The 6th Annual Team Experience Awards!

Chris here, on behalf of my fellow Team Experience writers! Before Nathaniel shares his Top Ten and Film Bitch honors (not to mention the Oscar nominations on Tuesday - eek!), we've polled all of the other writers here at The Film Experience for their favorites of the past year without our kind and benevolent leader. It's our 6th Annual Team Experience Awards!

You'll remember last year we awarded eventual Oscar Best Picture winner Moonlight with seven prizes, and this year the wealth is slightly more shared. We had a lot of readers asking to see what our full ballot of nominations would be, so this year we have opened it up to reveal our winner and four runner-ups in each of our categories. Our nomination leader is Call Me By Your Name with 9 mentions, and craft-heavy Phantom Thread and The Shape of Water are right behind with 8.

Our most awarded however was granted to one of our most discussed, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird. Because as Lois Smith's nun ponders: aren't love and attention the same thing? Check out our winners...

BEST PICTURE

1. Lady Bird
2. Call Me By Your Name
3. Get Out
4. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
5. Personal Shopper
6. Phantom Thread
7. The Shape of Water
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
9. Good Time
10. mother!

BEST DIRECTOR

• Olivier Assayas - Personal Shopper
• Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water
• Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
• Luca Guadagnino - Call Me By Your Name
• Jordan Peele - Get Out

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• A Fantastic Woman
• Félicité
• Nocturama
• Raw

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Casting JonBenet
• Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
• Faces Places
• Kedi
• Starless Dreams

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• The Boss Baby
• Coco
• The Lego Batman Movie
• Loving Vincent
• Your Name

BEST UNRELEASED FILM

• The Death of Stalin
• Disobedience
• A Gentle Creature
• The Rider
• Western

BEST ACTRESS

• Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water
• Vicky Krieps - Phantom Thread
• Cynthia Nixon - A Quiet Passion
• Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird
• Kristen Stewart - Personal Shopper

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Tiffany Haddish - Girls Trip
• Leslie Manville - Phantom Thread
• Elizabeth Marvell - The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
• Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
• Michelle Pfeiffer - mother!

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• Get Out
  
• Lady Bird
• Phantom Thread
  
• A Quiet Passion

BEST ACTOR

• Nahuel Pérez Biscayart - BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• Timothée Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name
• Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread
• Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
• Robert Pattinson - Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project
• Armie Hammer - Call Me By Your Name
• O'Shea Jackson Jr. - Ingrid Goes West
• Barry Keoghan - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Michael Stuhlbarg - Call Me By Your Name

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Beguiled
• Call Me By Your Name
• The Lost City of Z
• Mudbound
• Wonderstruck

BEST EDITING

• Baby Driver
• Call Me By Your Name
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• Lady Bird

BEST ENSEMBLE

• The Big Sick
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Mudbound

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Atomic Blonde
• The Beguiled
• Personal Shopper
• Phantom Thread
• Wonder Woman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• The Beguiled
• Blade Runner 2049
• Call Me By Your Name
• Dunkirk
• The Lost City of Z

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Blade Runner 2049
• mother!
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water
• Wonderstruck

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Blade Runner 2049
• Dunkirk
• Okja
• The Shape of Water
• War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• It
• I, Tonya
• Logan
• The Shape of Water

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL OR PREEXISTING)

• Atomic Blonde
• Call Me By Your Name
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water
• Wonderstruck

BEST SOUND

• Blade Runner 2049
• Dunkirk
• Get Out
• mother!
• The Shape of Water

TRIVIA

• 72 films were voted for in Best Picture, with 202 films receiving at list one mention across all categories - both numbers are up from last year.
• Those mother/daughter father/son acting wins are just swell, no?
• The top categories were a very tight finish between Lady Bird, Get Out, and CMBYN, with Lady Bird's original screenplay win coming down to the very final ballot. CMBYN's adapted screenplay win was the mightiest, receiving more than 3 times its nearest competitor (The Beguiled).
• Some films with widespread love that just missed nominations in various categories: Lady Macbeth, Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, A Ghost Story, and Beatriz at Dinner.
• Supporting Actor had the widest spread with 40 performances nominated across all ballots. Stuhlbarg still landed 70% of the ballots' top pick.
• The most mentions without a win: Personal Shopper and mother! with 4 nominations. Shopper will have to suffice with winning last year's Best Unreleased Film category, while mother! was a mere 3 points away from a Sound win.
• Films that missed our Top 10 despite being named Best of the Year by one of our writers: Nocturama, John Wick Chapter 2, Dunkirk, Raw, and Loveless. Nearest nomination misses: The Florida Project in our top ten and Paul Thomas Anderson for Director both missed by a single point.

Previous Team Experience Award Winners:
2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

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Comments

[cal roth]

So funny when Team Experience supports category fraud, like Hammer

[Chris Feil]

cal roth - he had received votes on both sides, but got more in supporting. I'd personally put him lead, but I'd accept the argument otherwise

[Deborah Lipp]

I'm seeing Shape of Water tonight, so I imagine my ballot would change, but you have to cut it off at some point.

[Emma]

Hurrah for Saoirse and Timothée, super-talented young 'uns!

[AlexD]

These might be my favorite of the entire season so far. Spread love for several films, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Lady Bird ruling across the board and no sight of Three Billboards even in acting or writing. Surprised I, Tonya girls missed too but I can see why, much as I love Allison Janney it'll be disappointing when she wins an Oscar for that.

[Roger]

Beautiful choices!!!

Daniela Vega just pushed Cynthia Nicon out. Otherwise, that’s my Best Actress lineup!

