The Los Angeles Film Critics Association made its year best selections with the marquee honor going to Roma as Best Picture.
However, Roma auteur Alfonso Cuaron wound up runner up for Best Director; that honor instead went to Debra Granik for Leave No Trace.
Cuaron was also a runner up in tandem with Adam Gough in the Editing category for Roma. Winning Best Editing distinction were Joshua Altman and Bing Liu for the documentary Minding the Gap.
Roma, though, earned Cuaron the Best Cinematography mantle.
Ethan Hawke and Olivia Colman scored Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, for First Reformed and The Favourite.
Regina King won Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk; Steven Yuen’s performance in Burning topped the Best Supporting Actor competition.
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty won Best Screenplay for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Shirkers was the L.A. Film Critics’ choice for Best Documentary. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse won for Best Animation.
Here’s a full rundown of L.A. Film Critics’ selections–winners and runners-up:
44TH ANNUAL
LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
2018
BEST PICTURE
“ROMA”
RUNNER-UP: “BURNING”
BEST DIRECTOR
DEBRA GRANIK
“LEAVE NO TRACE”
RUNNER-UP: ALFONSO CUARON
(“ROMA”)
BEST ACTOR
ETHAN HAWKE
“FIRST REFORMED”
RUNNER-UP: BEN FOSTER
(“LEAVE NO TRACE”)
BEST ACTRESS
OLIVIA COLMAN
“THE FAVOURITE”
RUNNER-UP: TONI COLLETTE
(“HEREDITARY”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
STEVEN YEUN
“BURNING”
RUNNER-UP: HUGH GRANT
(“PADDINGTON 2”)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
REGINA KING
“IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK”
RUNNER-UP: ELIZABETH DEBICKI
(“WIDOWS”)
BEST SCREENPLAY
NICOLE HOLOFCENER, JEFF WHITTY
“CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?”
RUNNER-UP: DEBORAH DAVIS, TONY MCNAMARA
(“THE FAVOURITE”)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
HANNAH BEACHLER
“BLACK PANTHER”
RUNNER-UP: FIONA CROMBIE
(“THE FAVOURITE”)
BEST EDITING
JOSHUA ALTMAN AND BING LIU
“MINDING THE GAP”
RUNNER-UP: ALFONSO CUARÓN AND ADAM GOUGH
(“ROMA”)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
ALFONSO CUARON
“ROMA”
RUNNER-UP: JAMES LAXTON
(“IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK”)
BEST MUSIC SCORE
NICHOLAS BRITELL
“IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK”
RUNNER-UP: JUSTIN HURWITZ
(“FIRST MAN”)
BEST DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM
“SHIRKERS”
RUNNER-UP: “MINDING THE GAP”
BEST ANIMATION
“SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE”
RUNNER-UP: “INCREDIBLES 2”
DOUGLAS EDWARDS INDEPENDENT / EXPERIMENTAL FILM / VIDEO
EVAN JOHNSON, GALEN JOHNSON AND GUY MADDIN
“GREEN FROG”
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More