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The Florida Project Named Best Picture by the Detroit Film Critics Society

Mike Tyrkus
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The Detroit Film Critics Society (of which CinemaNerdz Editor-in-Chief, Mike Tyrkus, is a member) is pleased to announce the Best of 2017 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of nineteen film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York City.

Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, and Best Documentary. Two additional categories were added this year for Best Animated Feature and Best Use of Music making a total of twelve (12) categories.

From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category were placed on the final ballot. In the event of a tie, more than five nominees were placed on the ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated and the winners were decided.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Shape of Water tied for the most nominations with six each. The Florida Project was the big winner this year with four nominations and three wins for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri had two wins for Best Actress and Best Screenplay. Other top nominees included Lady Bird and Get Out with five nominations each. Get Out had one win for Best Breakthrough for Jordan Peele, the writer and director. In a new category this year for Best Use of Music, Baby Driver was named the winner. See full results below.

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The Best of 2017
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

BEST FILM

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST ENSEMBLE

BREAKTHROUGH

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

BEST USE OF MUSIC

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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