The 36th Los Angeles Film Critics Association has announced their winners, aside from David Fincher’s The Social Network sweeping many of the awards, the LA critics have a few dramatic twists in their awards list. To begin with they have a rather dark horse, Carlos, a mini-series that few people even know of getting a number of mentions and a number of other foreign films seeping their way into mainstream awards. Interestingly enough the Foreign films stand to win for “Best Foreign Film” and “Best Film” — not that I don’t support foreign films but doesn’t that feel a bit like cheating? And the fact that it’s more a mini-series than a film?
Check out the full list below…
BEST PICTURE:
The Social Network
Runner-up: Carlos
BEST DIRECTOR:
Olivier Assayas for Carlos AND David Fincher for The Social Network — TIE
BEST ACTOR:
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, Carlos
BEST ACTRESS:
Kim Hye-ja, Mother
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Niels Arestrup, A Prophet
Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Runner-up: Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
BEST SCREENPLAY:
Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Runner-up: David Seidler, The King’s Speech
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Carlos
Runner-up: Mother
BEST ANIMATION:
Toy Story 3
Runner-up: The Illusionist
BEST DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM:
Last Train Home
Runner-up: Exit Through the Gift Shop
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Runner-up: Roger Deakins, True Grit
BEST MUSIC/SCORE:
Alexandre Desplat, The Ghost Writer, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network — Tie
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Inception
Runner-up: Eve Stewart, The King’s Speech
BEST NEW GENERATION:
Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO:
Film Socialism
LEGACY OF CINEMA AWARDS:
Serge Bromberg, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, and the F.W. Murnau Foundation and Fernando Pena for the restoration of Metropolis
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Paul Mazursky