In una lunghissima session di votazioni la Los Angeles Film Critics Association ha scelto i film migliori dell’anno.
L’ha spuntata Anora di Sean Baker davanti a The Brutalist di Brady Corbet. Tuttavia l’iraniano in esilio Mohammad Rasoulof è stato premiato come miglior regista dell’anno.
Gli attori di Anora, Mikey Madison e Yura Borisov vincono anche nelle categorie attoriali, non più divise per sesso.
Di seguito tutti i premi:
Best Picture: “Anora” (Neon)
Runner-up: “The Brutalist”
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Neon)
Runner-up: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Leading Performances: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street); Mikey Madison, “Anora” (Neon)
Runners-up: Demi Moore, “The Substance” and Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Supporting Performances: Yura Borisov, “Anora” (Neon); Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing” and Adam Pearson, “A Different Man”
Screenplay: “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures) — Jesse Eisenberg
Runner up: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Animation: “Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Runner-up: “Chicken for Linda”
Cinematography: “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM Studios)
Runner-up: “The Brutalist”
Editing: (TIE) “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Nicholas Monsour; “September 5” (Paramount Pictures) — Hansjörg Weißbrich
Runner-up: None
Production Design: Judy Becker, “The Brutalist” (A24)
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, “Blitz”
Music Score: “Challengers” (Amazon MGM Studios) — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, “Evil Does Not Exist”
Foreign Language: “All We Imagine as Light” (Janus Films/Sideshow)
Runner-up: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: “No Other Land”
Runner-up: “Dahomey”
New Generation Award: Vera Drew, “The People’s Joker” (Altered Innocence)
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize: “The Human Surge 3” by Eduardo Williams
Career Achievement Award: John Carpenter
Special Citation: Adam Hyman, for decades of curating, programming and administrating the screenings and other events of LA Filmforum
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