'Shea Jackson Jr. -Ingrid Goes West
7.) Will Oldham -A Ghost Story
8.) Phoeung Kompheak -First They Killed My Father
9.) Benny Safdie -Good Time
10.) Rabah Nait Oufella -Raw
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1.) Holly Hunter -The Big Sick
2.) Rooney Mara -A Ghost Story
3.) Alison Williams -Get Out
4.) Elizabeth Olsen -Ingrid Goes West
5.) Riley Keogh -The Discovery, It Comes at Night, & Logan Lucky
6.) Taliah Webster -Good Time
7.) Elizabeth Marvel -The Meyerowitz Stories
8.) Sophia Lillis -It
9.) Ana de Armas -Blade Runner 2049
10.) Oona Laurence -The Beguiled
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1.) Noah Baumbach -The Meyerowitz Stories
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie -Good Time
4.) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -The Unknown Girl
5.) Jordan Peele -Get Out
6.) Bong Joon-Ho & Jon Ronson -Okja
7.) David Branson Smith & Matt Spicer -Ingrid Goes West
8.) Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney -Brigsby Bear
9.) Kogonada -Columbus
10.) Bertrand Bonello -Nocturama
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1.) James Baldwin & Raoul Peck -I Am Not Your Negro
2.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
3.) James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green, David James Kelly -Logan
4.) Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie -First They Killed My Father
5.) Jon Watts & A Half-Dozen Other Dudes -Spider-Man: Homecoming
6.) Sofia Coppola & Thomas Cullinan -The Beguiled
7.) Dante Harper, Michael Green, Jack Paglen, & John Logan -Alien: Covenant
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1.) Roger Deakins -Blade Runner 2049
2.) Anthony Dod Mantle -First They Killed My Father
3.) Drew Daniels -It Comes at Night
4.) Sean Price Williams -Good Time
5.) Andrew Droz Palermo -A Ghost Story
6.) Christoph Krauss -Manifesto
7.) Philippe Le Sourd -The Beguiled
8.) Leo Hinstin -Nocturama
9.) Darius Wolski -Alien: Covenant
10.) Thierry Arbogast -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
BEST EDITING
1.) Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin, & Scott Stevenson -LA 92
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Lynn True -In Transit
4.) Fabrice Rouaud -Nocturama
5.) Jack Price -Ingrid Goes West
6.) Josh Safdie & Ronald Bronstein -Good Time
7.) Jennifer Lame -The Meyerowitz Stories
8.) Evan Schiff -John Wick 2
9.) Kitty Green & David Coombe -Casting Jon Benet
10.) Paul Machliss -Baby Driver
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1.) Nils Frahm & Ben Lukas Boysen -Manifesto
2.) Daniel Hart -A Ghost Story
3.) Oneohtrix Point Never -Good Time
4.) Brian McOmber -It Comes at Night
5.) Danny Bensi & Saunder Juriaans -LA 92
6.) Hans Zimmer -Dunkirk
7.) Michael Giacchino -War for the Planet of the Apes
8.) Alexandre Desplat -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
9.) Phoenix -The Beguiled
10.) Hammock -Columbus
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
2.) Dennis Gassner -Blade Runner 2049
3.) Hugues Tissandier -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
4.) Erwin Prib -Manifesto
5.) Chris Seagers -Alien: Covenant
6.) Ha-jun Lee & Kevin Thompson -Okja
7.) Brandon Tonner-Connelly -Brigsby Bear
8.) Anne Ross -The Beguiled
9.) Scott Chambliss -Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
10.) Susie Mancini -Ingrid Goes West
BEST SOUND DESIGN
1.) Theo Green, Ron Barlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark A. Mangini, & Mac Ruth -Blade Runner 2049
2.) Craig Henighan, Paula Fairfield, Jill Purdy, & Simon Poudrette -mother!
