I'll keep this brief because it's already a good bit into tomorrow and they sure kept us waiting, but the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has finally decided on its award winners for 2021, and they are as follows...
Best Picture
DRIVE MY CAR
Runner-up: THE POWER OF THE DOG
Best Director
Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Runner-up: Hamaguchi Ryusuke (DRIVE MY CAR)
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS)
Runner-up: Renate Reinsve (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD)
Best Actor
Simon Rex (RED ROCKET)
Runner-up: Benedict Cumberbatch (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Best Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose (WEST SIDE STORY)
Runner-up: Aunjanue Ellis (KING RICHARD)
Best Supporting Actor
Vincent Lindon (TITANE)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Best Screenplay
Hamaguchi Ryusuke and Oe Takamasa (DRIVE MY CAR)
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson (LICORICE PIZZA)
Best Cinematography
Ari Wegner (THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Runner-up: Greig Fraser (DUNE)
Best Editing
JOSHUA L. PEARSON (SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen (LICORICE PIZZA)
Best Production Design
Steve Saklad (BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR)
Runner-up: Tamara Deverell (NIGHTMARE ALLEY)
Best Music
Alberto Iglesias (PARALLEL MOTHERS)
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood (THE POWER OF THE DOG / SPENCER)
Best Animation
FLEE
Runner-up: BELLE
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction
SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED)
Runner-up: PROCESSION
Best Film Not in the English Language
PETITE MAMAN
Runner-up: QUO VADIS, AIDA?
New Generation Prize
Shatara Michelle Ford (TEST PATTERN)
Tatiana Huezo (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN)
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN)
Special Citation for contributions to cinema
The filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion
Career Achievement Award
Mel Brooks