Shape of Water, Three Billboards Lead 2017 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards Nominations

The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri topped the 2017 Detroit Film Critics Society nominations today with six apiece. Right behind was Get Out with five. All were nominated for Best Film alongside The Disaster Artist and The Florida Project. Lady Bird also got five nominations, including one for director Greta Gerwig, but missed on Best Film.

Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) received dual nominations; for Supporting Actress and Breakthrough and The Post landed a Best Ensemble nomination but no individual ones. It’s only other mention was in screenplay. Mudbound also received an Ensemble nom and that was its only mention. Dunkirk got a director nomination for Christopher Nolan but nothing else.

Either with, or without irony, the film Detroit received zero nominations.

The results will be tabulated and the winners will be announced on Thursday, December 7.

BEST FILM

• The Disaster Artist
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST DIRECTOR

• Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
• Sean Baker, The Florida Project
• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
• Jordan Peele, Get Out
• Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

BEST ACTOR

• Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
• James Franco, The Disaster Artist
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
• Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
• Robert Pattinson, Good Time

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
• Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
• Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
• Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
• Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
• Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Patrick Stewart, Logan
• Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
• Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
• Allison Janney, I, Tonya
• Melissa Leo, Novitiate
• Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

BEST ENSEMBLE

• The Big Sick
• Lady Bird
• Mudbound
• The Post
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BREAKTHROUGH

• Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name (actor)
• Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman (actress)
• Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip (actress)
• Caleb Landry Jones, American Made, The Florida Project, Get Out, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (actor)
• Jordan Peele, Get Out (writer/director)

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water
• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
• Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
• Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, The Post
• Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Jordan Peele, Get Out
• Taylor Sheridan, Wind River

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• The Defiant Ones
• Human Flow
• Kedi
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
• Step
• Strong Island
• Whose Streets?

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
• Cars 3
• Coco
• The LEGO Batman Movie
• Loving Vincent

BEST USE OF MUSIC

• Baby Driver
• Blade Runner 2049
• Good Time
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water

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