3.) Will Files, Douglas Murray, Andy Nelson, & Chris Duesterdiek -War for the Planet of the Apes
4.) Robert Fernandez, Damian Volpe, & Dimitri Kouri -It Comes at Night
5.) Ben Barker, Glenn Freemantle, Eilam Hoffman, Brendan Nicholson, Richard Pryke, & Mitch Low -First They Killed My Father
6.) Oliver Tarney, Michael Fentum, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, & Ben Osmo -Alien: Covenant
7.) Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, & James Peterson -Baby Driver
8.) Stephane Thiebaut, Severin Favriau, & Matthieu Descamps -Raw
9.) Craig Kyllonen, Daniel Brennan, & Michael Sterkin -Brawl in Cell Block 99
10.) Andreas Hildebrandt, Robert Keibar, Jean-Pierre Laforce, & Nicolas Cantin -Nocturama
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1.) LA 92
2.) Risk
3.) I Am Not Your Negro
4.) Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin
5.) In Transit
6.) City of Ghosts
7.) Get Me Roger Stone
8.) Burn Mother****er, Burn!
9.) Casting Jon Benet
10.) Rodney King
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1.) First They Killed My Father
2.) Endless Poetry
3.) Nocturama
4.) The Unknown Girl
5.) City of Ghosts
Still need to see The Salesman, Graduation, A Quiet Passion, Staying Vertical, and The Lost City of Z, among others already released. I go by US commercial release for year eligibility.
BEST FILM
1.) A Ghost Story
2.) Manifesto
3.) The Meyerowitz Stories
4.) LA 92
5.) First They Killed My Father
6.) It Comes at Night
7.) Endless Poetry
8.) Risk
9.) Good Time
10.) I Am Not Your Negro
BEST DIRECTOR
1.) Julian Rosefeldt -Manifesto
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
4.) Josh & Benny Safdie -Good Time
5.) Bertrand Bonello -Nocturama
6.) Angelina Jolie -First They Killed My Father
7.) Jordan Peele -Get Out
8.) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -The Unknown Girl
9.) Trey Edward Shults -It Comes at Night
10.) Sean Baker -The Florida Project
BEST ACTOR
1.) Robert Pattinson -Good Time
2.) Daniel Kaluuya -Get Out
3.) Hugh Jackman -Logan
4.) Roger Guenever Smith -Rodney King
5.) Kyle Mooney -Brigsby Bear
6.) Michael Fassbender -Alien: Covenant
7.) John Cho -Columbus
8.) Ben Stiller -The Meyerowitz Stories
9.) Kelvin Harrison Jr. -It Comes at Night
10.) Tom Holland -Spider-Man: Homecoming
BEST ACTRESS
1.) Cate Blanchett -Manifesto * (the performance of the year so far)
2.) Adele Haenel -The Unknown Girl
3.) Sreymoch Sareum -First They Killed My Father
4.) Haley Lu Richardson -Columbus
5.) Aubrey Plaza -Ingrid Goes West
6.) Brooklyn Prince -The Florida Project
7.) Florence Pugh -Lady Macbeth
8.) Melanie Lynskey -I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
9.) Anne Hathaway -Colossal
10.) Garance Marillier -Raw
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1.) Paul Dano -Okja
2.) Christopher Abbott -It Comes at Night
3.) Willem Dafoe -The Florida Project
4.) Dustin Hoffman -The Meyerowitz Stories
5.) Ray Romano -The Big Sick
6.) O'Shea Jackson Jr. -Ingrid Goes West
7.) Will Oldham -A Ghost Story
8.) Phoeung Kompheak -First They Killed My Father
9.) Benny Safdie -Good Time
10.) Rabah Nait Oufella -Raw
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1.) Holly Hunter -The Big Sick
2.) Rooney Mara -A Ghost Story
3.) Alison Williams -Get Out
4.) Elizabeth Olsen -Ingrid Goes West
5.) Riley Keogh -The Discovery, It Comes at Night, & Logan Lucky
6.) Taliah Webster -Good Time
7.) Elizabeth Marvel -The Meyerowitz Stories
8.) Sophia Lillis -It
9.) Ana de Armas -Blade Runner 2049
10.) Oona Laurence -The Beguiled
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1.) Noah Baumbach -The Meyerowitz Stories
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie -Good Time
4.) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne -The Unknown Girl
5.) Jordan Peele -Get Out
6.) Bong Joon-Ho & Jon Ronson -Okja
7.) David Branson Smith & Matt Spicer -Ingrid Goes West
