Imaginary Cinema Awards 2017

It's that time of year again, when I post my top movie picks in the fantasy, horror and sci-fi genres. Bearing in mind that I have yet to see some big movies (the perils of having kids) these are the movies, actors and technical achievements that wowed me last year.

Best Movie: The Shape of Water
Runners-up: Get Out, Wonder Woman, Coco, The Lego Batman Movie, Thor: Ragnarok, Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, War for the Planet of the Apes, It: Chapter One, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Screenplay: Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Runners-up: The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor), Thor: Raganrok, The Lego Batman Movie

Best Direction: Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Runner-up: Jordan Peele (Get Out), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Taika Watiti (Thor: Ragnarok), Dennis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049), Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)

Best Actor: Doug Jones (The Shape of Water)
Runners-up: Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Michael Keaton (Spider-Man Homecoming), Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes), Woody Harrelson (War for the Planet of the Apes), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), Bill Skarsgård (It: Chapter One), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)

Best Actress: Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Runners-up: Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Sophia Lillis (It: Chapter One), Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok), Cate Blanchett (Thor: Ragnarok)

Best Music: The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat)
Runner-up: Blade Runner 2049 (Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (John Williams)

Best Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
Runners-up: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, War for the Planet of the Apes

Best Production Design: Blade Runner 2049
Runners-up: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Shape of Water, Beauty and the Beast

Best Editing: The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
Runner-up: The Shape of Water

Best Make-up: The Shape of Water
Runner-up: It: Chapter One

Best Costumes: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Runners-up: Beauty and the Beast, The Shape of Water

Most Pointless Sequel/remake: Alien Covenant – not terrible, but after the ambitious disappointment of Prometheus, this was just rather dull.

Surprise/Disappointment of the Year: Justice League – I shouldn't have expected anything after Batman v Superman, but the success of Wonder Woman and Joss Whedon taking over the production fooled me into thinking it would be at least halfway decent. It wasn't.

Hero of the Year: The MeToo movement

Guilty Pleasure: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It's no The Fifth Element, but it was good to see Luc Besson back to doing weird sci-fi

Previous awards:
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