2017 Critics Choice Awards Nominations La La Land Takes The Lead With 12 Nods

2017 Critics Choice Awards Nominations: ‘La La Land’ Takes The Lead With 12 Nods

By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2016 1:00 pm EST

Awards season has officially begun, and we’re going to be hearing a lot about which movies are garnering accolades from various critics groups, guilds and eventually the Golden Globes and Academy Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards were first out of the gate with their nominations last week, and now the 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association have arrived.

What’s fun about this particular line-up of nominees is that in addition to the usual powerful dramas that typically get nominated for awards, the BFCA also hands out awards for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and Best Comedy, and the latter category isn’t full of movies pretending to be comedies like at the Golden Globes. Check out the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations after the jump. The anticipated musical La La Land leads the pack of all movies with a whopping 12 nominations, including all the big prizes for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and of course, Best Song and Best Score. It’s just more fuel to the fire that I have to see this movie as soon as possible (if you’re in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, you’ll be able to see it).

Up next, Arrival and Moonlight (which also was huge at the Indie Spirit Awards) com in with 10 nominations. Hopefully this means that the Academy of Motions Picture Arts and Sciences will give Arrival some Oscar love when the time comes next year. There are some unworthy inclusions in the line-up this year, particularly Sully in the Best Picture category. I’m not sure why Jackie isn’t sitting there instead (though Natalie Portman did get nominated). Even the outstanding Edge of Seventeen deserves to be in the Best Picture line-up more than Sully. Sadly, Silence wasn’t included in the awards because it didn’t get screened for critics in time. The same goes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on the blockbuster side of things. Last year, you might remember that Star Wars: The Force Awakens got nominated after the votes were supposed to be closed. That created quite the stir in the critic community, and it reeked of just wanting attention, but there’s no indication that will happen again this year. But the one thing that has me frustrated is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping missing from the Best Comedy category. That movie is funnier and better than almost all of those nominees, and it got completely snubbed. That’s outrageous.

Anyway, here’s the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations: BEST PICTURE Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water La La Land Lion Loving Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Sully BEST DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle – La La Land Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water Denis Villeneuve – Arrival Denzel Washington – Fences BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Damien Chazelle – La La Land Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Yorgos Lanthimos/Efthimis Filippou – The Lobster Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Jeff Nichols – Loving Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Luke Davies – Lion Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals Eric Heisserer – Arrival Todd Komarnicki – Sully Allison Schroeder/Theodore Melfi – Hidden Figures August Wilson – Fences BEST ACTOR Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea Joel Edgerton – Loving Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Gosling – La La Land Tom Hanks – Sully Denzel Washington – Fences BEST ACTRESS Amy Adams – Arrival Annette Bening – 20th Century Women Isabelle Huppert – Elle Ruth Negga – Loving Natalie Portman – Jackie Emma Stone – La La Land

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mahershala Ali – Moonlight Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water Ben Foster – Hell or High Water Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea Dev Patel – Lion Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Viola Davis – Fences Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women Naomie Harris – Moonlight Nicole Kidman – Lion Janelle Monáe – Hidden Figures Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea Alex R. Hibbert – Moonlight Lewis MacDougall – A Monster Calls Madina Nalwanga – Queen of Katwe Sunny Pawar – Lion Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 20th Century Women Fences Hell or High Water Hidden Figures Manchester by the Sea Moonlight BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Stéphane Fontaine – Jackie James Laxton – Moonlight Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals Linus Sandgren – La La Land Bradford Young – Arrival BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Arrival – Patrice Vermette, Paul Hotte/André Valade Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Stuart Craig/James Hambidge, Anna Pinnock Jackie – Jean Rabasse, Véronique Melery La La Land – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Live by Night – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

