LAFCA 2022 Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 11, 2022n/a7 min

Read our complete list of the winners of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association annual awards:

Best Picture: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) and “Tár” (Focus Features)

Best Director: Todd Field, “Tár” (Focus Features); Runner-up: S.S. Rajamouli, “RRR” (Variance Films)

Leading Performances: Cate Blanchett, “Tár” (Focus Features) and Bill Nighy, “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics); Runners-up: Danielle Deadwyler, “Till” (Orion/United Artists Releasing) and Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Supporting Performances: Dolly De Leon, “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) and Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24); Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, “Women Talking” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) and Brian Tyree Henry for “Causeway” (A24/Apple Original Films)

Best Screenplay: Todd Field, “Tár” (Focus Features); Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Cinematography: Michal Dymek, “EO” (Janus Films and Sideshow); Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, “Nope” (Universal Pictures)

Best Editing: Blair McClendon, “Aftersun” (A24); Runner-up: Monika Willi, “Tár” (Focus Features)

Best Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, “Avatar: The Way of Water” (20th Century Studios); Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)

Best Music Score: M.M. Keeravani, “RRR” (Variance Films); Runner-up: Paweł Mykietyn, “EO” (Janus Films and Sideshow)

Best Foreign Language: “EO” (Janus Films and Sideshow); Runner-up: “Saint Omer” (Neon

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (Neon); Runner-up: “Fire of Love” (National Geographic/Neon)

Best Animation: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (Netflix); Runner-up:Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” (A24)

New Generation Award: Davy Chou and Park Ji-Min, “Return to Seoul” (Sony Pictures Classics)

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize: “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” (Grasshopper Film)

Career Achievement Award: Claire Denis

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