Anora wins Best Picture at Los Angeles Film Critics

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) announced the winners of their 2024 awards this morning on Twitter, and Sean Baker Anora was the big winner, taking home three prizes, including Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, and Best Picture. Last year, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest was the big winner, taking home four prizes, including Best Picture and Best Director.

LAFCA comprises of critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying online general-interest publications. After voting today, the awards will be handed out in a non-televised ceremony in January. During the same ceremony, students who were funded through a Rotten Tomatoes charitable grant will also accept their honors, and we will be present again to meet and report on the talented recipients.

Read through the complete winner’s list below, and if you’re as obsessed with awards as we are, make sure to check out the full Awards Leaderboard to keep up to date on the accolades bestowed on the best movies of 2024/2025 from the press, fans, and members of the film industry.

Best Picture: Anora
Runner-up: The Brutalist

Best Film Not in the English Language:  All We Imagine as Light
–Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Director: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
– Runner-Up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Documentary/Nonfiction: No Other Land
– Runner-Up: Dahomey

Best Lead Performances: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths, and Mikey Madison, Anora
– Runners-Up: Demi Moore, The Substance, and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
– Runner-Up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Animation: Flow
– Runner-Up: Chicken For Linda

Best Editing: Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys, and Hansjörg Weißbrich, September 5

Best Production Design: The Brutalist
– Runner-Up: Blitz

Best Music/Score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
– Runner-Up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist

Best Supporting Performer: Yura Borisov, Anora, and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
– Runners-Up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing, and Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
– Runner-Up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize – Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3

New Generation – Vera Drew, The People’s Joker

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