‘The Zone of Interest’ Wins Best Picture at Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards – Full List of Winners

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced its 2023 awards today deadline update the list of winners live as soon as they are announced. The current score can be found below.

Hayao Miyazaki’s The boy and the heron won the award for best animation, just as it posted a record debut in North America with $12.8 million. Laurent Sénéchal won the award for best editing Anatomy of a falland the Production Design Award went Barbies Sarah Greenwood.

Mica Levi won Best Music/Score for The zone of interest, and awards season favorite Poor stuff won the first prize of the day, Best Cinematography, for Robbie Ryan. Barbie was the group’s runner-up in both categories.

The awards will be presented at the group’s banquet on January 13.

Oscar nominated Europe Europe Screenwriter and Emmy nominee Trams Director Agnieszka Holland receives this year’s LAFCA Career Achievement Award.

“Few directors in recent decades have embraced their historical perspective as fearlessly as Agnieszka Holland, and we are pleased to honor her this year,” said LAFCA President Robert Abele. “With moral clarity, deep empathy and invigorating filmmaking, her work exposes the damage oppressive regimes and sociopolitical conflicts do to the ordinary soul. At a time of increasing global unrest and rising authoritarianism, the Netherlands’ deeply human films remind us that history is not entirely behind us and that live political theater is more important now than ever.”

At the LAFCA Awards last year tar and later Oscar winner Everything everywhere at the same time equivalent to the prize for the best picture.

Founded in 1975, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association is comprised of professional LA-based film critics who work in local print and electronic media. LAFCA members hold their annual awards ceremony recognizing on-screen excellence on both sides of the camera.

Here are the winners announced so far:

Best photo

WINNER: The Interest Zone

Second: Oppenheimer

WINNER:

SECOND PLACE:

Best director

Winner: Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest
Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos for Bad Things

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction

Winner: Menus-Paisirs – Les Troisgros

Best case scenario

WINNER: Andrew Haigh for “All of Us Strangers.”

SECOND: Samy Burch for May and December

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

WINNER: Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring).

Best Lead Performance

Winner: Sandra Hülser, Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest,

and Emma Stone, Poor Things

Second place: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers, and

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Supporting Performance

Winner: Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret and

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Remains

Second place: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

and Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Best animation
Winner: The boy and the heron
Second Place: Robot Dreams

Produce
Winner: Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy of a Fall
Second place: Jonathan Alberts, All of Us Strangers

Best Production Design
Winner: Sarah Greenwood, Barbie
Second place: Shona Heath and James Price, Poor Things

Best music/score
Winner: Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Second place: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie

Best camera work
Winner: Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Second place: Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon & Barbie

Professional Achievement Award
Agnieszka Holland