Precursor: 12th St. Louis Critics Nominations (2017)

What’s most interesting here is just how well The Shape of Water did while the other technical marvel of the year, Dunkirk received less than half the nominations. Other hot takes are the absence of Call Me By Your Name, largely ignored, and the year’s other major gay drama BPM (Beats Per Minute missing the Foreign Language Film race.

Award Tallies

(12) The Shape of Water
(6) Lady Bird, The Post, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(5) Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk
(4) Darkest Hour, Get Out
(3) Baby Driver, Phantom Thread, The Disaster Artist

The Nominations

Best Film

Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Film

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Coco
Despicable Me 3
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Steven Spielberg – The Post
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Tom Hanks – The Post
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper
Meryl Streep – The Post

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Shannon – The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actress

Hong Chau – Downsizing
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Best Original Screenplay

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
It
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

Best Score

Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water

Best Editing

Baby Driver
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Wonder Wheel

Best Production Design

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

Best Visual Effects

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Foreign Language Film

Land of Mine
First They Killed My Father
Frantz
Graduation
The Square

Best Documentary

City of Ghosts
Jane
Last Men of Aleppo
Never Say Goodbye: The KSHE Documentary
Whose Streets?

Best Soundtrack

Atomic Blonde
Baby Driver
Coco
Guardians and the Galaxy Vol. 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Scene

Atomic Blonde – Stairwell fight
Baby Driver – Baby (Ansel Elgort) goes for coffee (opening credits).
Call Me By Your Name – Mr. Perlman’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) closing monologue.
The Disaster Artist – 67 takes of I did not hit her.
Lady Bird – Chalk talk for ‘The Tempest’.