Here we are again, the end of 2017, another year of cinematic delights and, as per usual, studios leaving their big guns for the end-of-year slugfest that is Awards Season, as individual critics and critics associations list their favourites and the major award ceremonies – The Golden Globes, Baftas and the Academy Awards – are in the throes of final preparations.
The most celebrated films of the year are a mixture of the fantastical (The Shape of Water), the honourable (The Post), the romantic (Call Me by Your Name; the coming-of-age story (Lady Bird), the patriotic (Dunkirk), the darkly comedic (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), the biographical (I, Tonya) with horror sensation Get Out also sharing some of the love.
In what critics are calling his best film since Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is yet another magical fable about Elisa (Sally Hawkins) a worker in a high-security government laboratory whose life is changed forever when she discovers a secret classified experiment. The film leads the list of Golden Globe nominations with seven, and has already won numerous critics’ associations’ awards.
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