Boston Online Film Critics Association – 2017 Awards

GET OUT BEST PICTURE

BEST PICTURE
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PHANTOM THREAD BEST DIRECTOR

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, PHANTOM THREAD

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

FRANCES MCDORMAND BEST ACTRESS

BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING MISSOURI

WILLEM DAFOE BEST ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, THE FLORIDA PROJECT

LAURIE METCALF BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laurie Metcalf, LADY BIRD

GET OUT BEST ENSEMBLE

BEST ENSEMBLE
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GET OUT BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jordan Peele, GET OUT

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER BEST FOREIGN

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER

FACES PLACES BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST DOCUMENTARY
FACES PLACES

COCO BEST ANIMATED

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
COCO

BLADE RUNNER 2049 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049

DUNKIRK BEST EDITING

BEST EDITING
Lee Smith, DUNKIRK

SHAPE OF WATER PHANTOM THREAD BEST SCORE TIE

BEST SCORE (TIE)
Alexandre Desplat, THE SHAPE OF WATER
Jonny Greenwood, PHANTOM THREAD

GET OUT TOP TEN 2017

TEN BEST FILMS OF 2017
1. GET OUT
2. THE FLORIDA PROJECT
3. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
4. LADY BIRD
5. PHANTOM THREAD
6. DUNKIRK
7. THE SHAPE OF WATER
8. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
9. A GHOST STORY
10. GOOD TIME

BOFCA REVIEW ROUND-UP: 12/08/2017

the-shape-of-water-sally-hawkinsTHE SHAPE OF WATER

“Unfathomably magical, relentlessly worrying and fittingly romantic, THE SHAPE OF WATER may be del Toro’s most earnest film.” – Allyson Johnson, The Young Folks

“Visually, THE SHAPE OF WATER screams dieselpunk, signifying BIOSHOCK more than the brothers Grimm, but the film bears the indelible stamp of folkloric mythmaking all the same.” – Andy Crump, Paste Magazine

“THE SHAPE OF WATER is a perversely adult fairy tale that plays like a collection of the filmmaker’s private fetishes spackled over with an unconvincing coat of feel-good whimsy.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

 

Wonder-Wheel-Kate-WinsletWONDER WHEEL

“Too bad the screenplay’s all stuff plucked from Woody’s recycling bin, including not one but two instances of the old Allen standby in which the manly stud gives flighty women books to read.” – Sean Burns, The ARTery

“…sodden is sodden and you can’t help missing the light, dry, nimbly acerbic Allen of old.” – Kilian Melloy, Edge Boston

 

thumbnail_26516DARKEST HOUR

“This film wants you to know that Churchill was an eccentric and a bit of a bumbling drunk, yet it timidly skirts over the more controversial components of the historical figure’s persona.” – Greg Vellante, Spectrum Culture