‘Moonlight’ Tops 2017 Chlotrudis Awards; Isabelle Huppert, Joel Edgerton Win Acting Honors

Erik Anderson March 21, 2017

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The 2017 awards season isn’t quite finished, folks.

The 23rd Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film announced their winners on Sunday and the Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight picked up another win with the group, along with Director (Barry Jenkins), Supporting Actor (Oscar winner Mahershala Ali) and Ensemble. Oscar nominee Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress for Elle and Joel Edgerton won Best Actor for Loving.

The technical categories spread the wealth over a handful of foreign language films with Cemetery of Splendor winning Cinematography, Mountains May Depart winning Editing and The Handmaiden winning Production Design. Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated film 13TH won Documentary.

Presenters and guests included many members and friends of the Boston film community, among them indie filmmakers and critics, programmers from the Independent Film Festival of Boston, the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBTQ Film Festival, the Brattle Theater and consulate staff of the French Cultural Center.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the 23rd Chlotrudis Awards with winners in bold:

BEST MOVIE

The Handmaiden
Little Men
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight
Mountains May Depart
Our Little Sister

BURIED TREASURE

The Fits
Free in Deed
Neon Bull
Take Me to the River
Under the Shadow

BEST DIRECTOR

Apichatpong Weerasethakul for Cemetery of Splendor
Kelly Reichardt for Certain Women
Barry Jenkins for Moonlight
Jia Zhangke for Mountains May Depart
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Our Little Sister

BEST ACTOR

Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic
Theo Taplitz for Little Men
Joel Edgerton for Loving
Casey Affleck for Manchester By the Sea
Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening for 20th Century Women
Sonia Braga for Aquarius
Isabelle Huppert for Elle
Ruth Negga for Loving
Tao Zhao for Mountains May Depart
Imajyn Cardinal for The Saver

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ralph Fiennes for A Bigger Splash
Luis Silva for From Afar
Michael Barbieri for Little Men
Lucas Hedges for Manchester By the Sea
Mahershala Ali for Moonlight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Lily Gladstone for Certain Women
Margo Martindale for The Hollars
Rima Te Wiata for Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Paulina Garcia for Little Men
Michelle Williams for Manchester By the Sea
Naomie Harris for Moonlight

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST

Certain Women
Don’t Think Twice
Little Men
Moonlight
Our Little Sister

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nikolaj Arcel for A Conspiracy of Faith (based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen)
Hannes Holm for A Man Called Ove (based on the novel by Fredrik Backman)
Hirokazu Koreeda for Our Little Sister (based on the manga by Akimi Yoshida)Kelly Reichardt for Certain Women (based on stories by Maile Meloy)
Whit Stillman for Love & Friendship (based on a novella by Jane Austen)
Wiebke von Carolsfeld for The Saver (based on the novel by Edeet Ravel)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Grímur Hákonarson for RamsYorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for The Lobster
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By The Sea
Kleber Mendonça Filho for Aquarius
Matt Ross for Captain Fantastic
Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias for Little Men

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Cemetery of Splendor
The Handmaiden
High Rise
Julieta
Love & Friendship
Microbe and Gasoline

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Caroline Champetier for The Innocents
Chung-hoon Chung for The Handmaiden
Diego García for Cemetery of Splendor
James Laxton for Moonlight
Marius Panduru for Aferim!
Paul Yee for The Fits

BEST EDITING

Lee Chatametikool for Cemetery of Splendor
Matthieu Laclau for Mountains May Depart
Elmer Leupen for Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders for Moonlight
José Salcedo for Julieta

BEST USE OF MUSIC IN A FILM

American Honey
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Everybody Wants Some
Green Room
Moonlight
Sing Street

BEST DOCUMENTARY

13TH
City of Gold
Miss Sharon Jones
Tickled
Where to Invade Next
Weiner

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Erik Anderson

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.