Summary of 2017 in cinema
Today is the day. Academy awards comming in few hours. Some say those are the most important awards in film industry, well I don’t think so. But it really is kind of summary for this award period for achievments in film and kind of closure. So I watched a loooot of movies from 2017 (like every year) and though I’m not specialist or respected critic I decided to go my list of greatest achievments in each categories. I’m a film maniac after all so I think I know a thing or two. I chose categories about which I have at least some idea and I can “judge” them in this SUBJECTIVE RANK.
I will do it like this. Few movie or people names worth mention (in random order) and the best one or “the winner” in bold font.
I, Tonya; John Wick 2, mother!; Dunkirk; Baby Driver
Baby Driver, Shape of Water, Dunkirk, John Wick 2, Blade Runner 2049
War for Planet of Apes; Thor: Ragnarok; Dunkirk; Star Wars: Last Jedi; Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049, Phantom Thread, Thor: Ragnarok, Beguiled, Shape of Water
Darkest Hour, Beauty and the Beast, Phantom Thread, Shape of Water, Beguiled
John Wick 2, Florida Project, Mudbound, Blade Runner 2049, Beguiled
***Animated Feature Film***
Loving Vincent, Ferdinand, Lego: Batman, Coco
***Music (original score)***
Ghost in the Shell, Call Me by Your Name, The Square, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049
Mighty River (Mudbound), I Get Overwhelmed (Ghost Story), PBNJ (Patti Cake$), La Llorona (Coco), Mystery of Love (Call Me By Your Name)
***Foreign Language Film***
Okja, Fantastic Woman, In the Fade, The Square
***Best Adapted Screenplay***
The Post, Mudbound, Bequiled, Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name
***Best Original Screenplay***
Lady Bird, Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, Okja, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
***Achievment in directing***
Guillermo del Toro (Shape of Water), Sofia Coppola (Beguiled), Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)
***Actress in supporting role***
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound), Elizabeth Moss (The Square), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Kristen Dunst (Beguiled), Tilda Swinton (Okja), Laure Metcalf (Lady Bird)
***Actor in supporting role***
Jake Gyllenhaal (Okja), Adam Sandler (Meyerowitz Stories), LilReL Howery (Get Out!), Willerm Defoe (Florida Project), Sam Rockwell ( Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)
***Actress in leading role***
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Sally Hawkins (Shape of Water), Jennifer Lawrence (mother!), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), Frances McDormand ( Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
***Actor in leading role***
James Franco (Disaster Artist), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Claes Bang (The Square), Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)
Call Me By Your Name, Beguiled, Okja, The Square, Lady Bird, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird, Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, Dunkirk, Okja, Beguiled, The Square,
1) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri <3
Worst of the year? Hard to choose because in opposit to critics I mostly watch movies I really want to see. But there was few dissapointments:
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Baywatch, Snatched, Justice League, Killing Sacred Deer. And abut Last Jedi...it’s a good movie I just really expected more.