Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Auschwitz-set drama, “The Zone of Interest,” has been named greatest film of the 12 months by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
The critics group, which introduced its picks late Sunday after a day-long assembly, additionally awarded prizes for Glazer’s directing and Mica Levi’s rating. It chosen Sandra Hüller, who stars in each “The Zone of Interest” and the French courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” for one among its two lead efficiency awards.
The critics, as they usually do, deviated significantly from their East Coast corollary, the New York Film Critics Circle. That group earlier named Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” the 12 months’s greatest movie.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which does not delineate gender in its appearing classes, gave all 4 of its appearing awards to ladies.
In the lead appearing class, the winners had been Hüller and Emma Stone, the star of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff “Poor Things.” The supporting efficiency prizes went to Rachel McAdams for the Judy Blume adaptation “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”; and to Da’Vine Joy Randolph, co-star of the boarding college comedy-drama “The Holdovers.”
Last 12 months, “Tár” and ”Everything Everywhere All at Once” tied for the group’s high prize. This 12 months’s awards will likely be handed out in a ceremony on Jan. 13.
Here’s a full checklist of the picks by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Best Film: “The Zone of Interest”
Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Best Lead Performance: Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest”; and Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
Best Supporting Performance: Rachel McAdams, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”; and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Best Non-English Language Film: “Anatomy of a Fall”
New Generation Award: Celine Song, “Past Lives”
Best Screenplay: Andrew Haigh, “All of Us Strangers”
Best Documentary: “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros”
Best Animated Film: “The Boy and the Heron”
Best Editing: Laurent Sénéchal, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Best Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, “Barbie”
Best Score: Mica Levi, “The Zone of Interest,” with a recognition additionally of sound designer Johnnie Burn
Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan, “Poor Things”
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize: “Youth (Spring)”
Career Achievement Award: Agnieszka Holland
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