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The 2017 Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) Winners

By Matt Neglia

The members of the Dublin Film Critics Circle  (DFCC) have, for the 11th year, selected their favourite works of 2017.

Click below to see the winners.

​BEST FILM
1. Dunkirk
2. Get Out
3. Moonlight
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Manchester By The Sea
6. Wind River
7. The Florida Project / Call Me by Your Name
8. La La Land
9. Logan / God’s Own Country
10. Jackie / Lady Macbeth

Runners up: The Handmaiden, Aquarius, Paddington 2

BEST DIRECTOR 
1. Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
2. Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
3. Jordan Peele, Get Out
4. Damien Chazelle, La La Land
5. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea
6. Julia Ducournau, Raw/ Emer Reynolds, The Farthest
7. Yorgos Lanthimos, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer / Paul Verhoeven, Elle
8. Pablo Larraín, Jackie
9. Sean Baker, The Florida Project
10. James Mangold, Logan

Runners up: Pat Collins, Song of Granite; James Franco, The Disaster Artist;
Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman

BEST IRISH FEATURE FILM
1. Sanctuary
2. The KIlling of a Sacred Deer
3. Cardboard Gangsters / Handsome Devil
4. Song of Granite
5. Pilgrimage
6. Twice Shy
7. Maze
8. The Drummer and the Keeper
9. In View
10. Halal Daddy

Runners up: Property of the State, The Man Who Invented Christmas, A Dark
Song

BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. The Farthest
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. It’s Not Yet Dark
4. Condemned to Remember
5. Whitney: Can I Be Me
6. Meetings with Ivor
7. Kedi / An Inconvenient Sequel
8. City of Ghosts
9. Dancer / Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
10. The Work / Cameraperson / The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Runners up: Casting JonBenet, Jane, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,
The Prince of Nothingwood

BEST ACTOR
1. James Franco, The Disaster Artist
2. Barry Keoghan, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer
3. Robert Pattinson, Good Time
4. Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
5. Denzel Washington, Fences / James McAvoy, Split
6. Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
7. Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
8. Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
9. Hugh Jackman, Logan
10. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight / John Connors, Cardboard Gangsters

Runners up: Ryan Gosling, Blade Runner 2049; Andy Serkis, War for the Planet
of the Apes; Sherwan Haji, The Other Side of Hope; Adrian Titieni,
Graduation

BEST ACTRESS
1. Natalie Portman, Jackie / Isabelle Huppert, Elle
2. Sally Hawkins, Maudie
3. Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
4. Sonia Braga, Aquarius
5. Viola Davis, Fences / Emma Stone, La La Land
6. Garance Miller, Raw
7. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
8. Ruth Negga, Loving
9. Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
10. Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion / Anne Hathaway, Colossal

Runners up: Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool; Zoe Kazan,
The Big Sick; Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Jordan Peele, Get Out
2. Taylor Sheridan, Wind River / Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
3. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea
4. Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
5. Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung, The Handmaiden
6. Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer
7. Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
8. Rebecca Blunt, Logan Lucky / Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin
9. Damien Chazelle, La La Land / Makoto Shinkai, Your Name
10. Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion

Runners up: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049, James Gray,
The Lost City of Z; Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
2. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
3. Chung Chung-hoon, The Handmaiden
4. Linus Sandgren, La La Land
5. M. David Mullen, The Love Witch
6. Alexis Zabe, The Florida Project
7. Kate McCullough, The Farthest
8. Richard Kendrick, Song of Granite
9. Ben Richardson, Wind River / Stéphane Fontaine, Jackie
10. Thimios Bakatakis, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer / Philippe Le Sourd,
The Beguiled

Runners up: James Laxton, Moonlight; Michael Seresin, War for the Planet
of the Apes; Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me by Your Name

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR: SHORTLIST

**Barry Keoghan, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk** (Winner)
Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
Caoilfhionn Dunne, In View
Dafne Keen, Logan
Emer Reynolds, The Farthest
Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Julia Ducournau, Raw
Sunny Pawar, Lion
Tom Ryan, Twice Shy

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Matt Neglia
Matt Negliahttps://nextbestpicture.com/
Obsessed about the Oscars, Criterion Collection and all things film 24/7. Critics Choice Member.

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