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B E S T   F I L M
 Anomalisa A Fantastic Woman
(Sebastián Lelio)

For the second year in a row, a Chilean filmmaker made the movie I simply couldn't get out of my head. This stunning drama centres on the frankly awesome Marina Vidal (played by Daniela Vega) who, despite being at rock bottom, responds with dignity to a steady stream of misguided bigotry. It's moving, inspirational and almost terrifyingly timely.

2. DUNKIRK (Christopher Nolan)
3. GOD'S OWN COUNTRY
    (Francis Lee)
4. GET OUT (Jordan Peele)
5. COCO (Lee Unkrich)
6. YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
    (Lynne Ramsay)
7. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE
     EBBING, MISSOURI
    (Martin McDonagh)
8. PATTI CAKE$ (Geremy Jasper)
9. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
    (Luca Guadagnino)
10.LADY MACBETH (William Oldroyd)
11. My Life as a Courgette
     (Claude Barras)
12. 120 Beats Per Minute
     (Robin Campillo)
13. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
14. Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
15. I Am Not Your Negro
     (Raoul Peck)
16. Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta)
17. All This Panic (Jenny Gage)
18. The Square (Ruben Ostlund)
19. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
     (Rian Johnson)
20. Paddington 2 (Paul King)
21. London Symphony (Alex Barrett)
22. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
23. Faces Places (Agnes Jarda, JR)
24. Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow)
25. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
26. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
27. Custody (Xavier Legrand)
28. The Shape of Water
     (Guillermo del Toro)
29. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
30. Spider-Man: Homecoming
     (Jon Watts)
31. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
32. The Third Murder
     (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
33. Last Men in Aleppo
     (Firas Fayyad)
34. The Wound (John Trengove)
35. M (Sara Forestier)
36. InSyriated (Philippe Van Leeuw)
37. I Am Not a Witch
     (Rungano Nyoni)
38. Let the Sun Shine In
     (Claire Denis)
39. Logan (James Mangold)
40. City of Ghosts
     (Matthew Heineman)
41. The Student
     (Kirill Serebrennikov)
42. Hostiles (Scott Cooper)
43. All the Money in the World
     (Ridley Scott)
44. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
45. The Other Side of Hope
     (Aki Kaurismaki)
46. Machines (Rahul Jain)
47. Stronger (David Gordon Green)
48. Thelma (Joachim Trier)
49. Wonder (Stephen Chbosky)
50. War for the Planet of the Apes
     (Matt Reeves)
NB. I saw 446 films in 2017
SHADOWS HALL OF FAME
2016   <   SHADOWS AWARDS   >   2018

director: nolan D I R E C T O R

Christopher Nolan
(Dunkirk)
2. Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
3. Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled)
4. Sebastian Lelio (A Fantastic Woman)
5. Francis Lee (God's Own Country)
6. Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch)
7. Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049)
8. Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit)
9. Jenny Gage (All This Panic)
10. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

screenplay: mcdonagh S C R E E N W R I T E R

Martin McDonagh
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
2. James Ivory (Call Me by Your Name)
3. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
4. Celine Sciamma (My Life as a Courgette)
5. Geremy Jasper (Patti Cake$)
6. Andrey Zvyagintsev (Loveless)
7. Jordan Peele (Get Out)
8. Steven Rogers (I, Tonya)
9. Sebastian Lelio, Gonzalo Maza (A Fantastic Woman)
10. Mike White (Beatriz at Dinner)

actress: pugh A C T R E S S

Florence Pugh
(Lady Macbeth)
2. Daniela Vega (A Fantastic Woman)
3. Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner, The Hitman's Bodyguard)
4. Trine Dyrholm (Nico, 1988)
5. Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
6. Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water, Paddington 2, Maudie)
7. Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$)
8. Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)
9. Isabelle Huppert (Happy End, Souvenir, Reinventing Marvin)
10. Hiam Abbass (InSyriated, Blade Runner 2049)

