It is time once again for the least prestigious part of awards season: the “Braddies”, my own personal, subjective nominations for the best movies released in this calendar year. They are entirely distinct from Guardian Film’s best of the year countdown and come in the following categories: best film, best director, best actress, best supporting actress, best actor, best supporting actor, best documentary, best screenplay and best cinematographer. You are, as ever, invited to vote for the winner in the comments section, and to note what you think are unfair omissions.
Film of the year
The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
The Death of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci)
Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
The Handmaiden (dir. Park Chan-wook)
Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)
The Love Witch (dir. Anna Biller)
La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)
I Am Not a Witch (dir. Rungano Nyoni)
Best Director
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Luca Guadagnino for Call Me By Your Name
Darren Aronofsky for Mother!
Kelly Reichardt for Certain Women
Edgar Wright for Baby Driver
Dee Rees for Mudbound
Michael Haneke for Happy End
Cristian Mungiu for Graduation
Maren Ade for Toni Erdmann
Kathryn Bigelow for Detroit
Best Actor
Peter Simonischek for Toni Erdmann
Jason Mitchell for Mudbound
Jean-Pierre Léaud for The Death of Louis XIV
Armie Hammer for Call Me By Your Name
Timothée Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name
Simon Russell Beale for The Death of Stalin
Colin Farrell for The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Beguiled
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Makis Papadimitriou for Suntan
John Boyega for Detroit
Best Supporting Actor
Rob Morgan for Mudbound
Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
Michael Palin for The Death of Stalin
Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name
Ha Jung-woo for The Handmaiden
Henry BJ Phiri for I Am Not a Witch
Daniel Craig for Logan Lucky
Fabrice Luchini for Slack Bay
Adam Sandler for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Best Actress
Florence Pugh for Lady Macbeth
Kristen Stewart for Personal Shopper and Certain Women
Ruth Negga for Loving
Rooney Mara for A Ghost Story and Una
Sonia Braga for Aquarius
Jennifer Lawrence for Mother!
Taraji P Henson for Hidden Figures
Isabelle Huppert for Elle and Happy End
Annette Bening for Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool
Lois Smith for Marjorie Prime
Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton for Okja
Brookynn Prince for The Florida Project
Naomie Harris for Moonlight
Janelle Monáe for Hidden Figures
Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures
Marion Cotillard for It’s Only the End of the World
Laura Dern for Certain Women
Michelle Williams for Certain Women
Catherine Keener for Get Out
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Slack Bay
Best Screenplay
James Ivory for Call Me By Your Name
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin for The Death of Stalin
Sally Potter for The Party
Noah Baumbach for The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By the Sea
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Harry Michell for Chubby Funny
Gaby Chiappe for Their Finest
Simon Farnaby, Paul King and Jon Croker for Paddington 2
Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith for Ingrid Goes West
Best Documentary
I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck)
Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson)
City of Ghosts (dir. Matthew Heineman)
Bunch of Kunst (dir. Christine Franz)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (dir. Sophie Fiennes)
Destination Unknown (dir. Claire Ferguson)
Machines (dir. Rahul Jain)
Whitney: Can I Be Me (dirs. Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal)
Tower (dir. Keith Maitland)
Trophy (dirs. Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau)
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom for Call Me By Your Name
Laurie Rose for Free Fire
M David Mullen for The Love Witch
Chung Chung-hoon for The Handmaiden
James Laxton for Moonlight
Linus Sandgren for La La Land
Urszula Pontikos for Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Zach Kuperstein for The Eyes of My Mother
Bojan Bazelli for A Cure for Wellness
