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‘Moonlight’ Named Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics
“Moonlight” has been named the best picture of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” was counted as a runner-up.
Korea’s “The Handmaiden,” from director Park Chan Wook took best foreign language film.
Votes were counted and shared to Twitter on Sunday, which saw Adam Driver take best best actor of 2016 for his role in Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson.” Casey Affleck was runner-up for his performance in “Manchester by the Sea,” for which he is considered an Oscar frontrunner.
Isabelle Huppert was named best actress for her performances in “Elle” and “Things to Come,” with Rebecca Hall the runner-up for “Christine.”
Mahershala Ali from “Moonlight” and Lily Gladstone from “Certain Women” won the supporting actor and actress awards.
Barry Jenkins won the best director award for “Moonlight,” with Damien Chazelle the runner-up for “La La Land.”
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“Moonlight” also won for its cinematography by James Laxton, while composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won for their music in “La La Land.”
“The Handmaiden” was also honored for its production design, while LAFCA was adventurous in its pick for editing, opting for ESPN’s “O.J.: Made in America,” which had a brief qualifying run as a seven-and-a-half-hour theatrical movie before airing on the network’s “30 for 30” in miniseries form.
“O.J.: Made in America” finished as the runner-up in the documentary/non-fiction category, losing to another movie that focuses on race in America, Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro.”
In the animated-feature category, the Japanese film “Your Name” was a surprising winner over “Zootopia” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,”…
‘Moonlight’ scores top awards from Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. announced its 2016 winners for the best in film Sunday. Leading the pack with honors was “Moonlight,” which took home four awards including for director (Barry Jenkins), supporting actor (Mahershala Ali), cinematography (James Laxton) and best picture.
Also recognized with first place or runner-up honors were “Manchester by the Sea,” “La La Land” and “ OJ: Made in America.”
LAFCA’s 2016 winners will be honored at an awards dinner on Jan. 14, where actress Shirley MacLaine will receive a career achievement award. The entire ceremony is dedicated to director Curtis Hanson, who died in September.
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‘Moonlight’ beats ‘La La Land’ in L.A. Film Critics awards
“Moonlight” won best picture honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. on Sunday, one of four awards — including one for director for Barry Jenkins — that give the independent film some unexpected momentum as awards season kicks into high gear.
The Los Angeles critics also gave first-place or runner-up honors in various categories to “Manchester by the Sea,” “La La Land” and “OJ: Made in America.”
But the day belonged to “Moonlight,” the intimate drama depicting three periods in the life of a young gay black man set in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood. Its wins included Mahershala Ali in the supporting actor category and James Laxton for cinematography.
On Thursday the Broadcast Film Critics Assn. gave “Moonlight” 10 nominations, including picture and director, for its Critics Choice Awards. The film also has picked up six nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, including feature, director, screenplay, cinematography, editing and the Robert Altman Award, which honors the director, casting director Yesi Ramirez and the acting ensemble.
Last year the Los Angeles critics selected “Spotlight” as its best picture and screenplay, and the film went on to win Academy Awards in those categories.
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‘Moonlight’ Makes a Strong Showing at the Gotham Awards
“Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s celebrated, intimate portrait of a gay youngster growing up in a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood, rode into the awards season on a wave of momentum Monday night, scooping up four Gotham Awards, including best feature.
“It’s a tough film, with a bit of hope in it,” Mr. Jenkins told the Bagger as celebrators and journalists swirled around him, offering hugs and congratulations after the show. “I love that people come out of it with a sense of hope. Whatever we did, it’s getting into people, and they see themselves in it.”
Held at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the star-studded Gothams — attendees included Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Janelle Monáe and a delightfully potty-mouthed Danny DeVito — signal the beginning of the movie awards season.
The prizes for “Moonlight” — it also won best screenplay, best ensemble and the audience award — firm up early forecasts that it would be a strong player in the awards race this year. Though the Gothams are not necessarily predictive of the Oscars, its winners for best feature from the previous two years, “Birdman” and “Spotlight,”…