# Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2017

The 16th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2017.

## Winners and nominees

Best Film
* Get Out
   * Call Me by Your Name
   * Dunkirk
   * Lady Bird
   * Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
* Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
   * Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
   * Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
   * Jordan Peele – Get Out
   * Dee Rees – Mudbound
Best Actor
* Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
   * Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
   * Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
   * James Franco – The Disaster Artist
   * Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Best Actress
* Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   * Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
   * Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
   * Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
   * Meryl Streep – The Post
Best Supporting Actor
* Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   * Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
   * Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
   * Jason Mitchell – Mudbound
   * Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
Best Supporting Actress
* Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
   * Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
   * Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
   * Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
   * Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Best Adapted Screenplay
* Virgil Williams and Dee Rees – Mudbound
   * Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, story by Hampton Fancher – Blade Runner 2049
   * James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name
   * Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Disaster Artist
   * Aaron Sorkin – Molly's Game
Best Original Screenplay
* Jordan Peele – Get Out
   * Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
   * Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
   * Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
   * Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Ensemble
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Lucas Hedges, Abbie Cornish, Samara Weaving, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Kerry Condon, and Željko Ivanek
   * Dunkirk – Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy
   * It – Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton, and Jackson Robert Scott
   * Mudbound – Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Jonathan Banks, and Rob Morgan
   * The Post – Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys
Best Animated Feature
* Coco
   * The Breadwinner
   * Despicable Me 3
   * The Lego Batman Movie
   * Loving Vincent
   * The Boss Baby
   * Cars 3
Best Documentary Film
* Jane
   * City of Ghosts
   * Faces Places
   * An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
   * Step
Best Foreign Language Film
* BPM (Beats per Minute) • France
   * First They Killed My Father • Cambodia
   * In the Fade • Germany
   * The Square • Sweden
   * Thelma • Norway
Best Cinematography
* Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049
   * Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water
   * Rachel Morrison – Mudbound
   * Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name
   * Hoyte van Hoytema – Dunkirk
Best Editing
* Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos – Baby Driver
   * Gregory Plotkin – Get Out
   * Lee Smith – Dunkirk
   * Joe Walker – Blade Runner 2049
   * Sidney Wolinsky – The Shape of Water
Best Original Score
* Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch – Blade Runner 2049
   * Carter Burwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   * Alexandre Desplat – The Shape of Water
   * Michael Giacchino – Coco
   * Hans Zimmer – Dunkirk
Best Production Design
* Dennis Gassner (production design) and Alessandra Querzola (set decoration) – Blade Runner 2049
   * Paul Denham Austerberry (production design), Shane Vieau (set decoration), and Jeff Melvin (set decoration) – The Shape of Water
   * Aline Bonetto (production design) and Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decoration) – Wonder Woman
   * Nathan Crowley (production design) and Gary Fettis (set decoration) – Dunkirk
   * Sarah Greenwood (production design) and Katie Spencer (set decoration) – Beauty and the Beast
Best Youth Performance
* Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
   * Dafne Keen – Logan
   * Sophia Lillis – It
   * Millicent Simmonds – Wonderstruck
   * Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
Best Animated Voice Performance
* Anthony Gonzalez – Coco
   * Will Arnett – The Lego Batman Movie
   * Gael García Bernal – Coco
   * Michael Cera – The Lego Batman Movie
   * Bradley Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Best Motion Capture Performance
* Andy Serkis – War for the Planet of the Apes
   * Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast
   * Steve Zahn – War for the Planet of the Apes
   * Taika Waititi – Thor: Ragnarok
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
* The Post
   * An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
   * Last Flag Flying
   * Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
   * Spider-Man: Homecoming