Best Of 2017: a Summary of World Cinema

2017

Most Awarded Films:

2017 Film Festivals

Awarded Film	Event
The Square	Cannes Film Festival	France
The Shape of Water	Venice Film Festival	Italy
On Body and Soul	Berlin International Film Festival	Germany
The Disaster Artist	San Sebastian Film Festival	Spain
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Toronto Film Festival (TIFF)	Canada
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore	Sundance Film Festival	USA
Wajib	Mar del Plata International Film Festival	Argentina
Crested Ibis	Moscow International Film Festival	Russia
Jupiter's Moon	Film Festival of Catalonia	Spain
The Nile Hilton Incident	Seminci - International Film Festival	Spain

2017 Awards

Awarded Film	Award
The Shape of Water	Oscars - Academy Awards	USA
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Drama) Lady Bird (Comedy)	Golden Globes Awards	USA
The Square	European Film Awards (EFA)	Europe
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	BAFTA - British Academy Film Awards	G.B.
BPM (Beats Per Minute)	Cesar Awards (France)	France
Love and Bullets	David di Donatello Awards (Italy)	Italy
The Bookshop (La librería)	Goya Awards (Spanish Academy Awards)	Spain
3 Days in Quiberon	German Film Awards (Deutsche Filmpreis)	Germany
The Nile Hilton Incident	Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Film Institute)	Sweden
I Dream in Another Language	Ariel Awards (Mexico)	Mexico

Critics' Association Awards 2017

Awarded Film	Awards
The Post	National Board of Review (NBR)	USA
Lady Bird	New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)	USA
Call Me by Your Name	Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (LAFCA)	USA
Lady Bird	Chicago Film Critics Association	USA
Phantom Thread	Boston Society of Film Critics	USA
The Shape of Water	Critics' Choice Awards	USA

Best Films of 2017 According to World Famous Film Critics:

Peter Travers, Chief Critic of Rolling Stone - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Dunkirk
2		Get Out
3		Call Me by Your Name
4		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
5		The Post
6		Lady Bird
7		The Shape of Water
8		Detroit
9		A Ghost Story
10		Phantom Thread

A. O. Scott, Chief Critic of The New York Times - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Florida Project
2		Lady Bird
3		Get Out
4		I Am Not Your Negro
5		Faces Places
6		Phantom Thread
7		A Fantastic Woman
8		Graduation
9		A Quiet Passion
10		War for the Planet of the Apes

Manohla Dargis, Co-Chief Critic of The New York Times - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Dunkirk
2		Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
3		Faces Places
4		The Florida Project
5		Get Out
6		Lady Bird
7		Okja
8		Phantom Thread
9		A Quiet Passion
10		Wonder Woman

Ann Hornaday, Chief Critic of The Washington Post - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Mudbound
2		Lady Bird
3		The Post
4		The Big Sick
5		Get Out
6		Call Me by Your Name
7		Faces Places
8		Dawson City: Frozen Time
9		A Ghost Story
10		Dunkirk
10		Darkest Hour
10		Their Finest

Eric Kohn, Chief Critic of IndieWire - Article Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Get Out
2		Foxtrot
3		Lady Bird
4		A Fantastic Woman
5		Phantom Thread
6		Good Time
7		The Florida Project
8		The Ornithologist
9		Menashe
10		The Death of Louis XIV

The Highest Grossing Films of 2017:

The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 Worldwide

#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Beauty and the Beast	Romance	Mandeville / Walt Disney	$1.263.500.000
2	The Fate of the Furious	Action	Universal / One Race / Original	$1.235.800.000
3	Despicable Me 3	Animation	Illumination Ent. / Universal	$1.033.500.000
4	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Sci-Fi	Lucasfilm / Walt Disney	$953.900.000
5	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Fantasy	Columbia / Marvel / Pascal	$880.200.000
6	Wolf Warrior 2	Action	Beijing Century Media Culture	$870.300.000
7	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney	$863.700.000
8	Thor: Ragnarok	Fantasy	Marvel / Walt Disney	$846.400.000
9	Wonder Woman	Fantasy	Warner / DC Entertainment	$821.800.000
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Adventure	Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer	$794.900.000

The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 in the US

#	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1	Beauty and the Beast	Romance	Mandeville / Walt Disney	$504.014.000
2	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	Sci-Fi	Lucasfilm / Walt Disney	$483.762.000
3	Wonder Woman	Fantasy	Warner / DC Entertainment	$412.563.000
4	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2	Sci-Fi	Marvel / Walt Disney	$389.813.000
5	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Fantasy	Columbia / Marvel / Pascal	$334.201.000
6	It	Horror	New Line / KatzSmith / Vertigo	$327.481.000
7	Thor: Ragnarok	Fantasy	Marvel / Walt Disney	$310.678.000
8	Despicable Me 3	Animation	Illumination Ent. / Universal	$264.624.000
9	Logan	Thriller	20th Century / Marvel	$226.277.000
10	The Fate of the Furious	Action	Universal / One Race / Original	$225.764.000

The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 in their Country of Origin

Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
Suck Me Shakespeer 3	Comedy	Constantin Film	$59.931.000
Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas	Animation	Telecinco / Ikiru / Telefonica	€21.062.000
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Sci-Fi	EuropaCorp / Fundamental	$36.781.000
Detective Conan: The Crimson Love Letter	Animation		$60.119.000
Do It Like an Hombre	Comedy	Bh5 / Sobras International	$10.992.000
Kingsman: The Golden Circle	Thriller	20th Century Fox / Marv / TSG	$33.159.000

The Best Films of 2017 According to Filmaffinity Users

The Best Films of 2017 according to Filmaffinity Users
Ranking order obeys to several criteria: films with a high number of votes, films released in various countries, etc.

Rating	Country:	Film
8.3		Coco
8.0		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
7.9		Call Me by Your Name
7.6		Custody
7.5		The Disaster Artist
7.5		Lucky
7.4		The Florida Project
7.3		Loving Vincent
7.3		The Shape of Water
7.3		Wonder

The Best TV Series of 2017 according to Filmaffinity Users

Rating	Country:	TV Series
7.9		The Handmaid's Tale
7.9		Twin Peaks: The Return
7.9		Mindhunter
7.8		Feud: Bette and Joan
7.8		The Deuce
7.8		Big Little Lies
7.7		Godless
7.7		Dark
7.7		Stranger Things 2
7.5		Fargo III