Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards winners: ‘The Zone of Interest’ takes 4 including Best Picture

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) announced the winners of their 49th annual awards on Sunday, December 10. These California-based reviewers are the second major critics group to reveal their list of 2023 honorees, as their New York counterparts went first on November 30. While the East Coast critics chose “Killers of the Flower Moon” as Best Picture, the Westerners totally shut out Martin Scorsese’s film in favor of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.”

Last year, the Empire State crew gave their highest honor to “Tár.” While the L.A. gang concurred, they also decided to award “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in a rare tie. In 2021, both organizations went with Japanese import “Drive My Car” as their pick for best pic.

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Like the New York Film Critics Circle, the 60 LAFCA members met for a marathon voting session involving multiple ballots for each race. Below is the full list of Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards winners, as well as the runners-up in each category.

BEST PICTURE
“The Zone of Interest”
Runner-up: “Oppenheimer”

BEST DIRECTOR
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCES
Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest”
Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
Runners-up:
Andrew Scott, “All of Us Strangers”
Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCES
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 SCREENPLAY
Andrew Haigh, “All of Us Strangers”
Runner-up: Samy Burch, “May December”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robbie Ryan, “Poor Things”
Runner-up: Rodrigo Prieto, “Barbie” and “Killers of the Flower Moon”

BEST EDITING
Laurent Sénéchal, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Runner-up: Jonathan Alberts, “All of Us Strangers”

BEST MUSIC SCORE
Mica Levi, “The Zone of Interest”
Runners-up: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, “Barbie”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Sarah Greenwood, “Barbie”
Runners-up: Shona Heath and James Price, “Poor Things”

BEST ANIMATION
“The Boy and the Heron”
Runner-up: “Robot Dreams”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
“Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros”
Runner-up: “The Eternal Memory”

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
“Anatomy of a Fall”
Runner-up: “Tótem”

NEW GENERATION
Celine Song, “Past Lives”

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