The members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association couldn't pick just one movie as their favourite of the year, instead handing their top award for 2022 to a pair of serious critical darlings. Todd Field's Tar is one of them, winning three other big awards here as well, and making it 2/3 of the major American critics' awards' top prize winners, after also winning Best Picture from the New York critics. LAFCA's other pick is perhaps somewhat more surprising: Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once, a bit less dominant in the other categories here, but obviously no less popular among voters. This is also LAFCA's first year with gender neutral acting categores, a terrific decision from this group. It almost makes up for the RRR love... Check out the full results in all categories, including runners-up, below.
Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Best Director
Todd Field (Tar)
Runner-up: S. S. Rajamouli (RRR)
Best Lead Performance
Cate Blanchett (Tar)
Bill Nighy (Living)
Runner-up: Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Runner-up: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Supporting Performance
Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness)
Quan Ke Huy (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Runner-up: Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)
Runner-up: Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Best Screenplay
Todd Field (Tar)
Runner-up: Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Cinematography
Michal Dymek (EO)
Runner-up: Hoyte van Hoytema (Nope)
Best Editing
Blair McClendon (Aftersun)
Runner-up: Monika Willi (Tar)
Best Production Design
Dylan Cole and Ben Procter (Avatar: The Way of Water)
Runner-up: Jason Kisvarday (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Music/Score
M. M. Keeravani (RRR)
Runner-up: Pawel Mykietyn (EO)
Best Animation
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Runner-up: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Best Documentary/Nonfiction
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Runner-up: Fire of Love
Best Film Not in the English Language
EO
Runner-up: Saint Omer
Douglas Edwards Experimental Film
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
New Generation Award
Davy Chou and Park Ji Min (Return to Seoul)
Career Achievement Award
Claire Denis