Sunday, February 11, 2018

The Gold Standard


Presenting...the 2017 Golden Steve Awards.

See circumlocution above...

And now, the worthy honorees:

Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name
Columbus
The Florida Project
The Lost City of Z
Phantom Thread
A Quiet Passion

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion
James Gray, The Lost City of Z
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Kogonada, Columbus

Best Actor
Hiroshi Abe, After the Storm
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Charlie Hunnam, The Lost City of Z
Robert Pattinson, Good Time
Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky

Best Actress
Emma Booth, Hounds of Love
Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus

Best Supporting Actor
Lior Ashkenazi, Foxtrot
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Bill Nighy, Their Finest
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Algee Smith, Detroit

Best Supporting Actress
Hong Chau, Downsizing
Melissa Leo, Novitiate
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Rebecca Spence, Princess Cyd

Best Screenplay--Adapted
Call Me by Your Name (James Ivory)
Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater, Daryl Ponicsan)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin)
Mudbound (Dee Rees, Virgil Williams)

Best Screenplay--Original
Columbus (Kogonada)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)

Best Animated Feature
The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey)
Coco (Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina)
The Girl Without Hands (Sébastien Laudenbach)
In This Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi)
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman)
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
          (Anne Marie Fleming)

Best Non-Fiction Film
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
Faces Places (JR, Agnès Varda)
Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)
I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)
Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen)
Long Strange Trip (Amir Bar-Lev)

Best Foreign Language Film
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismaki)
Raw (Julia Ducournau)
The Square (Ruben Östlund)

Best Original Song
"Buddy's Business," Brawl in Cell Block 99
(Jeff Herriott, S. Craig Zahler)
"Genius Girl," The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
(Noah Baumbach, Adam Sandler)
"Mystery of Love," Call Me by Your Name
(Sufjan Stevens)
"Remember Me," Coco
(Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez)
"Thirst Street Theme," Thirst Street
(Paul Grimstad)
"You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way," Film Stars Don't Die in
          Liverpool
(Elvis Costello)