St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2017 Explained

14h StLFCA Awards

December 17, 2017

----Best Film:
The Shape of Water
----Best Director:
Guillermo del Toro
The Shape of Water

The nominees for the 14th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 10, 2017.^[1] The winners were announced on December 17, 2017.^[2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• The Shape of Water
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• The Post
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actor

• Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
• Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
• James Franco – The Disaster Artist
• Tom Hanks – The Post
• Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out

Best Supporting Actor

• Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
• Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
• Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Michael Shannon – The Shape of Water

Best Original Screenplay

• The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
• The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
• Get Out – Jordan Peele
• Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh

Best Cinematography

• Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
• Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel
• Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema
• The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen
• Wonder Wheel – Vittorio Storaro

Best Editing

• Baby Driver – Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
• Darkest Hour – Valerio Bonelli
• Dunkirk – Lee Smith
• The Post – Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn
• The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky

Best Production Design

• The Shape of Water – Paul D. Austerberry
• Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood
• Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner
• Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley
• Phantom Thread – Mark Tildesley

Best Foreign Language Feature

• Land of Mine
• First They Killed My Father
• Frantz
• Graduation
• The Square

Best Animated Feature

• Coco
• Despicable Me 3
• The Lego Batman Movie
• Loving Vincent

Best Director

• Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
• Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
• Jordan Peele – Get Out
• Steven Spielberg – The Post
• Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049

Best Actress

• Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
• Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
• Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper
• Meryl Streep – The Post

Best Supporting Actress

• Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
• Hong Chau – Downsizing
• Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
• Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
• Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (Screenplay); Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (Book)
• Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory (Screenplay); André Aciman (Novel)
• It – Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman (Screenplay); Stephen King (Novel)
• Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin (Screenplay); Molly Bloom (Book)
• Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (Screenplay); Hillary Jordan (Novel)

Best Visual Effects

• Blade Runner 2049
• Beauty and the Beast
• Dunkirk
• The Shape of Water
• War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Score

• Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
• Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
• Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
• The Post – John Williams
• The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat

Best Soundtrack

• Baby Driver
• Atomic Blonde
• Coco
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Documentary Feature

• Jane
• City of Ghosts
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Never Say Goodbye: The KSHE Documentary
• Whose Streets?

Best Scene

• The Disaster Artist – Sixty-seven takes of "I did not hit her"
• Atomic Blonde – Stairwell fight
• Baby Driver – Baby (Ansel Elgort) goes for coffee (opening credits)
• Call Me By Your Name – Mr. Perlman's (Michael Stuhlbarg) closing monologue
• Lady Bird – Chalk talk for 'The Tempest'

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 12 nominations: The Shape of Water
• 6 nominations: Lady Bird, The Post, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• 5 nominations: Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk
• 4 nominations: Darkest Hour, Get Out
• 3 nominations: Baby Driver, The Disaster Artist, Phantom Thread
• 2 nominations: Atomic Blonde, Beauty and the Beast, The Big Sick, Call Me by Your Name, Coco

These films had multiple wins:

• 5 wins: The Shape of Water
• 2 wins: Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, The Disaster Artist

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shape of Water Receives 12 Nominations From the St. Louis Film Critics . Flores . Marshall . . December 10, 2017 . December 10, 2017.
2. Web site: 2017 StLFCA Annual Award Winners . . December 17, 2017 . December 17, 2017.