The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) voted Call Me By Your Name the Best Picture of 2017, along with Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, and Best Director for Luca Guadagnino – a tie win with Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water. Best Documentary went to the Faces Places, and Best Foreign-Language Film was a tie win for BPM AND Loveless.
2017 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
BEST PICTURE
“CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”
RUNNER-UP: “THE FLORIDA PROJECT”
BEST DIRECTOR
GUILLERMO DEL TORO, “THE SHAPE OF WATER” AND
LUCA GUADAGNINO, “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME” (TIE)
BEST ACTOR
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME”
RUNNER-UP: JAMES FRANCO (“THE DISASTER ARTIST“)
BEST ACTRESS
SALLY HAWKINS “THE SHAPE OF WATER”
RUNNER-UP: FRANCES MCDORMAND (“THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI“)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WILLEM DAFOE “THE FLORIDA PROJECT”
RUNNER-UP: SAM ROCKWELL (“THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI “)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
LAURIE METCALF “LADY BIRD”
RUNNER-UP: MARY J. BLIGE (” MUDBOUND“)
BEST SCREENPLAY
JORDAN PEELE “GET OUT”
RUNNER-UP: MARTIN MCDONAGH (“THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI“)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
DENNIS GASSNER “BLADE RUNNER”
RUNNER-UP: PAUL D. AUSTERBERRY (“THE SHAPE OF WATER“)
BEST EDITING
LEE SMITH “DUNKIRK”
RUNNER-UP: TATIANA S. RIEGEL (“I TONYA“)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
DAN LAUSTSEN “THE SHAPE OF WATER”
RUNNER-UP: ROGER DEAKINS (“BLADE RUNNER“)
BEST MUSIC SCORE
JONNY GREENWOOD “PHANTOM THREAD”
RUNNER-UP: ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (“THE SHAPE OF WATER“)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
BEST DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM
“FACES PLACES”
RUNNER-UP: “JANE”
BEST ANIMATION
“THE BREADWINNER”
RUNNER-UP: “COCO”
NEW GENERATION
GRETA GERWIG
DOUGLAS EDWARDS INDEPENDENT / EXPERIMENTAL FILM / VIDEO
LEE ANNE SCHMITT “PURGE THIS LAND”
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
MAX VON SYDOW