actor: chalamet A C T O R

Timothée Chalamet
(Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, Hostiles)
2. Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats)
3. Lakeith Stanfield (Crown Heights, The Incredible Jessica James)
4. Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
5. Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Logan Lucky)
6. Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
7. Denis Menochet (Custody)
8. Steve Carell (Last Flag Flying, Battle of the Sexes)
9. Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete, All the Money in the World, The Dinner)
10. Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

supporting: janney S U P P O R T I N G
A C T R E S S

Allison Janney
(I, Tonya)
2. Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
3. Carrie Fisher (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
4. Bridget Everett (Patti Cake$, Fun Mom Dinner)
5. Mary J Blige (Mudbound)
6. Yuliya Aug (The Student)
7. Jodie Whittaker (Journeyman)
8. Patricia Clarkson (The Party)
9. Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread)
10. Miranda Richardson (Stronger)

supporting: boyega S U P P O R T I N G
A C T O R

John Boyega
(Detroit, Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2. Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
3. Patrick Stewart (Logan, The Wilde Wedding)
4. Thomas Gioria (Custody)
5. Will Poulter (Detroit)
6. Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, American Made, Mother!, Goodbye Christopher Robin)
7. Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
8. Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, War for the Planet of the Apes, Wilson, The Glass Castle)
9. Noah Jupe (Suburbicon, Wonder, The Man With the Iron Heart)
10. Hugh Grant (Paddington 2)

H A L L   O F   S H A M E

worst: transformers: the last knight WORST FILM
Transformers: The Last Knight (Michael Bay)
2. Chips (Dax Shepard)
3. Stratton (Simon West)
4. Bright (David Ayer)
5. Fifty Shades Darker (James Foley)
6. The Shack (Stuart Hazeldine)
7. Home Again (Hallie Meyers-Shyer)
8. The Snowman (Thomas Alfredson)
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg)
10. Baywatch (Seth Gordon)
11. The Mummy (Alex Kurtzman)
12. Tainted Souls (Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini)
13. A Family Man (Mark Williams)
14. Sleepless (Baran bo Odar)
15. Big Bear (Joey Kern)
16. The House (Andrew Jay Cohen)
17. The Belko Experiment (Greg McLean)
18. A Family (Sebastiano Riso)
29. Hickok (Timothy Woodward Jr)
20. Finding Fatimah (Oz Arshad)
21. Spaceship (Alex Taylor)
22. The Vault (Dan Bush)
23. Goon: Last of the Enforcers (Jay Baruchel)
24. On the Road (Michael Winterbottom)
25. The Crash (Aram Rappaport)
26. Rough Night (Lucia Aniello)
27. The Unseen (Gary Sinyor)
28. The Odyssey (Jerome Salle)
29. All Eyez on Me (Benny Boom)
30. The Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow)
disappointment: the snowman BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT:
The Snowman. Baywatch. Hampstead.
The Book of Henry. Pitch Perfect 3.
MOST PRETENTIOUS: Mother!
Spaceship. A Cure for Wellness.
MOST INDULGENT:
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Bright. The Shack. The Mummy.
MOST DERIVATIVE: Unforgettable. Bright. Spark.
MOST OVERBLOWN (THE MICHAEL BAY AWARD):
Transformers: The Last Knight
Mother! XXX: Return of Xander Cage. The Mummy.
LAZIEST MOVIE: Fifty Shades Darker. Home Again.
LEAST 'SPECIAL' EFFECTS: The Great Wall. Bright.
WORST USE OF 3D: Transformers: The Last Knight
WORST MESSAGE: XXX: Return of Xander Cage
WORST TITLE: Chips. Unlocked. Away.
On the Road. T2 Trainspotting
MOST ANNOYING VOICEOVER (THE MORGAN FREEMAN AWARD): Tim McGraw (The Shack)
Josh Gad (A Dog's Purpose). Penelope Cruz (Loving Pablo).
MOST WASTEFUL DIRECTOR: Baran bo Odar (Sleepless)
Joel Hopkins (Hampstead).
MOST WASTED DIRECTOR:
Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us)
Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel).
SHOULD RETIRE: David Ayer
Michael Bay. The DC Extended Universe.
PLEASE STOP: Badly animated villains (Justice League)
Vague one-word titles (Unlocked, Away, Unforgettable, Jane).
WORST MANAGEMENT: Joel Edgerton (Bright)
Dominic Cooper (Stratton). Octavia Spencer (The Shack).

