The Best Performances of 2017
There was an astonishing abundance of talent to pick from this year when it came to movie performances; in no particular order, my choices range from the obvious Oscar contenders, the subversive alt-picks, and the downright overlooked. What do you think?
(By UK release date.)
Andrew Garfield
Silence
Natalie Portman
Jackie
James McAvoy
Split
Rebecca Hall
Christine
Ruth Negga
Loving
Sandra Hüller
Toni Erdmann
Denzel Washington
Fences
Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes
Moonlight
Florence Pugh
Lady Macbeth
Hugh Jackman
Logan
Lily Gladstone
Certain Women
John C. Reilly
Kong: Skull Island
Sandra Oh, Anne Heche
Catfight
Isabelle Huppert
Elle
Kristen Stewart
Personal Shopper
Anna Castillo
The Olive Tree
Sonia Braga
Aquarius
Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller
The Lost City of Z
Luis Gnecco
Neruda
Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim
The Handmaiden
Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui
Harmonium
Michael Fassbender
Alien: Covenant
Gal Gadot
Wonder Woman
Kirin Kiki
After the Storm
Richard Gere
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Andy Serkis
War for the Planet of the Apes
Colin Farrell
The Beguiled
Emma Booth
Hounds of Love
Rooney Mara
A Ghost Story
Tobey Maguire
Pawn Sacrifice
Tom Cruise
American Made
John Boyega, Will Poulter
Detroit
Daniel Craig
Logan Lucky
Olivia Cooke
The Limehouse Golem
Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgård
It
Elizabeth Olsen
Wind River
Ana de Armas
Blade Runner 2049
Taika Waititi
Boy
Adam Sandler
The Meyerowitz Stories: New and Selected
Vince Vaughn
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Jessica Rothe
Happy Death Day
Daniel Radcliffe
Jungle
Jason Isaac
The Death of Stalin
Timothée Chalamet
Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Hugh Grant
Paddington 2
Willem Dafoe
The Florida Project
Robert Pattinson
Good Time
Aubrey Plaza
Ingrid Goes West
Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell
Mudbound
Melanie Lynskey
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
Lily Collins
To the Bone
Noomi Rapace
What Happened to Monday
Carla Gugino
Gerald’s Game
Thomas Jane
1922
Jim Carrey
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Mark Hamill
Star Wars: Episode VIII — The Last Jedi
(Bonus)
Kyle MacLachlan
Twin Peaks | Season 3
