Best Film
“ANORA” • NEON
Directed by Sean Baker
Produced by Sean Baker, Alex Coco, and Samantha Quan
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Runner-Up: “The Brutalist” (A24)
Best Director
Mohammad Rasoulof
“The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” • NEON
Produced by Mohammad Rasoulof, Amin Sadraei, Jean-Christophe Simon, Mani Tilgner,
and Rozita Hendijanian
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Runner-Up: Sean Baker — “Anora”
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
“HARD TRUTHS” • Bleecker Street
Directed by Mike Leigh
Produced by Georgina Lowe
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
MIKEY MADISON
“ANORA” • NEON
Directed by Sean Baker
Produced by Sean Baker, Alex Coco, and Samantha Quan
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Runners-Up:
Demi Moore — “The Substance” (MUBI)
Fernanda Torres — “I’m Still Here” (RT Features)
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Yura Borisov
“ANORA” • NEON
Directed by Sean Baker
Produced by Sean Baker, Alex Coco, and Samantha Quan
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Kieran Culkin
“A REAL PAIN” • Searchlight Pictures
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Produced by Ewa Puszczyńska, Jennifer Semler, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Ali Herting,
and Dave McCary
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Runners-Up:
Clarence Maclin — “Sing Sing” (A24)
Adam Pearson — “A Different Man” (A24)
BEST SCREENPLAY
“A REAL PAIN” • Searchlight Pictures
Written by Jesse Eisenberg
Directed by Jesse Eisenberg
Produced by Ewa Puszczyńska, Jennifer Semler, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Ali Herting,
and Dave McCary
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Runner-Up: “Anora” — Sean Baker
Best Cinematography
“NICKEL BOYS” • Orion | Amazon MGM Studios
Cinematography by Jomo Fray
Directed by RaMell Ross
Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, and Joslyn Barnes
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Runner-Up: “The Brutalist” (A24) — Lol Crawley
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“THE BRUTALIST” • A24
Cinematography by Judy Becker
Directed by Brady Corbet
Produced by Nick Gordon, D.J. Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, and Trevor Matthews
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Runner-Up: “Blitz” (Apple Original Films) — Adam Stockhausen
BEST EDITING (TIE)
“NICKEL BOYS” • Orion | Amazon MGM Studios
Editing by Nicholas Monsour
Directed by RaMell Ross
Produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, and Joslyn Barnes
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Runner-Up:
BEST EDITING (TIE)
“September 5” • Paramount Pictures
Editing by Hansjörg Weißbrich
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum
Produced by Sean Penn, Philipp Trauer, Thomas Wöbke, John Ira Palmer, and John Wildermuth
Best Original Score
“CHALLENGERS” • Amazon MGM Studios
Composed by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Produced by Amy Pascal, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, and Rachel O’Connor
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Runner-Up: “Evil Does Not Exist” (Janus Films) — Eiko Ishibashi
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“All We Imagine As Light”
Sideshow | Janus Films
Directed by Payal Kapadia
Produced by Julien Graff and Thomas Hakim
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Runner-Up: “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” (NEON)
BEST DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM
“NO OTHER LAND” • Antipode Films
Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor
Produced by Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning
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Runner-Up: “Dahomey” (MUBI)
Best Animated FILM
“FLOW” • Sideshow | Janus Films
Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
Produced by Matīss Kaža, Gints Zilbalodis, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman
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Runner-Up: “Chicken For Linda” (GKIDS)
NEW GENERATION AWARD
Vera Drew
“The People’s Joker” • Altered Innocence
Produced by Joey Lyons
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
JOHN CARPENTER
SPECIAL CITATION
Adam Hyman
For Decades Of Curating, Programming And Administrating The Screenings
And Other Events Of Los Angeles Filmforum
THE DOUGLAS EDWARDS EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARD
“The Human Surge 3” • Grasshopper Film
Directed by Eduardo Williams
Produced by Jerónimo Quevedo, María Victoria Marotta, Eduardo Williams, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Ico Costa, Meng Xie, Chu-Ti Chang, Aline Mazzarella, Matheus Peçanha, Naomi Pacifique, Albert Kuhn, Germen Boelens, and Raymond van der Kaaij
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
BEST PICTURE:
BEST DIRECTOR:
BEST LEAD PERFORMER:
BEST LEAD PERFORMER:
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMER:
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMER:
BEST SCREENPLAY:
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
BEST EDITING:
BEST MUSIC SCORE:
BEST Film Not in the English Language:
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
Best Animation:
New Generation Award:
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT:
Douglas Edwards Experimental AWARD:
“Anora”
Mohammad Rasoulof — “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste — “Hard Truths”
Mikey Madison — “Anora”
Yura Borisov — “Anora”
Kieran Culkin — “A Real Pain”
“A Real Pain” — Jesse Eisenberg
“Nickel Boys” — Jomo Fray
“The Brutalist” — Judy Becker
“Nickel Boys” — Nicholas Monsour | “September 5” — Hansjörg Weißbrich
“Challengers” — Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross
“All We Imagine As Light”
“No Other Land”
“Flow”
Vera Drew — “The People’s Joker”
John Carpenter
“The Human Surge 3”
ABOUT THE Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Founded in 1975, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is comprised of Los Angeles-based, professional film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media.
Each December, LAFCA members vote on the year’s Achievement Awards, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera. Plaques of recognition are presented to winners during LAFCA’s annual ceremony, held in mid-January.
Aside from honoring each year’s outstanding cinematic achievements, LAFCA has also made it a point to look back and pay tribute to distinguished industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award (which is announced in October), as well as to look forward by spotlighting fresh, promising talent with its annual New Generation Award.
Over the years, LAFCA Career Achievement winners have included filmmakers John Huston, Orson Welles and Billy Wilder, actors Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy and Robert Preston, producer Roger Corman, and, more recently, cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and composer Ennio Morricone.
Meanwhile, those New Generation Award-winners who were voted most likely to succeed over the past three decades include Martin Scorsese and Jodie Foster (1976’s recipients), John Carpenter, Sean Penn, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodóvar and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Association’s formation had been spearheaded by the late Ruth Batchelor, a writer for the L.A. Free Press and a correspondent for KTTV-TV. Opening its membership to L.A.-based film critics whose reviews appeared regularly in newspapers, trade publications and magazines, as well as on radio and television, LAFCA voted in its first batch of awards on Feb. 13, 1976 at the old Cock’n’Bull Restaurant.
While there was no official awards presentation that year, inaugural winners included “Dog Day Afternoon” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which tied for Best Picture, while Al Pacino was voted Best Actor and Sidney Lumet received the nod for Best Director, both for “Dog Day Afternoon.” Best Actress Honors went to Florinda Bolkan, the star of Vittorio De Sica’s “A Brief Vacation.”
In the years that followed, LAFCA would continue to grow both in ranks and influence to become a respected organization with a reliable eye for excellence.
But LAFCA is not just about handing out awards. Over the past three decades, LAFCA has sponsored and hosted numerous film panels and events and donated funds to various Los Angeles film organizations, especially where film preservation was concerned.
LAFCA members have also collectively been vocal about taking up causes they’ve felt passionate about, from drafting formal protests against censorship and colorization to lending their support to controversial films.
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