‘Get Out’ Wins San Diego Film Critics Best Pic; Sally Hawkins Ties Herself in Best Actress, James McAvoy is Best Actor
Dunkirk and The Shape of Water may have gotten the most nominations but Jordan Peele’s Get Out came out the winner today, earning the San Diego Film Critics Society’s Best Picture of 2017. The film also won Original Screenplay.
In one of the many ties today, Sally Hawkins found herself tied with…herself, winning Best Actress for The Shape of Water and Maudie as two separate nominations. The Shape of Water also earned a win in Production Design. James McAvoy won his first Best Actor prize of critics’ season for Split and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) and Allison Janney (I, Tonya) tied for Best Supporting Actress. Another major win for Lady Bird came in the form of Greta Gerwig in Best Director, her third such win after the National Board of Review and the Toronto Film Critics.
Baby Driver was a double winner, in Film Editing and Use of Music and Dunkirk picked up one win for Cinematography.
Here is the full list of winners, ties and runners-up.
Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out (Winner)
Lady Bird (Runner Up)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk (Runner Up)
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (Winner)
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
James Franco – The Disaster Artist (Runner Up)
James McAvoy – Split (Winner)
Robert Pattinson – Good Time
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
Best Actress
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Sally Hawkins – Maudie (Tie)
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water (Tie)
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Best Supporting Actor
Ethan Hawke – Maudie
Oscar Isaac – Suburbicon
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Winner)
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project (Runner Up)
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney – I, Tonya (Tie)
Bria Vinaite – The Florida Project
Catherine Keener – Get Out
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird (Tie)
Best Comedic Performance
Daniel Craig – Logan Lucky (Winner)
Ezra Miller – Justice League
James Franco – The Disaster Artist (Runner Up)
Lil Rel Howery – Get Out
Ray Romano – The Big Sick
Best Original Screenplay
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (Runner Up)
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Jordan Peele – Get Out (Winner)
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay
James Gray – The Lost City Of Z
James Ivory – Call Me By Your Name
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – The Disaster Artist (Winner)
Sofia Coppola – The Beguiled
Virgil Williams & Dee Rees – Mudbound (Runner Up)
Best Documentary
Ex Libris: the New York Public Library
Faces Places
Jane (Winner)
Last Men In Aleppo
The Work (Runner Up)
Best Animated Film
Coco
Loving Vincent
My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea
My Life As A Zucchini (Winner)
The Boss Baby (Runner Up)
Best Foreign Language Film
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Runner Up)
Faces Places
The Other Side Of Hope
The Square
Thelma (Winner)
Best Editing
Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss – Baby Driver (Winner)
Jon Gregory – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lee Smith – Dunkirk (Runner Up)
Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn – The Post
Sidney Wolinsky – The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography
Ben Richardson – Wind River
Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water
Darius Khondji – The Lost City Of Z (Runner Up)
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Dunkirk (Winner)
Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049
Best Production Design
Anne Ross – The Beguiled
Alessandora Querzola and Dennis Gassner – Blade Runner 2049 (Runner Up)
Nathan Crowley – Dunkirk
Paul D. Austerberry – The Shape of Water (Winner)
Sarah Greenwood – Beauty And The Beast
Best Visual Effects
Beauty And The Beast (Runner Up-Tie)
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk (Runner Up-Tie)
The Shape of Water
War For The Planet Of The Apes (Winner)
Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran – Beauty And The Beast (Tie)
Jenny Eagan – Hostiles
Luis Sequeira – The Shape of Water
Mark Bridges – Phantom Thread (Tie)
Sonia Grande – The Lost City Of Z
Stacey Battat – The Beguiled
Best Use of Music
Baby Driver (Winner)
Beauty And The Beast
Call Me By Your Name (Runner Up)
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Breakthrough Artist
Barry Keoghan (Runner Up)
Brooklynn Prince
Greta Gerwig
Jordan Peele
Sophia Lillis
Timothée Chalamet (Winner)
Best Ensemble
Get Out
Lady Bird
Mudbound (Winner)
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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