The 4th Annual CineMunchies: The Performances of the Year
/With the 90th Annual Oscars in the rear-view mirror, it's high time we put a cherry on top of the sh*t sundae that was 2017 with our 4th Annual CineMunchies! Honoring our favorite films and performances from the previous year, below you'll find the first half of our awards, crowning the best (and worst) performances the cinematic year had to offer. Our individual Top Ten lists were revealed in the latest CineDrunk podcast, so read on and listen in to find out which lucky actors netted a coveted CineMunchie this year.
For our acting awards, we attributed points based on our personal rankings, and those with the most points became our honorees. For other categories, we used a combination of secret ballot, tea leaves, and martini-fueled caucusing.
Cheers to another year of cinematic superlatives!
Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
2. Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
3. Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
4. Arnaud Valois in BPM (Beats per Minute)
5. Kumail Najiani in The Big Sick
Best Actress: Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
2. Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread
3. Meryl Streep in The Post
4. Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
5. (TIE) Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West & Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me by Your Name
2. Ray Romano in The Big Sick
3. Tracy Letts in Lady Bird
4. Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project
5. Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
2. Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
3. (TIE) Betty Gabriel in Get Out & Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread
5. Michelle Pfeiffer in mother!
Ensembles of the Year
The casts of BPM (Beats per Minute), Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, and Novitiate
Best Performance by a Younger Actor
Female: Ahn Seo-hyun in Okja
Male: Noah Jupe in Suburbicon & Wonder
Best Performance in a Bad Movie
John C. Reilly in Kong: Skull Island
Worst Performance in a Goodish Movie
Johnny Depp in Murder on the Orient Express
Sexiest Performance
Female: Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde
Male: Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name
Best Performance by an Inanimate Object
Kristen Stewart's cell phone and text usage in Personal Shopper
Breakthrough of the Year
Female: Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip
Male: Barry Keoghan in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Best Feline Performance
Agnès Varda's cat in Faces Places
The "I Wasn't Sure You Had That In You" Award
Ridley Scott replacing Kevin Spacey for Christopher Plummer with lightning speed for All the Money in the World
Best Performance by an Elderly British Actor
Gemma Jones in God's Own Country
The "Wait. So-and-so is in this?! I love them!" Award
Jacki Weaver in The Disaster Artist
Special 'WTF' Commendation
Everyone involved in The Book of Henry
Part 2 featuring the best films and scenes of the year is here.