Voting booted off Sunday for the 50th Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Awards.
After announcing John Carpgo in as the recipient of this year’s Career Achievement Award, LAFCA members determined some of the year’s best films and talents during Sunday’s voting ahead of the awards ceremony on Jan. 11, 2025 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
Writer/straightforwardor Sean Baker’s Anora took home Best Picture, also receiving runner-up for Baker in the Best Director and Best Screenjoin categories. Anora star Mikey Madison won Best Leading Perestablishance, aextfinished with Hard Truths‘ Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Her co-star Yura Borisov won Best Supporting Perestablishance, aextfinished with A Real Pain‘s Kieran Culkin.
At last year’s LAFCA Awards, The Zone of Interest won Best Picture, and runner-up Oppenheimer went on to triumph Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards.
Founded in 1975, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association is produced of LA-based professional film critics laboring in the local print and electronic media. LAFCA members hbetter their annual awards vote, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera.
See all the triumphners of the 50th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards below.
Best Picture
Anora
Runner-up: The Brutaenumerate
Best Director
Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Leading Perestablishances
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths; and Mikey Madison, Anora
Runners-up: Demi Moore, The Substance; and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best Supporting Perestablishances
Yura Borisov, Anora; and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing; and Adam Peincfinishiarism, A Different Man
Best Screenjoin
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Cinematography
Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutaenumerate
Best Editing
Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys; and Hansjörg Weißbwealthy, September 5
Best Production Design
Judy Becker, The Brutaenumerate
Runner-up: Adam Stockhaengagen, Blitz
Best Music Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
Best Animation
Flow
Runner-up: Chicken for Linda
Best Film Not in English Language
All We Imagine as Light
Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
No Other Land
Runner-up: Dahomey
New Generation Award
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Eduardo Williams’ The Human Sinspire 3
Career Achievement Award
John Carpgo in
