Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
Price of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Film
Winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best film. The American Film Critics Association is one of the first every year in early December with their awards for best film productions and film-makers of the current calendar year, known to be about a month later, in early or mid-January, awarded.
The most successful in this category were the U.S. film directors Alexander Payne and Steven Spielberg, whose films have won three times. Eight times succeeded Film Critics Association in advance of the Oscar-winning showcase, last done in 2009, with the award to Kathryn Bigelow's war drama The Hurt Locker - The Hurt Locker.
With five won prices in a year at the most successful were Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer, James L. Brooks ' Terms of Endearment, Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas - Three decades in the Mafia, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Alexander Payne's Sideways, in 2004, in addition a second place won in the lead actor category. Also five awards reached Jane Campion Drama The Piano, but that could not win the top prize in 1993. A victory of a filmmaker remained similar to the Academy Awards from the past. 2008, with the victory of Andrew Stanton's WALL-E - Legend of the Dee on earth for the first time an animated film as the best movie of the year named. 2012, the work of a director from the German-speaking area was awarded to Michael Haneke's French-language film love for the first time. The production subsequently won the Oscar for best foreign language film.
Award winners
Notes: In some years there has been ex-aequo - profit, resulting in two winners. 2004 and 2005 and runner-up films of the LAFCA jury were announced.
* = Film productions that won later the Academy Award for Best Film of the Year ** = Film productions, later won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Runner-up films
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