The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced Sunday their picks for the best movies of the year. Presented annually, LAFCA is one of major critics groups of the season and this year it was Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight that feted with the Best Picture prize. The critically admired coming of age story – which focuses on a sexually conflicted African-American growing up in Miami – also earned Jenkins the Best Director prize as well as a Supporting Actor honor for Mahershala Ali.
For those keeping score, of the prizes already announced, Moonlight has won two Best Film awards (from the Gotham Awards and LAFCA), while Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea took Best Film honors from the National Board of Review and Damien Chazelle’s La La Land was feted by the New York Film Critics Circle. Both Manchester and La La Land had admires among the LAFCA crowd as well, but both films were mostly acknowledged with runner-up mentions.
Check out the full list of LAFCA winners below:
- BEST PICTURE: Moonlight (runner-up: La La Land)
- BEST DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight (runner-up: Damien Chazelle, La La Land)
- BEST ACTOR: Adam Driver, Paterson (runner-up: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea)
- BEST ACTRESS: Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come (runner-up: Rebecca Hall, Christine)
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight (runner-up: Issey Ogata, Silence)
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lily Gladstone, Certain Women (runner-up: Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea)
- BEST SCREENPLAY: The Lobster – Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos (runner-up: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan)
- BEST ANIMATION: Your Name (runner-up: The Red Turtle)
- BEST DOCUMENTARY: I Am Not Your Negro (runner-up: O.J.: Made in America)
- BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Handmaiden (runner-up: Toni Erdmann)
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Moonlight (runner-up: La La Land)
- BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Handmaiden (runner-up: La La Land)
- BEST FILM EDITING: O.J.: Made in America (runner-up: La La Land)
- BEST MUSIC SCORE: La La Land (runner-up: Jackie)
- NEW GENERATION AWARD: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Fairchild, Krisha
- DOUGLAS EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: Deborah Stratman, The Illinois Parables
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