"Boyhood" is Los Angeles Film Critics' Best Picture of 2014

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is a professional organization of Los Angeles-based, professional film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media.  Since 1975, LAFCA members vote on the year's Achievement Awards each December, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera.

40th Annual (2014) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards:

BEST PICTURE: “Boyhood”
Runner-up:  “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

BEST DIRECTOR:  Richard Linklater for "Boyhood"
Runner-up: Wes Anderson for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

BEST ACTOR:  Tom Hardy for "Locke"
Runner-up: Michael Keaton for "BIRDMAN"

BEST ACTRESS:  Patricia Arquette for "Boyhood"
Runner-up: Julianne Moore for "Still Alice"

Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons for “Whiplash”
Runner up: Edward Norton for "Birdman"

Best Supporting Actress: Agata Kulesza for "Ida"
Runner-up: Rene Russo "Nightcrawler"

Best Screenplay: Wes Anderson fir “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Runner-up: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo for "Birdman"

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for "Birdman"
Runner-up: Dick Pope  for "Mr Turner"

Best Production Design: Adam Stockhausen for "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Runner-up: Ondrej Nekvasil for "Snowpiercer"

Best Editing: Sandra Adair for "Boyhood"
Runner-up: Barney Pilling "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Music Score (TIE): Jonny Greenwood for "Inherent Vice" and Mica Levi for "Under the Skin"

Best Foreign-Language Film: "Ida" Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Runner-up: "Winter Sleep" directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: "CITIZENFOUR" Directed by Laura Poitras
Runner-up: "Life Itself" Directed by Steve James

Best Animation: "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” directed by Isao Takahata
Runner-up: "The Lego Movie" directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

New Generation:  Ava DuVernay for “Selma”

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award: Walter Reuben "The David Whiting Story"

Career Achievement: Gena Rowlands

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