BEST EDITING Tom Cross – La La Land John Gilbert – Hacksaw Ridge Blu Murray – Sully Nat Sanders/Joi McMillon – Moonlight Joe Walker – Arrival BEST COSTUME DESIGN Colleen Atwood – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Consolata Boyle – Florence Foster Jenkins Madeline Fontaine – Jackie Joanna Johnston – Allied Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh – Love & Friendship Mary Zophres – La La Land BEST HAIR & MAKEUP Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Hacksaw Ridge Jackie Star Trek Beyond BEST VISUAL EFFECTS A Monster Calls Arrival Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Jungle Book BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Finding Dory Kubo and the Two Strings Moana The Red Turtle Trolls Zootopia BEST ACTION MOVIE Captain America: Civil War Deadpool Doctor Strange Hacksaw Ridge Jason Bourne BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE Benedict Cumberbatch – Doctor Strange Matt Damon – Jason Bourne Chris Evans – Captain America: Civil War Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE Gal Gadot – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Scarlett Johansson – Captain America: Civil War Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad Tilda Swinton – Doctor Strange BEST COMEDY

Central Intelligence Deadpool Don’t Think Twice The Edge of Seventeen Hail, Caesar! The Nice Guys BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE 10 Cloverfield Lane Arrival Doctor Strange Don’t Breathe Star Trek Beyond The Witch BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Elle The Handmaiden Julieta Neruda The Salesman Toni Erdmann BEST SONG Audition (The Fools Who Dream) – La La Land Can’t Stop the Feeling – Trolls City of Stars – La La Land Drive It Like You Stole It – Sing Street How Far I’ll Go – Moana The Rules Don’t Apply – Rules Don’t Apply BEST SCORE Nicholas Britell – Moonlight Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival Justin Hurwitz – La La Land Micachu – Jackie Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka – Lion

2017 Critics Choice Awards Nominations: ‘La La Land’ Takes The Lead With 12 Nods

By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 1, 2016 1:00 pm EST

Awards season has officially begun, and we’re going to be hearing a lot about which movies are garnering accolades from various critics groups, guilds and eventually the Golden Globes and Academy Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards were first out of the gate with their nominations last week, and now the 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association have arrived.

What’s fun about this particular line-up of nominees is that in addition to the usual powerful dramas that typically get nominated for awards, the BFCA also hands out awards for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and Best Comedy, and the latter category isn’t full of movies pretending to be comedies like at the Golden Globes. Check out the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations after the jump. The anticipated musical La La Land leads the pack of all movies with a whopping 12 nominations, including all the big prizes for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and of course, Best Song and Best Score. It’s just more fuel to the fire that I have to see this movie as soon as possible (if you’re in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, you’ll be able to see it).

Up next, Arrival and Moonlight (which also was huge at the Indie Spirit Awards) com in with 10 nominations. Hopefully this means that the Academy of Motions Picture Arts and Sciences will give Arrival some Oscar love when the time comes next year. There are some unworthy inclusions in the line-up this year, particularly Sully in the Best Picture category. I’m not sure why Jackie isn’t sitting there instead (though Natalie Portman did get nominated). Even the outstanding Edge of Seventeen deserves to be in the Best Picture line-up more than Sully. Sadly, Silence wasn’t included in the awards because it didn’t get screened for critics in time. The same goes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on the blockbuster side of things. Last year, you might remember that Star Wars: The Force Awakens got nominated after the votes were supposed to be closed. That created quite the stir in the critic community, and it reeked of just wanting attention, but there’s no indication that will happen again this year. But the one thing that has me frustrated is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping missing from the Best Comedy category. That movie is funnier and better than almost all of those nominees, and it got completely snubbed. That’s outrageous.

Anyway, here’s the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations: BEST PICTURE Arrival Fences Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water La La Land Lion Loving Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Sully BEST DIRECTOR Damien Chazelle – La La Land Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water Denis Villeneuve – Arrival Denzel Washington – Fences BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Damien Chazelle – La La Land Barry Jenkins – Moonlight Yorgos Lanthimos/Efthimis Filippou – The Lobster Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea Jeff Nichols – Loving Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Luke Davies – Lion Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals Eric Heisserer – Arrival Todd Komarnicki – Sully Allison Schroeder/Theodore Melfi – Hidden Figures August Wilson – Fences BEST ACTOR Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea Joel Edgerton – Loving Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Gosling – La La Land Tom Hanks – Sully Denzel Washington – Fences BEST ACTRESS Amy Adams – Arrival Annette Bening – 20th Century Women Isabelle Huppert – Elle Ruth Negga – Loving Natalie Portman – Jackie Emma Stone – La La Land

