The Academy has announced the ten semi-finalists for the Best Visual Effects Oscar. And here they are!
“Dunkirk”
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
“Okja”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
The Academy has announced the ten semi-finalists for the Best Visual Effects Oscar. And here they are!
“Dunkirk”
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
“Okja”
“The Shape of Water”
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
Today, the Academy announced the 70 songs that will be eligible to be nominated for best original song! So, if you’re putting down bets and making out your predictions, here are your best song possibilities:
“U.N.I (You And I)” from “And the Winner Isn’t”
“Love And Lies” from “Band Aid”
“If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes”
“Evermore” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“How Does A Moment Last Forever” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“Now Or Never” from “Bloodline: Now or Never”
“She” from “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
“Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go” from “The Book of Henry”
“Buddy’s Business” from “Brawl in Cell Block 99”
“The Crown Sleeps” from “The Breadwinner”
“World Gone Mad” from “Bright”
“Mystery Of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Visions Of Gideon” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Captain Underpants Theme Song” from “Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie”
“Ride” from “Cars 3”
“Run That Race” from “Cars 3”
“Tell Me How Long” from “Chasing Coral”
“Broken Wings” from “City of Ghosts”
“Remember Me” from “Coco”
“Prayers For This World” from “Cries from Syria”
“There’s Something Special” from “Despicable Me 3”
“It Ain’t Fair” from “Detroit”
“A Little Change In The Weather” from “Downsizing”
“Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)” from “Drawing Home”
“All In My Head” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Dying For Ya” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Green” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Can’t Hold Out On Love” from “Father Figures”
“Home” from “Ferdinand”
“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from “Fifty Shades Darker”
“You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way” from “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
“This Is How You Walk On” from “Gifted”
“Summer Storm” from “The Glass Castle”
“The Pure And The Damned” from “Good Time”
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman”
“The Hero” from “The Hero”
“How Shall A Sparrow Fly” from “Hostiles”
“Just Getting Started” from “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
“Truth To Power” from “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”
“Next Stop, The Stars” from “Kepler’s Dream”
“The Devil & The Huntsman” from “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”
“Have You Ever Wondered” from “Lake of Fire”
“I’ll Be Gone” from “Lake of Fire”
“We’ll Party All Night” from “Lake of Fire”
“Friends Are Family” from “The Lego Batman Movie”
“Found My Place” from “The Lego Ninjago Movie”
“Stand Up For Something” from “Marshall”
“Rain” from “Mary and the Witch’s Flower”
“Myron/Byron” from “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”
“Longing For Summer” from “Moomins and the Winter Wonderland”
“Mighty River” from “Mudbound”
“Never Forget” from “Murder on the Orient Express”
“Hold The Light” from “Only the Brave”
“PBNJ” from “Patti Cake$”
“Tuff Love (Finale)” from “Patti Cake$”
“Lost Souls” from “The Pirates of Somalia”
“How A Heart Unbreaks” from “Pitch Perfect 3”
“The Promise” from “The Promise”
“Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Maanathe Maarikurumbe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Stubborn Angel” from “Same Kind of Different as Me”
“Dancing Through The Wreckage” from “Served Like a Girl”
“Keep Your Eyes On Me” from “The Shack”
“On The Music Goes” from “Slipaway”
“The Star” from “The Star”
“Jump” from “Step”
“Tickling Giants” from “Tickling Giants”
“Fly Away” from “Trafficked”
“Speak To Me” from “Voice from the Stone”
“Walk On Faith” from “Year by the Sea”
The Academy also announced that 141 films will be eligible for Best Original Score. In the interest of space, I’m not going to post them all here. You can check out the list on Awards Watch!
Awards season is fun and all but today is the really the only day that matters. Today is the day that the film critics of my home town — the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association — announce their picks for the best of 2017!
And who got the love down here in DFW?
The Shape of Water!
Check out all the winners below:
Best Picture
The Shape Of Water
Best Actor
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Best Actress
Sally Hawkins – The Shape Of Water
Best Supporting Actor
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape Of Water
Best Foreign Language Film
The Square
Best Documentary
City Of Ghosts
Best Animated Film
Coco
Best Screenplay
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Best Cinematography
Dan Laustsen – The Shape Of Water
Best Musical Score
Alexandre Desplat – The Shape Of Water
The Russell Smith Award (Independent Film)
The Florida Project
The Chicago Film Critics Association has spoken! Check out their nominees here and the winners below!
THE 2017 CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Best Picture- “Lady Bird”
Best Director- Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Best Actor- Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
Best Actress- Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Best Supporting Actor- Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Best Supporting Actress- Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Best Original Screenplay- Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Best Adapted Screenplay- James Ivory, “Call Me By Your Name”
Best Foreign Language Film- “The Square”
Best Documentary- “Jane”
Best Animated Feature- “Coco”
Best Cinematography- Roger Deakins, “Blade Runner 2049”
Best Editing- Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, “Baby Driver”
Best Art Direction- “Blade Runner 2049”
Best Original Score- Jonny Greenwood, “Phantom Thread”
Most Promising Performer- Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
Most Promising Filmmaker- Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
As soon as I post this, I will be caught up on sharing all of the precursor awards here on the Shattered Lens (or, at the very least, all of the precursor awards that have been announced so far. There’s several more to come). It’s not a minute to soon either! Tomorrow, the SAG Nominations will be announced. That’s one of the biggest of the precursors.
