2024 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 50th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honoured the best in film for 2024. The awards were announced on December 8, 2023. Anora received the most awards with three wins, including Best Film, Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance.^[1][2][3][4]

50th LAFCA Awards
Date	December 8, 2024
Highlights
Best Picture	Anora
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The winners are to be honored at the association's annual banquet, in the Los Angeles Millennium Hotels & Resorts on January 11, 2025. On October 23, 2024, it was revealed that John Carpenter was to be lauded with LAFCA's Career Achievement Award.^[5]

Winners

Mohammad Rasoulof, Best Director winner

Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Mikey Madison, Best Lead Performance winners

Yura Borisov and Kieran Culkin, Best Supporting Performance winners

• Best Film:
  • Anora
    • Runner-up: The Brutalist
• Best Director:
  • Mohammad Rasoulof – The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    • Runner-up: Sean Baker – Anora
• Best Lead Performance:
  • Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
  • Mikey Madison – Anora
    • Runner-up: Demi Moore – The Substance
    • Runner-up: Fernanda Torres – I'm Still Here
• Best Supporting Performance:
  • Yura Borisov – Anora
  • Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
    • Runner-up: Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
    • Runner-up: Adam Pearson – A Different Man
• Best Screenplay:
  • Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
    • Runner-up: Sean Baker – Anora
• Best Cinematography:
  • Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
    • Runner-up: Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
• Best Editing:
  • Tie: Nicholas Monsour – Nickel Boys and Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5
• Best Music Score:
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Challengers
    • Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist
• Best Production Design:
  • Judy Becker – The Brutalist
    • Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen – Blitz
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • All We Imagine as Light (India)
    • Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Iran)
• Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  • No Other Land
    • Runner-up: Dahomey
• Best Animation:
  • Flow
    • Runner-up: Chicken for Linda!
• New Generation Award:
  • Vera Drew – The People's Joker
• Career Achievement Award:
  • John Carpenter
• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • The Human Surge 3 – Eduardo Williams