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mahershala Ali – Moonlight Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water Ben Foster – Hell or High Water Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea Dev Patel – Lion Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Viola Davis – Fences Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women Naomie Harris – Moonlight Nicole Kidman – Lion Janelle Monáe – Hidden Figures Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea Alex R. Hibbert – Moonlight Lewis MacDougall – A Monster Calls Madina Nalwanga – Queen of Katwe Sunny Pawar – Lion Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 20th Century Women Fences Hell or High Water Hidden Figures Manchester by the Sea Moonlight BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Stéphane Fontaine – Jackie James Laxton – Moonlight Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals Linus Sandgren – La La Land Bradford Young – Arrival BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Arrival – Patrice Vermette, Paul Hotte/André Valade Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Stuart Craig/James Hambidge, Anna Pinnock Jackie – Jean Rabasse, Véronique Melery La La Land – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco Live by Night – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

BEST EDITING Tom Cross – La La Land John Gilbert – Hacksaw Ridge Blu Murray – Sully Nat Sanders/Joi McMillon – Moonlight Joe Walker – Arrival BEST COSTUME DESIGN Colleen Atwood – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Consolata Boyle – Florence Foster Jenkins Madeline Fontaine – Jackie Joanna Johnston – Allied Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh – Love & Friendship Mary Zophres – La La Land BEST HAIR & MAKEUP Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Hacksaw Ridge Jackie Star Trek Beyond BEST VISUAL EFFECTS A Monster Calls Arrival Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Jungle Book BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Finding Dory Kubo and the Two Strings Moana The Red Turtle Trolls Zootopia BEST ACTION MOVIE Captain America: Civil War Deadpool Doctor Strange Hacksaw Ridge Jason Bourne BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE Benedict Cumberbatch – Doctor Strange Matt Damon – Jason Bourne Chris Evans – Captain America: Civil War Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE Gal Gadot – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Scarlett Johansson – Captain America: Civil War Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad Tilda Swinton – Doctor Strange BEST COMEDY

Central Intelligence Deadpool Don’t Think Twice The Edge of Seventeen Hail, Caesar! The Nice Guys BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE 10 Cloverfield Lane Arrival Doctor Strange Don’t Breathe Star Trek Beyond The Witch BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Elle The Handmaiden Julieta Neruda The Salesman Toni Erdmann BEST SONG Audition (The Fools Who Dream) – La La Land Can’t Stop the Feeling – Trolls City of Stars – La La Land Drive It Like You Stole It – Sing Street How Far I’ll Go – Moana The Rules Don’t Apply – Rules Don’t Apply BEST SCORE Nicholas Britell – Moonlight Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival Justin Hurwitz – La La Land Micachu – Jackie Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka – Lion

What’s fun about this particular line-up of nominees is that in addition to the usual powerful dramas that typically get nominated for awards, the BFCA also hands out awards for Best Action Movie, Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and Best Comedy, and the latter category isn’t full of movies pretending to be comedies like at the Golden Globes.

Check out the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations after the jump.

The anticipated musical La La Land leads the pack of all movies with a whopping 12 nominations, including all the big prizes for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and of course, Best Song and Best Score. It’s just more fuel to the fire that I have to see this movie as soon as possible (if you’re in New York and Los Angeles this weekend, you’ll be able to see it).

Up next, Arrival and Moonlight (which also was huge at the Indie Spirit Awards) com in with 10 nominations. Hopefully this means that the Academy of Motions Picture Arts and Sciences will give Arrival some Oscar love when the time comes next year.

There are some unworthy inclusions in the line-up this year, particularly Sully in the Best Picture category. I’m not sure why Jackie isn’t sitting there instead (though Natalie Portman did get nominated). Even the outstanding Edge of Seventeen deserves to be in the Best Picture line-up more than Sully.

Sadly, Silence wasn’t included in the awards because it didn’t get screened for critics in time. The same goes for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on the blockbuster side of things. Last year, you might remember that Star Wars: The Force Awakens got nominated after the votes were supposed to be closed. That created quite the stir in the critic community, and it reeked of just wanting attention, but there’s no indication that will happen again this year.

