First Annual Tommen Awards <WINNERS>

Ever since migrating to MA a few years ago, I saw people post their own "awards" every year and I always wanted to do it too. MA has completely transformed my movie-watching experience, and prompted me to start creating my own lineups. Now I obsess over them, and have one word document of lineups for each year going all the way back to 1960. As I watch a new film from a given year, I add it to my lineups. I love keeping track of them all and comparing them against each other.

So these nominees are truly a year coming, ever since I watched Logan and added it as the first item to my 2017 lineups. Fifty-eight films have since joined it, and I've seen enough to confidently feel that although my nominees might change a bit, my winners are set in stone. Might as well use all this useless, obsessive documentation for something 

*disclaimer:
There won't be any nominations for animated film, documentary, or foreign language film, as I haven't seen enough candidates to justify having those categories. I typically avoid most animated movies anyway as most of them don't appeal to me (it's always felt like a token category to me, with a few exceptions). I'll usually go most years without seeing more than two. As for foreign films, there are a few that I still desperately want to see (A Fantastic Woman, Loveless, Foxtrot, BPM) that will almost certainly affect my lineups, but I have no idea when I'll get to see them. Shout out for On Body and Soul, one of my favorite movies of the year. A gorgeous, compassionate meditation on human intimacy and spiritual connectedness. Check it out. 

As for documentaries, there are several I still want to see. For now I'll just shout out Chasing Coral, a film that uses realtime footage to document the deaths of our ocean's coral reefs, and a companion piece to 2012's Chasing Ice. Both films seek to demonstrate the tangible, visible affects of climate change on our planet's ecosystems. Check it out, and also check out Chasing Ice.

And without further ado, here are the nominees for the First Annual Tommen Awards!
(bit of housekeeping, there are six nominees in each of the acting categories because there were just too many good ones last year)

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Call Me By Your Name
Columbus
Phantom Thread
The Lost City of Z
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Kogonada, Columbus
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Colin Farrell, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Josh O'Connor, God's Own Country
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
Haley Lu Richardson, Columbus
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name
Ian Hart, God's Own Country
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Patricia Clarkson, The Party
Nicole Kidman, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Tatiana Maslany, Stronger
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Bria Vinaite, The Florida Project

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Colubmus
Screenplay by Kogonada

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Screenplay by Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou

Lady Bird
Screenplay by Greta Gerwig

Phantom Thread
Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Screenplay by Martin McDonagh

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Blade Runner 2049
Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green

Call Me By Your Name
Screenplay by James Ivory

Lady Macbeth
Screenplay by Alice Birch

The Lost City of Z
Screenplay by James Gray

Molly's Game
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
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BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049 - Roger Deakins
Darkest Hour - Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk - Hoyte van Hoytema
The Lost City of Z - Darius Khondji
Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL SCORE
Phantom Thread - Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water - Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Carter Burwell
Wonderstruck - Carter Burwell

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Detroit
Molly's Game
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
Beauty and the Beast
Lady Macbeth
Phantom Thread
A Quiet Passion
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
It
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND DESIGN
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
Mother!
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Detroit
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Wind River

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thor: Ragnarok
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Evermore" - Beauty and the Beast
"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" - Fifty Shades Darker
"Mystery of Love" - Call Me By Your Name
"Never Forget" - Murder on the Orient Express
"This Is Me" - The Greatest Showman

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Call Me By Your Name
Detroit
The Florida Project
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Statistics
- Phantom Thread leads the pack with ten nominations, Call Me By Your Name follows with eight, and Blade Runner and Star Wars follow with 7 and 6 respectively.
- Compared to its 13 nominations at the Oscars, I only nominate Shape of Water in five categories.
- Get Out gets shut out. Apart from Daniel Kaluuya, it didn't really make my radar in any other categories, although I should probably watch it again and pay attention to the film editing and sound
- Only three women represented in director and the screenplay categories 
- Every single acting nominee is white. Ouch #TommenSoWhite
- Last year was quite a bit more diverse, but it is what it is.

*Winners to be announced next week on Saturday, February 17.

EDIT: Sorry if there are any typos. I was in a rush to finish this before leaving for work