Best Of 2017: a Summary of World Cinema

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Most Awarded Films:

2017 Film Festivals

Country:	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

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2017 Awards

Country:	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.
	120 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

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Critics' Association Awards 2017

Country:	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

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Best Films of 2017 According to World Famous Film Critics:

Peter Travers, Chief Critic of Rolling Stone - Source 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

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A. O. Scott, Chief Critic of The New York Times - Source 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

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Manohla Dargis, Co-Chief Critic of The New York Times - Source 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

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Ann Hornaday, Chief Critic of Washington Post - Source 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

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Eric Kohn, Chief Critic of Indiewire - Source 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

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Luis Martínez, Chief Critic of El Mundo - estrenadas en cines españoles - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		The Lost City of Z
2		Twin Peaks: The Return
3		Sieranevada
4		Dunkirk
5		The Killing of a Sacred Deer
6		mother!
7		Blade Runner 2049
8		Get Out
9		A Ghost Story
10		Raw

Javier Ocaña, Critic of El País - estrenadas en cines españoles - Source Sorted by order of preference:

#	Country:	Film
1		Jackie
2		The Square
3		Dunkirk
4		Get Out
5		Manchester by the Sea
6		The Lost City of Z
7		Loving
8		The Salesman
9		Moonlight
10		Detroit

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2017:

The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 Worldwide

#	Country:	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
1		Beauty and the Beast	Romance	Mandeville / Walt Disney	$1.263.500.000
2		Fast & Furious 8	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: Salazar's Revenge	Adventure	Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer	$794.900.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 in the US

#	Country:	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		Fast & Furious 8	Action	Universal / One Race / Original	$225.764.000

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The Highest Grossing Films of 2017 in their Country of Origin

Country:	Film	Genre	Producer	Box Office:
	Suck Me Shakespeer 3	Comedy	Constantin Film	$59.931.000
	Tad Jones 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

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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

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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

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• Best of:
• 2010
• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021
• 2022
• 2023