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