The nation’s critics have spoken. The members of the Dublin Film Critics Circle have, for the 11th year, selected their favourite works of 2017. In common with many awarding bodies, Dunkirk was a clear favourite, as was Christopher Nolan, who was named Best Director. Second placed Get Out polled strongly in the Best Film category, with a tally that, numerically, would have won any of the previous annual polls.

The biggest landslide victory, however, was scored by Emer Reynolds’ The Farthest, which was named Best Documentary. The same film was cited for Kate McCullough’s cinematography and Reynolds’ direction. Across all categories, it received votes from more than 90 percent of critics.

Sanctuary was named Best Irish Feature Film, pipping The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Cardboard Gangsters and Handsome Devil at the post.

The Dublin Film Critics Circle once again demonstrated its eclecticism by long-listing some 45 films for Best Screenplay: Jordan Peele was ultimately (and emphatically) victorious against the spread.

Barry Keoghan Barry Keoghan is an Irish actor from Summerhill in Dublin, best known for his roles in Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. was named Breakthrough Artist of the year; other Irish nominees shortlisted for the award included Emer Reynolds, Caoilfhionn Dunne, and Tom Ryan.

Despite an extended deadline to accommodate Star Wars: The Last Jedi, that film received just one vote across all categories: for Steve Yedlin’s cinematography. Star Wars: The Force Awakens placed joint fifth for Best Film in 2015.

As voted for by DFCC members: Aedin Gormley, Áine O’Connor, Ben O’Reilly, Brian Lloyd, Brogen Hayes, Cara O’Doherty, Celina Murphy, Chris Wasser, Daniel Anderson, Darren Mooney, David Turpin, Declan Burke, Deirdre Molumby, Donald Clarke, Esther McCarthy, Gavin Burke, Gordon Hayden, Graham Day, Hilary White, Jason Coyle, John Maguire, Kevin Fennell, Lisa Cannon, Michael Doherty, Niall Murphy, Nicola Timmons, Paul Whitington, Roe McDermott, and Dublin Film Critics Circle president Tara Brady.

Scannain contributors are highlighted in orange.

Dublin Film Critics Circle Poll 2017

BEST FILM

Dunkirk

Get Out

Moonlight

Blade Runner 2049

Manchester By The Sea

Wind River

The Florida Project / Call Me By Your Name

La La Land

Logan / God’s Own Country

Jackie / Lady Macbeth

Runners up: The Handmaiden, Aquarius, Paddington 2

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Julia Ducournau, Raw/ Emer Reynolds, The Farthest

Yorgos Lanthimos, The KIlling of a Sacred Deer / Paul Verhoeven, Elle

Pablo Larraín, Jackie

Sean Baker, The Florida Project

James Mangold, Logan

Runners up: Pat Collins, Song of Granite; James Franco, The Disaster Artist; Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman

BEST IRISH FEATURE FILM

Sanctuary

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Cardboard Gangsters / Handsome Devil

Song of Granite

Pilgrimage

Twice Shy

Maze

The Drummer and the Keeper

In View

Halal Daddy

Runners up: Property of the State, The Man Who Invented Christmas, A Dark Song

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Farthest

I Am Not Your Negro

It’s Not Yet Dark

Condemned to Remember

Whitney: Can I Be Me

Meetings with Ivor

Kedi / An Inconvenient Sequel

City of Ghosts

Dancer / Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect

The Work / Cameraperson / The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Runners up: Casting JonBenet, Jane, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, The Prince of Nothingwood

BEST ACTOR

James Franco, The Disaster Artist

Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Robert Pattinson, Good Time

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Denzel Washington, Fences / James McAvoy, Split

Armie Hammer, Call Be My Your Name

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Hugh Jackman, Logan

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight / John Connors, Cardboard Gangster

Runners up: Ryan Gosling, Blade Runner 2049; Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes; Sherwan Haji, The Other Side of Hope; Adrian Titieni, Graduation

BEST ACTRESS

Natalie Portman, Jackie / Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Sally Hawkins, Maudie

Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth

Sonia Braga, Aquarius

Viola Davis, Fences / Emma Stone, i

Garance Miller, Raw

Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper

Ruth Negga, Loving

Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes

Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion / Anne Hathaway, Colossal

Runners up: Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool; Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick; Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane

BEST SCREENPLAY

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Taylor Sheridan, Wind River / Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea

Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick

Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung, The Handmaiden

Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou, The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Rebecca Blunt, Logan Lucky / Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin

Damien Chazelle, La La Land / Makoto Shinkai, Your Name

Terence Davies, A Quiet Passion

Runners up: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049, James Gray, The Lost City of Z; Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Chung Chung-hoon, The Handmaiden

Linus Sandgren, La La Land

David Mullen, The Love Witch

Alexis Zabe, The Florida Project

Kate McCullough, The Farthest

Richard Kendrick, Song of Granite

Ben Richardson, Wind River / Stéphane Fontaine, Jackie

Thimios Bakatakis, The Killing of a Sacred Deer / Philippe Le Sourd, The Beguiled

Runners up: James Laxton, Moonlight; Michael Seresin, War for the Planet of the Apes; Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me by Your Name

BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR: SHORTLIST

Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk (Winner)

Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project

Caoilfhionn Dunne, In View

Dafne Keen, Logan

Emer Reynolds, The Farthest

Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Julia Ducournau, Raw

Sunny Pawar, Lion

Tom Ryan, Twice Shy