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
- Lady Bird
- Call Me By Your Name
- Get Out
- BPM (Beats Per Minute)
- Personal Shopper
- Phantom Thread
- The Shape of Water
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Good Time
- 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