Parasite wins big at 2019 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards

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Often one of awards season's most reliably bright spots, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has joined the deafening chorus of critics groups announcing their year-end awards today. Bong Joon Ho's Parasite takes top honours, and bags a Supporting Actor win for Song Kang Ho too. Alas, in so doing, it beats Martin Scorsese's The Irishman across all three of its successes. This is a pleasantly eclectic bunch of honorees, if nothing too revolutionary, with a surprise Best Actress pick in the form of Mary Kay Place for Kent Jones' Diane. All in all, Film Twitter ought to love this lot!

Best Picture

PARASITE

Runner-up: The Irishman

Best Director

BONG JOON HO (PARASITE)

Runner-up: Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)

Best Actress

MARY KAY PLACE (DIANE)

Runner-up: Lupita Nyong'o (Us)

Best Actor

ANTONIO BANDERAS (PAIN & GLORY)

Runner-up: Adam Driver (Marriage Story)

Best Supporting Actress

JENNIFER LOPEZ (HUSTLERS)

Runner-up: Zhao Shu Zhen (The Farewell)

Best Supporting Actor

SONG KANG HO (PARASITE)

Runner-up: Joe Pesci (The Irishman)

Best Screenplay

NOAH BAUMBACH (MARRIAGE STORY)

Runner-up: Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won (Parasite)

Best Cinematography

CLAIRE MATHON (ATLANTICS / PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE)

Runner-up: Roger Deakins (1917)

Best Editing

TODD DOUGLAS MILLER (APOLLO 11)

Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems)

Best Production Design

BARBARA LING (ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD)

Runner-up: Lee Ha Jun (Parasite)

Best Music / Score

DAN LEVY (I LOST MY BODY)

Runner-up: Thomas Newman (1917)

Best Animation

I LOST MY BODY

Runner-up: Toy Story 4

Best Documentary / Non-Fiction Film

AMERICAN FACTORY

Runner-up: Apollo 11

Best Foreign-Language Film

PAIN & GLORY

Runner-up: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

New Generation Award

JIMMIE FAILS, JONATHAN MAJORS AND JOE TALBOT (THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO)

The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize

THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (JA'TOVIA GARY)

Career Achievement Award

ELAINE MAY

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