EEAAO and Tar tie for Best Picture in 2022 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards

Cate Blanchett in Tar

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