Three days after the New York Film Critics Circle flagged La La Land and Moonlight for their top honors, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has cast their votes on this year’s superlatives. East Coast or West Coast, one thing is clear: Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali is everybody’s favorite Supporting Actor. You can read the full list of LAFCA award recipients below.
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
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
