title: Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2017
text: # Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2017
  
  13th AFCA Awards
  
  Best Film:
  
  Get Out
  
  The 13th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2017, were announced on January 8, 2018.
  
  ## Winners and nominees
  
  | Best Film | Best Director |
  | - | - |
  | Get Out The Shape of Water Call Me by Your Name Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The Florida Project Dunkirk I, Tonya The Big Sick Logan | Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk Jordan Peele – Get Out Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049 |
  | Best Actor | Best Actress |
  | Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name James Franco – The Disaster Artist Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour Robert Pattinson – Good Time | Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water Margot Robbie – I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird Kristen Stewart – Personal Shopper |
  | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
  | Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name | Allison Janney – I, Tonya Mary J. Blige – Mudbound Holly Hunter – The Big Sick Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water |
  | Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
  | Get Out – Jordan Peele The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh | Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory The Beguiled – Sofia Coppola The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin Mudbound – Dee Rees and Virgil Williams |
  | Best Animated Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
  | Coco The Breadwinner The Lego Batman Movie Loving Vincent Your Name | Okja Blade of the Immortal Raw The Square Thelma |
  | Best First Film | Best Documentary |
  | Get Out Brigsby Bear I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore Ingrid Goes West Molly's Game | Faces Places Icarus Jane Kedi The Work |
  | Best Cinematography | Best Score |
  | Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema Mudbound – Rachel Morrison The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen | The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams |
  | Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award | Austin Film Award |
  | Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name, Hostiles and Lady Bird Mary J. Blige – Mudbound Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project Florence Pugh – Lady Macbeth | I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore – Macon Blair Barracuda – Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin Infinity Baby – Bob Byington Last Flag Flying – Richard Linklater Shot Caller – Ric Roman Waugh |
  | Special Honorary Award ||
  | The Shape of Water’s Doug Jones and War for the Planet of the Apes’ Andy Serkis for their exemplary body and motion-capture performances, respectively. Harry Dean Stanton, for his body of work. ||
  