It’s nearing the close of 2020, which means it’s time for the various critics’ associations to weigh in on their year-end picks. The L.A. Film Critics Association, aka LAFCA, convened via Zoom on Sunday, December 20, to announce their prizes. But do these critics’ picks affect the who gets noms for the Globes and the Oscars?
You could certainly argue they do or at least they have in the past. The LAFCA’s Best Picture pick has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar every year since 2009, but that streak is likely to end this year. Our hometown critics picked
Small Axe named best picture by LA critics
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Just four months after his tragic passing, the late Chadwick Boseman picked up a posthumous award for his final film, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom.
Boseman, who passed from colon cancer in late August, won Best Actor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards on Sunday afternoon.
Carey Mulligan took home the Best Actress award for her performance in Focus Features Promising Young Woman, arriving in theaters on Christmas Day.
Best Actor: Just four months after his tragic passing, the late Chadwick Boseman picked up a posthumous award for his final film, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan took home the Best Actress award for her performance in Focus Features Promising Young Woman, arriving in theaters on Christmas Day
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LAFCA president Claudia Puig hailed McQueen’s quintet of films centred on the West Indian community in London from the 1960s onwards as “unprecedented, resonant and masterful”.
According to reports Amazon Studios has submitted the
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Axe anthology for Golden Globes and SAG consideration, and plans an Emmys campaign in 2021.
Puig added, “Particularly notable in a year when the film industry took a huge blow, our winners reflect extraordinary achievement.”
As previously announced, Harry Belafonte and Hou Hsiao-Hsien shared the career achievement award.
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