The Los Angeles Film Critics Association doesn't care much for your outdated distinctions between cinema and TV, so why should any of the rest of us? They've chosen Steve McQueen's Small Axe, three of whose five episodes screened at various film festivals this year, as the best cinema work of the year. The late Chadwick Boseman virtually secured what's likely one of two Oscar nominations with his first Best Actor prize for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, while more top awards went to Nomadland and Promising Young Woman. All the details below.
Best Picture
Small Axe
Runner-up: Nomadland
Best Director
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Runner-up: Steve McQueen (Small Axe)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Best Actor
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Runner-up: Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Best Supporting Actor
Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Runner-up: Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Best Screenplay
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Eliza Hittman (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Best Cinematography
Shabier Kirchner (Small Axe)
Runner-up: Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Best Editing
Yorgos Lamprinos (The Father)
Runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes (Time)
Best Production Design
Donald Graham Burt (Mank)
Runner-up: Sergey Ivanov (Beanpole)
Best Music/Score
Soul
Runner-up: Lovers Rock
Best Animation
Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Soul
Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film
Time
Runner-up: Collective
Best Foreign-Language Film
Beanpole
Runner-up: Martin Eden
New Generation Award
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
Career Achievement Award
Harry Belafonte
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Legacy Award
Norman Lloyd