Raw Footage Podcast Awards 2017 - People
by YayNayorMeh | created - 04 Mar 2019 | updated - 04 Mar 2019 | PublicA list of people recognized in the Best of 2017 Awards on the Raw Footage Podcast
1. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
Winner - Best Actor For: The Disaster Artist
2. Rebecca Hall
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall was born in London, England, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father was English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch and African-American origin. Her parents separated when she was ...
Winner - Best Actress For: Christine & Professor Marston And The Wonder Women
3. Trevante Rhodes
Actor | Moonlight
Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics ...
Winner - Best Supporting Actor For: Moonlight
4. Viktoriya Isakova
Actress | Zerkala
Viktoriya Isakova is a Russian film and television actress.
Victoria never dreamed of becoming an actress. She lived next to the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS and decided to go to auditions with her classmates. Isakova entered the second year immediately, but later changed University for...
Winner - Best Supporting Actress For: The Student
5. Dafne Keen
Actress | Logan
Dafne Keen Fernández is a British and Spanish actress who played the role of the mutant Laura Kinney / X-23 in Logan (2017) and Lyra in the HBO series His Dark Materials (2019).
She is the daughter of British actor Will Keen, and Spanish actress, theatre director and writer María Fernández Ache.
Keen...
Winner - Best Young Performer For: Logan
6. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
Winner - Best Director For: Dunkirk
7. Armando Iannucci
Writer | The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci was born on November 28, 1963 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Death of Stalin (2017), In the Loop (2009) and Veep (2012). He has been married to Rachel Jones since August 25, 1990. They have two children.
Co-Winner - Best Screenplay For: The Death Of Stalin
8. David Schneider
Writer | The Death of Stalin
David Schneider was born on May 22, 1963 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Death of Stalin (2017), 28 Days Later (2002) and Mission: Impossible (1996).
Co-Winner - Best Screenplay For: The Death Of Stalin
9. Ian Martin
Writer | The Death of Stalin
Ian Martin was born on April 27, 1953 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for The Death of Stalin (2017), In the Loop (2009) and Veep (2012).
Co-Winner - Best Screenplay For: The Death Of Stalin
10. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
Honourable Mention - Best Actor For: Manchester By The Sea
11. Shahab Hosseini
Actor | Darbareye Elly
Shahab Hosseini was born on February 3, 1974 in Tehran, Iran. He grew up in a family of six and was the oldest child. He earned his high school diploma in Biology. Once a psychology student at the University of Tehran, he dropped out with the intent of emigrating to Canada. Instead, he ended up as ...
Honourable Mention - Best Actor For: The Salesman
12. Pyotr Skvortsov
Actor | (M)uchenik
Pyotr Skvortsov was born on June 12, 1994 in Moscow, Russia. He is an actor, known for The Student (2016), Laskovyy may (2009) and Kogda ona prikhodit (2020).
Honourable Mention - Best Actor For: The Student
13. Suhaee Abro
Actress | My Pure Land
Suhaee Abro is known for My Pure Land (2017), The Window (2023) and Yakeen Ka Safar (2017).
Honourable Mention - Best Actress For: My Pure Land
14. Annette Bening
Actress | American Beauty
Annette Bening was born on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas, the youngest of four children. Her family moved to California when she was young, and she grew up there. She graduated from San Francisco State University and began her acting career with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, ...
Honourable Mention - Best Actress For: Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool & 20th Century Women
15. Isabelle Huppert
Actress | Elle
Isabelle Huppert was born March 16, 1953, in Paris, France, but spent her childhood in Ville d'Avray. Encouraged by her mother Annick Huppert (who was a teacher of English), she followed the Conservatory of Versailles and won an acting prize for her work in Alfred de Musset's "Un caprice". She then...
Honourable Mention - Best Actress For: Elle
16. Willem Dafoe
Actor | Spider-Man
Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actor For: The Florida Project
17. Simon Russell Beale
Actor | The Death of Stalin
Simon Russell Beale is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed talents in British theatre.
He spent his early years abroad as his father was Surgeon General to the British Army (his mother is also a doctor), but aged 8 was relocated to England and became a pupil at St Paul's Cathedral ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actor For: The Death Of Stalin
18. Patrick Stewart
Actor | Logan
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actor For: Logan
19. Viola Davis
Actress | Fences
Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actress For: Fences
20. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actress For: The Beguiled
21. Michelle Williams
Actress | Blue Valentine
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
Honourable Mention - Best Supporting Actress For: Manchester By The Sea
22. Garance Marillier
Actress | Grave
Garance Marillier is a French actress, she is best known for her lead role in Raw (2016). Marillier began her acting career in 2011 in the short movie Junior (2011) by Julia Ducournau. She also appeared in the short movie It's Not a Cowboy Movie (2012). She was a musician before turning to acting, ...
Honourable Mention - Best Young Performer For: Raw
23. Brooklynn Prince
Actress | The Florida Project
Brooklynn Prince started acting since she was the age of two and knew she loved it. She gained popularity from her iconic, adorable role as Moonee in the beloved The Florida project. She is also well known for her roles as the inspiring Hilde Lisko in the new AppleTV+ show Home Before Dark and as ...
Honourable Mention - Best Young Performer For: The Florida Project
24. Sareum Srey Moch
Actress | First They Killed My Father
Sareum Srey Moch is known for First They Killed My Father (2017).
Honourable Mention - Best Young Performer For: First They Killed My Father
25. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
Honourable Mention - Best Director For: La La Land
26. Barry Jenkins
Producer | If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins was born on November 19, 1979 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a producer and director, known for If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Moonlight (2016) and Aftersun (2022).
Honourable Mention - Best Director For: Moonlight
27. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
Honourable Mention - Best Director For: The Handmaiden
28. Mike Mills
Director | Beginners
Mike Mills was born in 1966, Berkeley, California. He graduated from Cooper Union, 1989.
He works as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. As a filmmaker, Mike has completed a number of music videos, commercials, short films, documentaries, and the feature film Thumbsucker (2005). Architecture ...
Honourable Mention - Best Screenplay For: 20th Century Women
29. Mohamed Diab
Writer | Eshtebak
Mohamed Diab is an Egyptian filmmaker and the lead director on Marvel Studio's MOON KNIGHT starring Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy.
He began his career as a screenwriter, achieving commercial success in the Middle East. In 2010 he made his directorial debut CAIRO 678, about a trio of ...
Co-Honourable Mention - Best Screenplay For: Clash
30. Khaled Diab
Writer | Renegades
Khaled Diab is known for Renegades (2018), Induced Labor (2018) and Under Guardianship (2023).
Co-Honourable Mention - Best Screenplay For: Clash
31. Jordan Peele
Writer | Nope
Jordan Peele is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. Peele's first feature film, "Get Out," was a critically acclaimed blockbuster, recognized with four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The film would earn Peele the ...
Honourable Mention - Best Screenplay For: Get Out
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