The First Annual Film Inquiry Awards: The Winners!

Awards season is all above glitz, glamour and small statues. This year, the folks at Film Inquiry decided they wanted in on the action. We all met at an undisclosed location in our finest formalwear to put forth nominations in the same categories used in the Academy Awards (some people may say we didn’t meet at all and, instead, corresponded via the Internet while wearing a robe and slippers, but that’s all semantics). Once the nominees were established, each member of the Film Inquiry team voted on the winners. Without further ado, I am proud to present the nominees and winners of the first ever Film Inquiry Awards!

(Note: much like the categories themselves were lifted from the Oscars, the films eligible for the Film Inquiry Awards are the same films eligible for the upcoming 2018 Academy Awards. Sorry, international folks hoping to see love for La La Land).

Best Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049 (Winner)
Dunkirk
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman

Best Sound Mixing

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk (Winner)
mother!
Phantom Thread

Best Sound Editing

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Dunkirk (Winner)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Production Design

Blade Runner 2049 (Winner)
Dunkirk
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Beguiled
The Shape of Water

Best Original Song

“I Get Overwhelmed”—Dark Rooms, A Ghost Story
“Mystery of Love”—Sufjan Stevens, Call Me by Your Name (Winner)
“The Pure and the Damned”—Oneohtrix Point Never, Good Time
“Remember Me”—Miguel, Coco
“Visions of Gideon”— Sufjan Stevens, Call Me by Your Name

Best Original Score

Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk (Winner)
Oneohtrix Point Never, Good Time
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Makeup/Hairstyling

Darkest Hour
Good Time
Logan
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water (Winner)

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver (Winner)
Dunkirk
Get Out
Good Time
LA 92

Best Costume Design

Atomic Blonde
Blade Runner 2049
Phantom Thread (Winner)
The Beguiled
The Shape of Water

Best Foreign Language Film

BPM (Beats per Minute)
Graduation
Nocturama
Raw (Winner)
Thelma

Best Documentary Feature

Faces Places
Jane (Winner)
Kedi
Kingdom of Us
School Life

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 (Winner)
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me by Your Name
Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Darius Khondji, The Lost City of Z
Steve Yedlin, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Animated Feature

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Coco (Winner)
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
Your Name

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled
James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name (Winner)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound

Best Original Screenplay

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out (Winner)
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project (Winner)
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress

Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick
Tatiana Maslany, Stronger
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird (Winner)

Best Lead Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name (Winner)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Robert Pattinson, Good Time

Best Lead Actress

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird (Winner)
Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper

Best Director

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk (Winner)
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049

Best Picture

Blade Runner 2049
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk (Winner)
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
Phantom Thread
Raw
The Shape of Water