The Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation (aka LAFCA) has named Anora because the Finest Image of 2024, edging out The Brutalist.
The Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation aka LAFCA gathered over the weekend to call their award winners for 2024. This 12 months, they selected Palme d’Or winner Anora as Finest Image, with The Brutalist coming in because the runner-up. Anora fared fairly nicely general with LAFCA, additionally taking dwelling Lead Efficiency for Mikey Madison and runner-up recognition for Sean Baker’s route and screenplay.
Take a look at LAFCA’s winners under:
Finest Image: Anora
Runner-Up: The Brutalist
Finest Director: Mohammad Rasoulof – The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-Up: Sean Baker – Anora
Finest Lead Efficiency: Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Truths / Mikey Madison – Anora
Runners-Up: Demi Moore – The Substance / Fernanda Torres – I’m Nonetheless Right here
Finest Supporting Efficiency: Yura Borisov – Anora / Kieran Culkin – A Actual Ache
Runners-Up: Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing / Adam Pearson – A Completely different Man
Finest Screenplay: A Actual Ache – Jesse Eisenberg
Runner-Up: Anora – Sean Baker
Finest Cinematography: Nickel Boys – Jomo Fray
Runner-Up: The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Finest Manufacturing Design: The Brutalist – Judy Becker
Runner-Up: Blitz – Adam Stockhausen
Finest Enhancing: Nickel Boys – Nicholas Monsour
Runner-Up: September 5 – Hansjörg Weißbrich
Finest Music Rating: Challengers – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Runner-Up: Evil Does Not Exist – Eiko Ishibashi
Finest Movie Not within the English Language: All We Think about as Gentle
Runner-Up: The Seed of the Sacred Pig
Finest Documentary/Non-Fiction Movie: No Different Land
Runner-Up: Dahomey
Finest Animation: Circulation
Runner-Up: Hen for Linda
Along with these annual awards, LAFCA – which is comprised of roughly 60 members – additionally gave out honorary ones and particular recognitions. For his or her New Technology Award, they went with Vera Drew’s The Folks’s Joker, whereas on the opposite facet for Profession Achievement they went with legendary style director John Carpenter.
Whereas LAFCA’s Finest Image winner not often strains up with the precise Finest Image winner on the Academy Awards (it has solely occurred 5 instances this century), Anora is in an excellent place to chalk up one other match for LAFCA. In the meantime, Keiran Culkin has been gaining traction for A Actual Ache, whereas we’re all rooting for Demi Moore to land a much-deserved nomination for The Substance, which might be her first in a profession that has spanned greater than 4 a long time.
Becoming a member of LAFCA with bulletins this week would be the Washington D.C. Space Movie Critics Affiliation, Chicago Movie Critics Affiliation, the New York Movie Critics On-line and extra.
What do you consider this 12 months’s LAFCA winners? Which do you see being main contenders on the Oscars?
