My Favorite Performances of 2017 (Male)

Joe - You Were Never Really Here
"Do you know what paradise is? It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be."

Connie Nikas - Good Time
"I think something very important is happening and it's deeply connected to my purpose."

Honorable Mentions:
Henry Costin - The Lost City of Z

Mr. Perlman - Call Me by Your Name
"We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!"

Honorable Mentions:
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler - The Shape of Water
Abe Rosenthal - The Post

Chris Washington - Get Out
"She laid their bleeding by the side of the road. Cold and alone. That's how she died in the early morning. Cold and alone. And I was watching TV."

Rev. Ernst Toller - First Reformed
"Will God forgive us for what we're doing to his creation?"

Martin - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
"I don't know if what is happening is fair, but it's the only thing I can think of that's close to justice."

Honorable Mentions:
George - Dunkirk

Reynolds Woodcock - Phantom Thread
"The tea is going out. The interruption is staying right here with me."

Bobby - The Florida Project
"It's only the second week of summer and there's already been a dead fish in the pool."

Honorable Mentions:
Gerhard Hardman - Murder on the Orient Express

Martin - Wind River
"I was ready to quit... then the phone rang... which is never good... but today it was."

Tommy Wiseau - The Disaster Artist
"Very necessary. I need to show my ass to sell this picture."

Richard Strickland - The Shape of Water
"The natives in the Amazon worshiped it. Like a god. We need to take it apart, learn how it works."

Steven Murphy - The Killing of a Sacred Deer
"Do you think your mother is proud of you? Do you think she is happy that her beloved son is a murderer?"

Lucky - Lucky
"There's a difference between lonely and being alone."

Dixon - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
"I didn't call you an idiot, I asked if you was an idiot... That was a question."

Danny Meyerowitz - The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
"It was like walking barefoot through broken glass to get a milkshake. I loved the milkshake, but, you know, my feet were bleeding."

Him - Mother!
"Your love. Is still there, isn't it?"

Tim - Thoroughbreds
"You know, the thing about this town is, the sawdust smells fantastic. But you are still in a hamster cage."

'K' - Blade Runner 2049
"I have memories, but they're not real. They're just implants."

Giles - The Shape of Water
"He's a wild creature. We can't ask him to be anything else."

Ben Bagdikian - The Post
"I always wanted to be part of a small rebellion."

Nikita Khrushchev - The Death of Stalin
"Who the fuck in their right mind would want everlasting life? The endless conversation."

Nicky Sloane - Ingrid Goes West

Elio - Call Me by Your Name
"I think he was better than me. I think he was better than me."

Honorable Mentions:
Kyle Scheible - Lady Bird
Pvt. Philippe DeJardin - Hostiles

Mr. Dawson - Dunkirk
"Men my age dictate this war. Why should we be allowed to send our children to fight it?"

Joe Bang - Logan Lucky
"I'm about to get nekked... back here. No peeking."