By Matt Neglia
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2017.
Click below to see the winners.
BEST FILM
The Florida Project
Get Out
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Jane
Kedi
Last Men in Aleppo
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Faces Places
First They Killed My Father
Frantz
Okja
Raw
The Square
Thelma
BEST DIRECTOR
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Steven Spielberg – The Post
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049
Hoyt Van Hoytema – Dunkirk
Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water
Rachel Morrison – Mudbound
Alexis Zabe – The Florida Project
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Tom Hanks – The Post
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer – All The Money In The World
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Patrick Stewart – Logan
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Florida Project – Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
The Post – Liz Hannah & Josh Singer
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
Get Out – Jordan Peele
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Lost City of Z – James Gray
Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (TIE)
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin (TIE)
Mudbound – Dee Rees and Virgil Williams
The Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award seeks to recognize films or performers with a special connection to North Carolina.
Emily V. Gordon
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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