Small Axe Declared Best Picture by Los Angeles Film Critics Association

In a curious move few saw coming, Small Axe has won Best Picture at this year’s Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. A decision that’s already sent Film Twitter into a frenzy, Steve McQueen’s five-film anthology series took out the top prize and Best Cinematography. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture

Small Axe

(runner-up: Nomadland)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Beanpole

(runner-up: Martin Eden)

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

(runner-up: Steve McQueen – Small Axe)

Best Actor

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

(runner-up: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal)

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

(runner-up: Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Best Supporting Actor

Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

(runner-up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal)

Best Supporting Actress

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

(runner-up: Amanda Seyfried – Mank)

Best Screenplay

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

(runner-up: Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film

Time

(runner-up: Collective)

Best Animated Film

Wolfwalkers

(runner-up: Soul)

Best Cinematography

Shabier Kirchner – Small Axe

(runner-up: Joshua James Richards – Nomadland)

Best Editing

Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father

(runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes – Time)

Best Music/Score

Soul

(runner-up: Lovers Rocks)

Best Production Design

Mank

(runner-up: Beanpole)

New Generation

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

John Gianvito – Her Socialist Smile

Career Achievement

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Harry Belafonte

Legacy Award

Norman Lloyd