Members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association assembled the other day to vote on the year’s best cinematic accomplishments.
This year “Roma” was the big winner, coming in hot with best film, best cinematography and a runner-up honor for best director. Winners of their top prize in recent years includes “Call Me by Your Name,” “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” “Boyhood,” “Her”/”Gravity” and “Amour.”
The likes of “Burning,” “Leave No Trace” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” scored multiple wins, while “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” took the best animated feature. The full list of winners is as follows:
Best Film:
“Roma” (Runner-up: “Burning”)
Best Director:
Debra Granik, “Leave No Trace”(Runner-up: Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma”)
Best Actor:
Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed” (Runner-up: Ben Foster, “Leave No Trace”)
Best Actress:
Olivia Colman, “The Favourite” (Runner-up: Toni Collette, “Hereditary”)
Best Supporting Actor:
Steven Yeun, “Burning” (Runner-up: Hugh Grant, “Paddington 2”)
Best Supporting Actress:
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk” (Runner-up: Elizabeth Debicki, “Widows”)
Best Screenplay:
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” (Runner-up: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, “The Favourite”)
Best Animated Film:
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (Runner-up: “Incredibles 2”)
Best Foreign Language Film:
“Burning” and “Shoplifters” (Tie)
Best Documentary:
“Shirkers” (Runner-up: “Minding the Gap”)
Best Cinematography:
Alfonso Cuarón,”Roma” (Runner-up: James Laxton, “If Beale Street Could Talk”)
Best Editing:
Joshua Altman and Bing Liu, “Minding the Gap” (Runner-up: Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough, “Roma”)
Best Music/Score:
Nicholas Britell,”If Beale Street Could Talk” (Runner-up: Justin Hurwitz, “First Man”)
Best Production Design:
Hannah Beachler, “Black Panther” (Runner-up: Fiona Crombie, “The Favourite”)
Career Achievement Award:
Hayao Miyazaki
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award::
“The Green Fog”
New Generation Prize:
Chloe Zhao
Special Citation:
“The Other Side of the Wind”
