Precursor: 13th Austin Critics Awards (2017)

Not an unpredictable winner in the bunch. These picks could have come form any other group announcing this year. The only real notable thing here is that Get Out won Best Film, but ranked seventh on their collaborative top ten list.

Award Tallies

(3) Call Me by Your Name, Get Out
(2) The Shape of Water

The Awards

Best Film

Get Out

Best Animated Film

Coco

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project

Best Supporting Actress

Allison Janney – I, Tonya

Best Original Screenplay

Get Out

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name

Best Score

The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049

Best Foreign Language Film

Okja

Best Documentary

Faces Places

Best First Film

Get Out

Breakthrough Artist

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, Hostiles

Best Austin Film

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Special Honorary Awards

To The Shape of Water’s Doug Jones and War for the Planet of the Apes’ Andy Serkis for their exemplary body and motion-capture performances, respectively.

To honor Harry Dean Stanton, for his body of work