The 2017 Hollmann Awards: Part One

It's the 2017 Hollmann Awards in 2018! With eighteen categories to get through, I'm dividing things up over two days. The order of categories was decided by lottery, much like the nominations - and if you haven't taken a look at those, please do; they come with a full list of the honorees in each category.

Now, on with the show....

Best Score

1. Jane

Philip Glass

2. Battle of the Sexes

Nicholas Britell

3. Phantom Thread

Jonny Greenwood

4. The Lost City of Z

Christopher Spelman

5. The Shape of Water

Alexandre Desplat

Makeup, Supporting Actor and Actress, and much more, after the jump....

The 2017 Hollmann Awards Nominations

Presenting the nominees for the 2017 Hollmann Awards! 128 films considered in 18 categories, whittled down to just five spots each. The order of the categories was decided by writing them down on pieces of paper, crumpling them, scrambling them up, and selecting willy-nilly. Not even Best Picture is safe from the randomness.

The nominees are...after the jump.

Top Ten of 2017

Before I unveil my Top Ten of the Year, there's something I forgot to do in yesterday's ranking of my Top 25 - 11: honorable mentions. As I mentioned, there were a number of movies that almost made it, but I just couldn't find room for. A special salute (and apology) to those flicks:

The Battleship Island
Ingrid Goes West

The Last Jedi

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Murder on the Orient Express

Oklahoma City

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Split

A United Kingdom

And now, my Top Ten of 2017, presented in alphabetical order...after the jump...

2017: We're Halfway There

So now the year is officially half-over, and I have seen but 37 films so far. The movies I'm saddest to have missed before the end of June? Battle of Memories (dir. Leste Chen), Raw (dir. Julia Ducournau), and Prevenge (dir. Alice Lowe), and I'm hoping to catch up with Okja (dir. Bong Joon Ho) and The Bad Batch (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour) in early July.

That said...here are the 38 movies I saw, broken up into several categories.

Barely Remember
But what I do remember is...

• Burning Sands (dir. Gerard McMurray) - The chick who plays the Whataburger employee the pledges run a train on is the standout.
• Fifty Shades Darker (dir. James Foley) - That Zayn/Swifty song is oddly placed

If You Can't Say Anything Nice...
Zip ze lips, as my French teacher would say.

• All Eyez on Me (dir. Benny Boom)
• The Devotion of Suspect X (dir. Alec Su)
• It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults)
• New Trial (dir. Kim Tae-yun)
• XXX: Return of Xander Cage (dir. D.J. Caruso)

The rest of the 31, after the jump...