Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards(LAFCA): Complete Winners & Runner-Ups List

• Pop Culture
• 11th Dec 2023
• By Admin

Discover who won big at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA) in 2023 with our complete list of winners and runners-up.

The winner will be celebrated on Jan 13, 2024, at the association's annual awards event. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is made up of 60 members who are film critics based in Los Angeles and work in print and electronic media. 

Over the past 48 years, only 12 films that have won the LAFCA best-film award have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture. However, in the last eight years, four of those matches have occurred. These four matches include "Spotlight" in 2015, "Moonlight" in 2016, "Parasite" in 2019, and "Everything Everywhere All at Once" in 2022. 

Here are the winners revealed so far:

Best Picture

Winner: THE ZONE OF INTEREST

Runner-up: OPPENHEIMER

Best Foreign Language

Winner: ANATOMY OF A FALL 

Runner-up: TÓTEM

Best Director

Winner: Jonathan Glazer (THE ZONE OF INTEREST)

Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos (POOR THINGS)

Best Screenplay

Winner: Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers)

Runner-up:  Samy Burch (May December)

Leading Performances

Winner: Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) & Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Runners-up: Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) & Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Supporting Performances

Winner: Rachel McAdams (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret) & Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Runners-up: Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) & Ryan Gosling (Barbie)

Best Animation

Winner: The Boy and the Heron

Runner-up: Robot Dreams

Editing

Winner: Laurent Sénéchal (Anatomy of a Fall)

Runner-up: Jonathan Alberts (All of Us Strangers)

Best Production Design

Winner: Sarah Greenwood (Barbie)

Runner-up: Shona Heath and James Price (Poor Things)

Best Music/Score

Winner: Mica Levi (The Zone of Interest)

Runner-up: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)

Best Cinematography

Winner: Robbie Ryan (Poor Things)

Runner-up: Rodrigo Prieto, (Killers of the Flower Moon & Barbie)

Career Achievement Award

Agnieszka Holland

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:

Winner: MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS

Runner-up: THE ETERNAL MEMORY 

New Generation Award

Winner: Celine Song (PAST LIVES)

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

Winner: “Youth (Spring)” Directed By Wang Bing