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Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announces Its Inaugural Year’s Nominations: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water leads with 11 nominations while Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird lands in second place with nine and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk in third with eight.
(Los Angeles, CA – December 4th, 2017) – The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (LAOFCS) is pleased to announce that their Awards Ceremony will be held on January 3rd, 2018, at which time the winners will be announced.
Fox Searchlight’s The Shape of Water tops the nominations list with eleven nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay while Lady Bird earns nine nominations and Dunkirk earns eight. Jordan Peele’s massive hit, Get Out scores nominations for Best Male Director and Best First Feature.
Studio films such as Wonder Woman, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Blade Runner 2049 are also among the nominations scoring five nominations each.
A few smaller released films have found their place on the nominations list including Neon’s Colossal, Trademark Films & Break Thru Films’ Loving Vincent, and the Sundance Institute’s Columbus.
Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet are each nominated for Best Actress and Actor as well as Best Performance by an Actor or Actress Under the Age of 23.
The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society is pleased to announce that it is the first ever critics group to feature two Best Director categories; one for female and one for male. “There has been so much conversation about the power of female filmmakers and we wanted to embrace it,” said Mantz. “There is a Best Actor and Best Actress category as well as Best Supporting Actor and Actress, so why not have a Best Male Director and Best Female Director category?” asked Menzel.
In total, the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society members have nominated over forty different films ranging from smaller art-house releases to major blockbusters.
A detailed list of the nominations can be found below:
Nominations for the 1st Annual Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards:
BEST PICTURE
- The Big Sick
- Colossal
- Call Me By Your Name
- Get Out
- I, Tonya
- Lady Bird
- Molly’s Game
- The Post
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST MALE DIRECTOR
- Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
- Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
- Steven Spielberg, The Post
BEST EDITING
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- I, Tonya
- The Post
- The Shape of Water
BEST STUNT WORK
- Atomic Blonde
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- John Wick: Chapter 2
- Wonder Woman
BEST SCI-FI/ HORROR
- Blade Runner 2049
- Get Out
- It
- It Comes at Night
- The Shape of Water
BEST COMEDY/MUSICAL
- The Big Sick
- The Disaster Artist
- Girls Trip
- I, Tonya
- Lady Bird
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM
- The Big Sick
- Colossal
- A Ghost Story
- I, Tonya
- Lady Bird
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
- Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
- Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
- Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
- Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- An Inconvenient Sequel
- Jane
- Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
- Step
- Whose Streets?
BEST ANIMATED FILM
- The Breadwinner
- Coco
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
- The LEGO Batman Movie
- Loving Vincent
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
- James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name
- Michael H. Weber & Scott Neustadter, The Disaster Artist
- Scott Frank, James Mangold, & Michael Green, Logan
- Virgil Williams & Dee Rees, Mudbound
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Idris Elba, Molly’s Game
- Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name
- Patrick Stewart, Logan
- Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
BEST ACTOR
- Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
- Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
- James Franco, The Disaster Artist
- Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
- Tom Hanks, The Post
BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR
- Dee Rees, Mudbound
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit
- Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman
- Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
BEST ANIMATED / VISUAL EFFECT PERFORMANCE
- Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes
- Doug Jones, The Shape of Water
- Dan Stevens, Beauty and the Beast
BEST SCORE
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- Phantom Thread
- The Shape of Water
- War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR OR ACTRESS UNDER 23 YEARS OLD
- Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
- Dafne Keen, Logan
- Jacob Tremblay, Wonder
- Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
- Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
BEST ACTION/WAR
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- Logan
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Wonder Woman
BEST FIRST FEATURE
- Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Kogonada, Columbus
- Geremy Jasper, Patti Cake$
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
BEST BLOCKBUSTER
- Beauty and the Beast
- Dunkirk
- Logan
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Wonder Woman
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Wonder Woman
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
- BPM, France
- First They Killed My Father, Cambodia
- In the Fade, Germany
- The Square, Sweden
- Thelma, Norway
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
- Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
- Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
- Jordan Peele, Get Out
- Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Allison Janney, I, Tonya
- Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
- Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
- Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
- Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
BEST ACTRESS
- Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
- Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
- Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
- Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
About LAOFCS:
Krisily Kennedy, Scott Mantz, and Scott Menzel founded the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society in late 2016. The primary goal of the society was to create a critics group that appropriately reflects a varied history and perspective of people from various races and gender. The intention was to create a critics group that was as diverse as the city in which it is based.
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