Anyway, the St. Louis Film Critics Association announce their nominations yesterday. The winners will be announced on December 17th.
Here are the nominees!
BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST SOUNDTRACK
BEST EDITING
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST SCORE
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE
BEST FOREIGN FILM
BEST SCENE
WORST FILM
Yesterday, the Phoenix Critics Circle revealed their nominations for the best films and performances of 2017!
Best Picture
Best Comedy Film
Best Science Fiction Film
Best Horror Film
Best Mystery or Thriller Film
Best Animated Film
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Score
Earlier today, the African American Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2017!
AAFCA TOP 10 FILM – 2017
The Women Film Critics Circle has announced their nominations for the best of 2017! The winners will be named next week!
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
BEST ACTRESS
BEST ACTOR
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS (Under 21)
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
*ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women:
*JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
*KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
COURAGE IN ACTING [Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen]
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD [Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored]
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE
BEST FEMALE ACTION HERO
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
BEST SCREEN COUPLE
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE(S)
BEST FAMILY FILM
This year, Houston proved once again that Texas is better than the upper 48. In the face of adversity, Texans came together and helped each other out and basically but the rest of America to shame.
Then to top it all off, The Houston Film Critics got together and came up with an intriguing list of the films and performances that they consider to be the best of 2017!
Love you, Houston!
Here are their nominations:
Picture:
The Big Sick
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Director:
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Steven Spielberg, “The Post”
Actor:
Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”
Andy Serkis, “War for the Planet of the Apes”
Actress:
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Brooklyn Prince, “The Florida Project”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Supporting Actor:
Willem Defoe, “The Florida Project”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Patrick Stewart, “Logan”
Michael Stuhlbarg, “Call Me By Your Name”
Supporting Actress:
Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Dafne Keen, “Logan”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
Screenplay:
“The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
“Get Out,” Jordan Peele
“Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
“The Post,” Elizabeth Hanna and Josh Singer
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh
Cinematography:
“Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins
“Call Me By Your Name,” Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
“Dunkirk,” Hoyte van Hoytema
“The Shape of Water,” Dan Laustsen
“Wonder Wheel,” Vittoria Storaro
Animated Film:
“The Breadwinner”
“Coco”
“Despicable Me 3”
“The Lego Batman Movie”
“Loving Vincent”
Original Score:
“Blade Runner 2049,” Ben Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
“Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer
“The Post,” John Williams
“The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat
“War for the Planet of the Apes,” Michael Giacchino
Best Original Song:
“Evermore” (“Beauty and the Beast”)
“I Get Overwhelmed” (“A Ghost Story”)
“Never Forget” (“Murder on the Orient Express”)
“Remember Me” (“Coco”)
“Visions of Gideon” (“Call Me By Your Name”)
Foreign Language Film:
“BPM”
“Blade of the Immortal”
“First They Killed My Father”
“The Square”
“Thelma”
Documentary Feature:
“Faces Places”
“Jane”
“Kedi”
“Step”
“The Work”
Visual Effects:
“Blade Runner 2049”
“The Shape of Water”
“War for the Planet of the Apes”
Poster:
“Baby Driver”
“It”
“Logan Lucky”
“Mother”
“The Shape of Water”
Texas Independent Film Award:
“A Ghost Story”
“Mr. Roosevelt”
“Mustang Island”
“The Secret Life of Lance Letscher”
“Song to Song”
Yesterday, the New Mexico Film Critics Association named their picks for the best of 2017! They also became the first group to pick Blade Runner 2049 as the best film of 2017.
Here are their winners:
Best Picture
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “Lady Bird:
Best Director
Winner: Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Runner Up: Denis Villeneuve, “Blade Runner 2049”
Glenn Strange Honorary Awards
Best Actor
Winner: Sam Elliot, “The Hero”
Runner Up: James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Best Actress
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, “mother!”
Runner Up: Jessica Rothe, “Happy Death Day”
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Catherine Kenner, “Get Out”
Runner Up: Maryana Spivak, “Loveless”
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Harrison Ford, “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: Ewen Bremner, “Trainspotting II”
Best Ensemble
Winner: “Raw”
Runner Up: “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: “November”
Runner Up: “Lady Bird”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: “The Disaster Artist”
Runner Up: “Call Me By Your Name”
Best Animated Film
Winner: “Loving Vincent”
Runner Up: “The Breadwinner”
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: “November” (Estonia)
Runner Up: “BPM” (France)
Best Editing
Winner: “November”
Runner Up: “Blade Runner 2049”
Best Cinematography
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “Song of Granite”
Best Music/Score
Winner: “The Shape of Water”
Runner Up: “mother!”
Best Production Design
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “The Shape of Water”
Best Documentary
Winner: “City of Ghosts”
Runner Up: “Faces Places”
Best Young Actor/Actress
Winner: Garance Mirillier, “Raw”
Runner Up: Sophia Lillis, “It”
Best Original Song
Winner: “The Misery of Love” from “Call Me By Your Name”
Runner Up: “Prayers for this World” from “Cries from Syria”