Southeastern Film Critics pick year’s best

This is not a normal week.

We’ve got seven movies opening this week and, as of now, none opening the week after. So some of our reviews will be shorter than usual. And some — I don’t know which ones yet — will probably be relegated to the blood, dirt & angels blog (which is at blooddirtangels.com).

And then there’s this. The Southeastern Film Critics Association, the critics group Karen Martin and I belong to (Conway’s Noel Murray is a member as well) voted last weekend, and I’m duty bound to report the results. Normally I’d comment on the results and tell you how Karen and I voted, but to conserve valuable newsprint I’m going to put those ballots on the blog too. Except for my Top 10, which I’ll save for my New Year’s Eve Critical Mass column.

And over the next few weeks, we’ll be running Top 10 lists from all over, including from other lo-

cal reviewers and friends of the program. But now, here’s what SEFCA says:

TOP 10 MOVIES OF THE YEAR: 1. Get Out 2. The Shape of Water 3. Dunkirk 4. Lady Bird 5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 6. The Post 7. The Florida Project 8. Call Me By Your Name 9. Darkest Hour 10. The Disaster Artist

BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour 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: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards

Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Runner-up: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Runner-up: Allison Janney, I Tonya

BEST ENSEMBLE: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Runner-up, The Post BEST DIRECTOR: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water

Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Jordan Peele, Get Out

Runner-up, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name

Runner-up: Virgil Willams, Mudbound BEST DOCUMENTARY: Jane Runner-up: Faces Places BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: First They Killed My Father

Runner-up: The Square BEST ANIMATED FILM: Coco Runner-up: Loving Vincent BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk Runner-up: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 THE GENE WYATT AWARD FOR FILM THAT BEST EVOKES THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH: Mudbound

Runner-up: The Florida Project

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Mudbound was named the winner of the Gene Wyatt Award for “the film that best vokes the spirit of the South” in the Southeastern Critics Association annual poll.