The 2017 Cinema Touch Awards - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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Julien Faddoul

5. Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson

For an unsettling, accentuated, circuitously recounted depiction of both the benevolence and the non-conformity of intimate relationships.

4. BPM – Robin Campillo, Philippe Mangeot

For a beautiful example of substantiality and structure.

3. The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani

For a typically flabby 21st century romantic comedy that miraculously pulls it all off with an acute attention to social/societal details. It remains utterly convincing right up until the very end.

2. Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig

For a series of smart, witty, beautifully assembled episodes. It plays like a conciliation of youthful flightiness and the journey to understanding the problems of others.

1. A Quiet Passion – Terence Davies

For not only is his thoroughness unsurpassed, but so is, as this effort shows, his wit.

Runner Up: Person to Person – Dustin Guy Defa

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