The Los Angeles Film Critics Association handed out its annual achievement awards on Sunday, marking their 50th anniversary of honoring Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails were among the ceremony’s early winners, taking home best score for Challengers. Anora then led the ceremony, winning for best lead and supporting performances (Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov) and taking runner-up for best screenplay and best director (Sean Baker in both categories).
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.”
During the ceremony, the Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize went to Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3.
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. Check back here for updates as the ceremony continues.
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: Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, Blitz
Best editing
Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys, and Hansjörg Weißbrich, September 5
Best animation
Winner: Flow
Runner-up: Chicken For Linda
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 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
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3
Best screenplay
Winner: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
Best documentary/non-fiction
Winner: No Other Land
Runner-up: Dahomey
Best director
Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora
