{"id":2924,"date":"2016-12-05T19:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/12\/05\/adam-driver-takes-home-best-actor-for-paterson-film-critics-choice-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T19:51:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:51:43","slug":"adam-driver-takes-home-best-actor-for-paterson-film-critics-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/12\/05\/adam-driver-takes-home-best-actor-for-paterson-film-critics-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver Takes Home Best Actor for Paterson – Film Critics Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ross A. Lincoln \/ Deadline<\/em><\/p>\n

If the recent past\u00a0is any indication, Moonlight<\/em>\u2018s Oscar prospects are looking extremely good, as the acclaimed drama absolutely cleaned up at the Los Angeles Film Critics<\/a> Association Awards this afternoon. The film has been heaped with accolades since its Telluride debut in September and today picked up four LAFCA Awards total, the most of any eligible 2016 film. In addition to winning Best Picture, Moonlight<\/em> garnered Best Director for writer-director Barry Jenkins, Best Supporting Actor for co-star Mahershala Ali, and Best Cinematography for James Laxton\u2019s work behind the camera.<\/p>\n

For reference, last year\u2019s Best Picture Oscar winner, Spotlight, also won the same prize at the 2015 LAFCA Award<\/a>. Likewise, Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor at the 2015 LACFA Awards before winning Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars three months later.<\/p>\n

Based on the drama school project In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue<\/em> by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Moonlight<\/em> follows a young black man named Chiron from Miami\u2019s rough Liberty City neighborhood, portrayed by three different actors at three different points in his life \u2013 in elementary school, in high school, and in his late 20s.<\/p>\n

Park Chan-wook\u2019s erotic drama The Handmaiden<\/em> emerges from the LAFCA Awards with two wins, for Best Foreign Picture and for Production Design. And yes, last year\u2019s winner for the Foreign Language Academy Award, the Hungarian drama Son of Saul<\/em>, was also named LAFCA\u2019s Best Foreign Picture the previous December. However, The Handmaiden<\/em> wasn\u2019t picked as South Korea\u2019s official selection for the 2017 Oscars \u2013 the honor goes to Kim Jee-Woon\u2019s action thriller The Age of Shadows<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the anime Your Name<\/em>, directed and written by Makoto Shinkai based on his novel of the same name, won Best Animated Film. In a year that includes Kubo and the Two Strings<\/em> and Disney\u2019s Zootopia<\/em> and Moana<\/em>, Your Name<\/em> is likely to have strong competition. That said, last year\u2019s LAFCA animated favorite was Inside Out<\/em>, which subsequently won the same at the 2016 Oscars.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, another possible Oscars-favorite,\u00a0writer-director Damien Chazelle\u2019s La La Land<\/em>, has also received a mountain of praise since its Venice Film Festival premiere.\u00a0But at the LAFCA Awards today it was a perennial bridesmaid. Winning just one LACFA Award for Musical Score, it emerged as the runner up five times<\/em>, coming in at second place for Best Picture, Best Director, Editing, Production Design, and Cinematography. A\u00a0musical set in modern-day Los Angeles but deeply inspired by classic musicals of Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age, it follows an aspiring musician and an aspiring actress who fall in love, but find their relationship challenged as they pursue their dream. The film was named Best Picture by the New York Film Critics Association.<\/p>\n

Rounding out today\u2019s winners: Isabelle Huppert won Best Actress for her roles in both Elle<\/em> and Things to Come<\/em>; Adam Driver took home Best Actor for Paterson<\/em>; Lily Gladstone won Best Supporting Actress for Certain Women<\/em>; The Lobster<\/em> nabbed Best Screenplay for writers Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos; the Civil Rights docu I Am Not Your Negro<\/em> won for Best Documentary; and OJ: Made In America<\/em>won for Best Editing.<\/p>\n

In addition, Trey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild won the New Generation Award for Krishna<\/em>, and it was announced that a Special Citation will be given to Turner Classic Movies for preserving historic cinema and bringing it to a wider audience via FilmStruck. LAFCA already has picked Shirley MacLaine as the recipient of this year\u2019s Career Achievement award. The prizes for all winning films will be handed out at an awards dinner January 14 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City.<\/p>\n

See the full list of winners and runners up below.<\/p>\n

New Generation<\/strong>
\nTrey Edward Shults and Krisha Fairchild, Krisha<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Foreign-Language Film<\/strong>
\nWinner:\u00a0<\/strong>The Handmaiden<\/em>
\nRunner-Up:\u00a0<\/strong>Toni Erdmann<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Picture<\/strong>
\nWinner: <\/strong>Moonlight<\/em>
\nRunner-Up: <\/strong>La La Land<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Director<\/strong>
\nWinner:\u00a0<\/strong>Barry Jenkins, Moonlight<\/em>
\nRunner-Up:\u00a0<\/strong>Damien Chazelle, La La Land<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Actress<\/strong>
\nWinner:\u00a0<\/strong>Isabelle Huppert, Elle<\/em> and Things to Come<\/em>
\nRunner-Up:\u00a0<\/strong>Rebecca Hall, Christine<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Actor<\/strong>
\nWinner:\u00a0<\/strong>Adam Driver, Paterson<\/em>
\nRunner-Up:\u00a0<\/strong>Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Animated Film<\/strong>
\nWinner: <\/strong>Your Name<\/em>
\nRunner-Up: <\/strong>The Red Turtle<\/em><\/p>\n

Best Screenplay<\/strong>
\nWinner:\u00a0<\/strong>Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Runner-Up:<\/strong>\u00a0Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

The Douglas Edwards Independent\/Experimental Film\/Video Prize<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> The Illinois Parables<\/em><\/p>\n

Documentary\/Non-Fiction<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> I Am Not Your Negro<\/em>
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> OJ: Made In America<\/em><\/p>\n

Supporting Actress<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> Lily Gladstone, Certain Women<\/em>
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Michelle Williams, Manchester By The Sea<\/em><\/p>\n

Editing<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski, OJ: Made In America<\/em>
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Tom Cross, La La Land<\/em><\/p>\n

Production Design<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> Ryu Seong-hee, The Handmaiden<\/em>
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> David Wasco, La La Land<\/em><\/p>\n

Supporting Actor<\/strong>
\nWinner: <\/strong>Mahershala Ali, Moonlight<\/em>
\nRunner-up: <\/strong>Issey Ogata, Silence<\/em><\/p>\n

Music\/Score<\/strong>
\nWinner: <\/strong>Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, La La Land<\/em>
\nRunner-up: <\/strong>Mica Levi, Jackie<\/em><\/p>\n

Cinematography<\/strong>
\nWinner:<\/strong> James Laxton, Moonlight<\/em>
\nRunner-up:<\/strong> Linus Sandgren, La La Land<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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