‘Anora’ Named Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Zoe G. Phillips

Sun, December 8, 2024 at 8:01 PM UTC

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Anora was named best picture of 2024 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, with The Brutalist as the runner-up.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Mikey Madison won best lead performances, while Yura Borisov and Kieran Culkin won best supporting performances at the LAFCA awards.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails won best score for Challengers, and Mohammad Rasoulof won best director for The Seed of the Sacred Fig at the LAFCA awards.

Anora was named best picture of 2024 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), which handed out its annual achievement awards Sunday, marking its 50th anniversary of honoring Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.

The Brutalist was the runner-up.

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Anora also scored two acting wins: Best lead performance went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora , while best supporting performance went to Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails also were among the ceremony's winners, taking home best score for Challengers . Mohammad Rasoulof took home best director for The Seed of the Sacred Fig .

The association previously announced science fiction legend John Carpenter as this year's career achievement award, citing his "ability to spin stylish, prescient, genre-bending features of otherworldly menace and powerful emotion," as well as the fact that "his glorious career happens to span our group's 50-year existence."

Most years, the organization's choice for best picture garners an Oscar nomination for the night's top prize. This was true last year, when Zone of Interest took home the LAFCA trophy and later earned a best international feature Oscar, as well as a nomination for best picture. For the third year in a row, the L.A. Film Critics Association Awards will feature gender-neutral acting categories.

A full list of winners follows.

Best Picture

Winner: Anora
Runner-up: The Brutalist

Best Director

Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Lead Performance

Winners: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths , and Mikey Madison, Anora
Runners-up: Demi Moore, The Substance , and Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here

Best Supporting Performance

Winners: Yura Borisov, Anora , and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing , and Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Screenplay

Winner: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Documentary/Nonfiction

Winner: No Other Land
Runner-up: Dahomey

Best Cinematography

Winner: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist

Best Music/Score

Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist

Best Production Design

Winner: Judy Becker, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, Blitz

Best Editing

Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys , and Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5

Best Animation

Winner: Flow
Runner-up: Chicken for Linda

Best Film Not in the English Language

Winner: All We Imagine as Light
Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge 3

New Generation

Vera Drew, The People's Joker

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