Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) Announce 2022 Award Winners
Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has its 2022 Award Winners, which saw EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and TÁR as a tie for Best Picture of the Year.
Disney is also picked up some awards during the event, with “Avatar: The Way Of Water” winning the award for Production Design. National Geographic’s “Fire Of Love” also picked up the runner-up award for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film, while Searchlight Pictures’ “The Banshees of Inisherin” also was announced as the runner-up for Best Screenplay.
LAFCA President Claudia Puig said in a statement:
“We are so happy about the breadth and depth of this year’s awards, and thrilled to be able to honor our illustrious winners in person for the first time in 3 years. We will be celebrating the award winners this year on January 14, 2023 at the Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles, which has a storied cinematic history.”
As previously announced, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has chosen writer-director Claire Denis as the recipient of this year’s Career Achievement Award.
Award winners are:
PICTURE (tie): EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and TÁR
DIRECTOR: Todd Field, TÁR
Runner-up: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE: Cate Blanchett, TÁR
Runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler, TILL
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE: Bill Nighy, LIVING
Runner-up: Michelle Yeoh, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Dolly de Leon, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Runner-up: Jessie Buckley, WOMEN TALKING
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Ke Huy Quan, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
Runner-up: Brian Tyree Henry, CAUSEWAY
SCREENPLAY: Todd Field, TÁR
Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
ANIMATION: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO
Runner-up: MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: EO
Runner-up: SAINT OMER
DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Runner-up: FIRE OF LOVE
NEW GENERATION: Davy Chou and Park Ji-Min, RETURN TO SEOUL
FILM EDITING: Blair McClendon, AFTERSUN
Runner-up: Monika Willi, TÁR
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michał Dymek, EO
Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, NOPE
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
MUSIC/SCORE: M.M. Keeravani, RRR
Runner-up: Paweł Mykietyn, EO
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
SPECIAL CITATION: Gwen Deglise, Deputy Director and Co-Director of Programming at American Cinematheque
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Claire Denis
