Los Angeles Film Critics Choose "Moonlight" as "Best Picture of 2016"

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.

42nd Annual (2016) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards:

BEST PICTURE
Moonlight
Runner-up: La La Land

BEST DIRECTOR
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Runner-up: Damien Chazelle, La La Land.

BEST ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come.
Runner-up: Rebecca Hall, Christine

BEST ACTOR
Adam Driver, Paterson
Runner-up: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
Runner-up: Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Runner-up: Issei Ogata, Silence

BEST SCREENPLAY
Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster
Runner-up: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION FILM
I Am Not Your Negro
Runner-up: O.J.: Made in America

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Handmaiden (South Korea)
Runner-up: Toni Erdmann

BEST ANIMATION
Your Name
Runner-up: The Red Turtle

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
James Laxton, Moonlight
Runner-up: Linus Sandgren, La La Land

BEST MUSIC/SCORE
Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul,  La La Land
Runner-up: Mica Levi, Jackie

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Seong-hie Ryu, The Handmaiden
Runner-up: David Wasco, La La Land

BEST EDITING
Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski, O.J.: Made in America
Runner-up: Tom Cross, La La Land

DOUGLAS EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO
Deborah Stratman, The Illinois Parables

NEW GENERATION
Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild, Krisha

SPECIAL CITATION
Turner Classic Movies, for preserving historic cinema via Filmstrick

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Shirley MacLaine

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