Los Angeles Film Critics Name ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ And ‘Tar’ In Tie For Best Pictures - Deadline

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards divided the quality connected its Best Picture award, naming “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and “Tar” successful a tie.

Although surprising, the necktie was not shocking. The LAFCA has done it 4 different times: 1975, its inaugural year, with “Dog Day Afternoon” and “One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest”; 1976, with “Network” and “Rocky”; and 2013, with “Her” and “Gravity.”

The enactment has arguably a amended grounds of syncing up with Oscar’s eventual Best Picture victor than immoderate New York awards orgs, i.e. immoderate caller examples of their Best Picture Winners lining up with AMPAS see 2019’s Parasite, 2016’s Moonlight, 2015’s Spotlight, 2009’s The Hurt Locker.

However, 1 happening astir LAFCA — they’re not acrophobic to spell rogue: I.E. 1985 erstwhile they anointed Terry Gilliam’s carnivalesque, trippy epic Brazil Best Picture and Best Director; the filmmaker having made his warfare with Universal implicit the film, caller nutrient for the trades. Brazil was Oscar nominated for Art Direction and Original Screenplay.

Other examples of erstwhile LAFCA went against the atom successful Best Picture was with 2003’s American Splendor, the drama biopic astir cartoonist Harvey Pekar and Steve McQueen’s postulation of 5 films, Small Axe, which wasn’t adjacent up for Oscars successful 2020; that pic relegating Nomadland to Runner-Up successful the class — which was the eventual Best Picture astatine the Oscars.

Last year, LAFCA gave Best Pictures to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, which was successful the Oscar premix with 4 Oscar noms, including Best Picture and Director, winning Best International Feature Film.

It volition not beryllium astonishing if filmmaker Todd Field’s instrumentality to the large surface aft 16 years, Tar, comes up large today. LAFCA named his movie In the Bedroom back successful 2001 Best Picture. Tar won Best Film astatine New York Film Critics Circle arsenic good arsenic Best Actress for Cate Blanchett arsenic good arsenic 1 of AFI’s apical pics of the year.

For this year’s awards vote, LAFCA volition besides present gender-neutral acting categories, with 2 awards for Best Lead Performance and 2 awards for Best Supporting Performance

Best Picture:

Winners: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE and TAR (tie)

Best Director:

Winner: Todd Field, TAR

Runner-up: S.S. Rajamouli

Best Lead Performance:

Winners: Cate Blanchett, TAR and Bill Nighy, LIVING

Runners-up: Danielle Deadwyler, TILL and Michelle Yeoh, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Best Supporting Performer:

Winners: Dolly de Leon, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and Ke Huy Quan, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Runner-ups: Jessie Buckley, WOMEN TALKING and Brian Tyree Henry, CAUSEWAY

Best Documentary:

Winner: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Runner-up: FIRE OF LOVE

Best Screenplay:

Winner: Todd Field for TAR

Runner-up: Martin McDonagh for THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Best Animation:

Winner: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

Runner-up: MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON

Best Editing:

Winner: Winner: Blair McClendon for AFTERSUN

Runner-up: Monika Willi for TAR

Best Production Design:

Winner: Dylan Cole, Ben Procter for AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday for EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Best Music/Score:

Winner: M.M. Keeravani, RRR

Runner-up: Paweł Mykietyn, EO

Best Cinematography:

Winner: Michael Dymek, EO

Runner-up: Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, NOPE

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film prize:

WINNER: DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA

Best Film Not In The English Language:

Winner: EO

Runner-up: SAINT OMER

New Generation:

Winner: Davy Chou and Park Ji-Min, RETURN TO SEOUL