The Films of 2017. The 18th annual FiLM BiTCH Awards
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Best Picture
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BPM
Robin Campillo (Orchard) Oct 20th |
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Luca Guadagnino (SPC) Nov 24th |
THE FLORIDA PROJECT Sean Baker (A24) Oct 6th |
GET OUT
Jordan Peele (Universal) Feb 24th |
LADY BIRD
Greta Gerwig (A24) Nov 3rd |
 This impassioned political drama sees its characters full humanity, sexuality and all. |
Sticky and ephemeral, like memories of a pivotal first love in a hot summer. |
A brilliant child's-eye snapshot of the prison of poverty in the Sunshine state. |
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Finalists: For more on the favorite films of 2017, read the top ten list |
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Best Director
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| Sean Baker THE FLORIDA PROJECT |
Robin Campillo BPM |
Greta Gerwig LADY BIRD |
Luca Guadagnino CALL ME BY YOUR NAME |
Jordan Peele GET OUT |
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Baker continues to shine light on the margins of society with superb feeling -- no one else could have made this. And his gift with child actors! |
 He wrote The Class (2008) and that flair for complex ensemble narratives serves him well. He has a deep well of cinematic gifts, too. |
 Perhaps not so miraculously, her directing is just like her acting -- full of humanity, sharply comic, and vivid with personality. |
Is there a director working that's better at sensuality? His control and patience while eyeing unruly emotions serve him superbly |
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Finalist: William Oldroyd's work on Lady Macbeth is so bold that we're dying to see what else he can do! Semi Finalists: David Leitch Atomic Blonde, Edgar Wright Baby Driver, Paul Thomas Anderson Phantom Thread, Andrey Zvyagintsev Loveless, Francis Lee God's Own Country, and Darren Aronofsky mother! |
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Best Original Screenplay
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| BPM Robin Campillo & Philippe Mangeot |
GET OUT Jordan Peele |
INGRID GOES WEST David Branson Smith & Matt Spicer |
LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig |
PHANTOM THREAD Paul Thomas Anderson |
| The personal is political. Campillo and Mangeot draw on their own experiences with Act-Up Paris and that intimate knowledge shows in this riveting three dimensional film. | The brilliant of the central metaphor "The Sunken Place" is obvious. But even the little details are funny and finely crafted. [More on this screenplay] |
One of the first films to "get" our current social media saturated lives. It might go broad in a few places but its details and texture and tension are wonderfully smart. | We already knew she could write (see her wonderful collaboration on Frances Ha) but drawing loosely on her own life she infuses this comedy with personality. |
One of our strongest writer-directors punctures creative ego and codependency in this curious (comic?) battle of the sexes |
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Finalists: Princess Cyd by Stephen Cone, The Florida Project by Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch and The Square from Ruben Ostlund Semi-Finalists: The Big Sick from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women by Angela Robinson, The Lovers by Azazel Jacobs, and Three Billboard Outside Ebbing Missouri - by Martin McDonagh |
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Best Adapted Screenplay
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| CALL ME BY YOUR NAME James Ivory |
FRANTZ François Ozon & Philippe Piazzo |
LADY MACBETH Alice Birch |
MUDBOUND Dee Rees and Virgil Williams |
WONDER Stephen Chbosky, Steve Conrad, and Jack Thorne |
| Shaping a cinematic multi-character drama from a book firmly placed within only Elio's POV was no small feat. Beautiful work. |
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Rees and Williams transfer Hillary Jordan's novel to the screen with epic scope and multiple narrator form intact (risky for a movie!) |
Another multiple narrator film based on the RJ Palacio novel! A mainstream crowd pleaser that delivers with genuine warmth
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Finalists: Logan James Mangold, Scott Frank, and Michael Green, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Matt Greenhaigh Semi Finalists: The Beguiled Sofia Coppola, Wonderstruck Brian Selznick, Lost City of Z James Gray and Atomic Blonde Kurt Johnstad |
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Best Animated Feature
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| THE BREADWINNER | THE BOSS BABY | COCO | ||
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Continually moody and compelling. Storytelling sequences even better with stylized cutout illustration. |
It got a bad rap when it came out but it's visually quite expressive (and stylistically varied). And funny, too. |
Pixar does it again. It's nice to see the great animation studio return to an original. |
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Finalist Lego Batman |
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