Love the rightful Three Billboards shutout!!

[Devin D]

Great mentions all up and down the board! I am surprised, however, to see no room made for Three Billboards at all. Which categories did it threaten to crack?

[Charles O]

omg if ONLY this could be the oscar list - i'd just die !!

[Nick Davis]

Okay, I need to know who my friends are: who else voted for O'Shea Jackson, Jr., and for Starless Dreams?

[Peggy Sue]

Where is Arnaud Valois? Please give back your gay badges.

[Chris Feil]

Peggy Sue - he was a near miss

Devin - it simply didn't make people's lists, but Frances was close

[Clement_Paris]

Thanks all of you for making room to the BEAUTIFUL A Quiet Passion, which wasn't discussed at all on this site so i really thought it flew under the radar.

Being a big fan and supporter of the film, every mention of it on any list is a joy as it was sooooo underseen and ignored by every major award bodies. Just like James White two years ago. So Cynthia Nixon should have been a two-time Oscar nominee (or winner) by Marsh 3rd, but she'll just have to settle for Emmys and Tonys for some time...

[Nick T]

Would that the Oscars chose the acting winners you did. Still, my favorite surprise citations are Stewart, Pattinson, mother! in Sound, It in makeup, all that Lost City of Z love, and the two great nominations Nick mentioned. A very lovely lineup, easily my favorite next to most critics' groups. My question - how close was The Post anywhere?

[Nick T]

Also fun - the first year these have Top 5's instead of winners and runner-ups! So nice to see a full spread here. Thanks a bunch for putting this together.

[ChrisD]

Very happy with CMBYN's trio of wins. From your lips to the Academy's ears please. Lady Bird isn't out in the UK yet but I'm really looking forward to it.

[Mareko]

@Clement_Paris - Something tells me Cynthia Nixon has an Allison Janney- (or Laurie Metcalf-) style Oscar nomination (and win) in her future. It may take another decade, but it will happen. #EGOT

[San FranCinema]

Did the best gay film of the year, God's Own Country, wind up close in any category?

[eurocheese]

No way the Oscars will top these.

[Rahul]

No Betty Gabriel for Get Out?

[Tim Brayton]

@Nick Davis: Team Starless Dreams, right here - it was my #2 in Best Doc. And since I almost certainly wouldn't have ever seen it without you leading me to it, let me thank you for it one last time.

[Claran]

Wow, what a great list!!! Oscar wld never top tt!!

Sad tt The Florida Project & PTA missed by just ONE pt :( wld be nice if u guys wld go a PGA tie and have them both qualified! Lol..juz kidding

Lady Bird soars!!!!

[Michael R]

Thank you for shutting out Three Billboards.

[Claran]

Just one minor quib: How did Jane not get into the nom for documentary? Metink Jane & Faces/Places r the major contenders..

The Shape o Water jus won PGA!! I believe its stock will rise soon...so happy for Hawkins!! :)

[Manny]

Seriously...

CMBYN in Adapted Screenplay over Z and Wonderstruck?

Sheesh.

Question: How many of you guys read the script and/or the adapted material before voting?

[Glenn Dunks]

Manny, that isn't necessarily the only rule by which to judge an adapted screenplay. And while I have my qualms with CMBYN, one of its strongest assets is what it eliminates from the book (namely the final act).

[Lucille]

I’d love to see contributors’ individual ballots! What a fantastic lineup you all came up with

[Suzanne]

Can't argue with any of that!

Really happy to see Kristen Stewart and Elizabeth Marvell made the final lists, though of course the Lady Bird ladies justifiably won in those categories.

[Seán]

It really pained me that I couldn't vote for Ladybird. It's not out here in the UK and I would have felt totally dishonest voting for something I didn't see! But I know I'm going to love it, and my dear countrywoman, Saoirse.

[ScottC]

A lot of this made me smile but probably nothing more than seeing Manville-Marvell-Metcalf listed consecutively, and seeing appreciation for Assayas and Keoghan. This is a delightful set of honors.

[Chris Feil]

Rahul - a lot of love for the Get Out ladies, so maybe they split eachother's votes?

Manny - I have. Jorge also has a great column called Blueprints here every Thursday ;)

Re: Three Billboards - y'all, it's not like we all bandied together against it lol. Our votes are out of love for our favorites, not against what we don't like. It (especially Frances) had its fans. And I say that as someone who doesn't like the movie.

[Chris Feil]

Claran - Jane wasn't even close to making our top five honestly.

[Robert G]

So much love for Personal Shopper. That makes me happy.

[huh]

Is Ronan better in Lady Bird than she was in Brooklyn? If so that would be shocking to me.

I adore her in Brooklyn.

[Pablo]

I'll say this here: Lady Bird has a far better and more believable LGBT character than anyone in Call Me By Your Name. I just cannot understand why people love this movie SO much. I mean, it's a good movie. But great or excellent? Hell no.

[Chris Feil]

huh - by my estimation, yes. Not that Brooklyn is hurting for providing her with things to do, but LB is much more layered and I'd argue a higher degree of difficulty

[Dave in Hollywood]

These are fantastic, and I can't really argue with any of it. I didn't really much like Phantom Thread, BUT I liked all the individual elements of it. I felt that way about 3 Billboards too, some of it is great, but the sum is lacking.

Brooklyn was fantastic and Ronan was great in it, but I think she's just as good in Lady Bird. I think Brooklyn is the better movie though, but I'm probably in the minority on that one.

[Evan]

I get that Baby Driver isn't TFE's cup o' tea, but it missing Best Sound is just sloppy! To me, that's the most accomplished pick in any category this year.