Drive My Car Declared Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has been declared Best Picture by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film also won Best Screenplay. Elsewhere, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog picked up wins for Best Director and Best Cinematography.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture

Drive My Car
Runner-up: The Power of the Dog

Best Foreign-Language Film

Petite Maman
Runner-up: Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Director

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car

Best Actor

Simon Rex – Red Rocket
Runner-up: Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog

Best Actress

Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers
Runner-up: Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World

Best Supporting Actor (tie)

Vincent Lindon – Titane
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story
Runner-up: Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

Best Screenplay

Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film

Summer of Soul
Runner-up: Procession

Best Animated Film

Flee
Runner-up: Belle

Best Cinematography

Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog
Runner-up: Greig Fraser – Dune

Best Editing

Joshua L. Pearson – Summer of Soul
Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen – Licorice Pizza

Best Music/Score

Alberto Iglesias – Parallel Mothers
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog and Spencer

Best Production Design

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Runner-up: Nightmare Alley

New Generation (tie)

Shatara Michelle Ford – Test Pattern
Tatiana Huezo – Prayers for the Stolen

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

The Works and Days (Of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.