AwardsWatch Forums’ 50 Favourite Performances of 2017
“Don’t pick a fight with me, you certainly won’t come out alive.
I’ll go right through you and it’ll be you who ends up on the floor. Understood?”
5. Lesley Manville, PHANTOM THREAD
334 points, 43 mentions
“If you want to have a staring contest with me, you will lose.”
4. Vicky Krieps, PHANTOM THREAD
480 points, 48 mentions, 8 TOP placements
“Being successful doesn’t mean anything in and of itself.
It just means that you’re successful.But that doesn’t mean that you’re happy.”
3. Laurie Metcalf, LADY BIRD
614 points, 64 mentions, 4 TOP placements
“I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire.”
2. Saoirse Ronan, LADY BIRD
669 points, 65 mentions, 8 TOP placements
“Because I thought you should know.
Because I wanted you to know.”
1. Timothée Chalamet, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
757 points, 66 mentions, 20 TOP placements
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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