The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is currently voting on this year’s best films, performances and technical achievements.
Best cinematography was the first award revealed on Sunday, with Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams being named the winner.
The association previously announced in October that filmmaker and screenwriter Philip Kaufman as the recipient of this year’s Career Achievement Award. “Intrepid doesn’t even begin to describe a director who, among his many considerable achievements, gave Indiana Jones his first assignment and inspired the NC-17 rating,” said LAFCA president Robert Abele of Kaufman.
“A criminally underappreciated director, Philip Kaufman could never be pigeonholed, from his early days absorbing the independent spirit of homegrown DIY-ers and the European New Wave, to his cool, vivid command of genre in the ’70s, followed by a handful of uncompromising historical epics, including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, that belied anybody’s notion that American filmmakers couldn’t be versatile, intelligent and entertaining about big ideas,” Abele continued. “The L.A. Film Critics Association is immensely proud to be honoring this dyed-in-the-wool iconoclast.”
Last year, Anora was voted best picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Most years, the organization’s choice for best picture garners an Oscar nomination for the night’s top prize. This was true last year, when Anora earned the LAFCA trophy for best picture and then went on to receive an Oscar nod for best picture and ultimately took home the Academy Award. For the fourth year in a row, the L.A. Film Critics Association Awards will feature gender-neutral acting categories.
A list of this year’s winners follows. Refresh for the latest.
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Best Lead Performance
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Best Screenplay
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Best Documentary/Nonfiction
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Best Cinematography
Winner: Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Best Music/Score
Winner: Kangding Ray, Sirāt
Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Best Production Design
Winner: Hannah Beachler, Sinners
Runner-up: Tamara Deverell, Frankenstein
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Best Film Not in the English Language
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Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
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New Generation
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