But the one thing that has me frustrated is Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping missing from the Best Comedy category. That movie is funnier and better than almost all of those nominees, and it got completely snubbed. That’s outrageous.

Anyway, here’s the full list of 2017 Critics Choice Awards nominations:

BEST PICTURE

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

La La Land

Lion

Loving

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Sully

BEST DIRECTOR

Damien Chazelle – La La Land

Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge

Barry Jenkins – Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea

David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water

Denis Villeneuve – Arrival

Denzel Washington – Fences

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Yorgos Lanthimos/Efthimis Filippou – The Lobster

Jeff Nichols – Loving

Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Luke Davies – Lion

Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals

Eric Heisserer – Arrival

Todd Komarnicki – Sully

Allison Schroeder/Theodore Melfi – Hidden Figures

August Wilson – Fences

BEST ACTOR

Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea

Joel Edgerton – Loving

Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge

Ryan Gosling – La La Land

Tom Hanks – Sully

BEST ACTRESS

Amy Adams – Arrival

Annette Bening – 20th Century Women

Isabelle Huppert – Elle

Ruth Negga – Loving

Natalie Portman – Jackie

Emma Stone – La La Land

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight

Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water

Ben Foster – Hell or High Water

Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea

Dev Patel – Lion

Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Viola Davis – Fences

Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women

Naomie Harris – Moonlight

Nicole Kidman – Lion

Janelle Monáe – Hidden Figures

Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Alex R. Hibbert – Moonlight

Lewis MacDougall – A Monster Calls

Madina Nalwanga – Queen of Katwe

Sunny Pawar – Lion

Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

20th Century Women

Hidden Figures

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Stéphane Fontaine – Jackie

James Laxton – Moonlight

Seamus McGarvey – Nocturnal Animals

Linus Sandgren – La La Land

Bradford Young – Arrival

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Arrival – Patrice Vermette, Paul Hotte/André Valade

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Stuart Craig/James Hambidge, Anna Pinnock

Jackie – Jean Rabasse, Véronique Melery

La La Land – David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Live by Night – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

BEST EDITING

Tom Cross – La La Land

John Gilbert – Hacksaw Ridge

Blu Murray – Sully

Nat Sanders/Joi McMillon – Moonlight

Joe Walker – Arrival

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Colleen Atwood – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Consolata Boyle – Florence Foster Jenkins

Madeline Fontaine – Jackie

Joanna Johnston – Allied

Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh – Love & Friendship

Mary Zophres – La La Land

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP

Doctor Strange

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Jackie

Star Trek Beyond

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

A Monster Calls

The Jungle Book

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Finding Dory

Kubo and the Two Strings

Moana

The Red Turtle

Trolls

Zootopia

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Captain America: Civil War

Deadpool

Jason Bourne

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Benedict Cumberbatch – Doctor Strange

Matt Damon – Jason Bourne

Chris Evans – Captain America: Civil War

Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Gal Gadot – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Scarlett Johansson – Captain America: Civil War

Margot Robbie – Suicide Squad

Tilda Swinton – Doctor Strange

BEST COMEDY

Central Intelligence

Don’t Think Twice

The Edge of Seventeen

Hail, Caesar!

The Nice Guys

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Ryan Gosling – The Nice Guys

Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins

Dwayne Johnson – Central Intelligence

Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Kate Beckinsale – Love & Friendship

Sally Field – Hello, My Name Is Doris

Kate McKinnon – Ghostbusters

Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

10 Cloverfield Lane

Don’t Breathe

The Witch

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Elle

The Handmaiden

Julieta

Neruda

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

BEST SONG

Audition (The Fools Who Dream) – La La Land

Can’t Stop the Feeling – Trolls

City of Stars – La La Land

Drive It Like You Stole It – Sing Street

How Far I’ll Go – Moana

The Rules Don’t Apply – Rules Don’t Apply

BEST SCORE

Nicholas Britell – Moonlight

Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival

Justin Hurwitz – La La Land

Micachu – Jackie

Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka – Lion