N O N - F I L M   P I C K S

tv: the handmaid's tale TV SERIES
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
2. Twin Peaks (Netflix)
3. Big Little Lies (HBO)
4. Veep (HBO)
5. Stranger Things (Netflix)
6. Game of Thrones (Sky)
7. Master of None (Netflix)
8. Black Mirror (Netflix)
9. Queers (BBC)
10. The Carmichael Show (NBC)
11. Shameless (Showtime)
12. Feud (FX)
13. Sense8 (Netflix)
14. Fargo (FX)
15. Top of the Lake: China Girl (BBC)
16. The Crown (Netflix)
17. Girls (HBO)
18. House of Cards (Netflix)
19. Jane the Virgin (ABC)
20. Transparent (Amazon)
21. Homeland (Showtime)
22. I'm Dying Up Here (Showtime)
23. Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
24. When We Rise (ABC)
25. The Deuce (HBO)
26. Man in an Orange Shirt (BBC)
27. This Is Us (NBC)
28. Legion (FX)
29. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
30. The Trip to Spain (BBC)
single: human SINGLE
Human (Rag ‘n’ Bone Man)
2. Sign of the Times (Harry Styles)
3. In the Name of Man (Plan B)
4. Green Light (Lorde)
5. Everything Now (Arcade Fire)
6. Shape of You (Ed Sheeran)
7. Oh Woman Oh Man (London Grammar)
8. Blinded by Your Grace, Part 2 (Stormzy & MNEK)
9. Walk on Water (Eminem & Beyonce)
10. Malibu (Miley Cyrus)
11. The Cure (Lady Gaga)
12. Heartbeat (Plan B)
13. Bedroom Floor (Liam Payne)
14. You're In Love With a Psycho (Kasabian)
15. Despacito (Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber)
16. Chained to the Rhythm (Katy Perry & Skip Marley)
17. Waterfall (StarGate, Pink & Sia)
18. Thunder (Imagine Dragons)
19. Slow Hands (Niall Horan)
20. Anywhere (Rita Ora)
21. Lavender (Two Door Cinema Club)
22. Lonely Side (Blaenavon)
23. Slide (Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean & Migos)
24. Castle on the Hill (Ed Sheeran)
25. On My Mind (Disciples)
26. Symphony (Clean Bandit & Zara Larsson)
27. Havana (Camila Cabello & Young Thug)
28. Kiwi (Harry Styles)
29. It Ain't Me (Kygo & Selena Gomez)
30. Young, Dumb and Broke (Khaled)

