Big Little Lies, Call Me By Your Name top Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics best of 2017 list

January 31st, 2018, 03:26 pm

Big Little Lies, Call Me By Your Name top Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics best of 2017 list

Dorian Awards: 'Call Me by Your Name' hailed as Film of the Year https://t.co/jxF8kJYErU pic.twitter.com/Ptdsmez9PI
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 31, 2018

These are the best of 2017 winners as chosen by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, which includes over 200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and entertainment journalists in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. The awards will be handed out during a toast/party on February 24.

-- FILM OF THE YEAR: Call Me By Your Name - Sony Pictures Classics
-- DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR (FILM OR TELEVISION): Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird - A24
-- BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR -- ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water – Fox Searchlight
-- BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTOR: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name - Sony Pictures Classics
-- SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird - A24
-- SUPPORTING FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - ACTOR: Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me By Your Name - Sony Pictures Classics

-- LGBTQ FILM OF THE YEAR: Call Me By Your Name - Sony Pictures Classics
-- FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR: BPM (Beats Per Minute) — The Orchard
-- SCREENPLAY OF THE YEAR (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED): Jordan Peele, Get Out - Universal
-- DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR: Faces Places – Cohen Media Group
-- VISUALLY STRIKING FILM OF THE YEAR: (honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography) - The Shape of Water – Fox Searchlight
-- UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR: God's Own Country – Samuel Goldwyn Films
-- CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR: mother! - Paramount
-- TV DRAMA OF THE YEAR: Big Little Lies - HBO
-- TV COMEDY OF THE YEAR: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Amazon
-- TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR – ACTRESS: Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies - HBO
-- TV PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR -- ACTOR: Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return - Showtime
-- TV CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW OF THE YEAR: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee – TBS
-- TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR: Kate McKinnon, “(Kellyanne) Conway!” Saturday -- Night Live - NBC
-- LGBTQ SHOW OF THE YEAR: RuPaul's Drag Race – VH1
-- UNSUNG TV SHOW OF THE YEAR: American Gods - Starz
-- CAMPY TV SHOW OF THE YEAR: Feud: Betty and Joan
-- ‘WE’RE WILDE ABOUT YOU!’ RISING STAR AWARD: Timothée Chalamet
-- WILDE WIT OF THE YEAR AWARD: Kate McKinnon; Jordan Peele
-- WILDE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Jordan Peele
-- TIMELESS STAR (to a living actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit): Meryl Streep

Source: https://twitter.com/THR/status/958767652469534722

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Tagged: award show - nominees / winners, award show - other, film - documentary, film - drama, kate mckinnon, lgbtq / rights, meryl streep, nicole kidman, rupaul / drag race

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CAMPY FLICK OF THE YEAR: mother! - Paramount

lmao Darren will not be pleased

is it too late to gush over how perfect big little lies was? like literally all the female characters were incredible?? and the ending was so perfect, i was bawling. loved it so much, idk why it took me so long to watch it!

never too late. we should still be saying it imo

i've been repeating myself in idk how many posts since last sunday lol, but whatever.

the show is damn near perfect. the only problem i can think of is the lack of diversity - and even that can be partially explained by the mostly white, mostly rich location but i mean, when there's will there's a way, so. but aside from that, i think that's prob the best, most nuanced portrayal of a co-dependent abusive relationship i've ever seen on tv. and i loooved how all the women were imperfect but never villainized & all of them were strong in their own different way, and the way the show portrays female friendship legit made me wish i had my own group of girl friends <3

It was so good!

Never too late, it was such a good show! Way better than the book imo, and I actually quite liked the book.

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Why did the end make you cry? I watched it when it first came out and can't remember there being anything that made me cry, but I thought it was marvelous.

Not too late at all! I just watched it for the first time this weekend and it was even better than I imagined. Lol at me thinking I wouldn't binge it when I ended up getting almost no sleep for 2 nights.

lmao I got a bit weepy, too

-- FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR: BPM (Beats Per Minute) — The Orchard

disappointed that they didn't pick Thelma, i honestly preferred it over BPM

locadepatioo

-- UNSUNG FILM OF THE YEAR: God's Own Country – Samuel Goldwyn Films

So what made CMBYN get higher accolades than this? Timmy's mixtapes? Arm and Hammer's Christmas cards? I'm asking anyone who has seen both as I'm almost finished with Country.

bigger distribution, i imagine, at least one sorta known name (hammer), and starring american actors over unknown europeans

this plus also i thought god's own country was cute but not terribly original

God's Own Country >>>> CMBYN

I would take anything over CMBYN: God's Own Country, Tom of Finland, BPM, literally anything else.

