Anora was named best picture of 2024 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which handed out its annual achievement awards on Sunday, marking its 50th anniversary of honoring Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera.
The Brutalist was the runner-up.
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.
For the third year in a row, the L.A. Film Critics Association Awards will feature gender-neutral acting categories.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which celebrated its 50th anniversary of recognizing Hollywood talent on both sides of the camera, presented its annual achievement awards on Sunday, and Anora was named the best picture of 2024.
The second place went to the Brutalist.
Additionally, Anora won two acting awards: Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain won best supporting performance, while Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora won best lead performance.
Among the other winners at the ceremony were Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails, who won best score for Challengers. For The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof won best director.
Noting his “ability to spin stylish, prescient, genre-bending features of otherworldly menace and powerful emotion,” the association had previously announced science fiction icon John Carpenter as this year’s career achievement award. Additionally, it noted that Carpenter’s “glorious career happens to span our group’s 50-year existence.”. “.”.
The organization’s selection for best picture typically results in an Oscar nomination for the top honor of the evening. This was the case last year, when Zone of Interest won the LAFCA trophy and went on to win an Oscar for best international feature and receive a nomination for best picture. This year’s third consecutive year, the L. A. . Gender-neutral acting categories will be included in the Film Critics Association Awards.
The winners are listed in full below.
The best image.
Anora came out on top.
And the Brutalist came in second.
finest director.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, by Muhammad Rasoulof, was the winner.
Anora and Sean Baker were the runners-up.
top-performing lead.
Hard Truths’ Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Mikey Madison’s Anora were the winners.
Demi Moore, The Substance, and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here, came in second and third.
finest performance in support.
The winners were Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain, Anora, and Yura Borisov.
Sing Sing, Adam Pearson, A Different Man, and Clarence Maclin were the runners-up.
The best screenplay.
A Real Pain’s Jesse Eisenberg won.
Second place: Anora and Sean Baker.
The best non-fiction or documentary.
No Other Land won.
Dahomey was the runner-up.
best filmmaking.
Jomo Fray of the Nickel Boys was the winner.
Lol Crawley, the Brutalist, came in second.
Top score/music.
Challengers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross emerged victorious.
Second place went to Evil Does Not Exist by Eiko Ishibashi.
finest production design.
The winner is The Brutalist, Judy Becker.
Blitz’s Adam Stockhausen came in second.
best editing.
Nickel Boys, Hansjörg Weißbrich, and Nicholas Monsour tied the knot on September 5.
best animation.
The victor is Flow.
Chicken For Linda came in second.
One of the best non-English films.
The winner is everything we think of as light.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig came in second.
The Experimental Film Prize of Douglas Edwards.
The Human Surge 3, by Eduardo Williams.
the New Generation.
The Joker of the People, Vera Drew.
