The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has named “The Zone of Interest” its pick for the best film of the year.
Oppenheimer is the runner-up in the voting, which took place on Sunday.
The Critics Association named Sandra Hülser, star of “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” and Emma Stone, actress of “Poor Things,” as its leading actors of the year. Rachel McAdams and Da'Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actor for Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret or The Holdovers.
Last year, the organization chose two films for its top honor of the year: Everything Everywhere All at Once and Tár. The former won Best Picture at the 95th Academy Awards in March. This year's winners will be celebrated at the organization's annual banquet on January 13, 2024.
The club previously announced that Agnieszka Holland would be honored with this year's Career Achievement Award at the in-person celebration. The Polish director and three-time Oscar nominee has been attacked by Poland's right-wing government over her film “Green Border,” which depicts the horrific conditions faced by migrants trying to cross into Poland from Belarus.
Ahead of this year's LA Film Critics Awards, Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon won Best Film from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review Awards.
Most years, the organization's choice of best picture results in an Oscar nomination for the night's top prize. For the second year in a row, the LA Film Critics Association Awards will feature gender-neutral acting categories.
A full list of winners follows.
Best picture: The Zone of Interest
Second: Oppenheimer
Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Runner-up: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Main actors: Sandra Hülser, Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest and Emma Stone, Poor Things
Runners-up: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers, and Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Supporting appearances: Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Runners-up: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon and Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Best Screenplay: Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
Runner-up: Samy Burch, May, December
Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Runners-up: Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie
Best Editing: Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy of a Fall
Runner-up: Jonathan Alberts, All of Us Strangers
Best Production Design: Winner: Sarah Greenwood, Barbie
Runners-up: Shona Heath and James Price, Poor Things
Best Music/Score: Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Runners-up: Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
Best film not in English: Anatomy of a Fall
Second: Totem
Best documentary/non-fiction film: Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Second place: The eternal memory
Best Animation: The Boy and the Heron
Runner-up: Robot Dreams
New Generation Award: Celine Song, Past Lives
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize: Wang Bing's Youth (Spring)
Professional Achievement Award: Agnieszka Holland
Founded in 1975, the organization consists of critics working in Los Angeles at print and electronic media organizations such as daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and general interest online publications. The annual awards recognize people in front of and behind the camera.