‘Anora’ Named Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Anora was named best picture of 2024 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), which handed out its annual achievement awards Sunday, marking its 50th anniversary of honoring Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.
The Brutalist was the runner-up.
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Anora also scored two acting wins: Best lead performance went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora, while best supporting performance went to Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails also were among the ceremony’s winners, taking home best score for Challengers. Mohammad Rasoulof took home best director for The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
The association previously announced science fiction legend John Carpenter as this year’s career achievement award, citing his “ability to spin stylish, prescient, genre-bending features of otherworldly menace and powerful emotion,” as well as the fact that “his glorious career happens to span our group’s 50-year existence.”
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 Zone of Interest took home the LAFCA trophy and later earned a best international feature Oscar, as well as a nomination for best picture. For the third year in a row, the L.A. Film Critics Association Awards will feature gender-neutral acting categories.
A full list of winners follows.
Best Picture
Winner: Anora
Runner-up: The Brutalist
Best Director
Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Lead Performance
Winners: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths, and Mikey Madison, Anora
Runners-up: Demi Moore, The Substance, and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best Supporting Performance
Winners: Yura Borisov, Anora, and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing, and Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Best Screenplay
Winner: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
Best Documentary/Nonfiction
Winner: No Other Land
Runner-up: Dahomey
Best Cinematography
Winner: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Best Music/Score
Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist
Best Production Design
Winner: Judy Becker, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, Blitz
Best Editing
Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys, and Hansj?rg Weissbrich, September 5
Best Animation
Winner: Flow
Runner-up: Chicken for Linda
Best Film Not in the English Language
Winner: All We Imagine as Light
Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3
New Generation
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
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