title: 2017 National Society of Film Critics Awards
text: # 2017 National Society of Film Critics Awards
  
  52nd NSFC Awards
  
  January 6, 2018
  
  Best Film: Lady Bird
  
  The 52nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 2018, honored the best in film for 2017.
  
  ## Winners
  
  Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
  
  ### Best Picture
  
  * Lady Bird (41)
  * Get Out (39)
  * Phantom Thread (28)
  
  ### Best Director
  
  * Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (37)
  * Jordan Peele – Get Out / Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread (36)
  
  ### Best Actor
  
  * Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out (44)
  * Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread (34)
  * Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name (24)
  
  ### Best Actress
  
  * Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water and Maudie (49)
  * Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird (44)
  * Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri / Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion (24)
  
  ### Best Supporting Actor
  
  * Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project (62)
  * Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, and The Post (25)
  * Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (23)
  
  ### Best Supporting Actress
  
  * Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird (74)
  * Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread (36)
  * Allison Janney – I, Tonya (24)
  
  ### Best Screenplay
  
  * Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (50)
  * Jordan Peele – Get Out (49)
  * Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread (31)
  
  ### Best Cinematography
  
  * Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049 (40)
  * Hoyte van Hoytema – Dunkirk (39)
  * Alexis Zabé – The Florida Project (36)
  
  ### Best Foreign Language Film
  
  * Graduation – Cristian Mungiu (35)
  * Faces Places – Agnès Varda (30)
  * BPM (Beats per Minute) – Robin Campillo (29)
  
  ### Best Non-Fiction Film
  
  * Faces Places – Agnès Varda (70)
  * Ex Libris: The New York Public Library – Frederick Wiseman (34)
  * Dawson City: Frozen Time – Bill Morrison (32)
  
  ### Film Heritage Award
  
  * One Way or Another: Black Women's Cinema, 1970–1991, curated by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinématek.
  * Special commendation to Dan Talbot for his pioneering work as an exhibitor and distributor, in bringing worldwide cinema to the United States.
  
  ### Special Citation
  
  * Agnieszka Holland's Spoor, a film awaiting American distribution
  
  ## Dedication
  
  This year's National Society of Film Critics awards are dedicated to Richard Schickel, the legendary film critic and historian, author of 37 books and director of 37 documentaries, and a founding member of the Society, who died on February 18, 2017.
  
  