2023 LAFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 11, 2023n/a4 min

Read the complete list of winners of the 2023 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

​Best Film
Winner: The Zone Of Interest
Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

Best Foreign Film
Winner: Anatomy Of A Fall
Runner-Up: Totem

Best Director
Winner: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest
Runner-Up: Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

Best Documentary Film
Winner: Menus-plaisirs — Les Troisgros
Runner-Up: The Eternal Memory

Best Screenplay
Winner: Andrew Haigh – All Of Us Strangers
Runner-Up: Samy Burch – May December

Best Leading Performance
Winners: Sandra Hüller – Anatomy Of A Fall & The Zone Of Interest & Emma Stone – Poor Things
Runners-Up: Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers & Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Supporting Performer
Winners: Rachel Mcadams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. & Da’vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runners-Up: Lily Gladstone – Killers Of The Flower Moon & Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Best Animated Film
Winner: The Boy And The Heron
Runner-Up: Robot Dreams

Best Editing
Winner: Laurent Sénéchal – Anatomy Of A Fall
Runner-Up: Jonathan Alberts – All Of Us Strangers

Best Production Design
Winner: Sarah Greenwood – Barbie
Runner-Up: Shona Heath & James Price – Poor Things

Best Music/Score
Winner: Mica Levi – The Zone Of Interest (with Special Recognition Of The Contribution Of Sound Designer Johnnie Burn)
Runner-Up: Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt – Barbie

Best Cinematography
Winner: Robbie Ryan – Poor Things
Runner-Up: Rodrigo Prieto – Barbie & Killers Of The Flower Moon

New Generation
Celine Song – Past Lives

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film
Wang Bing – Youth (spring)

still courtesy of A24


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