The 16th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 8, 2017.
Best Film
- Get Out
- Call Me by Your Name
- Dunkirk
- Lady Bird
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
- Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
- Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
- Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
- Jordan Peele – Get Out
- Dee Rees – Mudbound
Best Actor
- Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
- Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
- Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
- James Franco – The Disaster Artist
- Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Best Actress
- Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
- Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
- Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
- Meryl Streep – The Post
Best Supporting Actor
- Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
- Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name
- Jason Mitchell – Mudbound
- Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name
Best Supporting Actress
- Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
- Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
- Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
- Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
- Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Virgil Williams and Dee Rees – Mudbound
- Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, story by Hampton Fancher – Blade Runner 2049
- James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name
- Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Disaster Artist
- Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game
Best Original Screenplay
- Jordan Peele – Get Out
- Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
- Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
- Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
- Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Ensemble
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Lucas Hedges, Abbie Cornish, Samara Weaving, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kathryn Newton, Kerry Condon, and Željko Ivanek
- Dunkirk – Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy
- It – Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Wyatt Oleff, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton, and Jackson Robert Scott
- Mudbound – Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Jonathan Banks, and Rob Morgan
- The Post – Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie Coon, and Matthew Rhys
Best Animated Feature
- Coco
- The Breadwinner
- Despicable Me 3
- The Lego Batman Movie
- Loving Vincent
- The Boss Baby
- Cars 3
Best Documentary Film
- Jane
- City of Ghosts
- Faces Places
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
- Step
Best Foreign Language Film
- BPM (Beats per Minute) • France
- First They Killed My Father • Cambodia
- In the Fade • Germany
- The Square • Sweden
- Thelma • Norway
Best Cinematography
- Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049
- Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water
- Rachel Morrison – Mudbound
- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name
- Hoyte van Hoytema – Dunkirk
Best Editing
- Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos – Baby Driver
- Gregory Plotkin – Get Out
- Lee Smith – Dunkirk
- Joe Walker – Blade Runner 2049
- Sidney Wolinsky – The Shape of Water
Best Original Score
- Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch – Blade Runner 2049
- Carter Burwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Alexandre Desplat – The Shape of Water
- Michael Giacchino – Coco
- Hans Zimmer – Dunkirk
Best Production Design
- Dennis Gassner (production design) and Alessandra Querzola (set decoration) – Blade Runner 2049
- Paul Denham Austerberry (production design), Shane Vieau (set decoration), and Jeff Melvin (set decoration) – The Shape of Water
- Aline Bonetto (production design) and Anna Lynch-Robinson (set decoration) – Wonder Woman
- Nathan Crowley (production design) and Gary Fettis (set decoration) – Dunkirk
- Sarah Greenwood (production design) and Katie Spencer (set decoration) – Beauty and the Beast
Best Youth Performance
- Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project
- Dafne Keen – Logan
- Sophia Lillis – It
- Millicent Simmonds – Wonderstruck
- Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
Best Animated Voice Performance
- Anthony Gonzalez – Coco
- Will Arnett – The Lego Batman Movie
- Gael García Bernal – Coco
- Michael Cera – The Lego Batman Movie
- Bradley Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Best Motion Capture Performance
- Andy Serkis – War for the Planet of the Apes
- Dan Stevens – Beauty and the Beast
- Steve Zahn – War for the Planet of the Apes
- Taika Waititi – Thor: Ragnarok
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
- The Post
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
- Last Flag Flying
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
- Spider-Man: Homecoming