Annual StLFCA Awards
- Each year in December, the St. Louis Film Critics Association bestows awards on those films that exhibit excellence in particular categories. The 2017 nominees are listed below. The 2017 winners will be announced on Sunday, December 17, 2017.
- Eligible films are those that opened in the greater St. Louis area during the 2017 calendar year, including those that were given awards-qualifying runs in 2016, but were not available to all StLFCA members until 2017. Films slated for release in the St. Louis area early in 2018 are also eligible if a press screening, DVD screener, or screening link was provided to all StLFCA members.
- Lists of winners from previous years are linked at the bottom of the page.
2017 StLFCA Annual Award Nominees
[Nominees Announced December 11, 2017.]
- BEST FILM
- Get Out
- Lady Bird
- The Post
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- BEST DIRECTOR
- Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
- Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
- Jordan Peele – Get Out
- Steven Spielberg – The Post
- Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049
- BEST ACTOR
- Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
- James Franco – The Disaster Artist
- Tom Hanks – The Post
- Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
- Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
- BEST ACTRESS
- Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
- Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
- Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper
- Meryl Streep – The Post
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
- Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
- Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Michael Shannon – The Shape of Water
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Hong Chau – Downsizing
- Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
- Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
- Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
- Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
- BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- The Big Sick - Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
- Get Out - Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig
- The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Williams
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh
- BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Call Me By Your Name - James Ivory (Screenplay); André Aciman (Novel)
- The Disaster Artist - Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (Screenplay); Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (Book)
- It - Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman (Screenplay); Stephen King (Novel)
- Molly’s Game - Aaron Sorkin (Screenplay); Molly Bloom (Book)
- Mudbound - Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (Screenplay); Hillary Jordan (Novel)
- BEST EDITING
- Baby Driver - Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
- Darkest Hour - Valerio Bonelli
- Dunkirk - Lee Smith
- The Post - Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn
- The Shape of Water - Sidney Wolinsky
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- Blade Runner 2049 - Roger Deakins
- Darkest Hour - Bruno Delbonnel
- Dunkirk - Hoyte Van Hoytema
- The Shape of Water - Dan Laustsen
- Wonder Wheel - Vittorio Storaro
- BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Beauty and the Beast - Sarah Greenwood
- Blade Runner 2049 - Dennis Gassner
- Dunkirk - Nathan Crowley
- Phantom Thread - Mark Tildesley
- The Shape of Water - Paul D. Austerberry
- BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- Beauty and the Beast
- Blade Runner 2049
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- BEST SCORE
- Blade Runner 2049 - Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
- Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
- Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood
- The Post - John Williams
- The Shape of Water- Alexandre Desplat
- BEST SOUNDTRACK
- Atomic Blonde
- Baby Driver
- Coco
- Guardians and the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
- Coco
- Despicable Me 3
- The LEGO Batman Movie
- Loving Vincent
- BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- City of Ghosts
- Jane
- Last Men in Aleppo
- Never Say Goodbye: The KSHE Documentary
- Whose Streets?
- BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
- First They Killed My Father
- Frantz
- Graduation
- Land of Mine
- The Square
- BEST SCENE
- Atomic Blonde - Stairwell fight.
- Baby Driver - Baby (Ansel Elgort) goes for coffee (opening credits).
- Call Me By Your Name - Mr. Perlman’s (Michael Stuhlbarg) closing monologue.
- The Disaster Artist - 67 takes of “I did not hit her”.
- Lady Bird - Chalk talk for ‘The Tempest’.