IJR Awards 2017: Film and Documentary Nominations Announced

Today I’m revealing the second half of the 2017 nominations for this blog’s IJR Awards (I’m Jeffrey Rex Awards, but you probably already guessed that). The final legend award (Film Legend) isn’t getting any nominees, instead I’ll reveal the winner, or honoree, when all of the winners are to be announced on March 1st.


If you somehow missed the first half of the nominations, or the the first round of winners, then you can find the nominations here and the winners here.

The remaining nominations listed below (along with the final round of winners) are entirely focused on film and documentaries.


UNFORGETTABLE MOVIE QUOTE OF THE YEAR

  • “I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!” — Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
  • “I’m TS-motherfuckin’-A. We handle shit. That’s what we do. Consider this situation fuckin’ handled.” — Get Out
  • “Chic! Whoever invented that ought to be spanked in public. I don’t even know what that word means! What is that word? Fucking chic! They should be hung, drawn, and quartered. Fucking chic.” — Phantom Thread
  • “Luke, we are what they grow beyond, that is the true burden of all masters,” — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • “You cannot reason with a tiger, when your head is in its mouth!” — Darkest Hour

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Film or Series)

  • Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds — HBO
  • Five Came Back — Netflix
  • Icarus — Netflix
  • Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton — Netflix
  • Last Chance U: Season Two — Netflix

BEST MOVIE POSTER


BEST MOVIE TRAILER


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS IN A FILM

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Dunkirk — Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets — STX Films
  • War for the Planet of the Apes — 20th Century Fox

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Doug Jones — The Shape of Water
  • Andy Serkis — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Andy Serkis — War for the Planet of the Apes
  • Steve Zahn — War for the Planet of the Apes
  • Taika Waititi — Thor: Ragnarok

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Roger Deakins
  • Call Me By Your Name — Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
  • Dunkirk — Hoyte van Hoytema
  • Mudbound — Rachel Morrison
  • The Shape of Water — Dan Laustsen

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING A FILM

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Hampton Fancher & Michael Green
  • Call Me By Your Name — James Ivory
  • Get Out — Jordan Peele
  • The Big Sick — Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY A RISING STAR: FILMMAKING

  • Get Out — Jordan Peele
  • Mudbound — Dee Rees
  • Raw — Julia Ducournau
  • Thor: Ragnarok — Taika Waititi
  • Wind River — Taylor Sheridan

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING A FILM

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
  • Call Me By Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
  • Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
  • Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Shape of Water — Guillermo Del Toro

BEST FILM SCORE

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
  • Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer
  • Good Time — Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Phantom Thread — Jonny Greenwood
  • Wind River — Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A RISING STAR: ACTING

  • Ana de Armas — Blade Runner 2049
  • Timothée Chalamet — Call Me By Your Name
  • Daniel Kaluuya — Get Out
  • Barry Keoghan — The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Vicky Krieps — Phantom Thread

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FILM

  • Allison Janney — I, Tonya
  • Lesley Manville — Phantom Thread
  • Tatiana Maslany — Stronger
  • Octavia Spencer — The Shape of Water
  • Kristin Scott Thomas — Darkest Hour

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Armie Hammer — Call Me By Your Name
  • Richard Jenkins — The Shape of Water
  • Barry Keoghan — The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Sam Rockwell — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Michael Stuhlbarg — Call Me By Your Name

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FILM

  • Sally Hawkins — The Shape of Water
  • Vicky Krieps — Phantom Thread
  • Jennifer Lawrence — mother!
  • Frances McDormand — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Margot Robbie — I, Tonya

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FILM

  • Claes Bang — The Square
  • Timothée Chalamet — Call Me By Your Name
  • Daniel Day-Lewis — Phantom Thread
  • Gary Oldman — Darkest Hour
  • Robert Pattinson — Good Time

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A FILM

  • Call Me By Your Name
  • Get Out
  • Mudbound
  • Phantom Thread
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST SEQUEL, PREQUEL, OR REMAKE

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Logan — 20th Century Fox
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming — Sony Pictures
  • Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • War for the Planet of the Apes — 20th Century Fox

BEST NON-AMERICAN FILM

  • Darkest Hour
  • Dunkirk
  • Okja
  • Raw
  • The Square

A Non-American film is not easy to identify these days. See the eligibility criteria, as specified here, to gather why some films may have been deemed eligible or ineligible.


BEST FILM

  • Blade Runner 2049 — Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Call Me By Your Name — Sony Pictures Classics
  • Coco — Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
  • Dunkirk — Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Phantom Thread — Focus Features

 

– Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen

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