Who I Would've Nominated - 2017 Edition

Oscars season is upon us once again! As I've done for the past 3 years, I begin my year-end coverage by posting my personal list of nominations so you can see where I think the Academy got it right, and where I think they got it wrong. The only difference is that this year I'm posting my list on the same day that the Oscars nominations have been announced, instead of on the first day of the final round of voting in February. I'm still saving my list of the 10 Best Movies of 2017 for the week prior to the Oscars, so once again you won't see my picks for Best Picture listed here(Live-Action, Animated, and Documentary Shorts are also excluded). 

Of course, from the 20 remaining categories you can get a pretty good idea of which movies appear in my Top 10, and you can also see where I have some major discrepancies with the Academy's nominations. The biggest difference is with one of the two current frontrunners for Best Picture, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The Academy gave it seven total nominations, but I could only find room for one, for Frances McDormand's undeniably great performance. On the flip side, I gave seven nominations to one of my favorite movies of the year, Logan, but the Academy only rewarded it with one(a historic one, being the first screenplay nomination for a comic book adaptation). 

Another difference is that last year the movie with the most nominations on the Academy's list, La La Land, also received the most nominations on my list, but this year their top vote-getter, The Shape of Water(13 total nominations), only got five nominations on my list, and in one of those we don't even match, as I believed that Michael Stuhlbarg deserved a nomination for his supporting role in the film. The film with the highest number of nominations on my list this year turned out to be Call Me by Your Name, with nine total nominations. The Academy only gave it four nominations, totally snubbing it for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design in my opinion. 

Some of the other worse snubs from this morning's announcement were: only one nomination for The Florida Project(Willem Dafoe for Best Supporting Actor), a film with five total nominations on my list, Holly Hunter being left out of the Best Supporting Actress race after her brilliant performance in The Big Sick, a film with four total nominations on my list but only one from the Academy(Aside: Could the Academy please stop nominating Octavia Spencer for playing the same character in every movie? I like her and all, but that's 3 nominations now in the past seven years for doing the exact same thing.), and I, Tonya, even though it got some love from the Academy with three total nominations, being left out of the Best Hair & Makeup, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture categories. And then there are a couple of movies that you'll see mentioned multiple times on my list, most notably A Ghost Story and Columbus, that got absolutely no love from the Academy. Zero nominations. But hey, that happens every year, and it goes both ways too with some movies that received multiple Oscars nominations getting zero love from me(*cough*Blade Runner 2049*cough*).

With all that being said, let's get to it, shall we? Here's who I would've nominated for the movie year of 2017 ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role

5. Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread

4. Robert Pattinson - Good Time

3. Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour

2. Hugh Jackman - Logan

1. Timothée Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name

Best Actress in a Leading Role

5. Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird
4. Haley Lu Richardson - Columbus
3. Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. Brooklynn Prince - The Florida Project
1. Margot Robbie - I, Tonya

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
5. Ray Romano - The Big Sick
4. Michael Stuhlbarg - The Shape of Water
3. Patrick Stewart - Logan
2. Jason Mitchell - Mudbound
1. Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
5. Elizabeth Marvel - The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
4. Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
3. Betty Gabriel - Get Out
2. Holly Hunter - The Big Sick
1. Allison Janney - I, Tonya

Best Achievement in Directing
5. Kogonada - Columbus
4. Sean Baker - The Florida Project
3. Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
2. Luca Guadagnino - Call Me by Your Name
1. David Lowery - A Ghost Story

Best Original Screenplay
5. Brigsby Bear - Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney
4. I, Tonya - Steven Rogers
3. The Big Sick - Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
2. Columbus - Kogonada
1. Get Out - Jordan Peele

Best Adapted Screenplay
5. The Disaster Artist - Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
4. Marjorie Prime - Michael Almereyda
3. Mudbound - Virgil Williams & Dee Rees
2. Call Me by Your Name - James Ivory
1. Logan - Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green

Best Achievement in Cinematography
5. Mudbound - Rachel Morrison
4. Call Me by Your Name - Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
3. The Florida Project - Alexis Sabe
2. Dunkirk - Hoyte Van Hoytema
1. Columbus - Elisha Christian

Best Achievement in Film Editing
5. The Shape of Water - Sidney Wolinsky
4. Lady Bird - Nick Hoy
3. I, Tonya - Tatiana S. Riegel
2. Dunkirk - Lee Smith
1. A Ghost Story - David Lowery

Best Achievement in Production Design
5. The Post - Rick Carter
4. Get Out - Rusty Smith
3. Logan - François Audouy
2. The Shape of Water - Paul D. Austerberry
1. Call Me by Your Name - Samuel Deshors

Best Achievement in Costume Design
5. Wonder Woman - Lindy Hemming
4. A Quiet Passion - Catherine Marchand
3. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women - Donna Maloney
2. Phantom Thread - Mark Bridges
1. Call Me by Your Name - Giulia Piersanti

Best Achievement in Makeup & Hairstytling
5. Wonder
4. Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
3. Logan
2. I, Tonya
1. Darkest Hour

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
5. Okja
4. Get Out
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. War for the Planet of the Apes
1. Dunkirk

Best Original Score
5. Lady Bird - Jon Brion
4. Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
3. War for the Planet of the Apes - Michael Giacchino
2. Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood
1. The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat

Best Original Song
5. "Genius Girl" from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) - Adam Sandler & Noah Baumbach
4. "Mighty River" from Mudbound - Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stinson
3. "Remember Me" from Coco - Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
2. "Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name - Sufjan Stevens
1. "I Get Overwhelmed" from A Ghost Story - Daniel Hart

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
5. mother!
4. Logan
3. War for the Planet of the Apes
2. Dunkirk
1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
5. Call Me by Your Name
4. The Shape of Water
3. Baby Driver
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
1. Dunkirk

Best Documentary Feature
5. Faces Places
4. Dina
3. Icarus
2. Get Me Roger Stone
1. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Best Foreign Language Film
5. The Square
4. The Unknown Girl 
3. The Lure
2. BPM (120 Beats Per Minute)
1. Raw

Best Animated Feature Film
5. Ferdinand
4. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
3. The Lego Batman Movie
2. The Breadwinner
1. Coco