S P E C I A L   A W A R D S

ensemble: patti cakes ENSEMBLE: Patti Cake$
2. The Big Sick
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
4. I, Tonya
5. The Party
BREAKOUT FILMMAKER:
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
2. Jordan Peele (Get Out)
3. Francis Lee (God's Own Country)
4. Geremy Jasper (Patti Cake$)
5. Eliza Hittman (Beach Rats)
+ Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch). Julia Ducournau (Raw).
Sara Forestier (M). Jenny Gage (All This Panic).
BREAKOUT ACTOR: Timothee Chalamet
(Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, Hostiles)
2. Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$)
3. Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats)
4. Dafne Keen (Logan)
5. Garance Marillier (Raw)
music: phantom thread MUSIC:
Phantom Thread (Jonny Greenwood)
2. Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)
3. Patti Cake$ (Jason Binnick, Geremy Jasper)
4. Wind River (Nick Cave, Warren Ellis)
5. The Greatest Showman (Benj Pasek, Justin Paul)
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Dunkirk (Hoyte van Hoytema)
2. God's Own Country (Joshua James Richards)
3. Wonder Wheel (Vittorio Storaro)
4. Call Me by Your Name (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
5. You Were Never Really Here (Thomas Townend)
EDITING: Dunkirk (Lee Smith)
2. Baby Driver (Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss)
3. You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini)
4. All This Panic (Connor Kalista)
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Bob Ducsay)
PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Wonderstruck (Mark Friedberg)
2. Coco (Harley Jessup)
3. Phantom Thread (Mark Tildesley)
4. The Shape of Water (Paul Austerberry)
5. I, Tonya (Jade Healy)
EFFECTS: War for the Planet of the Apes
2. Paddington 2
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dunkirk
5. The Shape of Water
MAKEUP & HAIR: The Love Witch
The Disaster Artist. The Beguiled. Nico, 1988. Wonderstruck.
SOUND DESIGN: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water. Dunkirk.
You Were Never Really Here. Get Out.
COSTUMES: I, Tonya
Phantom Thread. I Am Not a Witch. Lady Macbeth.
I Am Not Madame Bovary.
STUNTS: Baby Driver
John Wick: Chapter 2. Dunkirk.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Logan.
casting: film stars don't die in liverpool BEST CASTING: Annette Bening
(Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)
Trine Dyrholm (Nico 1988).
Geoffrey Rush (Final Portrait).
Isabelle Huppert (Reinventing Marvin).
Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project).
BEST HAIR: Keala Settle (The Greatest Showman). Hugh Jackman (Logan). Jean-Pierre Leaud (The Death of Louis XIV). Shia Labeouf (Borg McEnroe). Meryl Streep (The Post).
WORST HAIR: James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here).
Julian Barratt (Mindhorn).
LEAST EXPRESSIVE FACE: Joel Edgerton (Bright)Cheryl Ladd (Unforgettable). Val Kilmer (The Snowman).
babe: vega BABE OF THE YEAR:
Daniela Vega (A Fantastic Woman)
Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Justice League). Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant).
Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok).
Riley Keough (Logan Lucky).
HUNK OF THE YEAR:
Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth)
Zac Efron (Baywatch, The Greatest Showman).
Sam Clafliin (My Cousin Rachel). Alec Secareanu
(God's Own Country). Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats).
BEST CHEMISTRY: Armie Hammer &
Timothee Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)
Sara Forestier & Redouanne Harjane (M). Richard Jenkins & Doug Jones (The Shape of Water). Dwayne Johnson & Jason Statham (The Fate of the Furious). Zoe Saldana & Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2).
WORST CHEMISTRY: Max Irons & Samantha Barks
(Bitter Harvest). Everyone (Whiskey Galore).
BEST VILLAIN: Barry Keoghan (The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Catherine Keener (Get Out). Hugh Grant (Paddington 2). Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World).