Also Michael's role in CMBYN was literally an afterthought, he was better in The Shape of Water

Edited at 2018-01-31 08:53 pm (UTC)

His speech at the end made me cry tho

Happy with all of their choices, tbh! TC! Greta! Laurie! Michael Stuhlbarg getting his due! And even though I didn't like TSoW, Sally was great.

BPM and Thelma are in my queue but I literally don't have the time to watch a full length movie till at least March 😵

I want BPM to leak

It should have leaked by now?? Because it's available to rent and is sitting in my google play rentals. I need Thelma to come out on DVD too.

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it doesn't escape my attention that the overtly lgbtq media mentioned here focus on men, #justice4thelma!

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unlike most of ontd i'm actually a fan of bitwc, but the reason why it wasn't nominated for the oscars was bc it was ineligible (released too late in france), so it wasn't a real snub

ita re: thelma tho, and it really pisses me off bc it's such an amazing film. and imo you're also 100% on point re: cmbyn

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mine either #justice4thelma #justice4jesuspussy #justice4eiliharboe

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I was SHOCKED at how much I loved Columbus. It was so healing and John Cho needs to be a leading man immediately.

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-- LGBTQ SHOW OF THE YEAR: RuPaul's Drag Race – VH1

lol well I mean I guess the options are pretty limited.

god's own country (so glad it got some recognition here) and thelma are honestly two of the best movies i've seen in a long time. loved them both a ridiculous amount.

Yes! I can’t wait to watch God’s Own Country! I’ve been referring to it as that sheep movie, so I’m ready to change that.

GOC sex scenes were just.....hnnnngh

I like how refreshing GOC is

[Spoiler (click to open)] it's not about THE STRUGGLE OF BEING GAY, it's just a dude being a dick who happens to be gay.

My faves

I love Call Me By Your Name! It’s my favorite! I can’t wait to see it again! Chalaslay is so great in it!

Both the book and the film are great! I slightly like the film better just because of the Sufjan music.

LMAO @ “We’re wilde about you”

Edited at 2018-01-31 09:25 pm (UTC)

I know a lot of ONTDers are tired of the CMBYN hype but God's Own Country is basically a shameless ripoff of Brokeback Mountain. CMBYN is clearly the superior film in every way.

the only similarities between GOC and BBM are the fact that they're gay & sheep herders. it def pays homage to BBM, but they're completely different films & imo GOC is actually the better one (and this is from someone who *loves* BBM)

to me CMBYN was infinitely less genuinely touching and impressive than GOC, but i guess that's me

Please tell me GOC is happier. I've been meaning to watch BBM forever but just the gifs of that shirt scene have me crying, so I haven't been able to finish it because I know I'll be a mess :/

it's much happier (and the two films are so different, i don't really understand why they keep being compared like this)

So I'm in the process of watching all the films nominated for Best Pictures for the Oscars. So far, I've seen Call Me By Your Name, The Post, Shape Out of Water, Three Billboards, and the Darkest Hour. (I also saw Get Out a while ago, but I want to re-watch before I make a decision on my favourites), and CMBYN is honestly my favourite to win so far. I really liked it a lot, I thought it was more ~unique~ compared to the other ones (besides Shape out of Water), and the acting was wonderful, and it was a great story I didn't realize that it was a book before, so now I definitely want to read it.

I feel weird, because the visual age difference didn't bother me while watching it?? I say visual because I know that it's meant to be 17 and 24 which doesn't bother me, but Armie looks a lot older and Timothee looks younger than their ages. But as a straight woman, I (anecdotaly) always see young guys with someone older in homosexual realtionships and it seems to be the norm? Am I wrong? Why is that?

hard to find guys your age to date when you're younger bc a lot of them are still closeted

I finally saw CMBYN!
I adored it. I normally can't get into overly pretentious, indie-esque films, but this had me hooked. So beautiful. I felt like I'd really lived the summer with the characters.

I really want to see God's Own Country. Hope to order the DVD soon.

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