2017 National Society of Film Critics Awards
# 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.

