On our first anniversary, Cinapse’s giant one-year celebration coincided with another little-known ceremony called “The Oscars.” We’re here to continue the tradition of coming up with our own, very official rankings for the Fifth Annual Cinapse Awards!
Below all the listings you can see how we came to determine our winners. 2017 was a particularly exciting year for cinema, with a lot of films that would in the past years be regulated into genre crossing into prestige territory.
A major part of our purpose here at Cinapse has always been to celebrate and advocate for films, so doing our very own awards has always felt apt. We hope you enjoy reading and please feel free to debate and discuss our choices with us in the comments section or on Twitter or Facebook! What did we miss? Where are we dead wrong? Where do you agree with us wholeheartedly? We’d love to hear from you!
Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Runners up:
Dunkirk
The Phantom Thread
Best Screenplay
Get Out
Runners up:
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Call Me By Your Name
Okja
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe —The Florida Project
Runners up:
Michael Stuhlberg — Call Me By Your Name
Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Armie Hammer — Call Me By Your Name
Barry Keoghan — The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf — Lady Bird
Runners up:
Allison Janney — I, Tonya
Holly Hunter — The Big Sick
Hong Chau — Downsizing
Tiffany Haddish — Girls Trip
Best Actor
James Franco — The Disaster Artist
Runners up:
Daniel Day-Lewis — The Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
Robert Pattinson — Good Time
Christian Bale — Hostiles
Best Actress
Saoirse Ronan— Lady Bird
Runners up:
Frances McDormand —Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water
Vicky Kreips — The Phantom Thread
Margot Robbie — I, Tonya
Best Picture
The Shape of Water
Runners up:
Lady Bird
Get Out
Phantom Thread
mother!
Call Me By Your Name
Three Billboards
Florida Project
Dunkirk
Okja
Best Director
Christopher Nolan — Dunkirk
Runners up:
Guillermo del Toro— The Shape of Water
Darren Aronofsky — mother!
Paul Thomas Anderson— The Phantom Thread
Denis Villeneuve — Blade Runner 2049
Best Animated Film
Coco
Best Documentary
The Work
Best Foreign Language Film
Raw
Genre Breakout of the Year
John Wick Chapter 2
Poster of the Year
The Shape of Water
The Process:
10 nominations for Best Feature Film.
5 nominations apiece for: Best Lead Performance (Male/Female), Best Supporting Performance (Male/Female), Best Direction, Best Screenplay.
3 nominations apiece for: Best Cinematography.
Cinapse members ranked their nominations in order of preference. Each ranking was then assigned a point value:
Best Picture: #1 ranking received 14 points, #2 received 13 points, down to #10, which received 5 points
5-nomination categories: #1 ranking received 8 points, down to #5, which received 4 points
3-nomination categories: #1 ranking received 5 points, #2 4 points, and #3 3 points
If a voter chose not to rank his or her nominations, or was unable to fill in a particular category, each nomination in the category in question was given an equal number of points, equivalent to the average number of points available in the category (9.5 points for Best Picture, 6 points for the 5-nomination categories, and 4 points for the 3-nomination categories).