The Shape of Water was voted as the best film of 2017 by The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, according to the results of its 24th annual critics' poll released today.
Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were as follows:
2) The Post
3) Lady Bird
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Get Out
6) Dunkirk
7) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
8) I, Tonya
9) The Florida Project
10 Darkest Hour
Best Actor
1) Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour
2) James Franco for The Disaster Artist
3) Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
4) Timothee Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name
5) Tom Hanks for The Post
Best Actress
1) Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water
2) Frances McDormand for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3) Margo Robbie for I, Tonya
4) Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird
5) Mery Streep for The Post
Best Supporting Actor
1) Sam Rockwell for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2) Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
3) Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water
4) Armie Hammer for Call Me By Your Name
5) Woody Harrelson for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress
1) Allison Janney for I, Tonya
2) Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
3) Mary J. Blige for Mudbound
4) Holly Hunter for The Big Sick
5) Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water
Best Director
1) Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
2) Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
3) Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
4) Steven Spielberg for The Post
5) Jordan Peele for Get Out
Best Foreign Language Film
1) The Square
2) Thelma
3) BPM
4) First They Killed My Father
5) In the Fade
Best Documentary
1) City of Ghosts
2) Jane
3) An Inconvenient Sequel
4) Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
5) Last Men in Aleppo
Best Animated Film
1) Coco
2) Loving Vincent
Best Screenplay
1) Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
2) Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography
1) Dan Laustsen for The Shape of Water
2) Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
Best Musical Score
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Russell Smith Award
The association also voted The Florida Project as the winner of the Russell Smith Award, named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association consists of 34 broadcast, print and online journalists from throughout North Texas. For more information, visit www.dfwcritics.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter @dfwfilmcritics.