title: Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2017
text: # 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
  