“Dafoe had maybe the trickiest job in movies last year, anchoring a cast of wildly gifted and totally green first-time actors, rolling with their improvisations and imperfections. Like his character tending to a wayward flock in a ramshackle welfare motel, Dafoe provides structure and sanity to The Florida Project. It’s impossible to imagine the movie without him.” – The Muriel Awards, 02/17/2018