7,599 films on the site were released in 2017, and 893 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tops the list, ahead of Coco and God's Own Country. The biggest hit was Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi with $1.3B worldwide, and The Shape of Water won Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best-rated film of 2017, with an Echo Score of 90; Coco is second with the same Echo Score 90. Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
#1 of 893 Best-rated film of 2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 Drama Comedy Crime 1h 55m English
90 Echo Score $162.7M worldwide
Directed by Martin McDonagh
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri earned $162.7M worldwide; the year's biggest hit, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, earned $1.3B.
About Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriCoco and God's Own Country follow Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Drama is the most common genre in the top 25 (14 films). Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi earned $1.3B worldwide, ahead of Beauty and the Beast ($1.3B). The top 10 took $10.1B together; 1,945 films released in 2017 have a box office record here. Grosses that look like data errors are left out.
#1 $1.3B worldwide Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi $620.2M domestic · Action 
#2 $1.3B worldwide Beauty and the Beast $504.5M domestic · Fantasy 
#3 $1.2B worldwide The Fate of the Furious $226M domestic · Action 
#4 $1B worldwide Despicable Me 3 $264.6M domestic · Action 
#5 $962.5M worldwide Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle $404.5M domestic · Action 
#6 $881M worldwide Spider-Man: Homecoming $335M domestic · Action 
#7 $870.3M worldwide Wolf Warrior 2 $2.7M domestic · Action 
#8 $863.8M worldwide Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 $389.8M domestic · Action #9 $855.3M worldwide Thor: Ragnarok $315.1M domestic · Action 
#10 $824M worldwide Wonder Woman $412.8M domestic · Action Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri leads with 22 wins from 39 nominations, then The Shape of Water with 14 wins. The Shape of Water won Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars. In all, 119 films released in 2017 have award nominations on the site, with 128 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 2017 film of 12 genres, from Drama (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) to Fantasy (The Shape of Water). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 90 Echo Score Coco 90 Echo Score God's Own Country 90 Echo Score Faces Places 90 Echo Score Sachin 90 Echo Score Dunkirk 88 Echo Score Phantom Thread 88 Echo Score A Silent Voice 88 Echo Score Memoir of a Murderer 87 Echo Score Marjorie Prime 86 Echo Score The Farthest 86 Echo Score The Shape of Water 85 Echo Score October was the busiest month of 2017 with 940 releases; its best-rated film is God's Own Country.
50% of 2017's films with a known language are in English (3,794). Spanish comes next with 418 films, out of 86 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 2017's best-rated films, biggest hits and awards, from the lists above.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the best-rated film of 2017 on What's After the Movie, with an Echo Score of 90. Coco is second and God's Own Country third. Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
About Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriStar Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi earned $1.3B worldwide, the most of any 2017 release on the site. Beauty and the Beast follows with $1.3B.
2017 box officeThe Shape of Water (2017) won Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards.
The Shape of WaterThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has the best award record of the 2017 releases on the site: 22 wins from 39 nominations.
2018 awards seasonThe site lists 7,599 films released in 2017. 893 of them are ranked, and October had the most releases with a known day (940).
Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating. Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.
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