Cate Blanchett (Thor: Ragnarok).
MOST LUDICROUS VILLAIN:
Steppenwolf (Justice League)
David Thewlis (Wonder Woman). Eric Johnson (Fifty Shades Darker). Priyanka Chopra (Baywatch).
Gemma Chan (Transformers: The Last Knight).
scene stealer: haddish BEST SCENE-STEALING:
Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip)
Lil Rel Howery (Get Out). Salma Hayek
(The Hitman's Bodyguard). Dave Bautista
(Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2).
Daniel Craig (Logan Lucky).
BEST SCENE-CHEWING:
Christoph Waltz (Downsizing)
Marcia Gay Harden (Fifty Shades Darker). Toni Collette (Unlocked). Anthony Hopkins (Transformers: The Last Knight). Jeff Goldblum (Thor: Ragnarok).
WORST SCENE-CHOMPING:
Toni Collette (XXX: Return of Xander Cage)
Kim Basinger (Fifty Shades Darker). Russell Crowe
(The Mummy). Jake Gyllenhaal (Okja). Seth MacFarlane
(Logan Lucky).
BEST COSTAR-CHEWING (THE ALIVE AWARD):
Garance Marillier & Ella Rumpf (Raw)
BIGGEST HAM: Steve Coogan (Mindhorn)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water, The Shack, Gifted). Michael Douglas (Unlocked). Jon Hamm (Baby Driver).
Elton John (Kingsman: The Golden Circle)
BEST PHONED-IN PERFORMANCE:
Jamie Foxx (Sleepless)
Michael Pena (Chips). Michael Caine (Going in Style).
Brendan Gleeson (Alone in Berlin, Hampstead).
Gary Oldman (The Space Between Us).
BEST REINVENTION: Vince Vaughn
cameo: ragnarok BEST CAMEO:
Matt Damon & Sam Neill (Thor: Ragnarok)
Margaret Cho (Sharknado 5: Global Swarming). Helen Mirren (The Fate of the Furious). Laura Dern & Neil Patrick Harris (Downsizing).
MOST POINTLESS CAMEO:
Jeremy Renner (The House)
Shirley Henderson (On the Road, T2 Trainspotting). Paul McCartney (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales). JK Simmons (Justice League).
WORST CAMEO:
David Beckham (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Erik Estrada (CHiPs). Pamela Anderson (Baywatch).
Tom Daley (Sharknado 5: Global Swarming).
Samuel L Jackson (XXX: Return of Xander Cage).
ONE CAMEO TOO MANY: Simon Callow
(Hampstead, Mindhorn, Victoria & Abdul)
EWAN McGREGOR GOLDEN LIGHT SABER AWARD:
Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats)
Jon Bass (Baywatch). Josh O'Connor & Alec Secareanu
(God's Own Country). Allan Souza Lima (Aquarius).
 underrated: Wonderstruck MOST UNDERRATED: Wonderstruck
2. Spider-Man: Homecoming
3. Their Finest
4. Wind River
5. It Comes at Night
MOST OVERRATED: Wonder Woman
2. Baby Driver
3. The Lego Batman Movie
4. A Ghost Story
5. Blade Runner 2049
MOST IMPORTANT FILM: The Post
2. Get Out
3. My Life as a Courgette
4. The Square
5. Sanctuary
MOST INVENTIVE: Baby Driver
Dunkirk. Get Out. All This Panic. I Am Not Madame Bovary.
CLEVER APPROACH TO A COMPLEX ISSUE: Get Out
The Other Side of Hope. Beatriz at Dinner. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I Am Not a Witch.
guilty pleasure: logan lucky GUILTY PLEASURE: Logan Lucky
2. Brigsby Bear
3. Colossal
4. Man Hunt
5. The Hitman's Bodyguard
NICEST SURPRISE: Patti Cake$
Get Out. Spider-Man: Homecoming.
All the Money in the World. Stronger.
MOST ORIGINAL TAKE ON A TIRED GENRE: Dunkirk
Lady Macbeth. The Third Murder. Baby Driver.
You Were Never Really Here.
BEST SHOW-STOPPER: Brain surgery (Get Out)
The first broken arm (Brawl in Cell Block 99).
The birth (Mother!). Lightsaber v Snoke (Star Wars:
The Last Jedi). Car chase (Jupiter's Moon).
BEST HEART-STOPPER:
Alyosha behind the door (Loveless)
On the roof of the car (A Fantastic Woman).
Cops arrive (Get Out). The car crash (Foxtrot).
BEST ANIMAL PERFORMANCE: Marianna Palka (Bitch)
Bailey (A Dog's Purpose). Pete (Lean on Pete).
funniest: girlstrip FUNNIEST MOVIE: Girls Trip
2. Thor: Ragnarok
3. The Death of Stalin
4. The Incredible Jessica James
5. The Party.
LEAST FUNNY COMEDY: Chips
Baywatch. The House. Whiskey Galore.
Finding Fatimah.
SEXIEST MOVIE: The Double Lover
The Shape of Water. God's Own Country. Lady Macbeth. The Love Witch.
LEAST ROMANTIC LOVE STORY: Fifty Shades Darker