8.) Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney -Brigsby Bear
9.) Kogonada -Columbus
10.) Bertrand Bonello -Nocturama
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1.) James Baldwin & Raoul Peck -I Am Not Your Negro
2.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
3.) James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green, David James Kelly -Logan
4.) Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie -First They Killed My Father
5.) Jon Watts & A Half-Dozen Other Dudes -Spider-Man: Homecoming
6.) Sofia Coppola & Thomas Cullinan -The Beguiled
7.) Dante Harper, Michael Green, Jack Paglen, & John Logan -Alien: Covenant
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1.) Roger Deakins -Blade Runner 2049
2.) Anthony Dod Mantle -First They Killed My Father
3.) Drew Daniels -It Comes at Night
4.) Sean Price Williams -Good Time
5.) Andrew Droz Palermo -A Ghost Story
6.) Christoph Krauss -Manifesto
7.) Philippe Le Sourd -The Beguiled
8.) Leo Hinstin -Nocturama
9.) Darius Wolski -Alien: Covenant
10.) Thierry Arbogast -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
BEST EDITING
1.) Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin, & Scott Stevenson -LA 92
2.) David Lowery -A Ghost Story
3.) Lynn True -In Transit
4.) Fabrice Rouaud -Nocturama
5.) Jack Price -Ingrid Goes West
6.) Josh Safdie & Ronald Bronstein -Good Time
7.) Jennifer Lame -The Meyerowitz Stories
8.) Evan Schiff -John Wick 2
9.) Kitty Green & David Coombe -Casting Jon Benet
10.) Paul Machliss -Baby Driver
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1.) Nils Frahm & Ben Lukas Boysen -Manifesto
2.) Daniel Hart -A Ghost Story
3.) Oneohtrix Point Never -Good Time
4.) Brian McOmber -It Comes at Night
5.) Danny Bensi & Saunder Juriaans -LA 92
6.) Hans Zimmer -Dunkirk
7.) Michael Giacchino -War for the Planet of the Apes
8.) Alexandre Desplat -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
9.) Phoenix -The Beguiled
10.) Hammock -Columbus
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1.) Alejandro Jodorowsky -Endless Poetry
2.) Dennis Gassner -Blade Runner 2049
3.) Hugues Tissandier -Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
4.) Erwin Prib -Manifesto
5.) Chris Seagers -Alien: Covenant
6.) Ha-jun Lee & Kevin Thompson -Okja
7.) Brandon Tonner-Connelly -Brigsby Bear
8.) Anne Ross -The Beguiled
9.) Scott Chambliss -Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
10.) Susie Mancini -Ingrid Goes West
BEST SOUND DESIGN
1.) Theo Green, Ron Barlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark A. Mangini, & Mac Ruth -Blade Runner 2049
2.) Craig Henighan, Paula Fairfield, Jill Purdy, & Simon Poudrette -mother!
3.) Will Files, Douglas Murray, Andy Nelson, & Chris Duesterdiek -War for the Planet of the Apes
4.) Robert Fernandez, Damian Volpe, & Dimitri Kouri -It Comes at Night
5.) Ben Barker, Glenn Freemantle, Eilam Hoffman, Brendan Nicholson, Richard Pryke, & Mitch Low -First They Killed My Father
6.) Oliver Tarney, Michael Fentum, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor, & Ben Osmo -Alien: Covenant
7.) Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, & James Peterson -Baby Driver
8.) Stephane Thiebaut, Severin Favriau, & Matthieu Descamps -Raw
9.) Craig Kyllonen, Daniel Brennan, & Michael Sterkin -Brawl in Cell Block 99
10.) Andreas Hildebrandt, Robert Keibar, Jean-Pierre Laforce, & Nicolas Cantin -Nocturama
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1.) LA 92
2.) Risk
3.) I Am Not Your Negro
4.) Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin
5.) In Transit
6.) City of Ghosts
7.) Get Me Roger Stone
8.) Burn Mother****er, Burn!
9.) Casting Jon Benet
10.) Rodney King
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1.) First They Killed My Father
2.) Endless Poetry
3.) Nocturama
4.) The Unknown Girl
5.) City of Ghosts
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