News: L.A. Film Critics Association: Call Me By Your Name Selected As Best Picture - Full List Of Winners



The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has selected Call Me by Your Name for Best Picture of the Year. The winners were announced today by Claudia Puig, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The 43rd annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards ceremony will be held Saturday, January 13th at the InterContinental, Los Angeles. As previously announced, Max von Sydow will receive the 2017 Career Achievement Award. Puig said that: 

“I am so pleased to be honoring such a wide breadth of films and filmmakers this year. The winners come from several countries around the world and reflect a diversity that should be the norm during the awards season. We’re so excited to celebrate this year’s extraordinary group of winners.” 

The Sony Pictures film Call Me by Your Name also won Best Picture at last weeks Gotham Awards, likely en route to an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. A24’s The Florida Project was runner-up for Best Picture. The LAFCA‘s Best Picture selections have gone on to win Oscar gold the past several years, with Spotlight in 2015 and Moonlight last year. 

The full list of award winners are below. 

PICTURE: Call Me by Your Name 
Runner-up: The Florida Project 

 DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water and Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name (tie) 

 ACTOR: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Runner-up: James Franco, The Disaster Artist

 ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water
Runner-up: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Runner-up: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Runner-up: Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

 SCREENPLAY: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Runner-up: Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

ANIMATION: The Breadwinner 
Runner-up: Coco 

 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: BPM (Beats Per Minute) and Loveless (tie) 

DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: Faces Places
Runner-up: Jane

 NEW GENERATION: Greta Gerwig 

 FILM EDITING: Lee Smith, Dunkirk
Runner-up: Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya

 CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water 
Runner-up: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

 PRODUCTION DESIGN: Dennis Gassner, Blade Runner 2049 
Runner-up: Paul D. Austerberry, The Shape of Water

 MUSIC/SCORE: Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

 DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: Purge This Land from director Lee Anne Schmitt 

 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Max von Sydow