* The two lead actors of «Tangerine» also deserved
serious consideration, but it was always going to be hard to get The Academy's
attention with no critic's honors outside of Spirit
Award nominations.
In an ordinary year, Three Billboards, which won the Toronto audience
award, the Globes, the SAG, and just won the London Film Critics is looked down upon by the film critics for its lack of political
attention to police brutality — which is a
serious subject, even though the film's main thrust is about broken, fucked up people fumbling towards some kind of redemption (which they never find).