Here are this year’s top picks from the Los Angeles Film Critics:
BEST PICTURE
The Hurt Locker
Runner-up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Runner-up
Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Runner-up
Colin Firth, A Single Man
BEST ACTRESS
Yolande Moreau, Séraphine
Runner-up
Carey Mulligan, An Education
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Runner-up
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Runner-up
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
BEST SCREENPLAY
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Runner-up
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche, In the Loop
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Summer Hours
Runner-up
The White Ribbon
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Runner-up
Up
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Beaches of Agnes
The Cove
(tie)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Christian Berger, The White Ribbon
Runner-up
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Philip Ivey, District 9
Runner-up
Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Avatar
BEST MUSIC SCORE
T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, Crazy Heart
Runner-up
Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
NEXT GENERATION AWARD
Neill Blomkamp, District 9
DOUGLAS EDWARDS AWARD
C.W. Winters and Anders Edstrom, The Anchorage
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Jean-Paul Belmondo
