2022 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
| 48th LAFCA Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | December 11, 2022 |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Everything Everywhere All at Once / Tár (TIE) |
The 48th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2022. Both Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár received the award for Best Film, being the fourth time the association gave the award to two films in the same year. For the first time in three years, the association held an in-person awards event where all the winners were honored on January 14, 2023.[1][2][3]
This year, LAFCA introduced gender-neutral acting categories, with two awards for Best Lead Performance and two awards for Best Supporting Performance, each with two winners and two runner-ups.[4][5][6]
Winners
- Best Film (TIE):
- Best Director:
- Todd Field – Tár
- Runner-up: S. S. Rajamouli – RRR
- Todd Field – Tár
- Best Lead Performance:
- Cate Blanchett – Tár
- Bill Nighy – Living
- Runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler – Till
- Runner-up: Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Best Supporting Performance:
- Dolly de Leon – Triangle of Sadness
- Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Runner-up: Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
- Runner-up: Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
- Best Screenplay:
- Todd Field – Tár
- Runner-up: Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Todd Field – Tár
- Best Cinematography:
- Michał Dymek – EO
- Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema – Nope
- Michał Dymek – EO
- Best Editing:
- Blair McClendon – Aftersun
- Runner-up: Monika Willi – Tár
- Blair McClendon – Aftersun
- Best Music Score:
- M. M. Keeravani – RRR
- Runner-up: Paweł Mykietyn – EO
- M. M. Keeravani – RRR
- Best Production Design:
- Dylan Cole and Ben Procter – Avatar: The Way of Water
- Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday – Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Dylan Cole and Ben Procter – Avatar: The Way of Water
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- EO
- Runner-up: Saint Omer
- EO
- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Runner-up: Fire of Love
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Best Animation:
- New Generation Award:
- Davy Chou and Park Ji-Min – Return to Seoul
- Career Achievement Award:
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- Special Citation:
- Gwen Deglise (for her curation and celebration of cinema in Los Angeles for a quarter-century through the American Cinematheque)
References
- ^ Davis, Clayton (December 11, 2022). "'Tár' and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Tie for Best Picture at Los Angeles Film Critics Awards". Variety. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ^ Feinberg, Scott (January 15, 2023). "L.A. Film Critics Awards: 'Everything Everywhere' and 'Tár' Celebrated, Honorees Clap Along to 'RRR' Song "Naatu Naatu"". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony; Haring, Bruce (December 11, 2022). "Los Angeles Film Critics Name 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'Tár' in Tie for Best Picture". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
- ^ @LAFilmCritics (October 12, 2022). "For this year's awards vote, LAFCA will also introduce gender-neutral acting categories, with two awards for Best Lead Performance and two awards for Best Supporting Performance. Our voting meeting will take place on December 11, 2022" (Tweet). Archived from the original on October 24, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ Hazard, Charlotte (November 1, 2022). "Hollywood takes a step to remove gender distinction in acting awards". Just the News. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ^ Stone, Sasha (October 15, 2022). "Inside the LAFCA's "Gender Neutral" Vote Decisions". Awards Daily. Retrieved December 12, 2022.