2017 (90th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2017 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
The Shape of Water, A Double Dare You Production; Fox Searchlight. Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers.
Actor in a Leading Role
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour, A Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK, USA)
Actress in a Leading Role
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, A Blueprint Pictures Production; Fox Searchlight. (UK, USA)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, A Blueprint Pictures Production; Fox Searchlight. (UK, USA)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Allison Janney in I, Tonya, A Clubhouse Pictures/LuckyChap Production; Neon/30 West. (UK, USA, Qatar)
Directing
The Shape of Water, A Double Dare You Production; Fox Searchlight. Guillermo del Toro.
Animated Feature Film
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049, An Alcon Entertainment Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK, Hungary, Canada, Spain) Roger A. Deakins.
Costume Design
Phantom Thread, An Annapurna Pictures Production; Focus Features. (USA, UK) Mark Bridges.
Documentary
(Feature)
Icarus, A Netflix Documentary in assoc. with Impact Partners, Diamond Docs, Chicago Media Project and Alex Production; Netflix. Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan.
(Short Subject)
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, A Stiefel & Co. Production. Frank Stiefel.
Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman, A Fabula Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Chile, Germany, Spain, USA)
Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour, A Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (UK, USA) Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick.
Music
(Original Score)
The Shape of Water, A Double Dare You Production; Fox Searchlight. Alexandre Desplat.
(Original Song)
Remember Me from Coco, A Pixar Production; Walt Disney. Music and lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
Production Design
The Shape of Water, A Double Dare You Production; Fox Searchlight. Production design by Paul Denham Austerberry; set decoration by Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin.
Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
Sound Editing
Dunkirk, A Syncopy Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (UK, Netherlands, France, USA) Richard King and Alex Gibson.
Sound Mixing
Dunkirk, A Syncopy Pictures Production; Warner Bros. (UK, Netherlands, France, USA) Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo.
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049, An Alcon Entertainment Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK, Hungary, Canada, Spain) John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover.
Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
Call Me by Your Name, A Frenesy Film/La Cinéfacture/Memento Films International/RT Features Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Italy, France) Screenplay by James Ivory.
(Original Screenplay)
Get Out, A Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Production; Universal. (USA, Japan) Written by Jordan Peele.
Honorary Award
To Charles Burnett, a resolutely independent and influential film pioneer who has chronicled the lives of black Americans with eloquence and insight. [ [Statuette]]
To Owen Roizman whose expansive visual style and technical innovation have advanced the art of cinematography. [ [Statuette]]
To Donald Sutherland for a lifetime of indelible characters, rendered with unwavering truthfulness. [ [Statuette]]
To Agnès Varda whose compassion and curiosity inform a uniquely personal cinema. [ [Statuette]]
To Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena virtual reality installation in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling. [ [Statuette]]
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To Mark Elendt and Side Effects Software for the creation and development of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. With more than twenty years of continual innovation, Houdini has delivered the power of procedural methods to visual effects artists, making it the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen.
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To John Coyle, Brad Hurndell, Vikas Sathaye and Shane Buckham for the concept, design, engineering and implementation of the Shotover K1 Camera System. This innovative six-axis stabilized aerial camera mount, with its enhanced ability to frame shots while looking straight down, enables greater creative freedom while allowing pilots to fly more effectively and safely.
To Jeff Lait, Mark Tucker, Cristin Barghiel and John Lynch for their contributions to the design and architecture of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. Houdini’s dynamics framework and workflow management tools have helped it become the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen.
To Bill Spitzak and Jonathan Egstad for the visionary design, development and stewardship of the Nuke compositing system. Built for production at Digital Domain, Nuke has become a ubiquitous and flexible tool used across the motion picture industry, enabling novel and sophisticated workflows at an unprecedented scale.
To Abigail Brady, Jon Wadelton and Jerry Huxtable for their significant contributions to the architecture and extensibility of the Nuke compositing system. Expanded as a commercial product at The Foundry, Nuke is a comprehensive, versatile and stable system that has established itself as the backbone of compositing and image processing pipelines across the motion picture industry.
To Leonard Chapman for the overall concept, design and development, to Stanislav Gorbatov for the electronic system design, and to David Gasparian and Souhail Issa for the mechanical design and integration of the Hydrascope telescoping camera crane systems. With its fully waterproof construction, the Hydrascope has greatly advanced crane technology and versatility by enabling precise long-travel multi-axis camera movement in, out of and through fresh or salt water.
(Technical Achievement Award)
To Jason Smith and Jeff White for the original design, and to Rachel Rose and Mike Jutan for the architecture and engineering, of the BlockParty procedural rigging system at Industrial Light & Magic. BlockParty streamlines the rigging process through a comprehensive connection framework, a novel graphical user interface, and volumetric rig transfer, which has enabled ILM to build richly detailed and unique creatures while greatly improving artist productivity.
To Joe Mancewicz, Matt Derksen and Hans Rijpkema for the design, architecture and implementation of the Rhythm & Hues Construction Kit rigging system. This toolset provides a novel approach to character rigging that features topological independence, continuously editable rigs and deformation workflows with shape-preserving surface relaxation, enabling fifteen years of improvements to production efficiency and animation quality.
To Alex Powell for the design and engineering, to Jason Reisig for the interaction design, and to Martin Watt and Alex Wells for the high-performance execution engine of the Premo character animation system at DreamWorks Animation. Premo’s speed and simplicity enable animators to pose full-resolution characters in representative shot context, significantly increasing their productivity.
To Rob Jensen for the foundational design and continued development, to Thomas Hahn for the animation toolset, and to George ElKoura, Adam Woodbury and Dirk Van Gelder for the high-performance execution engine of the Presto Animation System at Pixar Animation Studios. Presto allows artists to work interactively in scene context with full-resolution geometric models and sophisticated rig controls, and has significantly increased the productivity of character animators at Pixar.