With New York kicking off awards season with the Gotham Awards and the NYFCC releasing their winners, it’s now time for the West coast to leap into the fray with the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation asserting their winners for 2024 on Sunday, December 8.
LAFCA already unveiled that John Carpenter shall be receiving the Profession Achievement Award throughout its ceremony on Saturday, January 11, 2025 on the Biltmore Resort in Los Angeles, however their picks for one of the best in movie typically function a robust prediction for Oscar nominees and winners.
In 2023, the LAFCA accurately predicted Emma Stone’s win for Greatest Actress in “Poor Issues” over Lily Gladstone in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” although Stone was tied within the class with “The Zone of Curiosity” star Sandra Hüller. “The Zone of Curiosity” additionally took residence the prize for Greatest Movie and Greatest Director for Jonathan Glazer, however the movie solely went on to win Greatest Worldwide Function and Greatest Sound on the 96th Academy Awards.
Nonetheless, since 2000, its awards have accurately prognosticated Greatest Image nominees, together with wins for Kathryn Bigelow’s wartime bomb disposal drama “The Harm Locker” (2009), Tom McCarthy’s look contained in the unraveling of a Catholic Church scandal in “Highlight” (2015), Barry Jenkins’ romantic triptych “Moonlight” (2016), Bong Joon-ho’s capitalistic satire/thriller “Parasite” (2019) and the Daniels’ multiverse drama “The whole lot In every single place All at As soon as” (2022).
Its picks for Greatest Director are additionally robust forecasts of the Academy’s style, as solely certainly one of its winners since 2009 — Debra Granik for the Ben Foster-starring “Go away No Hint” (2018) — has not subsequently acquired an Oscar nomination in that class. In that point, the Greatest Director Oscar has been claimed by six of LACFA’s Greatest Director winners, together with Bigelow, Alfonso Cuarón for his technologically-groundbreaking “Gravity,” Guillermo del Toro for his darkish romance “The Form of Water,” Director Bong for “Parasite,” Chloé Zhao for her non secular highway movie “Nomadland,” and Jane Campion for her pyschosexual Western “The Energy of the Canine.”
2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of LAFCA’s inception and the third 12 months for gender-neutral appearing classes by the critics’ group. Hold studying under to seek out out all of this 12 months’s winners.
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Greatest Animation: “Move”
Runner-up: “Hen for Linda”
Cinematography: Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys”
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist”
Modifying: *Tie* Nicholas Monsour, “Nickel Boys,” and Hansjörg Weißbrich, “September 5”
Manufacturing Design: Judy Becker, “The Brutalist”
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, “Blitz”
Music/Rating: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, “Evil Does Not Exist”
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Profession Achievement Award: John Carpenter