Rober Awards 2017

The 2017 Rober Awards Film Poll’s Spotify Playlist

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The 2017 Rober Awards Film Poll is up and running, open for everyone to cast their votes. Sean Baker’s extraordinary look at the lives of the American underclass in The Florida Project leads the list of nominees with eight, followed by gay romances Call Me By Your Name and God’s Own Country and Lynne Ramsay’s psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here with six each.

Christopher Nolan’s recreation of the Dunkirk evacuation; Greta Gerwig’s personal account of her teenage years in Lady Bird; French AIDS drama BPM (Beats Per Minute); Paul Thomas Anderson’s superbly crafted Phantom Thread and Lucrecia Martel’s big screen adaptation of Zama are among the other films with multiple nominations.

To refresh our memories recalling the best films of the year and help with your deliberations, here’s a Spotify playlist with excerpts from the soundtracks of most of this year’s nominated films.

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Rober Awards 2017 Music Poll: Complete List Of Winners

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Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem are the biggest winners at this year’s Rober Awards. The rapper from Compton, recently shunned out of the biggest categories at the Grammys, was voted best male and hip-hop artist of the year, and his record DAMN. took home the honours for album of the year. James Murphy’s band unsurprisingly won in the category of comeback of the year, as well as being voted the best band and song of the year for the title track of their fourth album American Dream.

Among biggest surprises St. Vincent was voted best female artist over Lorde, the young Kiwi singer though reigned in the pop artist category. Radiohead‘s ‘OK Computer’ took over Prince‘s ‘Purple Rain,’which had been the frontrunner during the last few weeks, and Japanese veteran Ryuichi Sakamoto earned the award for best electronica. Cigarettes After Sex were voted breakthrough artists and Cardi B won the Sound Of 2018 trophy.

Frank Ocean, Father John Misty and The Black Madonna were among the rest of the winners in a scandal-stricken edition hampered by complaints of individual voting manipulation in the Best Live Category which were proved right. In the wake of which, the Academy decided the prize should be shared to honour the hundreds of fans of both Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers paying tribute to the late legend, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds who genuinely voted and would have left in any case the rest of the contenders far behind.

Check the complete list of winners here:

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