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    Columbus Film Critics Award Best of 2017

    The Columbus Film Critics Association (CoFCA) gathered at that weird upstairs room at Ace of Cups last night to formally announce the winners of their 16th annual awards for the best in film of 2017.

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    Greta Gerwig’s coming of age indie Lady Bird racked up the most awards with a total of four: Best Film, Ensemble, Director (Gerwig) and Supporting Actress (Laurie Metcalf).

    Jordan Peele’s Get Out, the second biggest vote-getter for both best film and director, also nabbed two first place nods for Peele, who came away with awards for Breakthrough Artist and Best Original Screenplay.

    The Columbus Film Critics Association is a collective of print, online and broadcast film critics based in the Columbus area. You can find them at cofca.org.

    Complete list of awards:

    Best Film
    1. Lady Bird
    2. Get Out
    3. The Shape of Water
    4. The Big Sick
    5. Blade Runner 2049
    6. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
    7. The Post
    8. The Florida Project
    9. Dunkirk
    10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    Best Director
    Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

    Best Actor
    Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

    Best Actress
    Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

    Best Supporting Actor
    Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

    Best Supporting Actress
    Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

    Best Ensemble
    Lady Bird

    Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
    (Tie) Sally Hawkins (Maudie and The Shape of Water) and Tracy Letts (Lady Bird, The Lovers, and The Post)

    Breakthrough Film Artist
    Jordan Peele, Get Out – (for directing and screenwriting)

    Best Cinematography
    Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

    Best Film Editing
    Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, Baby Driver

    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

    Best Original Screenplay
    Jordan Peele, Get Out

    Best Score
    Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

    Best Documentary
    Faces Places (Visages, villages)

    Best Foreign Language Film
    BPM (Beats Per Minute) (120 battements par minute)

    Best Animated Film
    Coco

    Best Overlooked Film
    The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

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    Hope Madden
    Hope Maddenhttps://columbusunderground.com
    Hope Madden is a freelance contributor on Columbus Underground who covers the independent film scene, writes film reviews and previews film events.
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