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Cinema & Popcorn Awards: 2018 - nominees and winners (1st edition)

My very first edition of Cinema & Popcorn Awards!!! Since it seems every organization has some kind of way to honor the cinematic year's best, I believe I can have my own "award organization" (lol). 20 categories, 5 nominees each category except in Best Film (10 nominees)... And since I'm a huge Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror lover, I had to create two specific acting categories for this genres - it requires some kind of very specific acting that can be underappreciated sometimes when compared to more "traditional" dramatic or comedic turns. So, I hope you like my way to recognize the best of 2017's cinematic year.
This way, let me present you my Cinema & Popcorn Awards 2018 nominees and winners:

  • BEST FILM
WINNER: The Florida Project
Baby Driver
The Big Sick
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Mudbound
Thor: Ragnarok
Wind River



  • BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Dee Rees, Mudbound



  • BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR
WINNER: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Kogonada, Columbus
William Oldroyd, Lady Macbeth
Matt Spicer, Ingrid Goes West



  • BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
WINNER: Mudbound
Detroit
Lady Bird
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri



  • BEST ACTOR - DRAMA
WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Jeremy Renner, Wind River



  • BEST ACTOR - COMEDY
WINNER: Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Tracy Letts, Lovers
Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick



  • BEST ACTOR - SCI-FI / ADVENTURE / FANTASY / HORROR
WINNER: Hugh Jackman, Logan
Chris Hemsworth, Thor: Ragnarok
Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Homecoming
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Bill Skarsgård, It



  • BEST ACTRESS - DRAMA
WINNER: Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth
Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Diane Kruger, In the Fade
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri



  • BEST ACTRESS - COMEDY
WINNER: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Regina Hall, Girls Trip
Audrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
Debra Winger, The Lovers



  • BEST ACTRESS - SCI-FI / ADVENTURE / FANTASY / HORROR
WINNER: Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde
Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman
Scarlett Johansson, Ghost in the Shell
Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
Tessa Thompson, Thor: Ragnarok



  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Armie HammerCall Me By Your Name
Gil BirminghamWind River
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Robert Pattinson, The Lost City of Z
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World



  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Mary J. Blidge, Mudbound
Nicole Kidman, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime



  • BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR/ACTRESS
WINNER: Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
Seo-Hyun Ahn, Okja
Mckenna Grace, Gifted
Cosmo Jarvis, Lady Macbeth
Bria Vinaite, The Florida Project
Fionn Whitehead, Dunkirk



  • BEST SCREENPLAY
WINNER: The Big Sick, Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon
Call Me By Your Name, James Ivory
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola



  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Blade Runner 2049
The Florida Project
The Lost City of Z
Mudbound
The Shape of Water



  • BEST SCORE / MUSIC IN FILM

WINNER: Phantom Thread
Baby Driver
Good Time
Loving Vincent
The Shape of Water



  • BEST SOUND
WINNER: Dunkirk
Baby Driver
The Shape of Water
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder Woman



  • BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: The Shape of Water
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell
The Post
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi



  • BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: The Post
Beauty and the Beast
The Beguiled
I, Tonya
Phantom Thread



  • BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
War of the Planet of the Apes

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