2017 Dream Oscar Ballot.

And now it's time to finish my year-end movie retrospective with my 2017 Oscar ballot! Tomorrow, the Academy will announce its nominations and my guess is there will be some significant overlap with the titles below.  This year presented bountiful options of great and diverse films, and thankfully just a few of the typical baity prestige pictures that clog the way. (Although the SAG Awards last night do not give me too much hope that our winners will overlap in many - if any - categories.)

Below are my picks in the majority of Oscar categories (and as always, a few of my own) from all of the movies I watched in the last year. Enjoy!

The Best Films of 2017.

2017 may have been a shitshow, but the year in film seemed to have a little something for everyone. My best film list has every genre from romantic drama to horror to dark comedy to films dealing with social issues, fantasy, coming of age, and a casual tale of Mother Nature herself (or something).

Overall, the top three films stand out in my mind as the clear masterworks of the year, but it was a solid year all around and I'll think fondly of all of the films below when I look back. Below are the 25 I chose to single out. Enjoy!