Runners-up: Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death Note
Thoughts: Chances are you've seen Stuhlbarg's work before. Maybe in A Serious Man, Hugo, Men in Black 3, Lincoln, Hitchcock, Blue Jasmine, Steve Jobs, Arrival, Doctor Strange, Boardwalk Empire... okay, I'll stop. Stuhlbarg appeared in three Oscar nominated films this past year, so the man deserves some gosh darn respect. I feel like it is only a matter of time before we see this guy hit A-list status.
Runner-up: Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project
Thoughts: What an incredibly strong year for women! Some of the best movies of the year star women and tell their stories. Just look at Lady Bird, Three Billboards, The Florida Project, and The Shape of Water. Sally Hawkins had my favorite performance out of all female actors this year for her role in The Shape of Water. She portrayed her character with such natural talent that I could have sword she was a mute actress to begin with. But let's not forget that she also plays the mother in Paddington and this year's sequel to the film was just a joyous as the first.
Runners-up: Barry Keoghan for The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Dunkirk, Brooklynn Prince for The Florida Project, Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird, Vicky Krieps for Phantom Thread
Thoughts: Get Out is one of my favorite films of the year, but I actually don't care too much for the performance from the main star, Daniel Kaluuya. It could be poor directing of him, but I haven't been impressed in any of the past films or series I've seen him in like Sicario, Kick-Ass 2, and even Black Mirror. He's a very monotone type of actor. Now, that's not to say that Get Out doesn't have some spectacular supporting performance, especially from Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, and Lakeith Stanfield. Stanfield, in particular, deserves a lot of praise in my opinion. His character transformation in the film from beginning to middle was incredible. Not only that, but what a year has this guy had? In 2017 alone, he was in eight movies, series, and shorts. If I had to bank on any actor succeeding from this cast, it would be Lakeith Standfield.
Runners-up: Hippo Campus - Landmark, Poppy - Poppy.Computer
Thoughts: Love the sound that Portugal. The Man brings to the table.
Runners-up: Blade Runner 2049, Baby Driver, Coco
Thoughts: One of the truly underrated films this year is The Greatest Showman. That's because it has some of the best songs featured in films this year.
Runners-up: Rey and Kylo vs. Praetorian guards from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Halley and Bobby yelling match in The Florida Project
Thoughts: Justice League is a pretty poor movie overall, but there is one redeeming sequence for me and that's the fight between Superman and the rest of the Justice League. Specifically, Superman's fight with The Flash is the highlight for me. The moment I saw Clark's eyes spot Barry Allen moving at super speed, I had a total nerdgasm. Seeing them fight and how Barry is still slightly faster than Clark was everything I could have wanted from a fight between the two superheroes.
Worst Movie of the Year: My Little Pony: The Movie
Runners-up: The Emoji Movie
Thoughts: Remember The Powerpuff Girls? Remember how it was a cartoon TV series and then they announced a movie? Remember how that movie felt completely foreign to what we all loved about the franchise? That's exactly how the My Little Pony movie feels like. It doesn't hold any of the wonder and charm that the series has. Very shame.
Runners-up: Reina Triendl, Naomi Lorraine Frank, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes
Thoughts: Lots of changes this year. I've recently started to really enjoy Poppy with the release of the album Poppy.Computer. It has some of the best pop songs of the year on it and she's just as intriguing as ever.
Runners-up: Rick and Morty
Thoughts: Dragons. Come on, man.
Runner-up: Erased
Thoughts: A CW show inspired by Archie Comics is not a show I thought I would fancy, but here we are. Season 1 was a great who-dun-it with lots of wicked fun. Season 2 didn't exactly start out all that well, but it's still an engaging effort.
Runners-up: My Hero Academia
Thoughts: No anime stood out so spectacularly for me this year, but being able to watch Little Witch Academia with my girls has been a really pleasant experience.
Runner-up: D.Va, Rem
Thoughts: She's been everywhere this year.
Runner-up: Nier: Automata
Thoughts: Super Mario Odyssey brought back everything I loved about Super Mario 64 and even a bit of Super Mario Sunshine. The fairly open and creative worlds with incredibly new characters and techniques really added a lot to the series.
Runner-up: Hidden Folks
Thoughts: Until we get Kingdom Hearts 3, Nier: Automata will hold me over quite well as an action-style RPG game.
Best music video: "Venus Fly" by Grimes feat. Janelle Monae
Runners-up: "HEAT" by BROCKHAMPTON
Thoughts: This video makes Grimes and Janelle Monae look so badass. Love it.
Most listened to song not from 2017: Tame Imapala's "The Less I Know The Better"
Runner-up: Lushlife & CSLSX's "Body Double"
Thoughts: "The Less I Know The Better" has officially secured a spot in my top 10 favorite songs of all-time. It's so good.
Runners-up: Trash dove, Omae wa mou shindeiru
Runners-up: PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator, VRV, Chick-Fil-A
Thoughts: While it's not a new Animal Crossing game, it still did a good job holding me over for a little bit.
Past lists:
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
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