Precursor: 13th Austin Critics Nominations (2017)

These were apparently announced on Dec. 30, but were not and still have not been posted on their own website. Guillermo del Toro’s “fish out of water” fantasy film continues to impress with high nomination tallies during precursor season while Dunkirk underperforms those same metrics. Denis Villeneuve picks up an unexpected Best Director citation, but most of these nominations have been commonplace during awards season.

Nominations Tallies

(8) The Shape of Water
(7) Lady Bird
(6) Call Me by Your Name
(5) Get Out
(4) Mudbound, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(3) Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk

The Nominations

Best Film

Call Me by Your Name
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Film

The Breadwinner
Coco
The Lego Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
Your Name.

Best Director

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Robert Pattinson – Good Time

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
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

The Beguiled
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

Best Original Score

Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

Best Foreign Language Film

Blade of the Immortal
Okja
Raw
The Square
Thelma

Best Documentary

Faces Places
Icarus
Jane
Kedi
The Work

Best First Film

Dave McCary – Brigsby Bear
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Macon Blair – I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Matt Spicer – Ingrid Goes West
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game

Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth