Awards 2017

Lady Bird (2017)

The 16th Annual Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2017, were announced on January 4, 2018.

Best Film

  1. Lady Bird
  2. Get Out
  3. The Shape of Water
  4. The Big Sick
  5. Blade Runner 2049
  6. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
  7. The Post
  8. The Florida Project
  9. Dunkirk
  10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Best Director

  • Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
  • Runner-up: Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Actor

  • Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
  • Runner-up: James Franco, The Disaster Artist

Best Actress

  • Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
  • Runner-up: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best Supporting Actor

  • Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
  • Runner-up: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actress

  • Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
  • Runner-up: Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Best Ensemble

  • Lady Bird
  • Runner-up: Mudbound

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

  • (Tie) Sally Hawkins (Maudie and The Shape of Water) and Tracy Letts (Lady Bird, The Lovers, and
    The Post)
  • Runner-up: Woody Harrelson (The Glass Castle, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Wilson)

Breakthrough Film Artist

  • Jordan Peele, Get Out – (for directing and screenwriting)
  • Runner-up: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird – (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

  • Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
  • Runner-up: Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

Best Film Editing

  • Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, Baby Driver
  • Runner-up: Lee Smith, Dunkirk

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound
  • Runner-up: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist

Best Original Screenplay

  • Jordan Peele, Get Out
  • Runner-up: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Best Score

  • Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
  • Runner-up: Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer, Blade Runner 2049

Best Documentary

  • Faces Places (Visages, villages)
  • Runner-up: Jane

Best Foreign Language Film

  • BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 battements par minute)
  • Runner-up: The Square

Best Animated Film

  • Coco
  • Runner-up: Loving Vincent

Best Overlooked Film

  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  • Runner-up: Wind River