NUTTIEST MOVIE: The Great Wall. Zama. Mother! Mindhorn.
SCARIEST MOVIE: It Comes at Night
InSyriated. Get Out. Raw. Detroit.
MOST THRILLING THRILLER: Detour. Jupiter's Moon.
LEAST THRILLING THRILLER: The Limehouse Golem
Stratton. The Mummy. XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
YUCKIEST MOVIE: Raw
Mother! Brawl in Cell Block 99. Thoroughbreds. Bitch.
GRISLIEST MOVIE: John Wick: Chapter 2
Blade of the Immortal. Logan. Lady Macbeth.
GIRLIEST MOVIE: My Little Pony: The Movie
The Beguiled. All This Panic. Raw. Girls Trip.
MANLIEST MOVIE: Jawbone
God's Own Country. Dunkirk. Last Flag Flying.
T2 Trainspotting.
TRASHIEST MOVIE (THE JOHN WATERS AWARD):
Brawl in Cell Block 99. Patti Cake$. Mother!
Wonder Wheel. The Devil and Father Amorth.
MOPIEST MOVIE (THE TWILIGHT AWARD):
Personal Shopper. Song to Song. Bitter Harvest.
The Sense of an Ending. Live by Night. Columbus.
inspiring: the work MOST INSPIRING DOC: The Work.
Who's Gonna Love Me Now? Last Men in Aleppo.
Out of Iraq. An Inconvenient Sequel.
MOST DEPRESSING DOC: Icarus.
Whitney: Can I Be Me. Whose Streets? Machines. Human Flow.
MOST BLOOD-BOILING DOC:
I Am Not Your Negro
Get Me Roger Stone. City of Ghosts. Last Men in Aleppo.
BEST BIOPIC: I, Tonya
Stronger. The Big Sick. The Disaster Artist.
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki
WORST BIOPIC: The Odyssey
All Eyez on Me. Hickok. England Is Mine.
THE FAMILY VALUES AWARD: Happy End
The Big Sick. All the Money in the World. Loveless.
STRAIGHTEST GAY MOVIE (THE BROKEBACK AWARD): Baywatch. Love and Bullets. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno.
GAYEST STRAIGHT MOVIE (THE BROMANCE AWARD):
John Wick: Chapter 2. The Fate of the Furious.
adaptation: wonder MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL ADAPTATION: Wonder
BEST BOOK-TO-FILM: The Beguiled
Wonderstruck. You Were Never Really Here.
Lady Macbeth. Call Me by Your Name.
WORST BOOK-TO-FILM: Stratton
Fifty Shades Darker. The Shack. The Snowman. My Cousin Rachel. The Limehouse Golem.
BEST COMIC-TO-FILM: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Logan. Wonder Woman. Thor: Ragnarok.
WORST COMIC-TO-FILM: Atomic Blonde. Justice League.
WORST TV-TO-FILM: Chips. Baywatch.
BEST STAGE-TO-FILM: Julius Caesar. Marjorie Prime.
WORST FAIRYTALE-TO-FILM:
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
remake: the beguiled BEST REMAKE: The Beguiled
Kong: Skull Island. Beauty and the Beast.
Man Hunt.
WORST REMAKE: The Mummy
Going in Style. Whiskey Galore. Sleepless.
MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL REMAKE: Beauty and the Beast
BEST REBOOT: Spider-Man: Homecoming
BEST SEQUEL: Paddington 2
Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Logan.
Thor: Ragnarok. Blade Runner 2049.
WORST SEQUEL: Transformers: The Last Knight
Fifty Shades Darker. XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
Goon: Last of the Enforcers.
MOST SURPRISINGLY NOT-AWFUL SEQUEL:
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
Alien: Covenant. Cars 3. An Inconvenient Sequel.
BEST PREQUEL: War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST SPINOFF: The Lego Batman Movie
hardest working: jones THE HARDEST WORKING PERSON IN MOVIES: Toby Jones (Happy End, The Snowman, Atomic Blonde, Journey's End, Kaleidoscope, Zoo)
BEST NEW TREND:
Immersive storytelling (Dunkirk, Detroit, 120 Beats Per Minute, A Prayer Before Dawn).
Issue-grounded horror (Get Out, InSyriated).
WORST NEW TREND:
Issue-overwhelmed narratives (Downsizing, The Insult, First Reformed). Tepid sexuality (Fifty Shades Darker).
Tepid gross-out (Girls Trip, Rough Night).
MOST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2018:
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Avengers: Infinity War. Incredibles 2. Widows.
Annihilation. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Isle of Dogs. First Man. A Wrinkle in Time.
Black Klansman. Everybody Knows.
LEAST ANTICIPATED FILM OF 2018:
Fifty Shades Freed
Peter Rabbit. Deadpool 2. Tomb Raider.
Pacific Rim: Uprising. The Predator.

