Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2017

  • Complete list of nominees is posted at ofcs.org


Below is my December 24th ballot for the 21st annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2017 calendar year. Each category is ordered according to my preferential rankings. Group winners are labeled in red. (We were only allowed to vote for one nominee per category this year, but I ranked them all like previous years anyway.)


Best Picture

#1
Dunkirk

Review

#2
Call Me By Your Name

Review

#3
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Review

#4
Get Out

WINNER

Review

#5
The Shape of Water

Review

#6
The Florida Project

Review

#7
mother!

Review

#8
Lady Bird

Review

ABSTAIN
A Ghost Story

Review

DIDN’T SEE
Phantom Thread

Review

Best Animated Film

#1
Coco

WINNER

Review

#2
The Breadwinner

Review

#3
In This Corner of the World

Review

#4
Loving Vincent

Review

#5
The LEGO Batman Movie

Review

Best Film Not in the English Language

#1
Thelma

Review

#2
Raw

Review

#3
BPM (Beats Per Minute)

WINNER

Review

#4
First They Killed My Father

Review

#5
The Square

Review

#6
Nocturama

Review

Best Documentary

#1
The Work

Review

#2
Jane

Review

#3
Dawson City: Frozen Time

Review

#4
Faces Places

WINNER

Review

DIDN’T SEE
Ex Libris: New York Public Library

Review

Best Director

#1
Christopher Nolan
(Dunkirk)

WINNER

Review

#2
Guillermo del Toro
(The Shape of Water)

Review

#3
Jordan Peele
(Get Out)

Review

#4
Greta Gerwig
(Lady Bird)

Review

#5
Paul Thomas Anderson
(Phantom Thread)

Review

Best Lead Actor

#1
Timothée Chalamet
(Call Me By Your Name)

Review

#2
Gary Oldman
(Darkest Hour)

WINNER

Review

#3
James Franco
(The Disaster Artist)

Review

#4
Daniel Kaluuya
(Get Out)

Review

#5
Robert Pattinson
(Good Time)

Review

Best Lead Actress

#1
Frances McDormand
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Review

#2
Cynthia Nixon
(A Quiet Passion)

Review

#3
Sally Hawkins
(The Shape of Water)

WINNER

Review

#4
Saoirse Ronan
(Lady Bird)

Review

#5
Margot Robbie
(I, Tonya)

Review

Best Supporting Actor

#1
Sam Rockwell
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

WINNER

Review

#2
Armie Hammer
(Call Me By Your Name)

Review

#3
Patrick Stewart
(Logan)

Review

#4
Michael Stuhlbarg
(Call Me By Your Name)

Review

#5
Richard Jenkins
(The Shape of Water)

Review

Best Supporting Actress

#1
Holly Hunter
(The Big Sick)

Review

#2
Laurie Metcalf
(Lady Bird)

WINNER

Review

#3
Mary J. Blige
(Mudbound)

Review

#4
Allison Janney
(I, Tonya)

Review

#5
Tiffany Haddish
(Girls Trip)

Review

Best Ensemble

#1
Mudbound

Review

#2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WINNER

Review

#3
Lady Bird

Review

#4
Get Out

Review

#5
The Shape of Water

Review

#6
The Post

Review

Breakout Star

#1
Timothée Chalamet
(Call Me By Your Name)

WINNER

Review

#2
Dafne Keen
(Logan)

Review

#3
Brooklynn Prince
(The Florida Project)

Review

#4
Daniel Kaluuya
(Get Out)

Review

#5
Tiffany Haddish
(Girls Trip)

Review

Best Original Screenplay

#1
Jordan Peele
(Get Out)

WINNER

Review

#2
Martin McDonagh
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Review

#3
Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
(The Shape of Water)

Review

#4
Greta Gerwig
(Lady Bird)

Review

DIDN’T SEE
Paul Thomas Anderson
(Phantom Thread)

Review

Best Adapted Screenplay

#1
James Ivory
(Call Me By Your Name)

WINNER

Review

#2
James Gray
(The Lost City of Z)

Review

#3
Aaron Sorkin
(Molly’s Game)

Review

#4
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
(The Disaster Artist)

Review

#5
Sofia Coppola
(The Beguiled)

Review

Best Editing

#1
Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss
(Baby Driver)

Review

#2
Lee Smith
(Dunkirk)

WINNER

Review

#3
Sidney Wolinsky
(The Shape of Water)

Review

#4
Tatiana S. Riegel
(I, Tonya)

Review

#5
Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie
(Good Time)

Review

Best Cinematography

#1
Roger Deakins
(Blade Runner 2049)

WINNER

Review

#2
Darius Khondji
(The Lost City of Z)

Review

#3
Rachel Morrison
(Mudbound)

Review

#4
Hoyte Van Hoytema
(Dunkirk)

Review

#5
Dan Laustsen
(The Shape of Water)

Review

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