S H A D O W S   S W E E P S T A K E S   2 0 1 8
The final standings on 5.Mar.18 with 192 awards tabulated...

F I L M
885 Get Out*+
829 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri**+
781 The Shape of Water**++
781 Call Me By Your Name*+
766 Dunkirk*+
762 Coco**++
664 Lady Bird*+
535 Faces Places*
492 120 Beats Per Minute
395 The Florida Project
D I R E C T O R
660 Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water**++
491 Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk*+
423 Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird*+
348 Jordan Peele - Get Out*+
186 Luca Guadagnino - Call Me By Your Name*
S C R E E N P L A Y
705 Get Out. - Jordan Peele**++
683 Call Me by Your Name - James Ivory**++
561 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. - Martin McDonagh**
501 Lady Bird. - Greta Gerwig*+
341 Molly's Game - Aaron Sorkin*+
A C T R E S S
772 Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri**++
582 Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water*+, Paddington 2, Maudie
576 Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird*+
480 Margot Robbie - I, Tonya*+
228 Meryl Streep - The Post*
A C T O R
706 Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour**++
559 Timothee Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name*+
426 Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out*+
383 Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread*
320 James Franco - The Disaster Artist+
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T R E S S
709 Allison Janney - I, Tonya**++
574 Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird*+
256 Mary J Blige - Mudbound*+
237 Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread*
222 Octavia Spencer - The Shape of Water*, Gifted
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T O R
711 Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri**++
607 Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project*+
306 Richard Jenkins - The Shape of Water*+
248 Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*+
E N S E M B L E
180 Mudbound+
165 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri++
125 Get Out+
120 Lady Bird+
65 Dunkirk+
B R E A K T H R O U G H   A C T O R
239 Timothee Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name*
155 Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out**
100 Brooklynn Prince - The Florida Project
78 Harris Dickinson - Beach Rats
73 Josh O'Connor - God's Own Country*
B R E A K T H R O U G H   F I L M M A K E R
198 Jordan Peele - Get Out++
151 Rungano Nyoni - I Am Not a Witch**
110 William Oldroyd - Lady Macbeth*+
96 Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
78 Francis Lee - God's Own Country
A R T
712 The Shape of Water**++
683 Darkest Hour**++
562 Blade Runner 2049*++
456 Beauty and the Beast*+
432 Phantom Thread**+
M U S I C
512 The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat**+
401 Coco. - Michael Giacchino**++
380 Call Me By Your Name. - Sufjan Stevens*++
335 Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer*++
330 Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood*
C I N E M A T O G R A P H Y
546 Blade Runner 2049 - Roger Deakins**++
332 The Shape of Water - Dan Laustsen*+
318 Dunkirk - Hoyte van Hoytema*+
202 Darkest Hour - Bruno Delbonnel*+
184 Mudbound - Rachel Morrison*+
T E C H
831 Blade Runner 2049**++
699 Dunkirk**++
627 War for the Planet of the Apes*++
499 The Shape of Water*+
439 Star Wars: The Last Jedi*+
E D I T I N G
415 Dunkirk - Lee Smith**++
391 Baby Driver - Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss*++
254 The Shape of Water - Sidney Wolinsky*+
216 I, Tonya - Tatiana Riegel*++
170 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Jon Gregory*+
W O R S T   F I L M
185 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
291 Transformers: The Last Knight
283 Fifty Shades Darker
267 The Emoji Movie
254 The Mummy
151 Baywatch

Oscar/Bafta *nominees **winners
Guilds +nominees ++winners.
Numbers are cumulative points based on Shadows' complex, highly secret scoring system, combining year-end awards, Oscarwatchers, top-ten lists and much more.

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